In this intimate portrait of the sandolo and the boatmen who preserve Venice’s oldest waterborne tradition, Carola Cappellari and Lavinia Nocelli explore its fading yet resilient legacy of craft, rhythm...
An Italian journalist takes a critical look at the ambient religious and political culture around “natural” methodologies of fertility management. On its website, the secular sounding Italian Confederation of Centres...
An exploration of the interplay between affliction and ecstasy in a south Italian ritual dance In the sun-scorched landscapes of southern Italy, particularly in Puglia, the country’s heel, a unique...
In the Jubilee year 2025, an Italian journalist explores how the Vatican is using digital tools and AI to proselytise anew The gap between earth below and heaven above, between...
An Italian journalist explores the links between the iconic telemarketers of the 1980s and selling online today There’s a scene in Paolo Sorrentino’s 2018 film Loro in which a character bearing an...
Fashion and fascism in the Dolomites “White is the colour of purity, of cleanliness, of calm, of ironed shirts and weddings, of linen tablecloths and holiness”, writes Caterina de Biaisio in Rivista Studio:...
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