A compromise gets Rome off the hook for testing the euro zone’s debt rules
Journalism
At Long Last, Early Renaissance Works Are Reunited
Two paintings by Andrea Mantegna will be reunited into a single masterpiece for the first time in centuries
A heroic sailor faces expulsion from Italy’s Five Star Movement
Captain Gregorio De Falco shows the cracks within the ruling coalition
Why Italy’s budget has caused a European row
The European Commission is unimpressed by the deficit proposed for 2019, and fines are a possibility
Clerical sexual-abuse scandals strengthen the pope’s conservative critics
Launched in optimism, Francis’s papacy is bogged down in infighting and scandals
Migrants risk their lives to move on from Italy
Several hundred thousand people are trapped
Exhibits Mark 500 Years of Leonardo da Vinci, the Original Renaissance Man
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Codex Leicester’ is among treasures on view 500 years after the death of the Renaissance polymath
The real story of what happened to Italy’s Jews
Simon Levis Sullam unpicks the accepted version of events
The European Commission rejects Italy’s budget
But it gives Rome three weeks to think again
Pompeii, Buried for Centuries, Yields New Finds
Conservators in Italy have turned up discoveries at the site of Pompeii, the city beset by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D.