Jefferson (1743-1826), besides being an oenophile, diplomat, and politician, was a farmer, obsessed with new crops, soil conditions, garden design, and scientific agricultural techniques, a horticulturalist and a foodie. Jefferson’s culinary preferences were certainly refined during his years as Minister to France, but even before his time abroad, Jefferson had...

The spectacle in Rome, which took three years to complete, is called "The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel". It was produced by Marco Balich, a Venetian living in Milan who devised the opening shows of the Rio, Sochi, and Turin summer and winter Olympics.

A guidebook that is "like a golden treasure chest, jealously enshrining the most exclusive keys of Rome and then offering them to the reader", Giuseppe Cerasa, Editorial Director of all La Repubblica’s guidebook, said. Besides "Roma Maxima", La Repubblica also published in January 2018 its first guide by region dedicated...

Winckelmann assessed artistic style as a linear progression by period and place and by charting a civilization’s growth and decline. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the 18th century.  He contributed significantly to Europe’s neoclassical period and to the idealistic embrace of Ancient Greece and Rome in...

"My grandfather was Algernon Ashburner Osborne, an economist from Chicago; my grandmother, Marjorie Adams Osborne, was from New Jersey. They met around 1917.  They came to Italy in 1919 because he was offered a job thanks to my grandmother’s fortuitous purchase of a newspaper," Marjorie says. And about Rome, where...

One half of the exhibition concerns how foreigners, particularly the English and Americans, collected Italian art in the late 19th – early 20th century; the other is a display of highlights from the extensive polymathic art collection of American diplomat George Washington Wurts (1843-1928) and his millionaire second wife Henrietta...

Babington’s Tearooms was an immediate success. “Finally a place in Rome served a ‘proper cup of tea’”, , said Joe Wolff, “- not to mention offering special toilet facilities for women at a time when there wasn’t much available, and this was an ‘unmentionable’ problem.”

Legend has it that during a royal visit in the summer of 1889 the famous Neapolitan pizzaiuolo Raffaele Esposito of the “Pizzeria Brandi” prepared several calzoni and pizzas with different toppings for Queen Margherita. The Queen preferred Esposito’s topping with tomato, basil and mozzarella which from then on has been...

At the Villa Borghese in Rome several of Bernini's sculptures are on permanent exhibit, but his heritage is to be found in more sites in Rome. An easier but not chronological route, which takes about 2 hours on foot (or by hopping on and off the no. 62 bus) not...

From Palazzo Barberini to Villa Borghese, from the Ara Pacis to the Gallery of Modern Art, from the Victor Emanuel Monument to the "Scuderie": Rome shows all its cultural worth thanks to the exhibitions opened now in various historical sites of the city. “Hokusai” and “Picasso”will close in mid-January; the...