This week the Irish celebrate an Italic saint while we celebrate a Jewish one. Modern Romanophiles still celebrate Matronalia, motherhood & feminism The Roman St. Patrick not only led the conversion of heathen Celts but taught them to read and ...

I have long given up on American filmmakers ever doing justice to Italy on the screen. Granted, it's hard for any filmmaker who didn't grow up in a specific country to know all about its cultural or historical nuances, even ...

Contrary to Ken Burns’ recent documentary on the American Revolution, it was a band of Italians, the ancient Romans—not the Iroquois—who served as the model for our fledgling republic. Those are Roman fasces mounted in the U.S. House of Representatives ...