Italy On This Day

NEW - Cesare Maria De Vecchi – Fascist politician Mussolini supporter helped to lead historic march Cesare Maria De Vecchi, one of the four...

Mussolini supporter helped to lead historic march De Vecchi served as Governor  of Italian Somaliland Cesare Maria De Vecchi, one of the fou...

Dacia Maraini – writer Long career of a feminist novelist and playwright Novelist and short story writer Dacia Maraini was born on this da...

Piero Terracina - death camp survivor Roman lived to be 91 after being freed from Auschwitz Piero Terracina , the man thought to be the long...

NEW - Giuseppe Toaldo - priest and physicist Meteorology pioneer who persuaded Italy to use lightning rods Giuseppe Toaldo, a physicist wh...