https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A landscape drawing by the Italian master artist, Leonardo da Vinci, will go on display in his native Tuscan town in commemoration of the 500th year since his death. https://www.thelocal.it/20160804/early-leonardo-piece-to-be-shown-in-artists-home-town Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:18:24 +0200 early-leonardo-piece-to-be-shown-in-artists-home-town Italian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica on Wednesday said it planned to change its name to Leonardo, after celebrated Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, as part of a major restructuring. https://www.thelocal.it/20160317/italian-arm-dealers-looks-to-leonardo-for-renaissance Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:07:23 +0100 italian-arm-dealers-looks-to-leonardo-for-renaissance Italy’s Culture Minister, Dario Franceschini, has expressed his 'horror' over the brutal murder of a Syrian antiquities scholar in Palmyra by the Isis militant group. https://www.thelocal.it/20150819/culture-minister-expresses-horror-over-slain-syrian-scholar Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:28:01 +0200 culture-minister-expresses-horror-over-slain-syrian-scholar A banner with an anti-Semitic slur daubed on it was hung outside a park in Rome, on the night before Holocaust Memorial Day. https://www.thelocal.it/20150127/rome-anti-semitism-mars-holocaust-memorial-day Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:59:00 +0100 rome-anti-semitism-mars-holocaust-memorial-day An Italian historian's theory that Mona Lisa might be a Chinese slave and Leonardo da Vinci's mother - making the 15th-century polymath half-Chinese - sent online commentators into a frenzy on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141203/mona-lisa-was-a-chinese-slave-italian-historian Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:17:00 +0100 mona-lisa-was-a-chinese-slave-italian-historian A Veneto couple who were against their daughter marrying a former boxer alleged to have taken drugs in the past, kidnapped and beat their new son-in-law and then forced him to sign an agreement to end the marriage. https://www.thelocal.it/20140523/italian-couple-kidnapped-and-beat-son-in-law Fri, 23 May 2014 16:06:00 +0200 italian-couple-kidnapped-and-beat-son-in-law A Swiss court has ordered Bern to stop transferring secret banking data to Italy in connection with a money laundering case, according to a ruling published on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20130722/swiss-court-blocks-bank-data-transfer-to-italy Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:38:00 +0200 swiss-court-blocks-bank-data-transfer-to-italy