When a fan walked up to Tracy Chevalier in Italy and pressed two small books into her hand, she had no idea it would send her ...

Venetian glassmakers revived it 700 years later, reinforcing the form’s Italian ... beads or disks, thus revealing the dazzling patterns of their cross sections. As such, Millefiori glass ...

Maria Rosaria Boccia, former adviser to Italy's culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, was banned from parliament for using spy glasses to film inside the chamber. This incident led to Sangiuliano ...

Maria Rosaria Boccia, the woman at the heart of a scandal that led to the resignation of Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, was banned from entering the Italian parliament on Tuesday. The ...

We went one day to Murano, the island in the Venetian lagoon ... People have been making glass in the same way for thousands of years. The oldest glass piece I own is a bead made by Phoenicians ...

Lunar samples brought to Earth by a Chinese probe have provided new evidence that volcanoes on the moon continued erupting until as recently as 120 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the ...

The research was based on tiny glass beads found on the lunar surface, which suggest that active volcanism was present on the Moon until relatively recently. The beads were found by Chang’e 5 ...

Glassmaking is traditionally a male concern, but the girl finds her way into it thanks to Maria Barovier, the real-life inventor of Rosetta beads, who, in the novel, advises Orsola to diversify into ...

The Venetian tradition of perline (glass beads) goes back at least to the 13th century ... bookshop houses a thoughtfully curated collection of publications in Italian and English that will draw in ...