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The conservative political parties that governed Italy until November found their support waning throughout the country, and an upstart political movement that campaigned by lambasting the political elite took one major northern city, Parma, as well as several smaller ones in voting Sunday and Monday. But the most analyzed number to emerge from the elections, [...]

The art historian also highlighted the frescoes Signorelli painted in the Capella Nova in Orvieto’s Duomo as a decisive influence, “as anyone can see,” in Vasari’s words, on Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel. The tumultuous scenes of the end of the world in Signorelli’s frescoes at the Duomo feature scores of nude figures [...]

Prime Minister Mario Monti, along with the education, justice and interior ministers and other officials, were among the hundreds that crammed into the church for the funeral of Melissa Bassi, a student at the vocational school targeted by a bomb on Saturday that left five other girls hospitalized. Melissa’s flower-laden white coffin lay in the [...]

“The one certainty we have is that there was a will to commit a mass murder,” the official, Marco Dinapoli, Brindisi’s chief prosecutor, said during a news conference in this southern Adriatic port city. “The rest falls into probabilities, not certainties.” But Mr. Dinapoli, while underlining that all hypotheses remained open, said that preliminary investigations [...]

Prime Minister Mario Monti, along with the education, justice and interior ministers and other officials, were among the hundreds that crammed into the church for the funeral of Melissa Bassi, a student at the vocational school targeted by a bomb on Saturday that left five other girls hospitalized. Melissa’s flower-laden white coffin lay in the [...]

More than 120 aftershocks rocked the area in the hours following the magnitude-6.0 earthquake, which toppled factories, apartment buildings, and medieval and Renaissance-era monuments early Sunday. The epicenter was a small town between the art-rich cities of Modena and Ferrara. The area had not been considered at high risk for earthquakes, leading officials to call [...]

And no wonder. Despite efforts at official reassurance, no one really knows the consequences of a Greek exit from the euro zone, or how rapidly big countries like Spain and Italy, and their banks, will feel the effects. However cavalierly some European officials talk of “managing” a Greek exit, the political and financial costs would [...]

The earthquake, which the United States Geological Survey said had a magnitude of 6.0, crumbled church roofs and Renaissance-era towers, according to Italian television reports. Large cracks riddled apartment blocks in dozens of towns. And Italy’s national Civil Protection Department said that at least 3,000 had been left homeless. Three men working the night shift [...]

The earthquake, which the United States Geological Survey said had a magnitude of 6.0, crumbled church roofs and Renaissance-era towers, according to Italian television reports. Large cracks riddled apartment blocks in dozens of towns. And Italy’s national Civil Protection Department said that at least 3,000 had been left homeless. Three men working the night shift [...]

The companies, Titan Salvage, which is based in Florida, and Micoperi, an Italian underwater construction and offshore contractor, plan to lift the half-submerged vessel with pullers mounted on a platform and a subsea platform to roll it on, using water-filled caissons to stabilize it, and finally tow it to a yet unidentified Italian port. There, [...]