Ezra Pound’s daughter fights to wrest the renegade poet’s legacy from fascists
The 86-year-old Mary De Rachewiltz is taking on a band of Italian neofascists who are using her father's nameThe Italian castle where the poet Ezra Pound retreated in the 1950s to work on his epic poem The Cantos could scarcely be more remote, perched ...
Ezra Pound’s daughter aims to stop Italian fascist group using father’s name
CasaPound, named after the American poet, was supported by a racist who killed two African men in FlorenceEzra Pound, the 20th-century American poet who wrote The Cantos, was known for his fascist sympathies and antisemitism.But his daughter is now tak...
The novel that has got young lovers declaring their passion with padlocks
Thousands are copying the protagonists of Federico Moccia's bestseller I Want You by attaching padlocks to bridgesCity officials up and down Italy who are wondering why their bridges are being weighed down by padlocks have clearly not been keeping up w...
Italy’s bridges weighed down by locks of love
Lovers write their names on a padlock, attach it to a bridge and throw keys in the river in romantic act inspired by novelOn top of its usual problems of rising flood waters, sinking palazzi, tourist congestion and corrosive pigeon droppings, Venice fa...
Englishwoman is hailed as a heroine of Italy’s unification struggle
As Italians celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first national parliament marking the climax of the Risorgimento, a new book tells the story of Jessie White, who marched alongside Garibaldi and wrote newspaper reports of the fightingItalians celebra...
Italian authors’ invasion is set to conquer the crime fiction lists
TV series based on Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen novels heads assault on the dominance of Scandinavian detective sagasA new wave of Italian crime writers is aiming to conquer the British reading public and edge Scandinavian rivals such as Stieg Larsson ...
Memoirs shed new light on La Dolce Vita era of drugs, sex and debauchery
The character played by Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini's classic film was partly based on a gossip columnist now writing his own account of Rome's scandalous 1950s
When the gossip columnist Victor Ciuffa emerged blinking from a private viewing of La Dolce Vita in Rome in February 1960, he...
