Rochester Institute of Technology will celebrate the cultural, artistic and historical significance of Italy through the Viva l’Italia! lecture and performance series. The series runs from March to ...

Modern Italy was unified in 1870 when the national government annexed Rome and the Papal States despite protests from Pope Pius IX. The new nation almost didn't survive, as Pius struggled to persuade ...

Though Italy-Vatican relations were once stormy, Pope Benedict has sent a conciliatory message to the Italian president for the nation's 150th anniversary of reunification. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, ...

In the early 1860s, the appalling living conditions in Southern Italy exacerbated the phenomenon of brigandage, which had already emerged during the Bourbon period as a struggle against the social ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy marked 150 years as a unified state on Thursday, inviting world leaders to festivities that contrasted starkly with a febrile political mood after crushing local election losses ...