In Bologna, the past is part of everyday life. Students walk beneath historic porticoes, cross busy squares and disappear through doorways on their way to lectures. Their books and devices belong to the present, but the act of coming to…
For more than forty years, Alfredo drove a FIAT Fina fuel tanker from Bari toward Bologna. When retirement came, he asked for the truck itself and brought it home to his garden.
Discover Lucio Dalla's life, from Bologna jazz clubs and 4 marzo 1943 to Futura, Caruso, De Gregori, Sorrento and his enduring Italian legacy.
ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Giorgio Morandi is one of those rare artists whose world appears small only until one begins to look closely. Bottles, jars, boxes, pitchers, a few flowers, the hills outside Bologna: these were the modest subjects…
A Lady of the Italian Renaissance ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Lavinia Fontana was born in Bologna in 1552 into a world in which painting was overwhelmingly a male profession. Women could appear in portraits, inspire poetry, commission altarpieces, and…
The Scholar of Signs and Mysteries ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Writers Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria, in Piedmont, in 1932, and grew into one of the rare intellectuals who could move with equal confidence between medieval theology, comic books,…
Before Ducati became a red motorcycle flashing through a corner, it was a radio signal crossing the Atlantic. In Bologna in the 1920s, while the name of Guglielmo Marconi still seemed to prove that invisible waves could change the world,…
Malaguti: The Sound of Growing Up A story of bicycles, mopeds, teenage freedom, racing dreams, and the day an eighty-year family factory fell silent. ITALYSTORIES.COM Before Malaguti became a name painted on mopeds, scooters and racing fairings, it was the…
The learned, the red and the fat, where intelligence and appetite live exceptionally well together Bologna is one of the most satisfying cities in Italy because it combines high intelligence with very earthly pleasures, and refuses to apologize for either.…
