Silvia Donati
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Silvia is ITALY Magazine's Contributing Editor. She graduated from the University of Bologna in Literature and studied Print & Broadcast Journalism at the University of California in Los Angeles, where she has lived, on and off, for several years. She began her career in journalism working for a Southern California news agency before returning to Italy and going freelance. She has written both in English and Italian for a variety of publications; she has covered the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, where she had the chance to interview Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Pacino among others and reported live from the Golden Globes for ANSA. She now specializes in everything Italy-related.
Articles by Silvia Donati
“An apocalypse: forests swept away, streets damaged, trellis bended like twigs.” Thus the head of Italy’s Civil Protection Agency, Angelo Borrelli, de…
The canals of Venice, the Baroque cities of Sicily’s Val di Noto, the picturesque views of the Cinque Terre, the medieval alleys of Ferrara: it’s not…
There is probably no Italian household who doesn’t own at least one Moka machine. Because, really, there’s nothing like the smell of freshly brewed mo…
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“Italy first captures your attention, and then captures your heart,” says Dawn Mattera, who has traveled to Italy numerous times t…
Italy celebrates 2,000 years since the death of one of the greatest poets of Latin literature – Ovid – with a rich, in-depth exhibition held in Rome’s…
A charcoal inscription recently unearthed on the walls of a house in Pompeii seems to suggest that the ancient Roman city was destroyed by the eruptio…
As temperatures get cooler outside, why not warm up at one of Italy’s hot springs? Here are some favorites.
CASCATE DEL MULINO - Saturnia (Grosseto,…
Those seemingly endless lines outside the Uffizi Galleries in Florence? They soon may be gone. Uffizi director Eike Schmidt announced a new entry mana…
Autumn is here, and with it the products typical of the season which, in Italy, are celebrated at the numerous ‘sagre,’ ‘fiere’, ‘feste’, - food festi…
The 41st edition of “Ristoranti e Vini d’Italia” (Restaurants and Wines of Italy), the guide published every year by L’Espresso, one of Italy's foremo…
Rome’s famous horse-drawn carriages – the so-called ‘botticelle’ – may no longer be used to carry tourists around town to tour the Italian capital’s m…
In honor of International Coffee Day, which was just celebrated this past Monday (October 1 each year), we take a look at the different ways in which…
Rated among the most beautiful ‘borghi’ (historic villages) of Italy, Savoca in Sicily isn’t overrun with tourists, which has helped maintain a relaxe…
The Chapel of the Turin Shroud reopened in Turin Cathedral last week after 21 years of restoration work following a mystery fire that almost destroyed…
Much like other Little Italys in the U.S., San Francisco’s North Beach saw a decline of its Italian population after the 1950s. Today, what poin…
The highest Tibetan bridge in Europe was inaugurated last weekend in Valtellina, a beautiful Alpine area of Lombardy in northern Italy.
The so-c…
Sitting on the ground in Venice could become illegal if the latest proposal meant to curb the effects of overtourism is approved by the city council i…
[Lead photo credit: Cristina Marson, 2017, La pescatrice di sogni]
What I love the most about the photography book Dream of Venice in Black and W…
The newly restored Ponte dell’Accademia in Venice is one of the four bridges crossing the Grand Canal, linking the sestieri of Dorsoduro and San Marco…
The first eight-hour season of My Brilliant Friend will debut this fall on HBO. Based on the first of four ‘Neapolitan Novels’ written by It…
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