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Due nuovi consolati onorari in New Jersey, una permanenza consolare a Saarbruecken ancora da definire, accordi in corso con le autorità locali di Manchester e Norimberga, potenziamenti a Zurigo ed Atene per sopperire alle chiusure del Consolato di San Gallo e l'IIC di Salonicco. E poi Durban, dove gli italiani residenti non sono moltissimi, ma ci s...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by: John Cabot University   An important exhibition, for its beauty and rareness, will be hosted at the Salone dei Corazzieri in Palazzo del Quirinale until April 12, 2015. The exhibition is based on the entire cycle of tapestries on the story of Joseph narrated in the...

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WTI Magazine #67    2015 September, 4Author : John Cabot University      Translation by:   As students return to university this fall – or begin classes for the first time – they'll have plenty of historical sites, museums, and local hotspots to visit after class and on weekends. They can relax by the Trevi Fountain, enjoy an espresso at the famo...

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On October 4, 2013, the Italian Academy Foundation presented "Maestro" Franco Zeffirelli with the Bravo! award at his villa in Rome. The acclaimed set designer and artist graciously accepted the honor, and his acceptance speech will be presented in absentia at the October 10, 2013 IAF Verdi at Carnegie concert. Recipients of the Bravo! award are c...

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  WTI Magazine #33    2014 June, 4Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   Villa Torlonia in Rome is one of the most interesting parks in the capital. The garden extends behind the right side of Via Nomentana and belonged to one of the most important families of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century Roman landscape.    

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They have clothed the world's wealthy fashionistas and bejeweled Hollywood stars. Now, Italy's kings of fashion are poised to give this nation's crumbling monuments a makeover to restore them to their former glory, something the cash-strapped Italian government cannot do.   But as Italy courts private cash to rescue some of the globe's best-...

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Ben di senso è privo, chi ti conosce, Italia, e non t'adora, scrisse Vincenzo Monti. Se è vero che l'arte degli italiani sta nella bellezza, l'America è in cerca di "prove", per raccontare oltreoceano le meraviglie del Bel Paese, scrigno di arte, cultura, storia, natura. Superando gli stereotipi e mettendo da parte i cliché che spesso ne imprigiona...

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Grabbing something hot and tasty on the move? You have the ancient Romans to thank. "Street food" was their invention, generally enjoyed with wine, gambling or even prostitutes. Food on the go was an integral part of daily life in the empire, from nibbling on salted peas while watching gladiators battle in the Colosseum, to grabbing a sausage...

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The bid by the scenic town of Civita da Bagnoregio to be listed as a UNESCO world heritage site is a 'solid candidature,' Giovanni Puglisi, president of the Italian National Committee for UNESCO, said Wednesday. "Civita da Bagnoregio's candidature as a Unesco world heritage site, launched by the president of the Lazio region, Nicola Zingaretti, an...

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by Nick Vivarelli   Gabriele Ferzetti, the silently seductive Italian actor who rose to international prominence during the 1950's and 60's, when he played a dissolute playboy opposite Monica Vitti inMichelangelo Antonioni's melancholy masterpiece "L'Avventura," died in Rome on Wednesday.   He was 90. Ferzetti's stage, screen and...

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