Leonardo Mondadori, chairman of one of Italy's largest publishing houses, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, died on Dec. 13 at his home in Milan. He was 56. The cause was cancer, said Piera Cusani, a ...

Hear Miles Hoffman's examples of Italian musical terms in action. Even when it isn't sung, the Italian language sounds like music, which is part of why Italian words are used to tell musicians how to ...