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
Many sites around Italy offer special night-time openings during summer. One of these is the Reggia di Venaria, which, every Friday until August 1, wi…
La Notte Rosa is the summer party, taking place along 110 kilometers of the Adriatic Coast in Emilia Romagna tonight.
Every town on the coast, from Co…
How about a smoking hot prosciutto- and squacquerone-filled piadina delivered to you by drone?
[For those of you not familiar with piadina (or piada),…
As the Chinese middle class keeps growing, their desire to own high-quality, artisan-made materials as opposed to cheap imitations of Western products…
Maserati, the luxury sports car manufacturer from Bologna, is celebrating its centennial this year with a special exhibition held at the Enzo Ferrari…
Thousands of people are expected to gather today at Piazza del Campo in Siena for the traditional annual Palio di Siena horse race.
Ten riders on thei…
The first stage of the Colosseum’s restoration has been completed, the Colosseum director Rossella Rea announced last week, adding that the first five…
A painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most accomplished Baroque painters of the generation following Caravaggio, was sold at Sotheby’s in Pa…
A rare Ferrari 375-Plus, winner of the World Sports Car Championship in 1954, was sold at the price of £10.7m (€13.3m) during the annual Bonhams aucti…
Rome celebrated the traditional Infiorata Romana yesterday on the feast day of the city’s patron saints, Peter and Paul.
Via della Conciliazione and P…
The iconic Piazza di Spagna will be entirely pedestrianized as of August 4, Rome mayor Ignazio Marino announced this week.
The move is part of a large…
The city of Florence inaugurated its Museo del Novecento this week, dedicated to Italian art of the 20th century.
Divided into 15 exhibition areas, th…
In an effort to bring Italy more in line with Europe, state-run museums, monuments and archeological sites will be changing their opening hours and en…
The Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Cerveteri, near Rome, is set to showcase some previously closed tombs…
St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is one of the world’s top ten landmarks, as voted by Trip Advisor’s Travelers' Choice Attractions Awards.
According to T…
More than 100 years after Italian-American New York City police officer Giuseppe 'Joe' Petrosino was murdered by the Mafia in Palermo, Italian police…
We celebrate the official arrival of summer – June 21 – by dedicating our Word of the Week to… summer – l’estate!
Dove trascorrerai l’estate? Where ar…
The vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato in Piedmont were inscribed on Sunday onto UNESCO's World Heritage List, bringing the number of…
More than 70,000 fans gathered at Circus Maximus last night for the much anticipated Italian stop of the Rolling Stones world concert tour “14 on Fire…
The history of the church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio, founded in 1143 in Palermo, and more commonly known as the Martorana, is explored in a new m…
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