Michelangelo’s David set the synapses in my brain on fire ... When my agent suggested I write a book on Italian “because you light up when you talk about it,” I discovered its wonderful ...

St. Helena author Maria Castellucci Moore has released the children's book "Sofia in Rome," with illustrations by Emanuela Mannello.

A rarely seen piece, “The Summer Woman,” set in Italy, appears this week in the fall issue of the literary quarterly The Strand Magazine. “The Summer Woman” was written in the early 1950s ...