The “supertomato” A team of researchers from Italy’s National Biomolecular Research Centre in Naples have created a “supertomato” to be called the “maxantia” which, they say, could help prevent prostrate and other cancers.
More here:
Italy in anti-cancer discoveries
How would you like to have your very own a country retreat in a quiet medieval village in the heart of Italy?
View original here:
A House and all that Jazz For Sale in Umbria, Italy
If you are going to be in or near Siena this Saturday, you will have a chance to see a faithful reconstruction of the medieval market that used to take place in the Piazza del Campo , or Palio Square.
Read more:
Medieval market in Siena
On Monday 1st March thousands of British ex-pats living in Italy tried to tune in to Sky Italia’s channel 138 to find, instead of their favourite programme on the BBC Entertainment [formerly BBC Prime] channel, a notice from Sky informing them that the channel was no longer available.
Read more here:
Sky cuts BBC – British ex-pats up in arms
Custom Teaser: A useful guide to some of the towns producing fine majolica.. Words and Images by Christine Webb
Read more from the original source:
Potty about Ceramics – part 1
British student Meredith Kercher was killed without premeditation and in the absence of any feelings of rancour towards her on the part of the perpetrators, says the long-awaited Judges’ report.
See more here:
Amanda Knox: judges’ report published
In this photo: Peruzzi Chapel in Santa Croce Church – Florence. Photo by Gaspa Researchers in Florence using state-of-the-art techniques have been able to see original details that have not been seen for centuries in some of Giotto’s paintings
Read more from the original source:
"Secret" Giotto uncovered
Custom Teaser: One of the shocks you can receive when you move house, even within in your own country, is that suddenly you are unknown to the people around you and you can start to feel “invisible”. When you move abroad, that sensation is much stronger… Words by Pat Eggleton One of the shocks you can receive when you move house, even within in your own country, is that suddenly you are unknown to the people around you and you can start to feel “invisible”
Read the original:
Patti Chiari – My "Other Place"
Andrea Bocelli was honoured with the 2402nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday. The blind tenor, 51, looking delighted, knelt to feel his star, which is situated outside the Roosevelt Hotel. He told Ansa that the honour was a sign of the American public’s affection for him
See the original post:
Bocelli on walk of fame
In the nation generally supposed to be the most romantic in the world many people suffer from sex-related headaches, new research has revealed.
Here is the original:
Not tonight, Caro mio