Books

Culture
by Carol King |
The latest Italian memoir by celebrated author Tim Parks will be released on 10 June in the USA. It was released on 6 June in the UK. Called ‘Italian Ways: On…
Culture
by Catherine Carabine |
I never once dreamt that my book ‘A Chestnut Barn in Tuscany’ would be published, in fact it began as a diary, a record of events leading up to my marriage and…
Culture
by ITALY |
The British Library has digitised a notebook of sketches by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci and published it online.The organisation owns the genius’ ‘The…
Culture
by Carol King |
A revised edition of 18th-century Italian writer, philosopher and bon vivant Giacomo Casanova’s autobiography, reveals his famous sexual exploits in detail.…
Culture
by Carol King |
A new TV series about Italian artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci premiered yesterday. Described as an historical fantasy, ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’, is an eight-…
by Carol King |
Italy’s most prominent anti-mafia campaigner, journalist Roberto Saviano has launched his latest book.Called ‘Zero Zero Zero’, the book is about the…
Culture
by Carol King |
The first English-language edition of ‘On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st Century’ by Pope Francis will be published…
Culture
by Carol King |
The woman portrayed in the ‘Mona Lisa’ is not Lisa Gherardini according to an Italian historian.Going against the traditional view regarding the identity of…
Culture
by Briana Palma |
Simonetta Agnello Hornby never dreamt of being a writer – of novels, that is. As a Sicilian-born lawyer living in England, she has spent much of her life…
Culture
by Carol King |
‘The Da Vinci Code’ author Dan Brown has announced that his next novel will be set in the heart of Italy.Scheduled for release in North America on 14 May,…