Italy On This Day

NEW - Antonio da Ponte – architect Builder who designed the most enduring image of Venice The designer Antonio da Ponte, sometimes called ...

Builder who designed the most enduring image of Venice Da Ponte's Rialto Bridge, completed in 1591, is one of the best known images of V...

Filippo Mazzei – physician and businessman Liberal thinker was praised by John F Kennedy Globe-trotting doctor Filippo Mazzei, who was a clo...

Mount Vesuvius – the 1944 eruption The last time the volcano was seen to blow its top Mount Vesuvius, the huge volcano looming over the bay...

NEW - Giuseppe Borgatti - tenor Beautiful voice brings fame for former bricklayer Opera singer Giuseppe Borgatti, who became known as Ital...