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
It could be described as a bacteriological war in the service of art: when restorers in Florence were almost resigned, after eight years of work, to h…
The Unesco city of Modena will serve as the backdrop for a big event dedicated to Italy’s luxury car brands: the third annual edition of Motor Valley…
Extra virgin olive oil is the healthiest fat around - it promotes cardiovascular health, it works as an antioxidant, it reduces inflammation and suppo…
By chance and by good fortune: that’s how Paul Turner and his wife Sandra, Australians from Melbourne, became homeowners in Italy…in only three months…
A duet between Italian opera and art: as the Verona Arena prepares to open its 2021 summer opera festival, it has announced a collaboration with Itali…
For the first time since the pandemic began last March, a cruise ship has returned to Venice.
The MSC Orchestra, a 92,000 tonne vessel, docked…
The flexibility, independence and sense of adventure is what generally attracts people to an RV vacation; add to that the varied beauty of Italy’s lan…
In an attempt to lure travelers to the region and to revive the local tourism industry, badly hit by the pandemic, the central Italian region of Lazio…
It’s the ultimate collection of Greek-Roman classical sculpture: the Torlonia Collection in Rome is considered the most prestigious private collection…
Italian-American writer Robert Camuto moved to Italy’s Verona with his wife in 2015, after their son left home (which at the time was Nice in southern…
Six fragments of frescoes dating from the first century AD that had been stolen from the archeological park of Pompeii have been returned to the site,…
Fendi, the Italian luxury fashion company famous for its fur and leather goods, has launched “Hand in Hand,” an ambitious project in partnership with…
Rome’s first pizza vending machine, installed in the Italian capital in April, has sparked reactions ranging from amused curiosity to outright horror.…
An astronomer turned remèr: Venetian Piero Dri ditched stars and planets for oars and oarlocks. Piero chose to carry on an ancient profession that has…
As of May 16, Americans are allowed to travel to Italy for tourism without having to quarantine upon arrival - but only if they travel via a gove…
Possibly one of the most difficult articles to write (!) - do crowd-free spots actually exist in Florence? - Well, with a bit (a lot) of research, pat…
Is the espresso coffee ritual an Italian or a Neapolitan tradition? That is the question at the center of a debate that sees two different candidates…
After a two-month closure, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence reopened to the public on May 4, with 13 new rooms devoted to 16th-century art, holding 12…
This month’s installment in our series on readers traveling to Italy in search of their roots and relatives features the story of Mary Louise Tucker,…
In a couple of years, you may be able to stand in the center of the Colosseum’s announced new arena floor, experiencing the same view gladiators had w…
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