Italy
Studio: Donatello at the Palazzo Strozzi
A magnificent celebration of the artist who was midwife to the birth of humanism
Evening Vespas and Gelato alla Gordon’s
When in Florence…
Tortured hero of the Giro
The Italian rapscallion
Crepuscular perfection
There’s a new Tuscan restaurant in town — and it’s a success
Dante, 700 years on
We, too, are exiled from Florence
Vaccine for the soul
As Britain is about to declare victory over the virus, Christopher Pincher enjoys a Latour-Bellona
Renato and Me
David Smith recalls his association with Renato Curcio, the former leader of Italy’s ultra-left terrorist group the Red Brigades
Conte’s conundrum
How has Italy’s Giuseppe Conte defied the odds and become a consequential political figure in his own right?
Pleasures of the plague year
Lisa Hilton welcomes the locals back to Venice and enjoys a spicy nod to the city’s vibrant past
Altogether enough enjoyment
Venice after people
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
