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07, 2010 May:

Famous painting found

A painting which had lain abandoned in the storerooms of the Este Ducal Palace in Sassuolo [Emilia Romagna] is now thought to be Raphael's original "Madonna of the Pearl", ANSA reports...

17, 2010 February:

Are Northern Italians more intelligent?

Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster [UK], is no stranger to controversy, having argued that differences in intelligence are linked to race and gender. Now he has upset the Italians, claiming that the South of Italy is less developed than the North because its inhabitants are less intelligent...

16, 2010 February:

The art of love

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 Shakespeare's most famous love tragedy, free of graffiti...

02, 2010 February:

Escape to Italy at La Dolce Vita

Discover fantastic Italian wine, food, property and design at a four day show in London in March...

29, 2010 January:

Mona Lisa scandal

Italy has witnessed a fair number of gender scandals lately and now the name of its greatest artist may be added to the statistics...

13, 2010 January:

Word on the street

Street cleaners in Torre del Greco, near Naples, are suing their Council because they had to wash their work clothes at home for ten years...

05, 2010 January:

Picasso found in shoebox

In the last days of December police in Rome recovered a precious and very personal work by Picasso: the artist created the work, a sculpture and toy known as the "Little Guitar for Paloma", for his daughter Paloma but eventually gave it to his friend, the Italian artist Giuseppe Vittorio Parisi, who treasured it for many years...

07, 2009 December:

Bang goes Lamborghini

Italian police have crashed the pride and joy of their transport fleet - a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 which is said to have been the world's most expensive vehicle at 165,000 euros [£150,000]. First reports of the accident say that it happened when a Seat driver pulled out of a service station carelessly...

23, 2009 November:

The writing on the wall

The Mayor of Vigonza, near Padua has come up with an original idea for dealing with graffiti writers: he intends to make them replicate their graffiti on the walls of their own homes for a month, as well as paying a hefty fine. This, he believes, will cause the graffiti writers to think twice before using their spray cans on public buildings...

12, 2009 November:

The bedroom frescos

An Italian couple from Civitavecchia discovered Raphael copies by a contemporary of the painter in their bedroom ... 37 years ago. Tarcisio de Paolis was just trying to do some DIY in his home back in 1972 when, stripping plaster from a wall, he first found a painting of St Peter's sword and then his arm...

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