Renaissance masterpieces at the cemetery
You don't have to travel to Italy to take in masterpieces by Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo. At Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, you'll find full-size replicas of works by Italian masters of the Renaissance period. "We began collecting works related to the Renaissance centuries ago," said James Fishburne Ph.D., Director of the Forest L...
Italian researchers find more than 100 species living on 2,200-year-old shipwreck
Italian researchers found 114 marine animal species existing in harmony on ancient remains of a sunken ship from Carthage. According to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers found the species coexisting in “a complex community” on the ram of a Carthaginian galley that sank in battle off of the Southern Tyrrh...
The Oklahoma Restaurant With Italian Roots That Date Back To The Early 1900s
Pietro “Pete” Piegari came through the gates of Ellis Island in 1903 with his family after traveling across the Atlantic from San Gregorio Magno, Italy. They settled in Krebs Oklahoma, a coal-mining community at the time. After a coal-mining accident at the age of 21, Pete took an interest in growing beer and perfected his own brand called choc® be...
The Italian Alexa understands your emotions
This woman – or man, of course – understands you: Iio. It’s pronounced ‘ee-oh’. The Italian counterpart to Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri was presented this week in Milan. S/he is to become the talking domestic assistent from Bolzano to Palermo. That an Italian Alexa is now being marketed may not be particularly shocking in itself. But its appare...
De Marchi named First Team Academic All-American
Michigan Tech senior Laura De Marchi has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division II volleyball first team for the second straight season. De Marchi is a setter from Milan, Italy, and holds a 3.79 grade-point average in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering. She is the fourth Michigan Tech volleyball player to be named an...
Weekend in the mountains, the most beautiful Italian destinations
The snow season is finally here and you are always thinking of the places where you can spend a nice weekend out of town immersed in a typical winter atmosphere? This article is right up your alley. We will find out together the many locations that can be reached throughout the peninsula that will be able to gift you a beautiful winter weekend. Ch...
The Amalfi Coast Meets La Jolla at Incoming Italian Spot Marisi Italiano
Delayed by the pandemic, Marisi Italiano is now planning for a Spring 2022 arrival in La Jolla. Developed the Adler and Lombrozo families and named for their grandparents, the Italian restaurant is opening directly adjacent to the Wall Street location of the Adler’s Puesto Mexican Artisan Kitchen & Bar; it replaces Whisknlade, the neighborhood inst...
Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany: UNESCO World Heritage since 2013
Extraordinary works by the best architects of the time, built at the behest of the Medici family, the lords of Florence, the 14 Medici villas and gardens in Tuscany were declared World Heritage Sites by Unesco in 2013. Surrounded by splendid ornamental parks, the villas are true jewels of Renaissance architecture to discover through an evocative it...
Italian-American Female Leaders on Their Success: “Risk is the Jet Fuel of Creativity”
Gathering Italian and Italian-American women to tell their stories, the Italian Consulate of New York set up an in-person event on Monday 13th of December. Hosted by the Consul General Fabrizio Di Michele and moderated by journalist/correspondent Maria Luisa Rossi Hawkins, guests Natalia Bergamaschi, Jodi Pulice and Adriana Trigiani were all invite...
These frescoes shattered conventions in the Italian art world
Often when visitors look up at the ceiling of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, they often suddenly fall silent. Painted above are the golden stars and the enchanting blue skies of a heaven envisioned by the Renaissance artist Giotto di Bondone. But an equally sublime story—one central to the Christmas season—can be found when they turn to the...
Five Italian New Year's Eve food you should try
We're all ready to celebrate 2022! Here are five dishes you can't miss! Felice Capodanno! Are you wondering what an authentic Capodanno (literally "head of the year") looks like? The answer is straightforward: great food and excellent wine are the essences of this Italian experience. In Italy, we celebrate the night of December 31 with the so-call...
The Abbey Of Montecassino: Where Past And Present Become Timeless
When reading up on a place where unending successions of peoples become part of that place’s tapestry and of its layers of development down through time, I find a mind boggling collusion between geography and history that won’t let up. This is exactly the experience I had while researching the Abbey of Montecassino. Montecassino. A rocky hill with...