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On Dec. 7, ParoLab, the book club of Italians in DC, will host a presentation of "A New Map: The Poetry of Migrant Writers in Italy" co-edited by Italian-French poet and critic Mia Lecomte. Italophone Argentinian poet Candelaria Romero and Lecomte will read from their poetry collections, Georgetown University professor of Italian Nicoletta Pireddu...

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In the first half of the twentieth century, Italian American women were born into a life of work. From as young as four or five years old, they were expected to assist in the house or on the farm, leaving school if necessary, to help support the family.   The stories of these women, who could keep up with any man, have been mostly provided b...

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Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880–1943, edited by Francesco Durante (Fordham University Press, 2014), brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of writings by Italian immigrants in the United States.   Containing work originally published in Italian, this groundbreaking anthology presents long-i...

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Partisan Diary A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance BY Ada Gobetti and Translated and edited by Jomarie Alano First account available in English of an Italian woman's participation in the Italian Resistance (Resistenza) that covers the entire period between September 1943 and April 1945. Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. &...

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Don Marcello Stanzione, Jacques Coret, and Marco Gionta willl present their first book published in English: The Highway to Heaven/A closer walk with God in the Company of The Celestial Beings-Angels published by Publisher Sign.   The presentation will be accompanied by the screening of the documentary Love Angels. The documentary tells the...

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The Italian Cultural Institute presents Andreas Vesalius (1515-1564): A Pioneer in Medicine, a lecture by Prof. Damiano Rondelli, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, on Nov. 19, at 6 p.m.   Professor Rondelli will talk about the life of Andreas Vesalius, a professor of anatomy at the University of Padova, who in 154...

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  WTI Magazine #60    2015 May, 15Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! Next Friday May 22nd We the Italians will be in Salerno, talking about the Italian emigration to the US, presenting our good friend Luca Guardabascio's new book, "Pietre sull'oceano" – The story of Giovanni Esposito and Joe Petrosino. Luca is an Itali...

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di Federico Taddia   «Il libro è un oggetto straordinario, il solo in grado di contenere materia che si trasforma in spirito: è l'affascinante alchimia che porta l'occhio a cogliere segni portatori di idee. Noi continuiamo con la stampa a mano non per folclore, ma perché è la tecnologia migliore per la chiarezza di lettura: è il nostro modo...

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THE TRANSATLANTIC GAZE: ITALIAN CINEMA, AMERICAN FILM by Mary Ann McDonald Carolan is now available in paperback in the Italian/American Culture series from SUNY Press. San Francisco Book Review calls this collection of essays "an astutely focused text on a universally acknowledged subject, but one that is rarely covered these days, even in academi...

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Laurie Fabiano's dramatic tale of survival against the odds in New York City's rough and tumble tenements at the turn of the twentieth century is based on her own family history. The novel's protagonist, Giovanna, immerses herself in the shadowy world of extortion and murder to fight the Black Hand, a precursor to the mafia. Join the Staten Island...

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