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
On a recent visit to Rome, I had the pleasure to explore secret spots inside the Colosseum visitors don’t usually have access to, while learning many…
Michelangelo's David is at risk of collapsing under its own weight, researchers from the National Research Council (CNR) and the University of Florenc…
Luxury properties for sale in Italy abound, but it appears some regions have a larger offer than others. Real estate agency LuxuryEstate.com, speciali…
The astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) take daily photographs of the Earth, which are then catalogued and archived by The Gatewa…
To the slogan "Chi non salta un mafioso è!" (He who doesn’t jump is a mafioso), the bishop of Agrigento Francesco Montenegro engaged the crowd of…
Three large marble sculptures by Donatello will be exceptionally on display at the Baptistery in Florence until November 30: il Profeta imberbe (the B…
After the successful exhibition "Augustus" at the Scuderie del Quirinale (currently on view in Paris), Rome keeps celebrating its first emperor on the…
The Cannes Film Festival is honoring Marcello Mastroianni by featuring him on the official poster of its 67th edition, scheduled to run in Cannes May…
Tributes to Roman emperor Augustus on the 2,000th anniversary of his death, celebrated this year, continue in Rome.
The latest event takes place at th…
Wine – a lot of it – to discover, to smell, to taste: the occasion is Vinum, the festival celebrating the wines of Langhe and Roero taking place in Al…
From tomorrow until Sunday, Orvieto will transform into a gelato party town, with I Gelati d’Italia event taking over its historic center.
Within the…
Piazza della Signoria in Florence will be taken over by a flurry of colors and flags tomorrow, when the 21st edition of the Trofeo Marzocco is held.
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Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana has just added another award to its long list of accolades: at the prestigious San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Re…
Who provided the inspiration for the world’s most famous painting, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa? There have been different theories, none confirmed.…
Labor Day in Italy falls on May 1, this Thursday, therefore our Word of the Week is LAVORO.
The word lavoro can be used both for the terms work and jo…
Large cruise ships entering Venice will be given a wide berth starting November 30 in an attempt to minimize damage to the delicate lagoon on entry.
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The canonization of two popes, John XXIII and John Paul II, the first double canonization in history, takes place tomorrow, Sunday, April 27, in Rome.…
Their embrace goes back at least 6,000 years, but they only became famous in 2007, when their tomb was discovered in Valdaro, near Mantua. Now, after…
A previously undiscovered part of the ancient Roman port of Ostia has been unearthed and it is larger than Pompeii, a team of archelogists working on…
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Villa d'Este in Tivoli, near Rome, is a fine example of Renaissance architecture and of an Italian Renaissance…
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