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Sulle tracce di un giallo. Un vero e proprio mistero storico: la cessione della divisione elettronica della Olivetti. Che, nel tempo alterato dalla immaginazione, ha generato mitologie positive e negative e ha acceso le fantasie di quanti, alimentandosi della riservatezza che si faceva segretezza nella Mediobanca di Enrico Cuccia, hanno per sessant...

“Oggi, presso l'Aula della Commissione Esteri, ho partecipato all'incontro tra i parlamentari membri della sezione bilaterale di amicizia Italia-Stati Uniti d'America, presieduta da Mara Carfagna, con l'ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti d'America a Roma, Lewis Eisenberg”. Così Fucsia Nissoli, deputata di Forza Italia eletta in Nord e Centro America. “...

Legendary Italian rides maker Alberto Zamperla is one of two inductees to the IAAPA Hall of Fame to be announced this week during the show in Orlando. Zamperla is joined by Frederick Langford in the honours, a programme that celebrates significant and lasting contributions to the global attractions industry. Antonio Zamperla has run his family comp...

If you’re professional fighter-turned-actress Gina Carano, what do you do when one of Hollywood’s biggest directors asks to meet? Well, like any good Italian American, you bring a bottle of wine to the meeting, of course. And not just any wine, Carano told Fra Noi in an exclusive interview. This particular vintage was one that holds a special place...

In early October, director Martin Scorsese compared Marvel movies to theme parks, he felt they lacked risk and said they weren’t cinema. His comments to Empire Magazine rippled throughout the entertainment industry, and drew reactions from fellow A-list actors and directors. In an interview on Monday with The Hollywood Reporter, Joe and Anthony Rus...

Italian composer Fabio Frizzi is best known for his collaborations with horror great Lucio Fulci and he’s currently on tour in North America, where he’s performing a live score to a new “Composer’s Cut” of Fulci’s 1981 classic, The Beyond, as well as a “FRIZZI 2 FULCI” tribute set featuring music/scenes from many of their other collaborations. He d...

"My best regards sent by the wireless telegraph from Italy to America - G. Marconi, 5.47 pm". These simple few words marked one of the most revolutionary innovations ever in the history of communications. It was 19th November 1911, and Guglielmo Marconi inaugurated the radiotelegraphic station in Coltano, Pisa. The message was delivered to the New...

I could not imagine a more difficult task than to revisit the places that inspired his commitment to learn Italian, to study with Luigi Bonaffini in New York to decipher the Lancianese dialect well enough to translate his cousins’ poetry; or to stay with the cousins we love and first met on our Sicilian honeymoon; or my cousins in Calabria where we...

The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) announces that applications opened today for its Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery program. Now in its 20th year, this all-expenses paid cultural and educational initiative sends Italian American college students to Italy annually, to strengthen their understanding of their heritage and...

Nel 2020 dovrebbero tenersi le elezioni dei Comites. Condizionale d’obbligo visto che nel bilancio della Farnesina non c’è traccia delle risorse necessarie per lo svolgimento delle elezioni e perché in molti – ultimo in ordine di tempo il senatore Petrocelli in Svizzera – hanno sostenuto che il voto sarà rinviato. A fronte di questa situazione, Fuc...

During World War II, the U.S. government threw 60,000 Italian immigrants in internment camps, and forced hundreds of thousands of Italian immigrants and Americans of Italian descent from the east and west coasts of the United States for being what was described as “enemy aliens.” Like the Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans, Italian immigran...

Last year The US World Herald released a list of the 100 most common Italian last names in America. When the article surfaced in search results, it received more than 1 million reads. Thanks to a growing number of reviews, we’ve expanded the list from 100 to 150. “We have been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and interest of the Italian people,” said...