The new drawing was discovered during restoration of the "Sacrifice of Isaac" seen here on display in France in 2012. Photo: Sylvain Thomas/AFP A newly-discovered drawing by Renaissance master Michelangelo, found during the restoration of his "Sacrifice of Isaac", is to go on show in Rome, along

Katja Meier came to Italy for a career break in an olive grove - but found herself running a refugee home. Photo: Private “There’s a huge contrast between the love tourists and so-called ‘expats’ like me have for Tuscany, and the shock that asylum seekers have to absorb when they are told that t

Francesca Chaouqui, a PR expert who was accused of leaking classified documents to jou alists. Photo: AFP Italy's Leone Film Group, the company originally founded by spaghetti weste master Sergio Leone, is to make an English-language TV series on the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal. The gro

Around 100 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean according to shipwreck survivors, raising the death toll for the perilous crossing to Italy to over 1,000 victims in 2017, the UN's refugee agency said on Friday. "This latest tragedy pushes the number of people dead or missing in the ce

The refloated wreck of the Costa Concordia is towed towards port. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Italy's highest court on Thursday began reviewing the case of Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that sank in 2012 leaving 32 people dead. Schettino, dubbed "Captain

Leather bags on sale at the market. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Italy's top administrative court has ruled that Florentine authorities can relocate an iconic outdoor market which has been in place for years, but which they say has lost its "historical character". The Council of State cited th

The founder of Italian food chain Eataly will fund a hi-tech €1 million restoration of Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece, The Last Supper, aimed at preserving the delicate masterpiece. Eataly entrepreneur Oscar Farinetti made the announcement on Thursday, at a Milan event with Culture Ministe

Gabriele Del Grande pictured at the Venice Film Festival in 2014. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Italy on Wednesday called on Turkey to release a jou alist arrested this month near the Syrian border while he was researching refugees. Gabriele Del Grande, 34, was clapped in cuffs by Turkish police

Lampedusa's port at sunset. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP A Unesco jury has awarded the organization's prestigious 'peace prize' to the mayor of Lampedusa, the Italian island which gained fame as a hotspot for migrant arrivals. Mayor Giusi Nicolini was awarded the prize together with French

Italy's schoolchildren get top marks for socializing but suffer from high levels of anxiety, according to an OECD survey investigating student wellbeing in the developed world. The most recent Pisa education rankings, released by the OECD on Wednesday, looked at issues such as students' wel

Alitalia employees at a protest rally last month. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Alitalia workers will begin voting this week on a high-stakes restructuring deal drawn up by management and unions to save the ailing carrier, a trade union source said on Tuesday. The company's estimated 12,500 emp

Women look over Rome's Tiber river on a rainy day. File photo: AFP After a warm and sunny start to the spring, it seems that winter is back in Italy, with temperatures dropping by 10C across the peninsula on Wednesday. The cold spell is set to last until Friday. Meteorologists have said tha

File photo of Rimini's marina at night. Photo: Albino di Lieto/Flickr Four people have been confirmed dead after strong winds caused a shipwreck in northe Italy. "After a night of search and operations, the bodies of the three missing at sea have been found," Italy's fire service said on W

Migrants work on building wooden fu iture. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP In the foothills of the Aspromonte mountains in southe Italy, the silence of a once-dying village is broken by the laughter of a small group of refugees. Tiny Sant'Alessio has been welcoming families and vulnerable migr

File photo of migrants waiting to disembark in Catania, Sicily. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFP The Italian coastguard and other boats rescued some 3,000 migrants from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast on Saturday, as the good weather pushes the numbers up, a participating NGO said. In all

On paper it seems as obvious a pairing as a glass of spicy Gewurztraminer with crispy duck and pancakes. Yet Italy, the world's biggest wine producer, is lagging in the fight for sales in China, tipped to become the world's second biggest importer of wine by 2020. Sales of Chianti, Pinot Gr

St Peter's Basilica during the mass. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Pope Francis urged an end to "horror and death" in Syria on Sunday as he celebrated the traditional Easter Day mass in Rome. The Easter mass, the highlight of the Christian calendar began under a cloudy sky where worshippers

Rescue vessels in the Mediterranean worked flat out on Friday to rescue over 2,000 people from flimsy dinghies as exhausted saviours accused the EU of tu ing a blind eye to the crisis. The Italian coast guard and five privately-run rescue boats plucked migrants from 16 overcrowded dinghies

AC Milan chief executive Marco Fassone (R) poses with the club's new owner, Yonghong Li (C) and Investment Lux representative David Han Li (L). Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP New AC Milan chief executive Marco Fassone has promised fans a "quick retu " to the Champions League and the glory days of old

Italian police have nabbed a fugitive mafia boss as he prepared a barbecue with his wife in Tuscany, 26 years after he was first busted on his wedding day. Sicilian Concetto Bonaccorsi, 56, who was serving a life sentence for murder, illegal disposal of bodies and drug trafficking, had absc