posted Wed. April 28 12:13 pm zoomata staff Piero Cannata, who broke a toe of Michelangelo’s David, scribbled on a Jackson Pollock painting and took a black marker to a Filippo Lippi fresco, has struck again. The only consolation is that this time Cannata, a failed artist, did not pick anything particularly valuable but he [...]
updated Thu. April 15 10:07 am by Nicole Martinelli Down the street from Michelangelo’s David but just far enough out of the public eye to be neglected, one of Italy’s most beautiful Renaissance churches, Santissima Annunziata, is being heavily damaged by a leaky roof, art historian James Beck denounced. Italian media reported that it is [...]
posted Wed. April 14 16:35 pm zoomata staff Aquatic birds in Italian lagoon of Venice have more than doubled in ten years, a conservation group announced. Nearly 200,000 birds — largely ducks but also cormorants, swans, herons, spoonbills and gulls — were recorded in the latest census, a victory for wildlife in the Serenissima, historically [...]
posted Tue. April 13 18:25 pm zoomata staff Men in Southern Italy have long claimed the red Tropea onion makes lovemaking easy, a scientist has now proved it is a natural form of Viagra. Pasquale Potenza, who emigrated to Argentina as a youth, may have remembered whispered tales about the amorous side effects of the [...]
First Person: Real Life In Italy Each month we introduce you to someone who has made the dream of picking up and moving to the Bel Paese a reality. In their own words they share the good parts, the bad parts and the just plain absurd moments of day-to-day life in Italy. Looking to move [...]
posted Mon. April 5 14:13 pm zoomata staff Poets may have a better connection between head and heart than most, but 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch may have been separated forever from his skull. Scientists, who dug him up in November 2003 in hopes of learning more about one of the most prolific bards of the [...]
