Less than a month after Italy entered World War II, its navy suffered a devastating blow at Taranto, prompting Mussolini to ...

This is the third in a series on The Athletic looking back at the winners of each World Cup, from Uruguay in 1930 through to ...

Oliver Stone has been an influence on many filmmakers, but this one helped him find his way early in his career.

It begins with the Altare della Patria. Sergio Mattarella will be there today, along with Giorgia Meloni and the presidents ...

Mussolini saw himself as a “New Augustus ... In one notorious attack, Vittorio Sgarbi, undersecretary to the Ministry of Culture, compared the museum’s boxlike form to a “gas station ...

Italians celebrate liberation from Fascism. One leading partisan was Ilio Barontini, a Communist who helped lead Ethiopia’s ...

Directors like Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, and Luchino Visconti created powerful films such as Rome, Open City and Bicycle Thieves that captured the hardships of everyday life.