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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Gae Aulenti has been one of the most symbolic Italian women of the '900. The history of the Italian architecture, not only the female one, is inextricably linked to her name. Gae Aulenti was born in Palazzolo della Stella, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, on December 4...

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  WTI Magazine #47    2014 November, 12Author : Giuseppina Salzano e Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   His nickname, " Il Vate" (the prophet, or better, the poet) effectively sums up Gabriele D'Annunzio's strenght, the power of his lyrical and the incisive traits of his character. His poetry is among the best examples in the history of Itali...

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  WTI Magazine #59    2015 May, 1Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by: John Cabot University   For the 70th anniversary of the Italian Liberation from the Nazi-Fascist occupation, it is important to celebrate and remember the stories and testimonies of all those Italian people who made the National history, and represented the symbol of t...

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  WTI Magazine #52    2015 January, 23Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna of Savoy was born in Turin on November 20, 1851, daughter of Ferdinand, the first Duke of Genoa, and Elizabeth of Saxony. She was the first Italian Queen consort, a character of great charm, a woman who has profoundly influenced...

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  WTI Magazine #15    2014 Jan, 31Author : Giuseppina Salzano e Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   When in 1993 Federico Fellini comes up on the stage of the Academy Awards for the last time, he is beautifully honored by the America of movies and dreams, engaged and grateful for the career of one of the grea...

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  WTI Magazine #62    2015 June, 12Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   The "Gigante buono" (gentle giant) Primo Carnera has been an Italian symbol in the world, between the '20s and the '30s of last century. Boxer, wrestler and actor, through his achievements he represented the character with an almost inhuman stature, yet mild-temper...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   The first Italian woman to have founded and edited a newspaper was born in Patras on March 7, 1856 to the Neapolitan lawyer Francesco Serao, who in 1848 left his city because sought as anti-Bourbon, and Pauline Borely, a Greek decayed noble. When the father returns...

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  WTI Magazine #83    2016 September 16Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Scholar of physics, biology, mathematics, logic, philosophy, Latin, Greek and French, Laura Bassi Veratti was the first woman in the world to achieve an academic career and the first to be appointed chair at a University, becoming one of the most important Euro...

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  WTI Magazine #70    2015 October, 16Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   The history of Palma Bucarelli is that of a life devoted to art, especially to a vision of the art that failed to escape from classical schemes, with the goal of breathing the fresh and complex air of the '900. A vision that will make this great intellectual pro...

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  WTI Magazine #68    2015 September, 18Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Eleonora Duse has been one of the most important actresses of the Italian theater scene of the nineteenth century. Her style marked the era of modern theater and her love affairs linked her forever to one of the greatest cont...

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