Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Following a successful art auction for L’Aquila at the Italian Cultural Institute in London in July, the organisers, Magdalena Rutkowska and Blandine…
Until recently the idea of buying second-hand furniture – unless, of course, it was antique and preferably all in the same style – had always triggere…
An Italian court yesterday found twenty-three US secret agents guilty of the kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr or Abu Omar, an Egyptian imam wh…
In recent years Italy has become used to criticism about the displaying of crucifixes in state schools but it would not have expected such objections…
In these hard times, Italian vets are witnessing a new form of dependency, that of dog-owners to their four-legged friends. Rome vet Daniele Corlazzo…
Art restorers and researchers in Rome have discovered what is almost certainly a tiny self-portrait of Caravaggio [1571 or 73 – 1610] hidden in the de…
Plans for an airport near the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento were abandoned last year after protests about the amount of destruction of natural fe…
The Cellini Perseus, the Colossus of Barletta, the Catania Elephant: have you ever wondered why these statues haven’t been stolen? Well, it turns out…
Silvio Berlusconi is a wanted man: an unnamed Italian publishing company has told the author of a book about the world’s greatest rule-breakers that…
The poet Alda Merini died in hospital in Milan yesterday after a long battle with cancer.
Considered one of the most important poetic voices of twent…
Life dealt a cruel blow to a happy, outgoing, sporty eleven-year-old from the Veneto one year ago. The youngster, called Beatrice but known to everyon…
Amore 14, the new film by author and director Federico Moccia, opens in Italian cinemas tomorrow and teenagers are keen to see this cinematic portrait…
Wedding bells may soon be ringing – or, as the Italian press puts it, there may soon be orange blossom – for the Education Minister Mariastella Gelmin…
“Excellent quality but a fall in quantity and prices”: that is the verdict of Assoenologi, Italy’s Association of Enologists and Enotechnicians, on…
Yesterday’s opening of the Vigna Barberini, a 110 x 150 meter artificial terrace on the north-east corner of the Palatine Hill, allows visitors to vie…
The 2010 edition of lo Zingarelli , Vocabolario della lingua italiana [ Zanichelli ] Italy’s bestselling Italian dictionary, has been published amid a…
Over 50,000 people gathered in Milan’s Piazza Duomo yesterday for the beatification of don Carlo Gnocchi [25.10.1902 – 28.2.1956]. Among those prese…
Last week a Sicilian builder who had been placed under house arrest begged police to take him back to prison instead. 30-year-old Sandro Gambino, a b…
It will be the film plot that has everything: love, fashion, an ill-starred marriage, wealth, power, betrayal, family infighting and murder, all set…
According to the Censis/Salute – La Repubblica Report No 8 published yesterday, 85.8% of Italians aged over 60 are positive about their own lives. Th…