The importance of plausibility over visibility in Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1516/1532) and Italo Calvino’s Le città invisibili...

Trigger warning for mentions of rape and sexual assault. In the National Gallery, there hangs a portrait of a woman. Stylised as the...

When I started telling people that I was doing my year abroad in Catania, one of the most common responses was ‘oh you have to climb...

I can only imagine that my grandma travels to Italy with an empty suitcase. That’s because whenever she comes back from a visit, her...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the USA saw the arrival of thousands of immigrants from Italy. Many of these...

Lucca, known as a "Città d'arte", is a town in northern Italy and if you’ve been lucky enough to visit it, you’ll know it’s a place that...

Guanciale. Pecorino. Bucatini. Three words that hadn’t entered my classroom vocabulary before living in Rome but demand your immediate...