With a sense of adventure, the writer restored her 300-year-old house, making it the star of an international bestseller Read More »

The singer-musician and his wife bought the dilapidated, 400-year-old Il Palagio, in Tuscany, for a song or two, and have brought the olive groves, vineyards and vegetable gardens back to life Read More »

The tiny Tuscan town of Collodi is where the wooden puppet who would become a live boy was born – the protagonist of a coming-of-age story much darker than the familiar Disney film Read More »

The proposal would provide educational or vocational scholarships in exchange for a service commitment Source Read More »

For centuries the Italian city has been a hub of trade and commerce, and an historic center for art and architecture Source Read More »

Michelangelo’s 17-foot-tall masterpiece stands front-and-center at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence Source Read More »

Generations after their ancestors emigrated from Italy to the New World, Americans are themselves emigrating back to the Old World and, thanks to their Italian bloodlines, claiming citizenship Source Read More »

Cellist Christian Grosselfinger performs the “Sunday Morning” fanfare, “Abblasen,” on the streets of Florence. Source Read More »

As the contenders for the 2020 race have been solidified, domestic policy has taken center stage among the candidates Source Read More »

The tweets come just days after after Alabama passed the country’s most restrictive abortion law​, which bans the procedure unless “abortion is necessary in order to prevent a serious health risk” to the woman Source Read More »