Last June, while browsing through the latest issue of the London Review of Books, I came across an essay on the life and works of an Italian author, Italo Calvino (1923-85). He was one of Italy’s ...

Night of the Taranta, an Italian folk music festival akin to Woodstock, celebrates a musical tradition that dates to antiquity. The Folk Music Festival That Started With A Spider Bite The tarantella ...

TRAVERSE CITY — When Alla Boara plays The Alluvion in Traverse City on Feb. 21, the Ohio ensemble will unfurl a unique melding of Italian folk songs that may be a century old with additional ...

Newpoli, a band Songlines says grabs “southern Italian traditional music by the neck and recasts it in a dramatic style,” will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, in the Avalon Theatre’s Stoltz ...

The Italian writer Italo Calvino died on this day in 1985. In 1980, American author Ursula K. Le Guin reviewed George Martin’s new translation of Calvino’s Italian Folktales. Prowling among ...

This is why an Italian protest folk song is going viral as Iranian women lead protests An Italian protest folk song which gained prominence during World War II as an anthem of resistance against the ...

"We will forever be grateful to Giovanna Marini, for her precious and also courageous research work. We lose an authentic storyteller," writes Angelo Branduardi among the many who bid farewell on ...

CALVINO, the consummate allegorical fantasist, set himself the task of collating and documenting what was hitherto an untapped source of oral folk tradition in his adopted homeland. What he discovered ...