Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
A mystery that quickly became known in Italy as “il giallo del lago” [“the whodunnit of the lake”] has been solved. It began on Sunday when a passer-…
Jacopo Bassano at Bassano del Grappa
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of its most famous son, the town of Bassano del Grappa…
Yesterday was a solemn Easter Monday in L’Aquila [Abruzzo] as preparations were made for the night-time commemoration of the earthquake which struck t…
Words and Pictures by Pat Eggleton Good Friday is not a holiday in Italy so most of us go about our business much as usual on that day. If you are in…
The behaviour of common toads in the L’Aquila area changed dramatically in the days leading up to last April’s earthquake, reports Dr Rachel Grant of…
Too busy to go to the gym? Maybe you haven’t got time to go furniture shopping either? Your worries are over for Italy Magazine has found the perfec…
As the first act of a new administration it was a dramatic one: at dawn on Tuesday the new Mayor of Porto Cesareo [Lecce, Puglia] signed an order for…
In this photo: Wall paintings in Domus Area A 60-metre [645 square feet] section of the roof over Neros’s Domus Aurea or Golden Palace collapsed at ar…
The Vatican finds itself on a full media offensive following accusations that the Catholic hierarchy did not respond to, report or take action regardi…
Geophysisist Enzo Boschi told Corriere della Sera yesterday that an undersea volcano could erupt and cause a tsunami which could swallow up the south…
The left-wing intellectual, author and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered on November 2nd 1975. Now former Mayor of Rome Walter V…
Here’s a heartwarming story to kick off the week: last Thursday a sixty-year-old homeless man in Ivrea [Piedmont] found a wallet containing 1,100 euro…
The Italian Post Office intercepted an envelope containing a bullet and addressed to Mr Berlusconi at his private Milan residence on Saturday. The sus…
In an ambitious exhibition opening today in Siena, the story of the transition from the Gothic period to the Renaissance is told. Three hundred and si…
Words by Pat EggletonThe Modican poet Antonio Lonardo lives in an apartment full of light under the town’s famous Guerrieri Bridge. I first met him at…
Mina, Italy’s Queen of Pop, is seventy years old today. The event is being celebrated in the music world everywhere and Mina has already received birt…
Picture by Christine WebbRome is up there with Paris, St Petersburg, London, Havana and, perhaps surprisingly, the demure British city of Bath in the…
In a crime which has sickened people all over Italy, a woman doctor on duty as guardia medica [emergency doctor] was attacked and raped in the Sicilia…
An Italian girl who died in 1989 at the age of eighteen is to be beatified on the 25th September this year. Beatification is an important step in the…
Words by Pat EggletonI am not, by nature, one of life’s chirpy, cheerful early birds but on alternate Thursdays I am up at what is the crack of dawn t…