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ANSA. - Italy on Thursday continued to toast the 150th anniversary of its unification after a night of partying in the big cities, although divisions were also on display with many Northern League figures dissenting. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano appealed to the country Thursday to get young people into work during a keynote speech to parliament marking the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. (Read the article)
The cult US director has not worked in Italy since since 1996's Everyone Says I Love You, part of which was shot in Venice. Every time for him it's like making declarations of love for certain places and projecting onto the screen his feelings: he says he is just as fascinated with Rome as he is with the other great sophisticated and civilised metropolises that have inspired him (read the article)
NYT. mid the vineyards of Umbria in central Italy, the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, 84, is creating what may be one of his last major works. He calls it La Tartaruga, or The Tortoise — a venerable creature, old as time, filled with defiant life. (Read the article)
NYT. Pizza, a new magazine in Milan, is temptingly named. It caught my eye when a friend brought it to the dinner table. “Wait, what is this?” (Read the article)
BBC. The teenager at the centre of a sex scandal involving Italy's Silvio Berlusconi has made a stir in Austria as the guest of a local millionaire (Read the article)
ANSA. After shutting its doors on an exhibit showcasing Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali', the Palazzo Reale in Milan has opened one on a homegrown forebear and influence, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593). (Read the article)
ANSA. An Italian architect urged authorities to move Michelangelo's David statue to an underground museum before work begins on a Florence train tunnel. (Read the article)
ANSA. Anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano got a free life's supply of buffalo mozzarella Tuesday after he put it at the top of his reasons for living in a new book out this week. (Read the article)
ANSA. taly is gearing to set up a refugee camp in Tunisia to help stop thousands of people from Libya crossing the Mediterranean, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Wednesday. (Read the article)