Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 05:04
Following a successful art auction for L’Aquila at the Italian Cultural Institute in London in July, the organisers, Magdalena Rutkowska and Blandine…
Thu, 11/05/2009 - 05:52
Until recently the idea of buying second-hand furniture – unless, of course, it was antique and preferably all in the same style – had always triggere…
Thu, 11/05/2009 - 04:48
An Italian court yesterday found twenty-three US secret agents guilty of the kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr or Abu Omar, an Egyptian imam wh…
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 04:13
In recent years Italy has become used to criticism about the displaying of crucifixes in state schools but it would not have expected such objections…
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 03:51
In these hard times, Italian vets are witnessing a new form of dependency, that of dog-owners to their four-legged friends. Rome vet Daniele Corlazzo…
Tue, 11/03/2009 - 04:26
Art restorers and researchers in Rome have discovered what is almost certainly a tiny self-portrait of Caravaggio [1571 or 73 – 1610] hidden in the de…
Tue, 11/03/2009 - 03:59
Plans for an airport near the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento were abandoned last year after protests about the amount of destruction of natural fe…
Mon, 11/02/2009 - 10:08
The Cellini Perseus, the Colossus of Barletta, the Catania Elephant: have you ever wondered why these statues haven’t been stolen? Well, it turns out…
Mon, 11/02/2009 - 09:46
Silvio Berlusconi is a wanted man: an unnamed Italian publishing company has told the author of a book about the world’s greatest rule-breakers that…
Mon, 11/02/2009 - 04:06
The poet Alda Merini died in hospital in Milan yesterday after a long battle with cancer.
Considered one of the most important poetic voices of twent…
Fri, 10/30/2009 - 05:23
Life dealt a cruel blow to a happy, outgoing, sporty eleven-year-old from the Veneto one year ago. The youngster, called Beatrice but known to everyon…
Fri, 10/30/2009 - 04:38
Amore 14, the new film by author and director Federico Moccia, opens in Italian cinemas tomorrow and teenagers are keen to see this cinematic portrait…
Wed, 10/28/2009 - 06:23
Wedding bells may soon be ringing – or, as the Italian press puts it, there may soon be orange blossom – for the Education Minister Mariastella Gelmin…
Wed, 10/28/2009 - 05:34
“Excellent quality but a fall in quantity and prices”: that is the verdict of Assoenologi, Italy’s Association of Enologists and Enotechnicians, on…
Tue, 10/27/2009 - 07:08
Yesterday’s opening of the Vigna Barberini, a 110 x 150 meter artificial terrace on the north-east corner of the Palatine Hill, allows visitors to vie…
Tue, 10/27/2009 - 06:48
The 2010 edition of lo Zingarelli , Vocabolario della lingua italiana [ Zanichelli ] Italy’s bestselling Italian dictionary, has been published amid a…
Mon, 10/26/2009 - 06:28
Over 50,000 people gathered in Milan’s Piazza Duomo yesterday for the beatification of don Carlo Gnocchi [25.10.1902 – 28.2.1956]. Among those prese…
Mon, 10/26/2009 - 05:06
Last week a Sicilian builder who had been placed under house arrest begged police to take him back to prison instead. 30-year-old Sandro Gambino, a b…
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 05:21
It will be the film plot that has everything: love, fashion, an ill-starred marriage, wealth, power, betrayal, family infighting and murder, all set…
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 04:04
According to the Censis/Salute – La Repubblica Report No 8 published yesterday, 85.8% of Italians aged over 60 are positive about their own lives. Th…