Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 04:27
By dawn on Monday at least 2,000 people were queuing outside Padua’s Basilica di Sant’Antonio for the first display of the saint’s remains since 1981.…
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 03:56
Beppe Bigazzi, one of the presenters of the daytime TV show, “La Prova del Cuoco” [“The Cook’s Challenge”] was suspended on Monday for explaining on t…
Mon, 02/15/2010 - 10:50
The Vatican’s newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, has listed the Holy See’s top ten records of all time. In a season of inclement weather, says the new…
Mon, 02/15/2010 - 10:40
The immigration debate in Italy has flared again following the stabbing and killing of a 19-year-old Egyptian youth, Azizi El Saled, in a poor area of…
Fri, 02/12/2010 - 05:03
Words by Pat EggletonThe doctors In an Italian hospital all doctors wear white coats and there is no godlike consultant figure to scare staff and pati…
Thu, 02/11/2010 - 04:39
The Mayor of Verona, Flavio Tosi, has given up his campaign to keep the Casa di Giulietta [Juliet’s House] supposedly the home of the Capulets in Shak…
Thu, 02/11/2010 - 04:26
The American horror film “Paranormal Activity” has met with reactions of true panic in Italy and the situation may lead to an overhaul of the Italian…
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 04:42
The staff at Pompeii pulled out all the stops when Leonardo DiCaprio arrived there at midday on Sunday with his mother, girlfriend Bar Refaeli, about…
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 04:27
The McItaly sandwiches we told you about in January have provoked a macro-row in Italy, with critics accusing Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia of sellin…
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 10:32
Rubacuori the dolphin is a lady’s man and heartbreaker of the nicest kind. He delighted both inhabitants and tourists on Caprera Island with his summe…
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 10:10
Eight people died over the weekend in Italian winter sports locations and ten people have been injured, two of them critically. Some of the tragedies…
Mon, 02/08/2010 - 04:12
The video game “Dante’s Inferno” [Electronic Arts] which has already generated 10,000 web pages and has a following of 20,000 fans on facebook, has be…
Mon, 02/08/2010 - 03:39
The Venice Carnival 2010 officially opened with the flight of an angel in Saint Mark’s Square on Sunday, watched by 75,000 people. This year it was t…
Fri, 02/05/2010 - 05:06
Words by Pat EggletonBuongiorno, cari lettori. Today I hope you are going to help me solve one of the greatest medical mysteries of all time and it h…
Thu, 02/04/2010 - 04:05
Gabriele Muccino’s “Baciami Ancora” [“Kiss Me Again”], the long-anticipated sequel to his hugely popular 2001 film “L’Ultimo Bacio” [“The Last Kiss”]…
Thu, 02/04/2010 - 03:42
The iMussolini, an iphone application featuring over 120 of Benito Mussolini’s speeches in text or audio form or in film clips, has been withdrawn fro…
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 04:10
If you have ever visited Siena, you may have wondered why the city has so many fountains. It is because long ago Siena’s hilltop location was excelle…
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 03:47
Now, hands up all those readers who are guilty of editing their holiday snaps, for surely we all do it these days? Who does not “improve” their photos…
Tue, 02/02/2010 - 06:00
Elegance is back in the creations on show at the 2010 Rome Fashion Week and Lorenzo Riva, who showed yesterday, pays homage to the 1970s heyday of act…
Tue, 02/02/2010 - 05:27
An Italian man who had completely lost his memory will soon be reunited with his family thanks to mobile phone technology and television. Giovanni Ia…