Italy On This Day

Girolamo Savonarola executed Death of the friar who was to inspire best-selling novel by Tom Wolfe The hellfire preacher Girolamo Savonarola...

José João Altafini - footballer who made history Forward tamed Eusebio to give Italy first European Cup Supporters of AC Milan took to the s...

Michelangelo’s Pietà damaged Work of art deliberately vandalised Michelangelo’s beautiful Pietà, a marble sculpture of the Virgin Mary with...

NEW - Ondina Valla - ground-breaking athlete Italy’s first female Olympic champion Trebisonda ‘Ondina’ Valla, the first Italian woman to w...