Violin of Noah Barefoot string quartet—floating on a giant violin—performs Vivaldi in Venice Rusty Blazenhoff

fuerteventura Jerk snatches winning game ticket from old lady Kevin Reome

smugglers 41 tourists who stole sand from Sardinian beaches were fined up to $3,600 each Mark Frauenfelder

augustus caesar Archaeologists unearth 2000-year-old marble head of Augustus Caesar Jess Sabine

italy Italian man skipped work while collecting paycheck for 15 years Rob Beschizza

unreasonable acceleration Italian police use a Lamborghini to deliver a donated kidney 300 miles in two hours Clive Thompson

flooding Venice flood barrier system keeps city streets dry Rusty Blazenhoff

buchette del vino Medieval 'wine windows' are having another moment in Italy Rusty Blazenhoff

cheap houses Small Italian town selling "Covid-free" houses for €1 Thom Dunn

Rita Pavone My name is potato Andrea James

priest Priest in Italy accidentally leaves on camera's filters during online service, hilarity ensues Rusty Blazenhoff

italy COVID-19 death toll in Italy overtakes that of China Xeni Jardin

lessons from the past Video: Italians talk to their former selves about the coronavirus Séamus Bellamy

italy Photos of empty public spaces in Italy Mark Frauenfelder

mission impossible 'Mission: Impossible 7' Italy shoot stopped over Coronavirus Xeni Jardin

Io li odio i nazisti dell'Illinois Italian cops raid neo-Nazis, find rifles, swords and Nazi literature Cory Doctorow

#ClimateCrisis Italy: Venice council flooded after 'NO' vote on climate change measures Xeni Jardin

global news Venice is flooded right now and it looks miserable Mark Frauenfelder

creeping fascism Italy evicts Steve Bannon from $110,000-a-year medieval monastery that was to be was his "gladiator school for cultural warriors" Xeni Jardin

Vodafone Vodafone sources claim Huawei created a "backdoor" for its home routers and network switching equipment and then lied about removing it Cory Doctorow