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Umberto Mucci

Umberto has a degree in Political Science and a master in Marketing and Communication. He is the founder and CEO of We the Italians and the representative in Italy of the Italian American Museum of New York. He gives lectures about History of Italian Emigration to the US, and he has published seven books about Italy and the US

  WTI Magazine #35    2014 June, 18Author : Ilaria de Leonardis for PoisonDrops      Translation by:   "Then the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field [...] And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed [...]". An...

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  WTI Magazine #34    2014 June, 11Author : Giuseppina Salzano e Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Sofia Loren is the most award-winning Italian actress in history, and the most beloved by the American cinema. Her characters are famous, even today, known by old and new generations. Her candor, simplicity and sensuality, and her being light a...

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  WTI Magazine #34    2014 June, 11Author : Simone Callisto Manca      Translation by:   Giuseppe Rossi, the talented but ill-fated Italian American striker for Fiorentina, has not climbed the ladder of the plane that brought the Italian National Football Team in Brazil, but now is not the time to cry on.    

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  WTI Magazine #34    2014 June, 11Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Our dear Italian language. Who among us has never faced a word of Italian language? Surely spaghetti, opera, amore, pizza are among the most popular words ... and yet the lexicographic material of our beautiful language contains a huge trea...

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  WTI Magazine #34    2014 June, 11Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn      Translation by:   Fruit is the real star of this recipe which, although very simple, is exquisite and perfect for a tasty summer aperitif. This should hardly be called a "recipe"; you just assemble three ingredients: apricots, fresh goat cheese and nuts. The result is ext...

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  WTI Magazine #34    2014 June, 11Author : Martina Siega      Translation by:   Cassina and Luis Vuitton featured an exclusive piece for 2014. LC4 CP is a master piece that joins Design and Fashion. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, well known with the pseudonym of Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect who belonged to the first generation of...

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  WTI Magazine #34    2014 June, 11Author : buonenotizie.it      Translation by:   Post-traumatic stress disorder? It can be overcome: the proof is in a study made by the researchers of CNR ("Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche", the National Research Council) and University of Rome Tor Vergata on the parents who lost their children in the collap...

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  WTI Magazine #33    2014 June, 4Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   Villa Torlonia in Rome is one of the most interesting parks in the capital. The garden extends behind the right side of Via Nomentana and belonged to one of the most important families of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century Roman landscape.    

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  WTI Magazine #33    2014 June, 4Author : Francesca Papasergi      Translation by:   The Italian national airline, Alitalia, was born in Rome in 1946 and, for a long time, it was one of the best airlines in the world. Its pilots and its elegant flight assistants are still considered an Italian excellence. What happened to that perfect machine?...

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  WTI Magazine #33    2014 June, 4Author : folclore.it      Translation by:   The Gigli Festival of Nola is an ancient festival to honor St. Paulinus Bishop, who lived in the fifth century and devoted himself to the poor people by giving all of himself including his freedom, going captive of the Vandals in Africa in the place of the son of a poo...

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  WTI Magazine #33    2014 June, 4Author : National Center for Missing & Exploited Children      Translation by:   Ahhh "Italia" ... when Americans think of Italy our hearts warm with thoughts of picturesque landscapes, rolling hills, tantalizing food and wine, rich history and culture, and of course feelings of abundant love and joy. Certain ar...

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  WTI Magazine #33    2014 June, 4Author : Vino OK      Translation by:   England and Marsala Port and Sherry wines have in common their history, linked to the trade travels of the English merchants. From '500, the nascent British Merchant Navy was always travelling, browsing the seas to supply the increasingly prosperous economy of the kingdom....

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