The New Renaissance Of Rimini: Inspired By Fellini
If you’ve only thought of Rimini as a seaside resort on the Adriatic that swells with summer tourists — think again. This northern Italian city in the Emilia Romagna region is being reborn as an inviting, four-season epicenter of art and culture. The coming year, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the city’s most famous citiz...
How to cook a festive Italian feast for the winter holidays
During the winter holidays in Italy, cooks love to roll out their richest, most luscious ingredients — smoked salmon and Fontina cheese, whipped cream and panettone — then fold them into a festive, multicourse meal, much to the delight of their close family and friends. With a similar Mediterranean climate, the North Coast has been blessed with a v...
#AmericaLovesVenice campaign, launched by the Embassy of Italy with Save Venice, raises 426.750 USD.
Great result last night at Villa Firenze, official residence of the Italian Ambassador to the USA, during a Gala evening organized for the #AmericaLovesVenice campaign, launched by the Italian Embassy in Washington in partnership with Save Venice, the main American non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the artistic heritage of Ve...
Ode to Italy: An Enchanting, Intimate Tour From Rome Through Tuscany
As I sit at a small café table in the Roman airport, for these final few hours surrounded the pleasant cadence of those chatting away in the country’s native tongue, I realize that, very soon, I will be homesick for Italy. That sounds quite silly. In reality, this has been my first time visiting the land of my ancestors, who emigrated near the turn...
Feast of the Seven Fishes: A rich tradition preserved in South Jersey
On the night before Christmas, an array of seafood begins appearing on some dinner tables as a symbolic way to ring in the sacred holiday. The tradition of abstaining from meat and eating fish before a holiday began centuries ago as a Roman Catholic practice in many parts of Italy, where the type and number of fish and the preparation vary by regio...
Sophia Loren to Receive Capri-Hollywood Award From Lina Wertmüller
Sophia Loren will be feted by the Capri-Hollywood film festival with a lifetime achievement award presented to her by trailblazing director Lina Wertmüller, her old friend and recent recipient of an honorary Oscar. Loren, Italy’s most iconic living movie star, will receive the Capri Legend Award on Dec. 30 from Wertmüller during the event dedicated...
MANOVRA | 800mila euro in più a sostegno del cinema italiano nel mondo
“C’è anche un risultato del mio impegno parlamentare nella legge di bilancio per il 2020 e per il triennio ’20-’22, che dal Senato sta arrivando alla Camera. Si tratta di 800.000 euro di sostegno integrativo ai festival del cinema italiano che si svolgono all’estero, uno dei veicoli di successo del nostro Paese nel mondo”. Lo dichiara in una nota l...
Festive California: new land of King panettone?
The Italians enter the Christmas spirit with a fragrant, yeasty slice of panettone -- Christmas isn’t Christmas without it on our festive tables. We can never get enough of it, especially for us who are Milanese. We have a near-cultish devotion to panettone when the Christmas season kicks in. But how many Italians know that an increasing number of...
Verso una nuova Storia degli italoamericani
Il 5 dicembre si è tenuta presso il Centro Studi Americani di Roma la presentazione del libro Storia degli italoamericani, pubblicato negli Stati Uniti lo scorso anno dalla Routledge—The Routledge History of Italian Americans (2018)—e adesso tradotto ed edito in Italia da Le Monnier-Mondadori Università. Erano presenti William J. Connell, curatore...
NOW OPEN - The NIAF Voyage of Discovery 2020 Application
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) invites college students to apply to the Ambassador Peter F. Secchia's Voyage of Discovery program—an all-expenses paid trip to Italy for Italian American college students! Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 23 at the time of travel (May 2020); enrolled in a college or university for the...
Concorso Ferrari Palm Beach Celebrates Friendship and Ferrari
November in South Florida is the perfect time to launch the Social Season in the Palm Beaches and with it, the second annual Concorso Ferrari Palm Beach. This Concurs d’Elegance is an event created by the Palm Beach Chapter featuring a field of sixty-five classic and modern, member-owned Ferrari. Experienced FCA judges examined the cars and awards...
At Gaslini rebuilt the heart to a 21-month-old girl, her parents: "She was 'inoperable', but here she was born again"
The doctors of the Gaslini pediatric hospital in Genoa reconstructed the heart of a 21-month-old girl from Northern Italy suffering from a serious malformation from birth that in other hospitals had been considered incorrigible. The possibility of a double heart-lung transplant was also rejected. Congenital heart disease was corrected, the girl was...