Franco Battiato. The Pop Star Who Asked the Wrong Questions In the early 1980s, Italian radio began broadcasting songs that behaved as though the normal rules of popular music had been suspended. Their refrains were immediate, their rhythms were bright,…
The Harsh Soul of Sicily ItalyStories.com Giovanni Verga was born in Catania in 1840, into a landowning Sicilian family, and became the writer who gave modern Italian literature one of its most severe and unforgettable visions of human life. His…
The black-and-white Sicilian city that learned to live beneath a volcano Catania is a city that lives under the gaze of a mountain capable of reminding everyone, from time to time, who is really in charge. Mount Etna is not…