Things are heating up in Rome, and not only because of the hot summer. You weren’t thinking that Madonna singin’ on a cross would have left some people with too much free time on their hands (but no time to actually see the concert) inactive, were you?

The controversy about Live to Tell – with classic italian side dishes of misinformation like a “4 million Swaroski crystal cross” – already started a while ago, but it’s now everywhere in the media, at three days from the only Italian stop of the “Confessions Tour”.

Here are two clippings from today’s “la Stampa” and “Il Messaggero“.