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Fabrizio Nestola, 44 years old, is a Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Padua. He has worked hard not only for his academic career but also to carry on his research on diamonds. Prof Nestola’s aim is the one of finding out what lays behind the diamonds, even studying the super-giant ones (3000 carats), the super-deep and rare ones to be f...

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by Gaia Pianigiani   High-end printing is an artisans' job in Italy. For those books, the gluing and the binding of the pages is predominantly done by hand. But at Editoriale Zanardi, a prestige book printer in northeast Italy, even the management fell into its workers' hands last year, when they bought out the company that had employed...

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Bartolomeo Cristofori è considerato l'inventore del pianoforte, alla fine del Seicento, per via dei suoi allora innovativi interventi sul clavicembalo, lo strumento a tastiera più usato al tempo. Della sua vita non si conosce molto (e il suo unico ritratto, di cui restano le foto, andò distrutto a Berlino durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale), ma i d...

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If you're interested in anatomy, work in the medical profession or, like me, you're always looking for somewhere different to visit, then here's an idea.   How would you feel about visiting an anatomical theatre? The anatomical theatre was an institution used in teaching anatomy at early modern universities: vast rooms where students could o...

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  WTI Magazine #73    2015 November 27Author : Elda Buonanno Foley      Translation by:   In continuing my conversation on the famous line with which the Italians are popular, ("A people made of artists, poets, saints, philosophers, scientists and sailors) the description of "artists" seems to ignite a wider and more in depth conversation on "wh...

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  WTI Magazine #63    2015 June, 27Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   A very interesting initiative began in Padua this month: the opening to the public of two historical headquarters of the University, two jewels of rationalist architecture and art from the early twentieth Italian century. The dean Giuseppe Zaccaria continues to pr...

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WTI Magazine #73    2015 November 27Author : italia.it      Translation by:   As the heart of one of the world's most significant religions, Italy has always been a destination for those who have made their faith a way of life and who wish to explore the roots of a world that has produced art, architecture, and objects of inestimable value. Italy...

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Educating in Paradise: è questo il motto scelto dall'Association of American College and University Programs in Italy (AACUPI), l'ente che raggruppa 147 istituzioni universitarie statunitensi e canadesi che operano in Italia con corsi e programmi di studio propri. Se gli italiani infatti, a partire dai più giovani, sono spesso (e giustamente) insod...

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I'm honored to report that Davide Bolognesi, the Head of International Investor Relations for the Governor's Office of the State of California, has received the Young Veneto Excellence Award for "Entrepreneurialism, Management and Professional Activities" from the Associazione Padovani nel Mondo. Davide is highly deserving of this important distinc...

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di Giovanni Cedrone   E' LA memoria flash con la più alta densità mai sviluppata. Ed è stata progettata nel nostro Paese da ingegneri italiani. Stiamo parlando dell'ultimo prodotto nato dalla collaborazione tra Intel, il colosso dei microprocessori, e l'azienda dell'Idaho Micron Technology che rivoluzionerà il mondo dell'elettronica e dell'i...

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