Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Italy has been famous for its calendars ever since the publication [by the company’s UK subsidiary] of the first Pirelli Calendar in 1964. Whatever th…
Madonna is the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring / Summer 2010 Collection and, in pictures released in this week’s Italian edition of Vanity Fair,…
90% of Italians will spend this Christmas at home with their families and 75% will choose products made in Italy, reports La Stampa.Many would not dre…
Words by Pat EggletonBuongiorno a tutti and I hope you are feeling festive. If an Italian Christmas is special, a Sicilian one is a feast worthy of al…
Burgers and other fast food have new competition from this week in the form of one of Italy’s oldest foods: polenta, the staple food of the Roman legi…
Mr Berlusconi is expected to leave hospital today, after being kept in for a night longer than was expected following Sunday’s attack. The Premier had…
The Chief Public Prosecutor of Verona [Veneto] has caused controversy by choosing a black Holy Family for the crib which is displayed in the city’s Co…
Italians of all ages love Disney and commuters are as likely to be engrossed in a Topolino [Mickey Mouse] comic as their British counterparts are in a…
It’s official: the most elegant man in the world is Italian. The prestigious French “Prix The Best 2009” has been awarded to Gianluca Bisol, of the Bi…
There are two things that everybody is talking about in Italy this week: one is, of course, yesterday’s physical attack on the Prime Minister and the…
The buildings which once proudly housed Guglielmo Marconi’s Telecommunications Station are in a sorry, dilapidated condition despite their historic im…
The news that Prime Minister Berlusconi had been injured by an aggressor during a political rally in Milan travelled round the world at breakneck spee…
I nearly cried back in Cardiff, Wales, when the men from the removal company started packing my books: I watched, horrified, as they took one from thi…
Looking forward to Christmas but secretly worried that you may put on a few pounds? Take comfort in the fact that you are unlikely, if you do, to be t…
If you were in Naples last night you could have been forgiven for wondering if Christmas had somehow passed you by and if it was New Year’s Eve alread…
One thousand small wine producers from twenty countries who met in Montecatini Terme [Pistoia, Tuscany] from 5th – 7th December have produced a Manife…
The poinsettia plant is as much a symbol of Christmas in Italy as the presepe [crib] that is found in almost every home.With their bright red colour a…
Silvio Berlusconi, Umberto Bossi, Mariastella Gelmini, Rosy Bindi,: these are just some of the politicians who have been making news this year. But…
The Twitter feeds made interesting reading at around midnight, Italian time, on Friday – Saturday night. The verdict in the Knox trial was expected a…
Buongiorno and welcome to my column "Patti Chiari", everyone, wherever you are. I’m Pat and I’ve been writing Italy Magazine’s “latest news” articles…