Armando Trovajoli, an Italian who composed music for some 300 films and whose lush and playful serenade to Rome is a much-requested romantic standby for tourists, has died at age 95.
The Fendi fashion house is financing a (EURO)2.18 million ($2.93 million) restoration of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, famed as a setting for the film "La Dolce Vita" and the place where dreamers leave their coins.
Rome's 18th-century Trevi Fountain, famed as a setting for the film "La Dolce Vita," is getting a (EURO)2.18 million ($2.9 million) restoration courtesy of the Fendi fashion house.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years.
Former New York Cosmos star Giorgio Chinaglia died of complications from a heart attack Sunday. The Italian soccer great was 65.
He was pilloried by the Vatican for creating a sculpture of Pope John Paul II that some mockingly say looks more like Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini than the beloved late pontiff. Now artist Oliviero Rainaldi has a chance at redemption.
It's not Woody Allen's beloved Manhattan skyline, but the American filmmaker was treated to a beautiful view of Rome's ancient ruins during a meeting with the city's mayor.
Rome's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, has a dream - the Summer Olympics in the Italian capital in 2020. To that end, he has opened an energetic campaign to raise Rome's global profile, using one of the city's most powerful assets: its past. Mr. Alemanno's two-year project to dispatch some of the greatest sculptures of Roman antiquity to cities in the United States opened Wednesday when the Capitoline Venus went on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art.
