Italy On This Day

Gaetano Merola – conductor and impresario Neapolitan who founded the San Francisco Opera Gaetano Merola, a musician from Naples who emigrat...

Pietro Metastasio – poet and librettist From street entertainer to leading libretto writer Pietro Metastasio , who became Europe’s most cele...

Piero di Cosimo – painter Florentine artist achieved world wide recognition A Renaissance artist famous for his portraits and elaborate land...

NEW - Italy’s first postage stamps Kingdom of Sardinia adopts pre-paid labels for letters The first postage stamps to be used in Italy were...