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
The rustic spirit of this Tuscan village, located in the countryside of the Maremma, between the sea and metal-rich hills, is palpable in the houses a…
[Photo: Maurice Petch, second from right, with his wife Angela next to him, with members of his family in Italy he had never met before.]
Italy Magazi…
FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano – is planning fun day outings to some of the sites it administers, in celebration of Pasquetta, Easter Monday, a nationa…
One of the most precious rooms of the Quirinal Palace in Rome, the Paolina Chapel, has reopened to the public and can now be visited alongside several…
[Domenica Marchetti, food writer and author of seven books on Italian cooking. Photo credit Olga Berman.]
For our Interview series, we introduce you t…
[Photo: Easter parade in Enna, Sicily.]
Religious festivals are no doubt a large part of the traditional Italian heritage, and the most heartfelt and…
For our Where to Find Italy in the U.S. series, we head to Bloomfield, Pittsburgh’s Little Italy.
Where
Bloomfield is a neighborhood in Pittsbu…
[Image: Daniele da Volterra, Il profeta Elia nel deserto.]
“Eternity and Time between Michelangelo and Caravaggio” documents, through the art of semin…
New rooms opening, a valuable collection finally on view, compelling exhibitions, and, alas, a price increase: here’s what’s new at the Uffizi for 201…
Bologna’s train station, known as Bologna Centrale, is one of the busiest in Italy, both for the number of passengers (about 58 million a year) and fo…
We continue our Borgo of the Month series by heading to the village of Sant'Agata Feltria, at the border between Romagna and Marche.
Why visit
Sant'Ag…
Archeologists in Rome were astounded when a luxurious Roman domus emerged during excavations for the expansion of the city’s subway.
The ‘Commander’s…
In an attempt to divert visitors from overcrowded spots and to promote a slower pace of travel, the Italian culture ministry has launched Cammini d’It…
We feel very honored that our readers are choosing to share their heritage travel stories with us, and we continue our ‘Back to Your Italian Roots’ se…
[Pictured above: the Farnese Bull, the largest single sculpture recovered from antiquity, part of the museum's Farnese Collection.]
Italy’s most…
Visitors to the monumental Baths of Caracalla in Rome can now see them as they appeared when they were inaugurated in the third century AD, at the tim…
The Medici loved to spend their leisure time in the Mugello, a verdant valley surrounded by the Apennine mountains less than an hour north of Florence…
More than just a ‘bathroom’, Cosimo de’ Medici’s so-called Comodo, located inside Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, has been restored, as part of the ‘Flor…
In the heart of Abruzzo in central Italy lies L’Aquila, a historic university town that, nine years after a 6.3 earthquake killed 309 people, wounded…
“I feel like a pendulum between two magnets,” says Italian journalist Federico Rampini, referring to an inner conflict common to many expatriates, the…
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