by Nicole Martinelli The death toll for Italy’s sexy pinup calendars has sounded: even truck drivers are sick of them. Marketing experts are worried: these nearly-nude calendars are a 10 million USD a year industry in Italy and magazines that feature them as an extra often sell astronomical quantities with the right starlet or TV [...]
zoomata.com staff The last masterpiece painted in the short, violent life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the recently-restored “Martyrdom of Saint Orsola,” comes to Naples as part of the exhibition Caravaggio: The Last Years. The exhibit travels to London’s National Gallery in early 2005. Commissioned by prince Marcantonio Doria for his daughter who joined a [...]
zoomata.com staff Italian cemeteries are preparing special areas for people to scatter ashes of the dead after a long-awaited law allowing them to do what they wish with remains was enacted. Cremation met with resistance from the Catholic Church, which had banned followers from being cremated until 1963. It became legal in Italy in 1987, [...]
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 [...]
