Mattia Ferraresi
Diary of a Foreigner in Rome
The Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta, Trump’s ambassador to Italy, is making his presence in the capital known, starting with his alleged helicopter commute to work from aboard his 250-foot yacht
The View from Here
Why is Les Misérables, whose protagonist would’ve been shipped to El Salvador today, headlining Trump’s Kennedy Center takeover?
Trump’s Mini-Me
Paolo Zampolli, the former modeling agent who introduced Melania to Donald, has stayed in the Mar-a-Lago circle, anticipating and echoing the president’s foreign-policy views
La Duce Vita
A new TV series on the Fascist dictator asks: Why do Italians still defend Benito Mussolini?
To Catch a Manuscript Thief
The shocking leak of Pope Francis’s closely guarded autobiography bears uncanny similarities to an infamous publishing swindler’s modus operandi
Sister Act
Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s embattled right-wing prime minister, has promoted her older sister, Arianna, to help her navigate government scandals
Till Kingdom Come
The Holy Roman Empire failed so you don’t have to. In a new book, a scion of the Habsburg family interprets lessons from one of Europe’s most powerful dynasties for the personal realm
Soft Landing
Is arriving at Fiumicino the most civilized—and dazzling—experience to be had in Rome these days? One fed-up local makes his case
