interview

The calls from democrats grow for him to step aside, but the president, living in a cocoon of denial,  dismisses poll numbers

The interview was “incoherent and possibly incriminating” as the former president continued to defend his actions

"E' una situazione surreale quella di essere davanti alle persone che raccontano le storie tragiche mentre mangi, l’idea era di creare un mondo consumistico che guarda a un mondo diverso. Volevo riportare questo istinto voyeuristico di continuare a mandare giù...

Perhaps the best-known figure of seventeenth-century Italy is Galileo Galilei. What is not as widely known, though, is that Galileo exchanged letters with natural philosopher and poet Margherita Sarrocchi. In Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in...

Adapted from Sandro Veronesi’s book, the show "Non Dirlo", coming to New York this week, offers a new interpretation of the “Gospel According to Mark.” The author defines it as an action story and explains: “Mark has the hardest task,...

Dante navigates the afterlife by speaking with the persons that populate it, his interactions gradually shaping his concept of humanity and personhood. Souls in Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise appear not as physical embodiments of the persons they were in life,...

In "Italia. L'invenzione della patria," Fabio Finotti, Mariano DiVito chair in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, explores centuries of literature and cultural output in the Italian peninsula, tracing how the meaning of the term patria has been changing

Rhiannon Noel Welch's new book, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, 1860-1920 (Liverpool University Press, 2016), aims to revise the general perception of Italy's colonial past by showing how race and colonialism were essential components of the period between Unification...