Celebrating Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan under the auspices of the Italian Consulate of Detroit in its third Annual Celebration of Dante Alighieri presentsDANTE E LA MUSICA: LA SUA INFLUENZA POETICADANTE AND MUSIC: HIS POETIC INFLUENCE A talk by John Zaretti, President of the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan. Read more Fonte: Il gi...
Young entrepreneur turning lemons into a sweet success
By April Guilmet When life handed him lemons, Phil Mastroianni went to the New Hampshire Liquor Commission. Launching his Salem-based company, Fabrizia Spirits, five years ago was no easy ride for Mastroianni, who began as a 25-year-old accountant with a dream of producing traditional Italian limoncello for the masses. "I started...
Rick Belluzzo Reclaims Italian Citizenship and Writes New Book
By Mauro Battocchi Rick Belluzzo belongs to a generation of successful Italian Americans that are eager to rediscover their roots in Italy. To that end, he recently reclaimed his Italian citizenship and is also investing in Italian startups. He even found time recently to pen a book with his colleague Krish Dhanam — available on Amazon. Entitled...
Vari-Form Announces Joint Venture Agreement with Italy Automotive Supplier EMARC SpA
Vari-Form today announced the signing of a joint venture agreement with EMARC SpA of Piemonte, Italy. The new agreement increases manufacturing footprints for Vari-Form in Europe and EMARC in North America. Going forward, both companies will offer locally-available advanced technologies – hydroforming, roll forming and aluminum stretch ben...
IB&II Participates At “Made By Italians” Conference
On September 27th, the American Center for Italian Studies will host its annual conference "Made by Italians: The Economic and Social Impact of Italian Migrations to America: New Perspectives". Among the participants are expected promintent representatives of positive and successful Italian migration stories as Antonio Giordano, Giovanni Feder...
Rapporto italiani nel mondo 2013/ dati flussi e presenze: si emigra da e verso nuove terre
Secondo l'Aire all'1 gennaio 2013 i cittadini italiani residenti fuori dei confini nazionali erano 4.341.156, il 7,3% dei circa 60 milioni di italiani residenti in Italia. L'aumento rispetto allo scorso anno è di 132.179 iscrizioni, +3,1% rispetto al 2012. La ripartizione continentale rimarca che la maggior parte degli italiani residenti f...
Fendi casa opens in Madison Avenue
According to wwd, Mariagrazia Catelli, manager of New York's first Fendi Casa store, at 153 Madison Avenue on the corner of 32nd Street, says they sell to wealthy people. Fendi's leather sofas, priced $25,000 to $30,000, can be had with such signatures as the brand's horse emblem embroidered in the cushions, or the "selleria" fine stitching. While...
Vino, Italia mantiene il primato sul mercato USA
Secondo quanto sottolineato dal presidente dell'Italian Wine & Food Institute, Lucio Caputo, nonostante la consistente contrazione delle importazioni statunitensi, ridottesi del 6,7%, l'Italia ha mantenuto le proprie posizioni registrando un modesto incremento in quantità (1%) ed un più consistente incremento in valore (7,7%) essenzialmente det...
Campaign for Italian American Studies at Loyola University Chicago
From Dominic Candeloro, Chair Campaign for Italian American Studies at Loyolahttps://www.facebook.com/italianamericanLoyola What's your Italian American heritage worth to you? Today, 6 generations and 150 years after the first migrations, the record of that epic experience is at risk of fading away. Though we may retain some food trad...
Director Alberto Di Mauro's farewell to the IIC of Los Angeles
A few weeks prior to the end of his mandate as Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles and as a foreign affairs official for the Italian Government, Alberto Di Mauro takes stock of the accomplishments achieved in the last three years. With a look at the future. What kind of approach has inspired you in managing the Instit...
Italian American Culture – The Art of the Law
Charles Angelo Siringo (1855-1912) Siringo was born in Matagorda County, Texas to an Irish immigrant mother and an Italian immigrant father from Piedmont. He attended public school until the age of 15, when he started working on local ranches as a cowboy. After taking part in several cattle drives, Siringo stopped herding to settle down,...
Translators make foreign literature accessible to readers
By Tu-Uyen Tran "Gentile signorina," the purse-snatcher wrote to his victim at the beginning of a short story that University of North Dakota professor Elizabeth Harris has translated. He had been examining the contents of the purse, imagining what his victim is like and coming to realize he had fallen in love, she said. "Gen...