More bizarre behavior from Gadhafi

 Gadhafi's tent in Villa Pamphili, Rome As a follow-up to Bill's post on the Italy-Libya connection , we offer an example of the r...

Eating Ethnic: Rome's Kebab

We have been coming to Rome regularly for 17 years, and not until our last visit did we eat a Kebab. I had been longing to try the Roman ver...

Bella Ciao: The Kids Are All Right

Frederika Randall returns as guest blogger with this post, that begins with a curious but telling incident at a Rome public school. Randall ...

Let's "Chattare" Redux

In my "Let's 'chattare'" post , of March 29, I wanted to put in more about "show girls" and Berlusconi. Ther...

Obamamania Italian style

Russians may be cool about him, but Italians are crazy for Obama, in our experience. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (he of the gaffes and ...

Liberation Day in Rome - postscript

Liberation Day update... we spent a couple hours yesterday in one of Rome's "reddest" neighborhoods, Ga rbatella, built in the...

Liberation Day in Rome

April 25 – today is Liberation Day, the day Italy celebrates its liberation from th e Nazis. On this date in 1945, Milan and the other large...