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Pictures by John Heseltine Bruna’s cantina or store-cupboard contains jar upon jar of her luscious red tomato sauce. It is a staple ingredient used almost daily, and she makes enough over the late summer and early autumn months to last her family for a year. Custom Teaser:  Umbrian grandmother Bruna Cesaroni uses the succulent tomatoes that have been ripening all summer in her orto to make one of the most essential ingredients in Italian cooking – tomato sauce

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Home-made tomato sauce with basil

Pictures by John Heseltine Bruna’s cantina or store-cupboard contains jar upon jar of her luscious red tomato sauce. It is a staple ingredient used almost daily, and she makes enough over the late summer and early autumn months to last her family for a year. Custom Teaser:  Umbrian grandmother Bruna Cesaroni uses the succulent tomatoes that have been ripening all summer in her orto to make one of the most essential ingredients in Italian cooking – tomato sauce

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Home-made tomato sauce with basil

Neapolitan crime families seem to be under some strain as of late. The police has scored several successes and put some of the heads of Camorra (the name of the Neapolitan mafia) families behind bars.

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The rise of women in the Camorra

Walter Veltroni was the leader of the Italian Partito Democratico – Democratic Party, until he was ousted in favour of one Dario Franceschini . Veltroni resigned as leader of the Italian Democratic Party in February this year.  Today on Rai’s TG2 news however, while promoting his new book, Veltroni claimed he was no longer actively involved in Italian politics.  When he resigned as leader, did he also give up his seat in the Italian parliament

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Is Walter Veltroni Still an MP?

Words by Michelle Fabio – Pictures by Paoletta S.

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How to make gnocchi

Umberto Bossi, the irascible leader of Italy’s Northern League party, does not like Italy.  I get the impression that he’d love to see a form of de-unification, and here’s how he could achieve his dream. You will have heard of the Suez and the Panama canals, I’m sure, well how about a new addition – the Padana Canal ?  This new waterway stroke national boundary would effectively detach Italy’s head from, in Bossi’s eyes, the rest of its troublesome body.  Italy’s brains would thus be kept the right place. Where could this new canal be built?

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Splitting Italy

A recent survey from tripadvisor.it amongst French, Spanish and English travelers revealed that Italian is considered the most romantic language. 31% of French, 15% of Spaniards and 23% of British think that Italian is the most sensual, romantic accent – making Italian the most sensual overall. Second position is reserved to French and third to Spanish.

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Italian is the language of romance, survey

Words by Charles Searson – Pictures by John Ferro Sims and Enzo Rando Custom Teaser:  Charles Searson meets Lady Susana Walton, the dynamic widow of Sir William Walton, who has dedicated 40 years of her life to creating a garden at La Mortella, the home they shared together on Ischia

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Island Paradise, Ischia

Words by Julie Gilley The choice to learn Italian usually comes from a sense of romance or passion for the country and its people. Yet, those who stick with their studies often lose the sense of romance to periods of utter frustration and confusion.

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Three Italian Phrases You Shouldn’t Leave Home Without

Exactly 400 years ago in front of the Venetian Senate a straight talking Italian professor of physics presented a device that would magnify objects, nine times. Little did the ’senatori’ know that that simple leather tube with glass lenses on each side and the science that accompanied it, would set in motion a series of events that would change our understanding of the world forever.

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400 years since the Starry Messenger