Italy On This Day

Musician revived interest in Monteverdi and composed music in the same spirit Malipiero was born into an  aristocratic Venetian family A com...

Writer who called Italy his ‘university’ Robert Browning pictured in 1888, about  a year before he died in Venice,  aged 77 Victoria...

Monarch lived out her last years in 'sweet idleness' Titian's portrait of Caterina Cornaro, painted in around 1452 The l...

Performer 'became' the person she played with her whole being Eleonora Duse began acting at the age of four. Regarded as ...