Italy On This Day

Carlo Ancelotti - football manager Five-times winner of the Champions League Carlo Ancelotti, a former top-level player who has become one o...

Luigi Fagioli - racing driver Man from Le Marche is Formula One's oldest winner Racing driver Luigi Fagioli, who remains the oldest dri...

Giuseppe Fiorelli - archaeologist The man whose painstaking work saved Pompeii Giuseppe Fiorelli, the archaeologist largely responsible for...

NEW - Lateran Treaty comes into effect When the Vatican became an independent state Benito Mussolini was helped to gain more power and any ...

When the Vatican became an independent state A map of the territory of the Vatican City, as  defined by the Lateran Treaty of 1929 Benito Mu...