ROME — Everyone knows that the Italian family, the more dynastic and inbred the better, is the heart and soul of Italy…
Rome — Anyone who has seen the Lars von Trier film “The Boss of It All” (DirektĆĖren for det hele, 2006), can…
ROME — The staggering reports of a new Italian scandal have made it the leading topic of political conversation here, for it…
ROME — Italy’s feisty queen of journalism, Oriana Fallaci, died of cancer in her native Florence at age 77 on Friday morning,…
ROME — Ā For women in particular, this has been Italy’s summer of violence. First, a Muslim girl was brutally murdered by…
ROMEĀ — For the third time in two months, the always arrogant and increasingly ill- tempered former Premier Silvio Berlusconi was slapped…
ROMEĀ — For the third time in two months, the always arrogant and increasingly ill- tempered former Premier Silvio Berlusconi was slapped…
ROME — Remember the song? “Two different worlds/we live in two different worlds.” Tune in to the politicians, and you know that…
ROME — ĀThis is the Coney Island of Italian election campaigns, a gaudy amusement park where the magic mirrors, carny barkers and…
[The following is the latest report from DIRELAND’s Rome correspondent, Judy Harris. A longtime ex-pat journalist who has lived in Italy for…
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