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Philip Willan


The Italian Job

How a Roman forgery network faked “impossible to replicate” artworks by Picasso, Edvard Munch, and Paul Klee using … coffee and tea

An Island of Civility in Venice

A bidding war for Poveglia, an urban park offering a rare respite from the tourist crush, ends in victory for the city’s residents

Doctor’s Orders

“Don’t think it is happening here and it can’t happen everywhere else”: Italy urges the world to learn from its own war with the coronavirus