Italy On This Day

The day the city was draped in black Tancredi Scarpelli's depiction of the  scene following the executions Four members of the secret so...

Poet pursues romantic dream in the Romagna Lord Byron pursued romance and  adventure during his time in Ravenna The English poet Lord Byron,...

Scholarly revolutionary became a leading translator of mediaeval Arabic Michele Amari embraced the  cause of Italian unification Patriotic S...

Academic fled to England after exile from Naples Gabriele Rossetti became a revolutionary after moving to Naples as a student The poet and a...

Political refugee knighted by Queen Victoria Panizzi was a friend of the British Lord Chancellor, Henry Broughton Sir Anthony Pani...