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Italy will be able to recover a 2,000-year-old Greek statue from the Getty Museum in California
June 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Un tribunale europeo ha dichiarato che l’Italia ha un diritto su una statua greca di 2.000 anni. La statua attualmente risiede al Getty Museum in California. La statua, conosciuta come La Gioventù Vittoriosa, o L'Atleta di Fano, o ancora Getty...
A new papyrus scroll found under Vesuvius volcanic ash
June 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Un rotolo di papiro sepolto sotto le ceneri dell'eruzione del Vesuvio può aiutare gli storici a comprendere le ultime ore della vita di Platone. Gli archeologi hanno deprecato il rotolo e hanno potuto leggere ciò che era scritto. Platone fu una...
The Mayor of Alicudi ask you to “adopt a goat”
May 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
The mayor of a remote Italian island overrun by wild goats has offered to give the animals away to anyone willing to take one in. Riccardo Gullo came up with the idea after a recent census estimated the number of goats on the three-square mile...
After 450 years, eight Piero della Francesca's panels have been reassembled
May 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Eight surviving panels of Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian altarpiece have been reassembled after 450 years, possibly solving one of its enduring mysteries. The celebrated polyptych was created by the early Italian Renaissance master...
Supercar Italian Designer Marcello Gandini passed away
May 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Marcello Gandini, the Italian designer, died at age 85 on March 13. Gandini was known for creating supercars for the super-rich, and such exotic machines as Lamborghini’s Miura and Countach, Alfa Romeo’s Montreal and Maserati’s Khamsin were...
Last mounth, Storms, Strong winds and Landslides to Italy
April 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Extreme weather brought avalanches, storms, strong winds and landslides to Italy last month. A 16-year-old boy died after being hit by an avalanche while skiing off-piste in Plan in Val Passiria in Italy’s South Tyrol region, near the Austrian...
A New amazing Fresco discovered in Pompei
April 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Archaeologists have unearthed a fresco depicting the Greek mythological siblings Phrixus and Helle at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of Pompeii Archaeological Park, described the find as a poignant reflection...
Paolo Taviani, movie director, died at 92
April 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
The Italian film-maker Paolo Taviani, whose gritty biopic “Padre Padrone” won top prize at the Cannes film festival, died at age 92, Rome’s mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, said last month. For more than three decades Taviani and his brother Vittorio...
Agrigento Sicily, terminate a restoration for Statue of Atlas
April 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
A colossal statue of Atlas that lay buried for centuries among ancient ruins has been reconstructed to take its rightful place among the Greek temples of Agrigento in Sicily, after a 20-year research and restoration project. The statue, standing at...
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