Italy On This Day

First factory opened in Via Carlo de Cristoforis in Milan The distinctive Zàini logo has become known in 80 countries around the world The M...

19th century star was first to sing Verdi’s Otello Francesco Tamagno was a world-renowned star of 19th century opera The operatic te...

Five times Giro winner who was paid not to take part Alfredo Binda is presented with a bouquet after the 1933 Giro. The five-times G...

Businessman amassed more than 2,500 pieces Giuseppe Panza collected more than 2,500 works of art between the 1950s and 1980s The art...

Italy’s all-time top selling female artist The pop singer Anna Maria Mazzini, better known simply as Mina, was born on this day in ...

Italy’s biggest star won 32 trophies and Olympic medal Dino Meneghin in 1980, the year his Olympic silver medal followed a domestic...

Fiery leader of separatist Lega Nord Umberto Bossi founded Lega Nord in 1991 Controversial politician Umberto Bossi was born on thi...

Former prisoner of war was also an Olympic hurdler The fashion designer Ottavio Missoni with his wife Rosita on the lawn of their mans...

Visionary ideas turned Citroën into style icon Flaminio Bertoni in his workshop The sculptor and automobile designer Flaminio Bertoni...