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“Take away money from politics,” he barked, as the crowd tittered. “Take away the careers. If someone wants to make money or steal, well, they should choose another job.” With no financial gain, he said, “politics becomes about passion.” Mr. Grillo pointed to the row of fresh-faced Italians — candidates with his Five Star Movement [...]

The explosion occurred near a vocational school named after Francesca Morvillo, a magistrate who was killed with her husband, Giovanni Falcone, an anti-Mafia prosecutor, by a Cosa Nostra bomb on May 23, 1992, an event Italy planned to commemorate on its 20th anniversary. The bomb went off as students were preparing to enter the school [...]

The move came after months of growing social tensions stemming from Italy’s economic crisis and the government’s stricter enforcement of tax collection. These tensions have fueled an outbreak of violence by individuals squeezed by taxes and by radical groups modeled on the domestic terrorists who tried to destabilize Italy in the 1970s and early 1980s. [...]

This doesn’t have to happen; the euro (or at least most of it) could still be saved. But this will require that European leaders, especially in Germany and at the European Central Bank, start acting very differently from the way they’ve acted these past few years. They need to stop moralizing and deal with reality; [...]

James captured the 19th-century American expatriate experience of Italy so masterfully that it is now almost impossible to see it other than through the author’s eyes. No artist, not even John Singer Sargent, who was born in Florence, in 1856, and remained deeply attached to the city, ever came to provide a visual equivalent of [...]

Having recently wrapped up its 11th annual running in New York, the Tribeca Film Festival is preparing to take a Tuscan holiday. On Monday, Tribeca Enterprises, the parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival, said it was working with IMG Artists, the performing arts management company, to create Tribeca Firenze, a series of film programming [...]

Delverde, an Italian maker of premium pasta, is borrowing that idea and extending it to a food bus, which will tour the East Coast as part of the company’s efforts to win over America’s taste buds. Delverde products are typically found in high-end markets, so the bus tour is an unconventional way for the company [...]

On Monday, police forensic experts pursued yet another lead, exhuming the tomb of a notorious local crime boss at a Vatican church, where some speculated Emanuela might have been buried. Besides his remains, they found hundreds of other bones in an ancient ossuary nearby in the crypt. The police said they would test them to [...]

The response has been overwhelming, with more than 100,000 e-mails received. “A constant flow, even during the nighttime hours,” said a government statement released Tuesday. Italians have submitted an array of complaints, from throwing out uneaten hospital food to leaving the heating on during the summer. But the most recurrent theme, in an economically fragile [...]

ROME — Aiming to ease budgetary pressure and spur growth, Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy has announced cuts to state spending by the end of the year and appointed an expert from the private sector as a special commissioner to oversee the spending review. Speaking after a cabinet meeting that broke up late Monday [...]