How dialects, migration and changing family traditions shaped Italian-American identity, and what learning Italian can mean ...

Redesigned by Pope Pius II and architect Bernardo Rossellino, Pienza became a model of Renaissance urban planning ...

Rocchette and Rocchettine share a medieval past in Lazio’s Sabina Hills, but while one remains inhabited, the other has stood ...

How English borrowings, social media and new slang are changing Italian, and why knowing the language well still matters ...

Lorenzo Marini discusses TypeArt and his Los Angeles installation, We Are Letters, where the alphabet becomes an experience ...

At Santarcangelo di Romagna’s Fiera dei Becchi, a centuries-old agricultural fair meets a playful tradition involving horns, ...

Italian has several ways of saying that something happened early, but anzitempo (an-tsee-tem-poh) has a little more judgment than most of them. If you arrive at the station twenty minutes before your ...

Italian actors Nicola Adobati and Domenico Piscopo bring Colpi di Maschera to the US, blending Commedia dell’Arte, pop ...

If you have been to Genoa, you know them well: those narrow, winding streets running through the city’s own medieval heart, the caruggi. Magical and ancient, they are an integral part of the city’s ...

If you grew up in an Italian home, you definitely had a bunch of them hidden in some drawer or, if they were particularly pretty, making a good display of themselves somewhere in the sitting room. Yes ...

The town’s origins go back to the Middle Ages when it emerged as a vital center for trade and commerce. Its strategic location made it a lively trade hub that supported both economic growth and ...