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Giannella Maruzzelli
Giannella Maruzzelli
Lucia Esther Maruzzelli (left) and Valentina Giannella (right) are journalists with 15 years of experience working in Italian magazines and newspapers. They currently live in Hong Kong, where they have co-founded the editorial agency Mindthegap (mindthegaphk.com). Together, they cover stories from the Asia-Pacific region freelancing for national media back home and they write about Italy, and Italians, for Post Magazine, South China Morning Post.

Turkish-Italian film director Ferzan Özpetek recalls the modern, open Turkey of the 1960s he grew up in, and talks about getting to know some of Italy’s most famous filmmakers, from Bernardo Bertolucci to Elio Petri.

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Heading inland from Rimini on the Adriatic coastline, La Marecchiese is a showcase of Italian flair and fare nestled in the Emilia-Romagna region, recently voted the Best Destination in Europe by Lonely Planet

Massimiliano Fuksas, the 74-year-old founder of Studio Fuksas, whose designs include Terminal 3 of the Shenzhen Baoan International Airport and the Cultural Centre in Beijing, says, at heart, he is still a six-year-old child with a paint brush

In Hong Kong for an exhibition featuring his art alongside that of his friend Marcel Duchamp, Baruchello talks about growing up under fascism, hitting the big time in the art world and why, in his 90s, he still works an eight-hour day

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Luckily the singer didn’t mind being served northern Italian version of a dish, not southern one she wanted, recalls chef whose Italian restaurant, 8½ Otto e Mezzo in Central, is the only one outside Italy to have three Michelin stars

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Filmmaker daughter of famous actor parents Ugo Tognazzi and Franca Bettoja ‘completely blown away by Hong Kong’s beautiful tapestry of new and old, concrete and greenery, high and low’

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