Economy – The economy takes centre stage this week in international press coverage of Italy. In luxury brands, Reuters recounts Missoni’s plan to list on the Bourse in the next three years (November 15 – Italy’s Missoni plans to list on bourse in next three years: paper), while Handelsblatt interviews Marco Baglione, creator of Basicnet, an internet company in the fashion sector (November 21 – Marco Boglione: Italiens erfolgreicher Nerd).
In the automotive industry, Bloomberg and The New York Times explain how Ferrari is looking to conquer new customers with the Roma model, inspired by the Dolce Vita of the 1960s (November 13 – Ferrari Says New Coupe Is Inspired by Iconic Postwar Rome*; November 14 – Ferrari Aims to Entice New Clients With Roma Coupe*). El Mundo, on the other hand, covers the restyling of Stelvio and Giulia, “models symbolizing” Alfa Romeo (November 19 – Los Giulia y Stelvio 2020 añaden tecnología a sus prestaciones y su carácter deportivo). Another Spanish paper, the business daily Expansión, covers technology, reporting on how Big Data helps Ducati improve its scooters’ performance (November 16 – El entorno ‘cloud’ impulsa las prestaciones de Ducati).
Lastly, Les Echos and Le Monde shine the spotlight on agriculture, with “Startup Bio” – a new, EU-funded Italian project to internationalize the training of young organic farmers (November 20 – L’Italie lance un Erasmus pour les agriculteurs bio*) – and with the “skyrocketing development of prosecco exports” (November 20 – Prosecco, du vin bénit pour la Vénitie*).
Culture – In culture, The Wall Street Journal visits Cleveland for a show of drawings by Michelangelo that demonstrates “not only the artist’s greatness, but his attention to detail at every step of the creative process” (November 16 – ‘Michelangelo: Mind of the Master’ Review: Watching a Genius at Work*), while El Mundo reviews the exhibition that, at Madrid’s Prado museum, “recovers the works of two great sixteenth-century female painters, Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana” (November 19 – Ellas toman su sitio en el Museo del Prado).
And while the Moroccan daily L’Economiste reports on the meetings at Fondazione Ducci in Fez, where interculturality and the development of relations between Morocco and Italy were discussed (November 15 – Fè/Fondation Ducci: Franc succès pour les «Incontries 2019»), El País devotes its coverage to cinema, with Martin Eden, Pietro Marcello’s film that took winning honours at the Seville Film Festival (November 16 – La italiana ‘Martin Eden’ gana el festival de cine de Sevilla). Der Standard also covers culinary culture with the Montebianco, “a speciality typical of northern Italy, with its variant to be eaten by spoon” (November 19 – Süße Maroni zum Löffeln: Montebianco).
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