Moncler IPO Priced at Top of Range as Demand Exceeds $27 Billion
Moncler, the Italian maker of $1,220 quilted polyester jackets, priced its initial public offering at the top of an indicated range after investors sought more than 31 times the amount of stock offered. The value of orders from institutional investors exceeded 20 billion euros ($27.6 billion) for shares that will be priced at 10.20 euros a...
Building a silicon valley in the Italian Alps
by Paddy Agnew If you know Italy at all, you will know that the Italian university system does not always enjoy a good press. At best, the average Italian student's third-level experience tends to make Ulysses' wanderings and occasional encounters with one-eyed monsters look like a relative dawdle. Huge student numbers (there are approxim...
Tracing The Career Of Claudio Abbado, A Consummate Conductor
By Anastasia Tsioulcas Claudio Abbado, one of the most sought-after conductors of his generation, died Monday in Bologna, Italy, at age 80. His death was announced by a spokesperson for Bologna's mayor, saying that it followed an unspecified long illness. Abbado had been diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2000; following surgery for that ill...
Italy & US celebrating 116 years of fettuccine
The coming Friday, most of Americans will celebrate "the National Fettuccine Alfredo Day". It is still unknown why the US choose February the 7th to celebrate fettucine. Indeed, this famous Italian pasta was born in February the 26th, 1908, thanks to the creativity of Alfredo di Lelio and his interest in creating a new nutritious dish for his wife...
Lidia Bastianich: The Dean of Eataly Chicago
In an Italian family, the celebratory ritual of creating and sharing the meal trumps all. In my own family this has also been the case. Providing and preparing delicious nourishment can become an event that connects the members of a family in the present—while linking us to our shared past, and to those no longer at the table. In the act o...
The Monuments Men: Preserving the Memory. A Lecture by JCU Alumna Anna Bottinelli
As a part of the JCU Art History Club Lecture Series, John Cabot University welcomes Art History Alumna Anna Bottinelli, who has worked for 4 years as a research assistant to Robert Edsel. Edsel is the man behind the book and movie, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. Anna will discuss...
On Staten Island, de Blasio talks Italian heritage, his agenda, and Recchia for Congress
by Jillian Jorgensen Mayor Bill de Blasio came to Staten Island to celebrate Italian-American heritage, diversity and his fellow Democrats on the eve of St. Joseph's Day, and also put in a good word for Domenic M. Recchia Jr.'s congressional campaign. The mayor attended the Richmond County Democratic Committee St Joseph's Day Dinner a...
Marcella Hazan fall Scholarship
The Friends of The FCI Scholarship Program is honored to grant the Marcella Hazan Scholarship in memory of our dear friend and legendary cooking teacher of the International Culinary Center. What Marcella Hazan taught us—chefs and home cooks alike—has become the very foundation of American cooking today. It's impossible to imagine any home...
Italian Book Club: “The Terra-Cotta Dog” (“Il cane di terracotta”) by Andrea Camilleri
We are pleased to announce the next meeting of our Italian Book Club We welcome the Dante Alighieri members and non members to join us in this exciting adventure in the Italian literature. We are meeting every three months to discuss a book by an Italian Author. The discussion will be in English unless all the participants s...
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi vince come miglior attrice al Tribeca Film Festival di New York
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi è stata premiata come miglior attrice al Tribeca Film Festival per la categoria World Narrative per il ruolo di Carla Bernaschi ne Il capitale umano diretto da Paolo Virzi. "Nella sua elegante descrizione di una moglie e una madre profondamente in conflitto - ha motivato la giuria - quest'attrice è stata in grado di...
Una Nuvola Per I Dialetti
"La letteratura italiana è l'unica in cui lingua e dialetto fanno visceralmente corpo". Sono parole di Gianfranco Contini, secondo il quale asportare il canone dialettale da quello nazionale avrebbe comportato una mutilazione gravissima. Eppure nelle varie 'storie' della letteratura italiana tradizionali – si pensi a quella di De Sanctis s...
How Nutella Conquered America
Women in sleek black dresses and men with messenger bags checking their smartphones, hipsters in flannel and sunglasses, parents with babies strapped to their chests, and lucky tourists lined the perimeter of New York's Madison Square Park on Monday. But the crowd wasn't gathered for a concert, club opening, or celebrity sighting. This was...