APRIL 28, 2015 (06:30 PM )Casa Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011Dante and Heterodoxy.  The Temptations of 13th Century Radical Thought(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). Edited and with an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone. Conclusion by Teodolinda Barolini   Dante and Heterodoxy:...

di Mauro Battocchi   Ai giovani alla ricerca di valori in cui credere nell'età di internet, San Francisco e la Silicon Valley offrono un punto di riferimento originale. Non é tanto il richiamo edonistico del denaro e del successo. Piuttosto, si tratta di un codice etico basato su ricerca dell'eccellenza nel lavoro, abnegazione, collaborazion...

By Bill Tonelli   "The Italians of my parents' generation are held together by the notion of the family," wrote Martin Scorsese in his introduction to Italianamerican: The Scorsese Family Cookbook.* "That is why the pasta sauce is so sacred to the Italian family."   See, now right away we have a problem. Because as pretty as Scorsese'...

WTI Magazine #76    2016 February 15Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 76th issue of our online magazine. It's February 2016, and I'm about to leave for the US, where I'll be presenting my book "We the Italians. Two flags, One heart. One hundred interviews". A few days ago I had the privilege of presentin...

When: Tuesday, June 9, 2014 — 6 to 8 p.m.Where: East Boston Branch Library — 365 Bremen Street, East Boston, MA Book presentation by attorney Lawrence DiCara, former president of the Boston City Council and now one of the most influential attorneys in the Boston area.   Read more   Fonte: Bostoniano    

Featuring Paola Corso and Maria Terrone Saturday, June 14th (5:30–7:30) Sidewalk Café94 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009(212) 473-7373 www.sidewalkny.com$8.00 at entrance, includes one drink.Event kicks off with Open Mic readings of five minutes, followed by two featured writers.   Read more    Fonte: Magna Grece    

Si terrà il 20 giugno alle 18.30pm presso l'Italian American Museum a New York la presentazione di "A Bit of Myself" scritto da Filomena Abys-Smith.   Il volume è una raccolta di memorie dedicate ai figli della scrittrice, al fine di tramandare loro radici e conoscenza degli avi la cui passione per la vita li ha aiutati a diventare una famig...

Emmy-award winning TV host, best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur and co-owner of Eataly - the delightful Chef Lidia Bastianich visited again. She talked about her latest cookbook "Lidia's Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine," which was written with her daughter Tanya.   In the book, she gives pointers on using different ingredien...

By Howard Norman   Jhumpa Lahiri lived with her family in Rome in 2012. Though she had studied Italian for 20 years, as part of her "full immersion" into the Italian language, she now kept a kind of philological notebook, full of vocabulary, phrases, rules of grammar. Initially, some of this was shaped into an essay in the magazine Internazi...

Con questa rassegna periodica siamo ormai arrivati a coprire un quarto di secolo (1987-2012) 1. In questi 5 lustri è divenuto evidente come vi siano tendenze costanti della produzione americanistica: dalla sempre più massiccia presenza dei giornalisti all'attenzione per le elezioni e i presidenti, per le relazioni tra Stati Uniti ed Europa e tra St...