Sebastiano Cappitta has been building an Upper West Side empire over the past several years, working his way uptown as property values and rents climb. “I keep moving up,” he says. “I like to be ...

Sanluri, a peaceful farming town on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, has named no roads after its most famous son. But the presence of dot-com billionaire Renato Soru is everywhere. Walking past ...

Maddalena Mura is an artist. Not that she’d admit it. “I’m just the daughter of a baker,” she says, shyly. “I like doing this, but I’m no artist.” We look down at the bread she started at 8 o’clock ...