Update: event in programme in Sala dei Notari will now take place in Sala Raffaello - Hotel Brufani Well, it hadn’t happened since 1415. Gianluigi Nuzzi, Vatican expert, with the latest from St Pe...

Leading figures in Italian pop music reflect on the current musical revolution - technological this time. Organised in association with Repubblica XL

Thirty years of commercial TV in Italy have moulded the tastes and attitudes of the nation, its political ideology, its adhesion to Berlusconiism. That's now changed. With the advent of digital we'r...

The crisis of newspapers and the crisis of blogs. On the one hand, the difficulty of paper and digital integration and the problem of  interpretation and integration of social media. On the other h...

Once upon a time the north of Italy, with Milan as its standard-bearer, was trumpeted as the moral capital of Italy: a city of relatively upstanding, industrious, enlightened citizens with City Hall...

More analysis in a new book by Giovanni Fasanella on the links - with virtuous intent or otherwise - over the decades between the Italian state and organised crime.

Italy is way down the international lists on relative quality of education and training. An opportunity to innovate and invigorate, or just yet another confirmation of seemingly unstoppable national...

The Italian TV political chat show host Lilli Gruber in her latest book Eredità casts her eye back over three generations of her family: vicissitudes experienced, memories cherished.

Presentation by Eric Carvin, introduction by Mario Tedeschini Lalli. With the pressure to break stories first on Twitter getting more intense and traditional ladders and mentorship structures less ...

The how-to of crime reporting: get your facts straight, preempt only what's really worth preempting, beware of stereotypes, remember that (almost) everybody is innocent until proven guilty.