The president of the Piccolo America Foundation has presented his personal manifesto, which resembles a roadmap for an imaginary city (though it speaks volumes about Rome and of Rome). The bookshop tour has only just begun.

The former Cinema America manager is opening his cinema free of charge to under-25s, over-65s, pregnant women and people with disabilities. The mayor is following suit with a series of free films every day until early August in around ten cinemas across Rome