Don’t start the new year with a resolution to diet. Instead, head to your nearest bookstore or click on the internet to purchase the two recently published must haves for every Italophiles’ library and kitchen shelf.

I've lived in Rome for more than 50 years and had never heard of, much less visited, Palazzo Colonna, until last November when the Culture Group of the Foreign Press Association was invited on a tour there.

Pizza, specifically the art of the Neapolitan pizzaiulo or pizza chef, was inscribed on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2017.

A blockbuster exhibition celebrating Fra Angelico (c.1395-1455), better known as “Beato (Blessed) Angelico,” is on display until January 25, 2026 at two locations in Florence.