Giotto The Great
Great art endures; great art forever changes.
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
How Olympian Was Renaissance Man?
Leonardo is seen as the presiding genius of his age, but his drawings reveal a reassuringly human artist
Civilising The English Yahoos
Three decades of erudite correspondence between two of the greatest art historians of the 20th century
A Journey Back To The Golden Age Of Bronze
A remarkable Florentine exhibition has brought together many of the few surviving Hellenistic sculptures
Eggs Florentine
The gently eccentric Piero di Cosimo
Fabulous Fabiano
The rapid rise of a young Italian master
More Ideas, Less Personality
A new edited collection of Italo Calvino’s letters appeals more to lovers of the Italian’s work than to the general reader, but is still deeply rewarding
The Poet To Whom Fascism Owed It All
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Life of Gabriele D'Annunzio paints a picture of a compelling and anarchic poet-statesman
Italian Insouciance
The over-generous Italian welfare state means that for all the belt-tightening, most people in the country still enjoy la dolce vita
Not All Roads Lead to Rome
Book review of The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
Spare the Thumbscrews
The Italian Inquisition by Christopher F. Black
Silvio’s House of Cards
‘Italy's real problem isn't Berlusconi's private affairs. Rather, the problem is the culture he now represents. ’