Italy On This Day

Writer’s epic poem commemorates achievements and ideals of Rome Virgil was held in high regard by the emperor  Augustus, to whom he read his...

Brilliant scholar could recite long passages from Dante Jacopo Mazzoni was known for literary criticism as well as philosophy Jacopo...

Writer who ‘seized the day’ and left his vivid account of it Horace, as imagined by the 19th century Italian painter Giacomo di Chi...