Italy On This Day

Third Italian to take charge of World Cup Final Nicola Rizzoli retired in 2017 after 15 years refereeing top-level matches The football refe...

Follower of Plato, Dante and Savonarola Girolamo Benivieni, pictured as an old man in a painting attributed to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio T...

Writer of the 'Manifesto of the Renaissance' met an early death Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: this portrait by Cristofano de...