Italy On This Day

Founder of the scuola metafisica movement Giorgio de Chirico painted this self-portrait, confronting a bust of himself, in 1922 ...

Sicilian changed his name to sound non-Italian The boxer Johnny Dundee, who was a child when his family emigrated to the United S...

General who became prime minister of Italy Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora was an important figure in Italy's Risorgimento movement ...

Florentine became Medici court painter Bronzino's portrait of Eleonora of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici, with her son...