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
Pasta di Gragnano is considered among the best pasta produced in Italy, and if you love pasta, a few boxes of Pasta di Gragnano shouldn’t miss from yo…
“La pizza napoletana è una pizza da amare.” (“Neapolitan pizza is a pizza to cherish”). That’s the sentence I remember most vividly from my conversati…
If you love Italian food and you like preparing it at home, you will need a few staple ingredients, which are always handy to have in your pantry, whe…
A snowshoe is footwear for walking over the snow – in Trentino, it is called ciaspola (plural ciaspole). Once used by hunters and farmers to move more…
We kick off our month dedicated to the region of Trentino-Alto Adige with a feature on some of the top castles to visit in the portion of the region c…
“More savage than Caravaggio,” writes The Guardian in a piece devoted to Artemisia Gentileschi, described as the greatest female artist of the Baroque…
It was no coincidence that the 2017 edition of the prestigious Michelin guide was presented in Parma, a city in Emilia-Romagna which is in the heart o…
[Photo: Pumpkin ravioli are the classic Mantova dish.]
When talking about Italian food, the cuisine of Lombardy is usually not the first that comes to…
The Circus Maximus, the largest stadium in ancient Rome, has reopened to the public after undergoing major restoration that took seven years to comple…
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, the ITALY Magazine staff members share some of the things they are grateful to Italy for.
We want to know: what a…
As we continue our coverage of Lombardy, ITALY Magazine’s featured region this November, we take a look at its notable music tradition.
You may not b…
It is one of the early Italian Renaissance’s most notable buildings, yet the Certosa di Pavia is not as well-known as other monuments from the same er…
We continue our series "Where to Find Italy in America", part of the Italian-American section, devoted to Italian-American communities in the United S…
A colorful, profuse display of flowers and vegetation; a magnificent, elegant house by the lake; a stunning backdrop of mountains: Villa Carlotta sure…
Brought by the Moors and Saracens after they settled in Europe, rice was first introduced in Italy, precisely in Sicily, as early as the 13th century.…
In our series featuring famous Italian families, we look at the powerful dynasty of the Gonzaga, rulers of the Lombard city of Mantua for four centuri…
Where can you see 8,000 years of human history in carvings?
Head to Lombardy’s Val Camonica, one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, home to o…
We continue this month’s focus on Piedmont with a look at the top three Roman sites in the region.
With its north-western location, Piedmont was in a…
[Photo: View of Lake Orta from the hills above the lake where the Sacro Monte di Orta is located.]
Of the six Sacred Mountains of Piedmont, the Sacro…
The north-western region of Piedmont is located at the foot of the Alps (hence the name ad pedem montium, meaning “at the foot of the mountains”), mak…
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