It Could Happen Here: Sanctions, Terror, and the Internet
Margaret joins James to discuss a new round of sanctions against, among others, Autistici/Inventati and the internet infrastructure services they provided. {listen}
An automatic copying device in 1890
the Automatic Cycostyle Gestetner, from 1890s.
Touring A 16th-Century Italian Palace: Isabella Ducrot’s Private Art Collection | Visitors’ Book
The World of Interiors presents Visitors’ Book with Isabella Ducrot at Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome, Italy. Step inside Isabella’s beautiful 16th-century apartment situated above the prestigious Doria-Pamphilj gallery, as…
Summertime (1955 film)
Summertime is a 1955 romantic drama film directed by David Lean, and starring Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin, and Isa Miranda. It follows a lonely middle-aged American secretary and…
Adam’s Breed
Adam's Breed by Radclyffe Hall Olga Boselli, a young Italian woman who immigrated to London with her parents at the turn of the century, dies during childbirth. Her son, Gian-Luca,…
Anthony Burgess on the Human Condition
Speaking in 1974 on Russell Harty
Inside a Sicilian Artist’s 150-Year-Old Home
Yugen Pictures
The gull that set up her nest in the Giardini at the Venice Biennale
via hyperallergic May 10, 2026
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Renaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting with Ada Palmer (historian, novelist, and composer based at the University of Chicago).
Organic farming as a career choice: Italy’s young farmers | DW Documentary
Astonishing new data from the Italian farmers' association: More and more young people are moving away from cities to rural areas in order to work in farming. For many, it’s…