Between cities of world renown are breathtaking landscapes of river plains, lakes and mountains and a significant amount of agriculture. In the south, around Mantova and Cremona, is the ‘white belt’ ...

ROME — As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in the ...

Lombardy has been overwhelmed by the pandemic, in part because of a poorly executed medical privatization program. Funeral parlor workers in Lombardy in March, when the affluent region was the ...