How did I come out with the idea of writing about Italy’s food of the past? You all know I like the past, so it should come as no surprise that, among my weekly newsagent’s buys there are magazines about history, rather than the most recent issue of Cosmo. When I […]
The 19th century was a time of great change for Italy, as the modern world emerged, so it’s natural to wonder how was life in Italy during the 19th century. The most prominent events of this time revolve around the rise of the Italian unification movement known as the Risorgimento. It was the […]
Italy, 1898. Three hundred years after the Triora witch trials, 聽the witches’ screams echoed聽once again in the quiet, crystal-clear air of the Ligurian mountains. The Triora witch trials: one hundred years before Salem (Roland Scheerer/flickr) Someone summoned them. Someone rose them from their sleep of shame and pain, calling them […]
The Italian Risorgimento was made by women, too
Italy鈥檚 nickname could be 鈥渢he land of love stories.鈥� In fact, the cultural heritage is dotted with famous, adorable couples. It鈥檚 the country of Venice and Rome, romantic cities for excellence. And the land of writers and their excruciating Italian love stories. Paolo e Francesca, the real Romeo and Juliet […]
Pagan symbols聽is everywhere and is easily found by researching the history of our modern customs and practices. Some of the days of the week and even some months of the year are named after Pagan gods. This week we are going to take a look at the month of January […]
In the first part of this article, we presented five curious and little known facts about the history of Italy and its people: from ancient Rome and its soldiers, to the tragic end of Pompeii, up to the times of the unification of Italy, we’ve discovered a bunch of interesting […]
I don’t know about you, but I love history and I find it all interesting: from military history to biography, from ancient Rome to the Second World War, I can read up history books as easily as I eat cake (and I eat a lot of cake, believe me). I […]
Garibaldi, the man that fought to unify Italy, was invited by Abraham Lincoln to join the American Civil War; he refused, but other Italians participated.
Legends, misteries and curiosities about Leonardo Da Vinci.