Campari whets appetites for Italian brands
by Rachel Sanderson It is six o'clock on a warm spring evening at Camparino, a historic Milan cocktail bar overlooking the city's Gothic cathedral, and happy hour is in full swing. Wine glasses filled with red- and orange-coloured spirits populate the tables. Tourists and Italians chatter. Waiters hover. It is a scene that br...
Italy’s beer exports grew 16% last year
by Emanuele Scarci The Italians are able to export even beer, which is a typical product of Northern Europe. Last year, according to data from trade group Federalimentare, Italian beer exports were €154 million, up 16%, while imports remained stable at €490 million, up 0.8%. This is because of the multinationals that contro...
Il valore della nostra lingua italiana e l'insegnamento all'estero: il caso New York
di Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino Eventi, convegni e musica in Italia e in tutti i continenti per la 15esima Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo dal tema "Italiano della musica, musica dell'italiano". Tutti gli incontri condividevano lo stesso obiettivo: valorizzare l'uso dell'italiano come strategia di comunicazione a livello...
Ecco Annabell, il cervello artificiale che ha imparato a parlare
PER ORA ha "solo" due milioni di neuroni contro il miliardo circa di un cervello reale. Ma Annabell ha ancora tanta strada da fare. Così, Annabell, è stato battezzato il primo cervello artificiale che ha imparato il linguaggio umano'dialogando' con l'uomo a partire da zero, quando era cioè una vera e propria 'tabula rasa'. Descritto nella...
20 romantic hotels in Italy to live La Dolce Vita
by Claudia baroncelli If you are looking for a romantic place to spend a weekend with your sweetheart, know that Italy has plenty of wonderful fairy tale locations to enjoy beautiful landscapes with an out-of-time atmosphere. From the North to the South you can choose amongst a large variety of luxurious stays where have some moments of re...
A guide to Italian coffee: sugar is optional, Frappuccino does not exist
by Alberto Nardelli and George Arnett Some British cafes serve drinks with 25 teaspoons of sugar per cup. Not in Italy. In Italy coffee is synonymous with espresso. Ask for a coffee in a bar from Trieste to Palermo and you will be presented with an espresso. You may drink it seated (usually more expensive), or standing, al banco....
Filmmaker Frank Gigante receives recognition award
Hoboken filmmaker Frank Gigante recently received a recognition award on behalf of the Mayor of Andria, in the Puglia region of Italy, for sharing a film based on local traditions and culture on weddings in the 1960s, a sort of history piece. The film "La Zuite" by Sabino Matera and directed by Umberto Sardella, about a wedding in Andria i...
Italian town sheltered Holocaust refugees
Perhaps this is an answer who those who doubt the Holocaust veracity. It comes from a little town in southern Italy. The very first museum was inaugurated Jan. 14, 2009, in the town of Santa Maria al Bagno that hosted thousands of holocaust survivors and refugees of the Nazi persecution in the years 1944-1947. The town was also a stopping poin...
L’italiano, la lingua della simpatia e della seduzione
"L'inglese è una lingua che non si ama. Si usa", scriveva il filologo americano Stuart B. Flexner. Cosa potremmo dire dell'italiano? "È una lingua che non si usa. Si ama". O comunque non la si usa, ovviamente, come l'inglese. E perché la si può amare? Non solo perché è la lingua più seducente, come abbiamo già scritto, quella per "acchiappare". &n...
Former Italian president and premier Ciampi dies at 95
by Colleen Barry Former Italian Prime Minister and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, a highly respected economist who helped usher in the euro as treasury minister, died on Friday. He was 95. Ciampi's death, after a long illness, was confirmed by the Italian Senate, where he served as senator for life. The senator had been hospitalized in recen...
United, + 20% dall’Italia nel 2016
In un anno di consolidamento per il traffico totale dall'Italia verso gli Stati Uniti e viceversa, United va decisamente in controtendenza incassando un +20% di passeggeri sulle sue linee. "Se fino a settembre il Bsp totale vendite mondo ha mostrato un calo complessivo dell'8%, che per l'indice Nord America si è ridotto al -5%, con una riduzione de...
The Wonders of Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola
Here is a real pearl of Italian 16th-century architecture: Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, Viterbo. It is a mannerist wonder, an aristocratic retreat, a delightful villa and a fortified residence, designed by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola (who transformed an early project by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger) and built between 1559 and 1575. ...