A few newsy tidbits for your Sunday afternoon reading:
- Italy is surprised by negative reactions to hostage exchange, and recent hostage Mastrogiacomo won’t go back to Afghanistan – he recounts his ordeal here
- Italy’s paparazzi king exposed as blackmailer – Berlusconi’s daughter, footballer Totti among those blackmailed
- Leonardo’s “Annunciation” visits Japan to debut new art preservation methods
- The Uffizi Gallery in Florence will be increasing security after a journalist got a knife into the museum
- The exterior of Florence’s Duomo is undergoing a close inspection to see what on the ornate facade needs repair
- World’s oldest perfumes discovered on Cyprus by Italian archaeologists
- The beatification of the late Pope John Paul II is full steam ahead
- A villa in historic Pompeii has been vandalized
- Italian woman thought dead, turns out she’s very much alive
- Italy will help recast Middle Eastern history with something other than Western thinking
- Sicily’s Baroque Noto Cathedral to reopen after ten years of restoration
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