The list below is not exhaustive nor particularly up to date (working on it!). As of 2025, I do more editing than writing in my day-to-day work, but am always open to the right opportunity.


CULTURE

The “Open to Meraviglia” Campaign is a Mess. Italy Deserves BetterItaly Magazine, 2023

Italians (mostly) love Elena Ferrante’s new novel. Here’s what Americans can expect. The Washington Post, 2020

Facing Fallaci. The Florentine, 2019

Meet the Florentine Artists Keeping the City’s Creative Spirit AliveVirtuoso, 2025

Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Italy Faces a ReckoningItaly Magazine, 2023

The maverick’s ministryThe Florentine, 2018

The anti-Anna Maria Luisa. The Florentine, 2017

Was Leonardo da Vinci a cat lover?. The Florentine, 2019

The fiaccherai of FlorenceThe Florentine, 2018

John Currin in FlorenceThe Florentine, 2016

Quakers in Florence. The Florentine, 2020


TRAVEL 

4 Day Trips From Florence. MICHELIN Guide, 2025

First Look: Orient Express La MinervaVirtuoso, 2025

Florence Like a Local: By the People Who Call it Home. Co-authored with Vincenzo d’Angelo and Phoebe Hunt, DK Eyewitness guidebooks, 2022

Venice’s New Access Fee: What’s the Local Mood Been Like?. Italy Magazine, 2024

Explore Milan’s Best Kept SecretsQantas magazine + Travel Insider, 2024

7 of the Best Things to Do in the Eternal CityQantas magazine + Travel Insider, 2024

Trabocchi: Wooden Theaters of the Adriatic. Bellissimo (Italy Magazine supplement), 2024

The Marche Town Where Beauty is the Real BeastBellissimo (Italy Magazine supplement), 2024

10 Top Tuscany AttractionsForbes Travel Guide, 2021

5 days in Florence for film lovers. Visit Tuscany, 2017

Spending 2 perfect days in Florence. Forbes Travel Guide, 2016

The ReturnersThe Florentine, 2017

Weekend break: Florence. British Airways Club Magazine, 2023


FASHION
+ STYLE

It’s a “Sciura” Thing. Bellissimo (Italy Magazine supplement), 2024

Where to Explore the Legacy of Giorgio Armani in Italy. Italy Magazine, 2025

What TikTok’s “Mob Wife Aesthetic” Skips Over. Italy Magazine, 2024

Rethinking cotton for the common good. Textile Clothing & Business Labs Foundation, 2019

The perpetual student: Danilo Venturi of PolimodaThe Florentine, 2017

Gucci to finance restoration of the Boboli Gardens. The Florentine, 2017

 

FOOD + DRINK

A love letter to Italian bar food. The Florentine, March 2019. (See what Victor Hazan, widower of the culinary giant and cookbook author Marcella Hazan, had to say about this piece here)

Breakfast in Tuscany. The Florentine, 2018

How to Dine in Italy: What to Know Before You Sit Down to EatMICHELIN Guide, 2025

Feeding Frenzy. The Florentine, 2017

A Guide to Florence’s Street FoodMICHELIN Guide, 2025

Piadina: Emilia-Romagna’s daily bread. Dream of Italy, 2020


PROFILES
 

The players: a calcio storico portrait. The Florentine, 2018

Carmela Batacchi: from the Bronx to Borgo OgnissantiThe Florentine, 2019

Izzeddin Elzir: unmasking the mosque. The Florentine, 2018

 

“MICRO-MEMOIR” + RENTAL DIARIES

The collected “Rental Diaries” (recurring column in The Florentine, 2017-2020). NOW A BOOK! Learn more + get your copy here

Help Desk One. The Florentine, 2016


WORDPLAY aka NON-REMUNERATIVE RHYMING

If you give a girl a chickpea. The Florentine, 2020

Blue. Perdigiornale, 2021


EDITING

I’ve been involved with Italy Magazine since June 2022, first as Managing Editor and then as Editor-in-Chief (since January 2023). A few pieces that illustrate my editorial sensibility are below. Writers and PRs can feel free to pitch mary@italymagazine.com if you like what you see.

FICO Has Been Around for Five Years. Can it Go On?, by Alex Sakalis

Why This Year’s Italian Championship is About More Than Soccer, by Katherine Wilson

How the Fiat 500 Became a Global Icon, by Jennifer Clark

Giorgia Meloni and Gendered Language in Italian: Understanding the ‘Il Presidente’ Puzzle, by Rosaria Costanzo / L’Italiano Porticando language school

Ramadan, the Roman Way, by Miranda Mullings

Around the Italian Passover Table with Benedetta Jasmine Guetta, by Eric Millman

Traveling the Gardens of the Italian National Trust with Head Curator Emanuela Borio, by Alexa Ahern

Inside the Atelier of Perugia’s High Priestess of Embroidery, by Laura Itzkowitz

A Dentist, the Dalai Lama, and the Bizarre Backstory of the House of Tibet in Italy, by Phoebe Hunt

Saghar Setareh on the Food That Moves Us, by Coral Sisk

Hunting for Witches in Benevento, by Janna Brancolini