One of Italy's loveliest Renaissance buildings is taking a step into the future, adding a series of ''electronic frescoes'' to its extensive art collection.

A Roma gypsy recently sentenced to six years in jail for killing four youths in a drunk driving incident is using his new-found fame to help sell watches on the Internet.

An Italian monk has been sacked for demanding bribes to help couples get their marriages annulled, an Italian newspaper reported Thursday.

The largest ever retrospective of the art world's most famous Anglo-Italian pairing, Gilbert & George, has opened in the northern Italian town of Rivoli.

Italian Nobel prize-winning playwright Dario Fo is the curator of an exhibition of works by a little-known photographer he considers the new Marco Polo.

The show, entitled Altro Mondo (Other World), will feature 56 giant images Adriano Gamberoni shot on his travels around the Third World.

Time Senior Correspondent Michael Weisskopf on Wednesday received this year's Urbino Press Award for excellence in journalism.

The inhabitants of the often overlooked Marche region in central Italy learned this week that statistically at least they have something to shout about.

The Festival di Londra at Ripatransone, Le Marche opens on the 9th August in beautiful Teatro Mercantini at 9.30pm with the outstanding young Lithuanian pianist, Evelina Puzaite, who has won a stack of major international competitions and musical scholarships over the past few years, and has already played in

A show bringing the work of pre-Renaissance master Gentile da Fabriano back to his home town for the first time in centuries was inaugurated Thursday by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

The birthplace of Renaissance genius Raphael has launched a drive to show off his works in the environment that nurtured his genius - and help keep that heritage in a fit state.