Andrea Pirlo Issues Statement on Retirement After NYCFC's Loss vs. Columbus
Andrea Pirlo has retired from football after a successful playing career in both Europe and the United States. The 38-year-old made the announcement on his official Twitter account (h/t BBC Sport) after completing his stint with Major League Soccer side New York City FC. Following a 4-3 aggregate defeat to Columbus Crew in the conference semi-final...
10 surprising pasta facts in honour of Italy’s favourite food
October 25th is officially World Pasta Day. But here in Italy, every day is pasta day. Why do Italians love pasta? There are too many reasons to count. So instead, we'll share with you a few things you might not know about Italy's best-loved export. Italians used to eat pasta with a spike Forget the fork and spoon debate: in the Middle Ages, Ital...
Clairy, ecco perché il vaso anti-inquinamento made in Italy ha ricevuto 2 milioni dall’Unione Europea
Il successo di una startup? Dipende da un mix di fattori: la velocità dell’execution, cioè il passaggio dall’idea al progetto e all’ingresso sul mercato; dalla fetta di mercato che si vuole aggredire e da un pizzico di fortuna. Paolo Ganis ha 30 anni e le idee ben chiare. Tanto è vero che una delle sue idee, Clairy, il vaso smart per la purificazio...
The Forgotten Italian Tradition of Building Monumental Food Palaces
In 1768, Austrian princess Maria Carolina married Ferdinand IV, the king of Naples. To celebrate, they had a magnificent, fake fortress built in front of the Neapolitan royal palace and decorated with delicious food. At a signal from the king, a mob of Neapolitan commoners waded through a moat stocked with live fish, slipped through the mud, and gr...
An Italian photographer captures the romance of Florence
Though Italy is home to some absolutely incredible cities, there’s something truly magical about Florence. Hailed as the ‘birthplace of the Renaissance’, the Tuscan capital boasts spectacular art and architecture around every turn, with Michelangelo’s iconic David statue housed in its Accademia Gallery. Italian photographer Davide Sasso recently vi...
Enel acquisition marks entry into US electric vehicle market
Enel has, through its US subsidiary EnerNOC, announced today the acquisition of California-based eMotorWerks, a leading North American supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. eMotorWerks is the operator of the charging stations, called JuiceBox, and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for the smart mana...
Antonio Meucci, the Italian Immigrant who couldn’t Patent the Telephone
The story of Antonio Meucci could well be depicted on the stage. His beginnings as a theatre technician in Florence, Italy and, later, as an engineer at the Tacón Theatre in Havana, Cuba gave no hint of the dramatic turn his life would take when he arrived in the United States. There he developed an invention that would go down in history, the tele...
Zagato IsoRivolta Vision Gran Turismo revealed
Italian design house Zagato has taken to the Tokyo motor show to reveal its IsoRivolta Vision Gran Turismo, which will star in the new Gran Turismo Sport video game. Named after the Milan-based automaker Iso, the IsoRivolta features a bespoke chassis and is powered by a 6.2-litre twin-turbo V8 from a Callaway Corvette. According to Zagato, the IsoR...
Milan, Alba, Pesaro, Carrara join UNESCO
The Italian cities of Milan, (literature), Alba (gastronomy), Pesaro (music) and Carrara (crafts) were among 64 cities from 44 countries to join UNESCO's list of creative cities Tuesday. Milan joined a literature circuit that includes Dublin, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Prague and Baghdad. The new entries raised to nine the number of Italian cities on th...
Adventure in Matera: A Most Unusual City
Matera is a haunting city nestled among the rolling hills of Basilicata in southern Italy. Four hundred metres above sea level, it is bisected by a ravine through which the River Gravina flows. On the cliffs along this deep gorge are cave dwellings in which families lived in poverty from Palaeolithic times until the 1950s when they were rehoused by...
Fabrizio Renzi: multiculturalismo e tecnologia migliorano le nostre vite
Fabrizio Renzi da oltre venticinque anni viaggia e lavora fra gli Stati Uniti e l’Italia. È entrato in IBM nel 1990, facendo ricerca come ingegnere biomedico ed elettronico fra l’Italia e i laboratori di ricerca di Austin, Texas e Yorktown, New York. Oggi è il direttore tecnologia e innovazione di IBM Italia. Ma da allora non ha mai perso l’abitudi...
Italy plies visitors with wine in bid to boost tourism
Eating lunch in Italy's Bolgheri wine country, it is not hard to understand why the number of international visitors to this bucolic corner of Tuscany has doubled in five years. "People have always come in the summer for the beaches," says Riccardo Binda, cutting into a succulently tender slice of Florentine steak, grilled over embers. "Now we're g...