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For centuries no one knew who it was by or even what it was of. The picture that had hung unnoticed in a succession of noble palazzi in the Italian province of Salerno, with its deep chiaroscuro and close-cropped composition, looked like a Caravaggio – but after Caravaggio almost every painting in Naples did. When

A cooking show on Italian TV is making centuries-old monastic recipes available to the general public, with guidance from the garden to the dinner table.

Workers cleaning up a wall inside Naples' State Archive building discovered a previously unknown chapel with beautifully preserved frescoes.