The Letterature Internazionale di Roma (Rome International Literature Festival) celebrates 25 years in 2026 and takes place from 19 to 21 June. Curated by Silvia Barbagallo and Anna Voltaggio, this year’s festival adopts the title Sconfinare, meaning “to cross boundaries” or “trespass”. The overarching theme explores the concept of transcending imposed limitations – whether physical, societal or linguistic – and positions literature as a powerful act of resistance against enforced silences and history written by the few. The festival will once again be staged in the ancient Stadio Palatino, on the…
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Moira Egan will present the Rome launch of The Furies, her tenth poetry collection, at John Cabot University in the Trastevere district on Wednesday 24 June at 18.30. The event, part of John Cabot University’s Summer Institute of Creative Writing and Literary Translation, will take place on the Secchia Terrace. Egan is a prize-winning poet and translator whose work has been published in prestigious journals and anthologies on four continents. In The Furies, Egan offers fierce feminist reimaginings of familiar myths and narratives, from Arachne to Echo, from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to…
Palermo residents have taken to the streets in protest over the celebrity wedding celebrations of singer Dua Lipa and British actor Callum Turner, taking place in the Sicilian capital this weekend. Lipa, 30, and Fantastic Beasts star Turner, 36, married in a registry office in London earlier in the week and chose Palermo for their wedding reception. Winner of multiple Grammy Awards, Dua Lipa rose to global superstardom with a string of chart-topping pop hits including Don’t Start Now, Levitating and New Rules. The wedding celebrations in Palermo, estimated to cost around €1.5 million and being…
Finance moves in mysterious ways, and one of them links the Vatican to the island of Malta. It has emerged that in February, through a fund based in Valletta, the Secretariat of State became a partner in Lapo Elkann’s eyewear and “lifestyle products” company, Italia Independent. Another €10 million deal went through on 30 September with Enrico Preziosi, games industrialist and chairman of Genoa. And over €4 million went to finance the production of films such as the latest “Men in Black” and the biography of Elton John, “Rocketman”. These…