Italy On This Day

Business launched with socialist newspaper became biggest in Italy Arnoldo Mondadori (left) pictured with Georges  Simenon, one of the autho...

Medici musician who invented the madrigal comedy The score of Striggio's best known work was missing for 281 years The Renaissance compo...

Jesuit scholar and poet was unimpressed with Dante Saverio Bettinelli saw only limited merit in Dante's Divine Comedy Poet an...

Genius led the way with his use of perspective The painter Andrea Mantegna died on this day in 1506 in Mantua. Mantegna's San Seb...

Baroque musician who gave us the first real opera Bernardo Strozzi's 1630 portrait of Monteverdi The composer and musician Cla...

Writer left a definitive account of life at court in Renaissance Italy Baldassare Castiglione, the author of the Italian classic, The Boo...

Orchestra leader brought light relief during World War Two Mantovani moved to England as a child and made his career there Conductor ...