The ossified museum city is a familiar vision—Italy contains several of these sepulchers—and no discredit to them but if you'd like a wealth of history in a living place, try Genoa, a comprehensively ...

Washington – It’s on its way: Christopher Columbus, the musical. And Christopher Columbus, the opera. And Christopher Columbus, the Hollywood movie (make that movies). And Christopher Columbus, the ...

English journalist Walton presents a passionate, idiosyncratic history of the Genoan city-state, glorying in the medieval piratical enterprise that brought it both fame and notoriety. Walton ...

Simply sign up to the European companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The board of Italian mid-sized bank Carige was racing to bring a banking consortium and its biggest ...

Simply sign up to the European companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Italy’s financial police have arrested the vice-chairman of the country’s banking association and six others ...

Being a solo musician is a difficult proposition. Without the benefit of band mates to add variety and texture to a show, keeping an audience's attention can be tricky at best, next to impossible at ...

Genoan artist Rino Valido's works come saturated with bright colours of life Rino Valido's paintings recapture the innocence, spontaneity and intuitiveness of a child. The artist plays with bright ...

Sonia DeHart learned to ride, rope and shoot as a girl growing up on Hot Creek Ranch just outside of Tonopah, then she became a ballerina and performed on three continents. Services are 2 p.m. Monday ...