The 25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a day to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape and other forms of violence. It also ...

Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

There's a small show at Christ Church fixed to coincide with the Oxford Literary Festival. Curator of the Picture Gallery Jacqueline Thalmann sought among the 2,000 drawings in Christ Church's ...

Maria Clotilde Camboni receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840772 Imagine a world where we ...

Suzanne Cleary loves the sound of Italian. When she picked up a copy of “Italian Made Simple,” she was determined to teach herself the language before a trip to Italy. Instead Cleary came away ...

Beppe Grillo, an Italian comic turned politician, refused to apologize for his parody of a Primo Levi poem about the Holocaust to criticize Italy’s government and political system. (JTA) – Beppe ...

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – and a Peruvian poem has become an anthem in Italy. Here’s why. The 25 November is the International Day for the ...

Imagine a world where we knew the name of Homer, but the poetry of The Odyssey was lost to us. That was the world of the early Italian Renaissance during the second half of the 15th century. Many ...

Imagine a world where we knew the name of Homer, but the poetry of The Odyssey was lost to us. That was the world of the early Italian Renaissance during the second half of the 15th century. Many ...