FrancescoDama

@FrancescoDama

The Unruly Politics of Glitter
The Island Where Fascist Italy Imprisoned Gay Men
How Sword and Sandal Films Built Our Idea of Ancient Rome
Massimiliano Pani on Mina, Music, and Making His Own Mark
Mina in the Movies
Transgender Runner Valentina Petrillo on Vision, Transition, and Triumph
Enrico Baj: A Milanese, Light-Hearted Anarchist
Fragmented Bodies in Rome | Archivi delle emozioni
Staying Put in Salento: The Convento di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli
Carlo Mollino: Turin’s Last Eclectic
How Far Should a Gallerist-Artist Relationship Go?
Speedos in Italy: A Symbol of Body Positivity or Toxic Masculinity?
The Sensual Politics of Jochen Klein
Che Casino! The Italian Penchant for Chaos
The Monumental Conversation on Italian Public Statues
The Last King of Italy
Luigi Barzini’s Italians
A National Affair With Drama: Maria Callas and the Histrionics of Italian Opera
Luchino Visconti: A Director and a Gentleman
Inventing America: Spaghetti Westerns and Sergio Leone
Naples and The 7th Art
Guglielmo Castelli the Melancholic Painter
The True Story of Fettuccine Alfredo
Mamma RAI
Cinecittà
Phenomenology of Mike Bongiorno
Dare del Lei
Borgo Gallana
A Brief History of Homosexuality in Italy
Larry Stanton
Commedia all’Italiana
Art & Architecture at the Venice Biennale
Naples’ Femminelle
Remembering James Bidgood
Fear and Loathing at the Venice Biennale
A Heavy Heritage
Milan and the 7th Art
Sanremo is Sanremo
Helen Levitt
I Married a Romagnolo
Comizi d’Amore
Florence and the 7th Art
A Weekend in Cilento
Ode to Mahmood
Stromboli
Hagiography of Raffaella Carrà
Italy on the Phone
The Catholic Imagination
Sense of Clarity
The Many Lives of Irene Brin
At Rome’s Quadriennale, Out With the Old and In With Historical Interventions
Nonna
Apology of the Piedmontese
Casa Malaparte: A House Like Me
Remembering Patrick Cowley
Seeing 1970s Italy Through Its Subversive Public Broadcasting Network
Photography is an Enigma: Luigi Ghirri
Giorgio Morandi’s Bologna