Articles by Pat Eggleton

By dawn on Monday at least 2,000 people were queuing outside Padua’s Basilica di Sant’Antonio for the first display of the saint’s remains since 1981.…
Beppe Bigazzi, one of the presenters of the daytime TV show, “La Prova del Cuoco” [“The Cook’s Challenge”] was suspended on Monday for explaining on t…
The Vatican’s newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, has listed the Holy See’s top ten records of all time. In a season of inclement weather, says the new…
The immigration debate in Italy has flared again following the stabbing and killing of a 19-year-old Egyptian youth, Azizi El Saled, in a poor area of…
Words by Pat EggletonThe doctors In an Italian hospital all doctors wear white coats and there is no godlike consultant figure to scare staff and pati…
The Mayor of Verona, Flavio Tosi, has given up his campaign to keep the Casa di Giulietta [Juliet’s House] supposedly the home of the Capulets in Shak…
The American horror film “Paranormal Activity” has met with reactions of true panic in Italy and the situation may lead to an overhaul of the Italian…
The staff at Pompeii pulled out all the stops when Leonardo DiCaprio arrived there at midday on Sunday with his mother, girlfriend Bar Refaeli, about…
The McItaly sandwiches we told you about in January have provoked a macro-row in Italy, with critics accusing Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia of sellin…
Rubacuori the dolphin is a lady’s man and heartbreaker of the nicest kind. He delighted both inhabitants and tourists on Caprera Island with his summe…
Eight people died over the weekend in Italian winter sports locations and ten people have been injured, two of them critically. Some of the tragedies…
The video game “Dante’s Inferno” [Electronic Arts] which has already generated 10,000 web pages and has a following of 20,000 fans on facebook, has be…
The Venice Carnival 2010 officially opened with the flight of an angel in Saint Mark’s Square on Sunday, watched by 75,000 people. This year it was t…
Words by Pat EggletonBuongiorno, cari lettori. Today I hope you are going to help me solve one of the greatest medical mysteries of all time and it h…
Gabriele Muccino’s “Baciami Ancora” [“Kiss Me Again”], the long-anticipated sequel to his hugely popular 2001 film “L’Ultimo Bacio” [“The Last Kiss”]…
The iMussolini, an iphone application featuring over 120 of Benito Mussolini’s speeches in text or audio form or in film clips, has been withdrawn fro…
If you have ever visited Siena, you may have wondered why the city has so many fountains. It is because long ago Siena’s hilltop location was excelle…
Now, hands up all those readers who are guilty of editing their holiday snaps, for surely we all do it these days? Who does not “improve” their photos…
Elegance is back in the creations on show at the 2010 Rome Fashion Week and Lorenzo Riva, who showed yesterday, pays homage to the 1970s heyday of act…
An Italian man who had completely lost his memory will soon be reunited with his family thanks to mobile phone technology and television. Giovanni Ia…