The power struggle between New York crime bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello is one of the foundational stories of the American Mafia, though perhaps asking Robert De Niro to play both of them ...

incamerastock/Alamy First and most obviously, soldiers tried not to die, and hurling yourself full-speed into an enemy pike formation was a one-way ticket to corpse town ... Benito Mussolini seized ...

No crunch. Barely even any chew. And yet, and yet ... On a cold winter’s night, at a trattoria in northern Italy, a hefty glass of nebbiolo by your side, there are few things in this world more ...

The grandson of Italy's last king, who was banished just 35 days into his reign, is fighting for his remains to be returned ...

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Load Map What is the travel distance between Jerusalem, Israel and Rome, Italy? How many miles is it from Rome to Jerusalem. 1434 miles / 2307.8 km is the flight distance between these two places. Use ...

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: A normal ticket includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill (valid for 24 hours) and you can visit all three in one day. It doesn't include a visit to the ...

Italy is often thought of as a political laboratory, anticipating events in other countries: fascism in the 1920s; the showman-businessman turned politician in the 1990s; populism in the 2010s. Great ...

The complex, secret negotiations for an Italian surrender after the overthrow of Mussolini almost six weeks earlier had already begun in earnest with the arrival of an Italian delegation in neutral ...

UNLIKE HITLER OR Stalin, of whom there are any number of decent modern biographies, Mussolini still seems ill-served by historians ... no doubt to the postembarrassment of Italy's current Only a ...

Ahhh, Italian. The language of love. It’s got to be the most popular kind of restaurant for everything—romantic dates, milestone anniversaries, casual catch-ups, or belt-loosening feasts that leave ...