Italy On This Day

NEW - Sanremo Music Festival - song contest Historic annual event that inspired Eurovision  The first annual Sanremo Music Festival reache...

Historic annual event that inspired Eurovision  Nilla Pizzi won the first two editions of the Sanremo Festival The first annual Sanremo Musi...

Bernardo Bellotto – landscape painter Venetian artist blessed with uncle Canaletto’s talent The landscape artist Bernardo Bellotto , a neph...

Bomb destroys Archiginnasio anatomical theatre Historic facility hit in 1944 air raid The historic anatomical theatre of the Palazzo Archigi...

Simonetta Vespucci – Renaissance beauty Noblewoman hailed as embodiment of female perfection Simonetta Vespucci, a young noblewoman who bec...

NEW - Marco Malvaldi – crime writer and chemist Author has mastered the science of detective fiction Novelist Marco Malvaldi, who has writ...