Italy On This Day

Political pontiff dominated by sister-in-law The portrait of Innocent X by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, notable for a terse fa...

Famous fountain now helps raise money for the poor The Trevi Fountain was opened by Pope Clement XIII Rome’s iconic Trevi Fountai...

Radical voice who helped modernise Italian society Marco Pannella in 2010, still a voracious campaigner at the age of 80 The Radic...

Italy's last universal genius Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a self-portrait from 1623,  which is housed in Rome's Galleria Borghese ...