Edna St. Vincent Millay E I Miei Nonni A New York
I miei nonni immigrati negli Stati Uniti nel secondo decennio del novecento erano stati sponsorizzati a New York da un fratello di mia nonna, immigrato anche lui alcuni anni prima. Peró mio nonno non era contento di stare a New York, e dopo due anni tornarono in Sicilia. Nato parecchi anni prima di mia nonna, una giovane nei primi ventenni, mio n...
Curiosities about Abruzzo
In Abruzzo there is a saint to be invoked for any occasion or need. In the first place, in speaking of this region there is one observation to be made. Rome has always been considered geographically as the center of the peninsula, so much so that Rieti, a town near the capital, is nicknamed the “umbilicus italiae” (umbilical cord) of Italy. It is t...
A Power Hour History of the Italian American Experience Part 1 of 4: Before We Were Italians: 1492 – 1890
Put on your history hats paisani, and gear up for the Power Hour’s version of Italian American history! This week, in part one of a four-part series, John, Pat, and Dolores hunker down to disseminate their take on the major moments and movements on the Italian American story. In what is sure to be some of the most scholarly episodes the Power Hour...
Due italiani nella lista degli innovatori under 35 del Mit
Ci sono due italiani fra i 35 giovani innovatori under 35 che ogni anno, dal 1999, la rivista di tecnologia del Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mit Technology Review, seleziona come i più promettenti in tutta Europa. La prima si chiama Francesca Santoro, ha 32 anni e lavora nel centro dell'Istituto Italiano di tecnologia a Napoli ed è stata...
Frescobaldi Sees Strong Potential For New Chianti Classico Label
Luxury Italian wine producer Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi has undertaken a number of changes across its business over the past year, chief among them a complete reorganization of its U.S. route to market. That effort resulted in the end of Frescobaldi’s 20-year partnership with the Mondavi family in favor of an alignment with two new importers—Shaw-Ros...
Book Review "Ottavia e i Gatti di Roma"
This bilingual picture book in Italian and English is an adventurous story featuring two cats, Octavia and Julius, who call the ancient monuments of Rome their home. Children follow the cats as they journey through Rome’s most famous sites including the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and the Colosseum, to name a few. This book is a fun way to in...
Salvatore Ferragamo: an all Italian style
Salvatore Ferragamo is the Italian luxury brand that has always dealt with the creation of made in Italy shoes and accessories, and more recently it has opened up to the world of men and women’s clothing. Ferragamo is one of the most famous Italian footwear companies in the world and is characterized by the high quality of its products but above al...
Genova (Genoa)
Genova (Italian for Genoa) is the capital of the Genoa province and Liguria in northwest Italy, a city rich with history and importance. Genova is known for being the chief seaport of Italy, and for competing with Marseilles, France, to be the leader among Mediterranean ports. The harbor facilities in Genova were terribly damaged during World War I...
The ancient art of the porcaro, or the seller of the pork sandwich
That of the street seller of pork sandwiches is a figure that appears even in the pages of a great Italian writer like Carlo Emilio Gadda. In his Quel pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, in fact, resounds “La porca, la porca! Ciavemo the porchetta, gente! (we have porchetta, everyone!) La bella porca de l’Ariccia “, a call with which street vendo...
The Authentic Irpinia of Sarah Pompeic
Sarah di cognome fa Pompei. In realtà il cognome della sua famiglia era Pompeo, ma un errore di trascrizione all’anagrafe ha interrotto questa storia. Sarah non è italiana però, è statunitense, nata e vissuta in California, figlia e nipote di emigranti: suo nonno sbarcò a New York ad inizio ‘900. E lei è cresciuta in quell’America che è stata la ca...
Giorgio de Chirico Copied His Most Popular Works to Mess with His Collectors
In Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’s famed 1939 short story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” a contemporary writer copies, word for word, Miguel de Cervantes’s 17th-century masterwork, Don Quixote. While Menard’s text is identical to that of Cervantes, the unnamed narrator still finds differences between the two versions. According to him...
Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum Award-winning documentary selected as finalist at International FICTS Fest 2018 World Championship in Milan
Roberto Angotti‘s Italian American Baseball Family has been selected as a finalist in theSPORT MOVIES & TV 2018 Festival in Milan, Italy. Submitted by Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball (FIBS) with Italian subtitles, Italian American Baseball Family features Lawrence Baldassaro, author of “Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball” and “Ba...