Italy On This Day

Professor among founding fathers of Italian psychiatry Andrea Verga was one of the first to see how criminal behaviour could be driven ...

Anarchist executed for plotting to kill Mussolini The anarchist Michele Schirru returned from the United States planning to kill Musso...

Hot-tempered artist killed man in Rome in row over a woman Caravaggio was a brilliant painter but had a reputation for drunken violenc...

Oscar winner for Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore set many of his films in his native Sicily The screenwriter and director Giuseppe...