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 Victoria & Albert Museum has raised the money to acquire four important bronze angels by a Renaissance Florentine sculptor, originally designe…
Who doesn’t love a good Italian recipe?! We think we all do, and that’s the Word of the Week: ricetta – recipe.
The plural is ricette.
Puoi trovare mo…
Every year in February, Agrigento celebrates the first almond blossoms of the season in its Sagra del Mandorlo in Fiore.
The almond blossoms are cele…
The classic ingredient of Sicilian pastry? Almond, of course!
It is a tradition that goes back a long time; it was in fact the Arabs who came up with…
We are all familiar with the Carnevale di Venezia, but there are plenty of other fun and interesting Carnival celebrations around Italy: one of these…
Love and melody seem to be the common denominators of the Sanremo Music Festival this year…perhaps because it takes place the week of Valentine’s Day?…
The 65th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival begins this week in the charming coastal town of Sanremo, also known as "la città dei fiori", the city…
Murano’s Glass Museum (Museo del Vetro), the only museum in the world where the art of glassmaking is illustrated from its origins, reopens today enla…
Shooting of the remake of the epic historical drama Ben Hur began early this week in Matera, the city in southern Italy famous for its UNESCO-listed a…
Two bronze sculptures on display at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum could be the work of Michelangelo. If the attribution is confirmed, they would be t…
It takes patience getting to San Vito Lo Capo: the village at the far end of the promontory on Sicily’s north-western coast is reached by taking the o…
A new x-ray technique has allowed scientists to decipher letters from Herculaneum papyri carbonized by the 79 AD eruption that also destroyed Pompeii.…
As we plan to run several articles dedicated to the beautiful island of Sicily this month, we decided our Word of the Week would be isola - island.…
Ten meters below the ground, in what was once the ice-house of the monks of nearby St. Ambrose Basilica, the Cattolica University in Milan inaugurated…
“The most beautiful work of architecture ever seen”. This is how Le Corbusier, one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century, has described…
Of all Italian chocolates, Gianduiotto is my absolute second favorite (it’s not the first just because I’m partial to Cremino Fiat, which is made in m…
This is the time of the year when many Italian families head to the beautiful mountains of Italy for the much beloved "settimana bianca" (white week),…
A thousand years on, the Fiera di Sant’Orso (Saint Ursus Fair) in Aosta is still going strong. The annual event, held on January 30 and 31, attracts a…
A surprising new detail has emerged during the ongoing restoration of the Colosseum: a series of painted red numbers on its arches.
Just as in today’s…
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Italians have a peculiar way of answering the phone: unlike the English language, Italians don’t say “ciao” (hello), but rath…
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