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Giovanni Verde

Giovanni holds a Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Languages and a Master's Degree in International Relations. His passions are related to Italian culture and its spread around the world. He is in love with the United States and the way they appreciate and enhance the Italian cultural heritage. His goal is to live in New York City and take care of cultural relations between the United States and Italy.

A few more than 100 years after his birth, on February 22 1914, Renato Dulbecco remains in the Italian and international history as the figure of the scientist with a human face, at the service of research against diseases with the enthusiasm of a simple and extraordinarily passionate man.

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Although probably born in present-day Spain (but soon of Roman citizenship, according to the law of that time), Publius Elio Traiano Adriano, historically known with the only name of Adriano, is considered an absolute symbol of the grandeur of Rome. Witness and protagonist of one of the most eminent ages of the Roman Empire, Adriano is still rememb...

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Galileo Galilei is one of the personalities that have most marked the history of human knowledge. Not considered by chance the father of contemporary science, the great scholar was born in Pisa on February 15, 1564. The first period of scientific achievements of the Tuscan physicist was spent in Padua, where he was appointed professor of mathematic...

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No Italian woman as Grazia Deledda has been able to mix in her writings love, pain, and the sense of universal that intertwines these two feelings apparently very distant. And few writers have been able to link their work to the homeland, as did Grazia Deledda for her Sardinia, making her island into the character and the true meaning of her contro...

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The poet of the pure word, sought for a long time, essential, perfect in its uniqueness and drama is without a doubt Giuseppe Ungaretti. Famous for his compositions, often very short and intense, Ungaretti was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in the suburb of Moharrem Bey, on February 8, 1888. His father, Antonio Ungaretti, was a factory worker, employed...

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When in 1993 Federico Fellini comes up on the stage of the Academy Awards for the last time, he is beautifully honored by the America of movies and dreams, engaged and grateful for the career of one of the greatest filmmakers ever, a source of inspiration for American masters like Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese.

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First Italian woman movie director, one of the first in the world, Elvira Notari is one of those figures that tell an extraordinary life, full of even more important success when compared to the role of women in the society and the art of the age she lived in.

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Francesco Petrarca is considered the father of the Italian language and of Humanism. In the Italian literature scenario, more than everything he represents the ideals of the modern man, who wanted a clean break with the medieval past, recovering the centrality of man in the service of an absolutely innovative poetic, made of stylistic perfection th...

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  WTI Magazine #85    2016 November 21Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   The inventions and discoveries of Alessandro Volta have provided this Italian scientist fame and an immense popularity. Indeed, the invention of a device that would generate electricity without the help of an external power supply, aka the battery, represented a...

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  WTI Magazine #78    2016 April 15Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Elena of Montenegro was born in Cetinje on January 8, 1873. Daughter of the future King of Montenegro Nicholas I (Nikola Mirkov Petrović Njegoš), she is educated with the values of a united family; at the table the conversations were held in French, discussing poli...

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  WTI Magazine #76    2016 February 15Author : Giuseppe Verde      Translation by: Giulia Carletti   Giuseppe Verdi was one of the greatest Italian composers of all time. He produced some of the most successful operas known today around the world. Verdi was born in province of Parma, on the 10th of October, 1813. Studying and developing his extr...

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  WTI Magazine #68    2015 September, 18Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Eleonora Duse has been one of the most important actresses of the Italian theater scene of the nineteenth century. Her style marked the era of modern theater and her love affairs linked her forever to one of the greatest cont...

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