Quanto? Tanto!

For reasons unknown, Vincenzo di Carlo, my great-grandfather, left Rionero Sannitico at some point and moved to another Molisano hill town, ...

During our genealogy tour we spent a lot of time in Fornelli because it is so darn cute, but two other villages in the vicinity, Forlì del S...

Several people have asked why my grandfather decided, when he reached adulthood, to change his name (apparently without going to the trouble...

The Molisano hamlet of Fornelli lives up to its claim of being "one of the most beautiful villages in Italy," but it is a tough to...

I'm just back from a tour of the rural portion of southern Italy where my Italian grandfather was born and whence stems my claim to Ital...

While we enjoyed a string of great restaurant meals the visit from our daughter and her little dog-centric entourage, the one treat we were ...

Our first week in Fidenza was unusually hedonistic, since our daughter, the man she refers to variously as her "insignificant other...