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Lazio midfielder Pasquale Foggia is considering a move to QPR, according to the player's agent.

Lazio coach Edy Reja hopes Aleksandar Kolarov's future will be decided soon.

Lazio have sacked coach Davide Ballardini and replaced him with former Napoli boss Edy Reja.

Lazio sporting director Igli Tare has brushed aside reports linking Mauro Zarate with a move to Arsenal.

A body believed to be that of a Brazilian prostitute involved in a scandal that brought down the governor of the Rome area was found in an apartment fire yesterday.

A scandal has rocked Italy's main opposition party on the eve of today's nationwide primary designed to select a new leader and relaunch the party's sagging fortunes.

Lazio beat Sampdoria 6-5 on penalties to lift the Italian Cup after Wednesday's final at the Stadio Olimpico finished 1-1 following extra-time.

An Italian court sentenced Lazio president Claudio Lotito to two years in prison today for stock-market rigging and failing to disclose the extent of his shareholding in the club.

Cantus Cölln's imagined reconstruction of a Vespers performance in St Peter's, Rome, captures the collision of 16th-century polyphony and 17th-century monody in psalms, hymns and canzonas by Virgilio Mazzocchi, Carissimi, Frescobaldi and Palestrina. The string playing is zestful, while Concerto Palatino's sackbutts and cornett add lustre. Sadly, the singing is often thin and unsupported, sounding more authentic to the early days of the early music movement than baroque devotional music.

Catullus was early Rome’s most revered and reviled poet. From the first page of this intriguing new novel about his love affair with the woman whose identity he encoded as “Lesbia”, Helen Dunmore captures vividly both the poet’s tone and the heightened, overheated world of Julius Caesar’s Rome.