First Person

One thing that doesn’t work in Sweden is the protection of government ministers.

"These are made in the Vatican by little nuns. They smell like roses and they won't lose their scent.” Little nuns?

Vitorchiano is Etruscan territory and originally was probably a colony of the larger Etruscan town of Norchia. Fragments of an Etruscan wall stand near the Vitorchiano cemetery, and all along the gorge atop of which the old town stands, dozens of Etruscan tombs and grottoes are carved.

I came to Austin, Texas, expecting a culture as foreign as Italy, a place filled with cowboy boots and pick-up trucks.

With a child to rear, it's a thin line between fantasy, charm and manipulation.

Why the death of an American civilian in Iraq matters... and matters more.

Iraqis are often like Sicilians when it comes to violence: No one saw anything.

The pope would like me to have more kids. I read this not long ago in Italy's leading daily Corriere della [...]

The perception in the United States is that Italian men have a thing for black women.