Italy On This Day

Sicilian raised in Turin became one of Italy’s great postwar novelists Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi) with her husband, the  leading anti-Fasci...

One of 20th century Italy's most important authors Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 but moved to Sanremo with his Italian-b...

Intellectual regarded as foremost 20th century commentator Norberto Bobbio was a university professor and a forthright political comme...

Son of future president who defied Fascists Giulio Einaudi ran his publishing company for more than 60 years Giulio Einaudi, who fou...

Author introduced great American writers to Fascist Italy Cesare Pavese translated the works of many American novelists Cesare Pave...