Italy

Magazine articles on politics and society in Italy.

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TIME Europe March 13, 2008 Farhad Heydari	Culinary Ascent The northernmost Italian province of South Tyrol is becoming a center of haute cuisine, boasting eleven restaurants which have earned Michelin stars. Read on about five of these.
TIME Europe February 21, 2008 Rachel Spence	A Rush of Steel and Beauty "The Legend of Speed: Art, Motorization and Society in 20th Century Italy," at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, takes visitors on a journey through a century of Italian art, design, fashion, cinema and technology to remind them of what global pacesetters Italians have been.
TIME Europe January 23, 2008 Jeff Israely	A Dearth of Courage Fifteen years after the dismantling of a corrupt ruling class was supposed to have paved the way for reform of public life, Italy's entire political system is broken. Rather than sleaze, it is now mired in sludge, unable to break a vicious circle of stall and cynicism.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Morgen E. Peck	RFID Tags Guide the Blind An Italian town's buried transponders keep blind people on the right track.
TIME Europe November 8, 2007 Jeff Israely	Decapitation: Mafia Adaptation A major arrest shuffles the deck in the Mafia organization, but hardly eradicates it.
TIME Europe November 1, 2007 Ishaan Tharoor	Venice of the East An impressive exhibition chronicles nearly a thousand years of Venetian trade with Egypt, the Levant, the Ottoman and Persian empires and beyond.
TIME Europe August 2, 2007 Jeff Israely	Italy's Misruling Class With the public's sense of disillusionment deepening, Italy's ruling coalition's approval rating has plummeted.
TIME Europe June 27, 2007 Jeff Israely	Media Commander Giuseppe Garibaldi, the 19th century Italian general who spent 12 years fighting for independence movements in Brazil and Uruguay before returning home to lead battles to unify Italy, was an international icon both during and after his lifetime.
TIME Europe February 15, 2007 Jeff Israely	Help with a Firm Hand As a leftist, Bologna's incoming mayor Sergio Cofferati was sure to be a friend to the city's most marginalized. But if Cofferati was indeed a friend, he turned out to be the kind who tells you what you don't want to hear.
TIME Europe February 1, 2007 Jeff Israely	Who's The New Head of Sicily's 'Family' Business Ten months after the capture of Cosa Nostra's boss of bosses Bernardo Provenzano, 74, the so-called pax mafiosa is still holding.
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