Cavour
Famous for being famous – the scandalous life of the Countess of Castiglione
Spy, courtesan and femme fatale, the Italian aristocrat was considered one of the most beautiful women of 19th-century Europe – as well as one of the cruellest and most profligate
The unfairytale life of two European princesses
Wounded by their husbands’ infidelity and shattered by the deaths of their only sons, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France defied court protocol in a bid for independence
Beautiful, bedevilled island
The Arabs invaded Sicily in the ninth century, leaving behind mosques and pink-domed cupolas. In the Sicilian capital of Palermo,…
