A slippery tale of human greed, climate change and the mysteries of the deep O n a warm morning in mid-March, a group of researchers from Ferrara University examine their catch...
An Italian report into the murky underworld of Libyan oil The histories of Italy and Libya have long been intertwined: from the time when Libya was a province of the Roman Empire, to Italian...
How a once-playful slang term became Italy’s newest racialised public enemy In this sharp, deeply reported piece for Internazionale, journalist Leonardo Bianchi traces the transformation of the term maranza, a once-benign descriptor...
How a custody case in rural Abruzzo became a vehicle for nostalgia, anti-modernism, and a political war on the judiciary In this sharp and unsettling piece from Il Post, the...
How the smart-city dream collides with the lagoon’s unruly, ungovernable heart In this essay for Domani, Stefano Dealessandri explores a Venice that is no longer just a city, but a playable...
Fifty years after a treaty to draw the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, a local newspaper investigates Translator was recently in northeastern Italy in the town of Gorizia – fifty...
A new wave of luxury resorts backed by state subsidies are monopolising water in the already drought-prone Italian South, leaving local communities and farmers to deal with the consequences When...
Italy’s summer theatre season should be a celebration, but this year it’s overshadowed by cuts that punish risk and reward conformity. Graziano Graziani reveals how public theatre is being steered...
A fascinating investigation into how a Maltese criminal recently convicted of murder tried to make his way in the pan-Mediterranean betting world Some way into this deeply researched article from...
Sophia Smith Galer looks at an article, and a doctoral thesis, about the Venetian-origin dialect once prevalent in the city of Fiume/Rijeka, now ever more endangered Cities where many languages...
How AI chimeras, absurd nursery rhymes, and Gen Z humour has birthed a chaotic new online aesthetic Even in a world overrun by online content, the viral surge of so-called...
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