Italy

regions

Journey in Moonlight

• The gates of the dead in Gubbio 1
• The gates of the dead in Gubbio 2
• Siena’s open heart
• Villa Giulia Etruscan Museum

Tuscany

• Arezzo: Humiliating the Shah
• The Etruscan bronzes of San Casciano
• Etruscan votive statues in Fiesole
• Paolo Staccioli’s statues in Volterra
• The Magi in Pisa
• The Civil Salon of Castelmuzio
• Evening Shadow in Volterra
• Evening in Tuscany
• St Francis’ ark in Assisi
• The Jews of Pitigliano
• The banks of Lucca

Florence

• Saint Peter’s Boat in Santa Maria Novella
• The Medici, kings of Florence
• Masaccio’s Trinity in Santa Maria Novella
• Masolino’s Satan in the Brancacci Chapel
• Busy town Florence
• The columns of the Mallorcan mosque in the Battistero

Siena

• Porta Camollia and Siena’s heart
• Memento to the Covid
• The wonder. Photo exhibition in Siena

Umbria

• The gates of the dead in Gubbio
• An altar of the dead from Gubbio

Venice

• Venice, as you have never seen
• Città irreale
• Shaun Tan’s dragons in Venice
• Cabinets of wonders in Palazzo Grimani
• Buda 1686 in Venice
• The Queen of Venice
• In the stonemason’s yard
• Armenians in Venice
• Bombing Venice, 1916-18
• Venices of the world

Sardinia

• The living Sardinian Stone Age
• Ancient Sards on Mount Tiscali
• The art of decorated bread
• Carnival in Mamoiada
• Footbal calendar in Gavoi
• An Easter tour in Sardinia
• Good Friday
• Sett’ispadas de dolore
• Holy Saturday
• Easter Sunday 1
• Easter Sunday 2
• Easter Sunday 3
• Matron with a rifle
• Tempest in Ardara
• Tradition and modernity
• Carlo Bavagnoli: Africa at home
• Alghero’s Jewish neighborhood
• Maria Lai’s presepi in Ulassai
• Traditional Sardinian cuisine

Trieste

• The Trieste Meridian

Sicily

• Polyphemus’ wine 1
• Polyphemus’ wine 2
• Swallow calendar in Nicosia
• The Messina earthquake, 1908
• St Joseph the Worker in Syracuse
• Mussolini’s famous phrases in the South
• A famous phrase in Cefalù
• Monarchist graffiti in Petralia
• Hungarian martyrs in Piazza Armerina
• The street of the Tehran students

Istria

• Bale
• Fisherman in Rovigo
• Ghost restaurant in Abbazia

Marche

• Urbino
• Places in Urbino
• The Giro d’Italia in Urbino

Calabria

• The three synagogues of the Ferramonti concentration camp

Campania

• Souvenir of Ravello

Emilia-Romagna

• Plethon’s tombstone in Rimini

Lombardia

• Assunta in Milan
• Hydrocycle

Piedmont

• St Anastasia in Langhe and in the space

Rome

• The Boat of Saint Peter
• The eternal city
• The house-museum of Mario Praz
• The legend of the Popess
• Manili House in the Jewish Square
• Pasquino greets Hitler
• The Via dei Falegnami
• Marco, the dog of Trastevere
• A knotty problem in the Trastevere
• Come with us to Rome!
• Eating well and cheap in Rome
• Rain
• Späti
• Miracle tree at Termini
• Notre-Dame du socialisme

history

Etruscans

• Evening Shadow in Volterra
• The Etruscan bronzes of San Casciano
• Etruscan votive statues in Fiesole
• Berlin Etruscan collection
• Paolo Staccioli’s statues in Volterra

Renaissance

• The Medici, kings of Florence
• Lepanto

modern history

• All quiet on the Isonzo front
• The songs of Isonzo
• Illustrated front postcards
• Christmas of the enemy
• Bombing Venice, 1916-18
• WWI graffiti in Orgòsolo
• Mussolini’s famous phrases in the South
• A famous phrase in Cefalù
• Mussolini and the children
• The Ferramonti concentration camp
• An Italian on the Russian front
• Monarchist graffiti in Petralia
• Bella ciao
• Covering the genitalia

spirit

art

• The Magi on Bonanno’s bronze gate
• Benozzo Gozzoli in Medici Chapel
• Masaccio’s Trinity
• Masolino’s Satan
• Leonardo’s cat
• Leonardo’s bikes
• The Truth of Apelles
• Truth, daughter of time
• Bernini’s naked Truth
• Roberto Innocenti
• Paolo Staccioli’s statues in Volterra

photo

• Carlo Bavagnoli in Sardinia, 1959
• Carlo Bavagnoli’s Sardinia and Xinaliq

literature

• Barbara Reynold’s Dante
• Dante’s salty bread
• Dante’s Cassius and Brutus
• Umberto Eco: Ars magna lucis et umbrae
• Umberto Eco: The lion’s tail
• Umberto Eco: Children’s games
• Umberto Eco: Policacata
• Umberto Eco: Dracula
• Umberto Eco: Constructing the enemy
• How I became the Spanish translator of Eco
• 42 and the Libro dei Labirinti
• Alfonso Berardinelli on Italian literature

gastronomy

• Est! Est!! Est!!! of Montefiascone