Italy On This Day

Key moment in World War II brought heavy casualties A British landing craft unloads tanks and troop carriers on to the beach at the start of...

Painter scarred by Battle of Monte Cassino Miele's work often had strong elements of the scuola metafisica as well as impressionis...

Ill-fated son of Lorenzo the Magnificent Piero the Unfortunate's poor judgment earned him his unenviable moniker Piero di Lo...

Theologian who synthesised Aristotle’s ideas with principles of Christianity A portrait of Saint Thomas Aquinas by the Italian artist ...

Historic monastery flattened in Allied bombing raid An American B17 bomber shortly after releasing its payload over Monte Cassino T...