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Inside my seven novels, along with the familiar narrative essentials, there is a feast of Italian food. This happened organically as I love Italian food, and this passion extended to feeding my fictional characters. Said passion is surely rooted in my Italian-American background. I grew up eating Italian food pretty much every day and twice on Sund...

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Small cobblestone streets, clotheslines overflowing with bright linens and colorful underwear, tiny dogs yapping as they lick the crumbs of pastries and cornettos off the road—Italy is a picturesque destination, one colored by decades of romanticisation in the media. Despite its aspirational depiction as a nation living in rustic nostalgia where ev...

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Author and art historian Giulia Silvia Ghia talked with Fabio Finotti, the director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York (IIC-NY) on April 19th, 2023. During the conversation, she presented her latest book: “Vademecum per i mecenati della cultura. Art Bonus, sponsorizzazioni e metodi di raccolte fondi per valorizzare conservando.” The book...

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Italian literature has always given us masterpieces of various genres, from coming-of-age novels to thrillers, and that have become famous all over the world. Just think of the works of Luigi Pirandello, the repertoire of Gabriele D'Annunzio or the supreme Dante Alighieri, whose Commedia never ages and still keeps inspiring novelists everywhere. In...

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“Cucina povera, Italian peasant cooking, is the way people have been cooking in Italy for centuries,” says Tuscan blogger, podcaster and cooking school teacher Giulia Scarpaleggia. Her latest cookbook, “Cucina Povera: The Italian Way of Transforming Humble Ingredients into Unforgettable Meals,” is full of inviting writing, interesting little histor...

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When: Tuesday, May 23 · 6 - 7:30pm EDT - Where: I AM Books 124 Salem Street Boston, MA 02113 United States The second largest Italian island and a keystone in Mediterranean history, Sardinia is known largely as the playground of the global jet-set, the Blue Zone phenomenon and bandits. Award-winning historian, journalist, travel writer Jeff Biggers...

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The Leopard – Il Gattopardo, in Italian – is a book published in 1958 and written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957). The author didn’t live to see his work printed and made public as it came out a year after his death and in its full edition in 1969. The book gained immediate success and was awarded the Strega prize in 1959. Against the b...

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One morning in July, a girl is dragged away from her homeland, reduced to slavery, and sold by human traffickers. From the wild plateaus of the Caucasus to the Black Sea, from Constantinople to Venice, from Florence to Vinci. When she arrives in Italy, everything has been taken from her – her body, her dreams, her future, her land, and her ancient...

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Our bookshelves are filling up with Italian vacation inspiration. This year, author Katie Parla debuted the “Food of the Italian Islands” cookbook that will tempt you to book a trip to Sardinia and Sicily, and Maria Pasquale released “The Eternal City” on Rome’s culinary traditions. Then the godfather of European travel, Rick Steves, published his...

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023. From 6:00 pm To 7:30 pm. Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 686 Park Ave, New York, NY. Entrance: Free. Book now here. Event in Italian. Author Giulia Silvia Ghia in conversation with Fabio Finotti, IIC-NY Director, presents her book "Vademecum per i mecenati della cultura." The talk wants to answer some interesting questions...

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