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Walk into almost any supermarket in the world and Italy will be waiting for you on the shelves. A green, white and red flag on a jar of pesto made on another continent. A wedge of “Parmesan” that has never seen Emilia. A bottle of “Prosecco-style”...

I remember the first time a guide let me hold a white truffle before it went into the scale. It was heavier than I expected, cold, faintly damp, and it smelled like nothing I could name — garlic, hay, wet earth, something almost animal...

There is a version of Italy that never sits still on a map. It bubbles up, quite literally, in dozens of places between the Alps and Sicily, and it has been doing so since long before anyone thought to build a road, a temple, or a spa resort...

There is a strip of land, a little over two hundred kilometers long, running along the Via Emilia, where stuffed pasta is not simply a dish: it is an identity, a matter of local pride, a centuries-old dispute, and a domestic ritual. Emilia-Romagna...

My private Italy: dreaming twice a year in Siena To me, as well as to many Italians who love Siena and often pay a visit to the city, the Palio is a combination of colors, sounds and emotions. The colors, from yellow ocher turf lying on the...

Have you ever visited Rome? Me, I can’t even remember how many times I have been back. After a while, a strange thing happens to frequent travelers like me: you stop registering the grandeur. The Colosseum becomes just a familiar backdrop you...

There is a black and white image that, more than any other, captures the soul of an unrepeatable moment. It is the face of a young woman who emerges from a copy of the Corriere della Sera. Her eyes laugh, her hair is moved by the wind of novelty...

The Renaissance, Italy: the pinnacle of pictorial art. Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael—the artists who best represent this peak. After them, one might say that no one could ever reach such heights of perfection; no artist could invent something...