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CORRIERE DELLA SERA. If it’s true that you lie to your friends on Facebook and tweet the truth to strangers on Twitter, then fashion designer Stefano Gabbana, the volcanic half of the Dolce&Gabbana team, has cleared up what he thinks about Italian justice and taxes, or at least the parts that are dealing with the tax evasion charges he faces with his partner at work, Domenico Dolce. (Read the article)  

THE BOSTON GLOBE. Only about a quarter of Italians favor reforming labor laws to make it easier to fire workers, or raising the retirement age from 65 (and sometimes lower) to 67 -- two of the reforms considered critical to curb Italy's public spending and boost economic growth. (Read the article by Nicole Winfield)  

CNN. His fall from government has not stopped the creativity of the flamboyant former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has written the lyrics for a new CD out Tuesday. "True Love," by Neapolitan guitarist and singer Mariano Apicella, contains 11 songs written in the last two years, Apicella told CNN. (Read the article by Livia Borghese)  

THE NEW YORKER. Saul Steinberg grew up in Romania and became an American artist, but between 1933 and 1941 he lived in Milan, studying architecture, publishing drawings in humor newspapers, and trying to outrun the forces of anti-Semitism, which had sent him into exile in the first place. (Article by Blake Eskin)