To begin Italian Heritage Month, the Delaware Commission on Italian Heritage and Culture and the Office of Consul General of Italy in Philadelphia, led by Nico Frandi, presented a seminar and dinner on Oct. 5 at Delaware Technical Community College’s campus in Wilmington, Del.
This event celebrated the 502nd anniversary of Giovanni da Verrazzano’s 1524 voyage from Italy to what is now the East Coast of the United States. Approximately 110 people listened to eloquent lectures by Luigi Cappellini, owner of Verrazano Castle in Greve-in-Chianti, Italy, Verrazzano’s boyhood home and sister city to Rehoboth Beach, Del.,and professor Antonella Valoroso, researcher at the Sorbello Foundation in Perugia, Italy.
