Laurence Connell
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Laurence Connell is a freelance writer based in Romano (Lombardy) and originally from Birmingham in the UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Political History from the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca. Laurence blogs at medium.com/@laurenceconnell1988 and everydayitaly.blog.
Articles by Laurence Connell
In October of last year, after featuring in a 4-0 victory against Malta, then-20-year-old Destiny Udogie described making his first appearance for Ita…
Le Mie Cittá — “my cities” — is an appropriate title for the major new Gabriele Basilico exhibition held between the Triennale di Milano and the Palaz…
The 44-year-old Italian writer and commentator Roberto Saviano is used to having powerful enemies. Over the course of a career spent exposing organize…
In Italy, drill music — a subgenre of hip hop — has broken into the mainstream.
It’s been barely three years since the release of the genre’s first v…
In early 2020, much of the world’s attention was focused on the northern Italian city of Bergamo as it became one of the first places outside China to…