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by Marcus Kwesi O'Mard   Former Major League Baseball star Mike Piazza could join Italian soccer's brigade of new, foreign owners and bring an element of stardust to struggling club Parma FC. Piazza told Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport on Wednesday he's considering buying Parma, according to Football Italia.   Parma currentl...

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di Maria Pace Lucioli Ottieri Franco Maria Ricci ha raccolto la sua biblioteca e le sue opere d'arte dentro questo intricato, grandioso – è il più vasto del mondo – giardino. Un sogno borgesiano nato 38 anni fa e realizzato oggi a Fontanellato (Parma)   Ceduti il marchio e l'attività editoriale, nata nel 1963 e conosciuta in tutto il mondo,...

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Privately owned by the fourth generation of its founding family Parma, Italy-based Pasta maker Barilla, has achieved ubiquity, both in Europe and the U.S. Founded in 1877, it's about the closest to an authentic experience as you can get from mass produced pasta in a box.   But for all its success Barilla isn't resting on its laurels. It anno...

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"Ciao, bello," yells a young, Italian man in my direction. "Hello, beautiful," he's saying, as his friends crane their necks and loosen their jaws in awe. They're not aiming their ardor at me but at the car I'm riding in — a vintage 1962 Alfa Romeo.   In gleaming, tomato red, it's a finely-curved marvel of style, history, technolog...

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Per la prima volta il Brain Prize è stato conferito a uno scienziato italiano: Giacomo Rizzolatti, docente di Fisiologia presso il Dipartimento di Neuroscienze dell'Università degli Studi di Parma.   Il prestigioso riconoscimento è assegnato annualmente dalla Fondazione Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research per premiare uno o più studiosi c...

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When traveling to Italy, there are many great cities to choose from. Everyone knows about Rome, and many have seen its splendors through the eyes of Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. Fashion lovers will find the catwalks and shops of Milan to be inspiring. Those who love romance often head for Venice.   The architecture lovers head for Floren...

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by Barbara Minafra   In Italia non lo ha preso in considerazione nessuno. A Los Angeles hanno deciso che il piccolo Tommaso concorrerà per gli Oscar e i Bafta and Canadian Screen Award. "La ballata dei senzatetto" è lo struggente cortometraggio d'animazione della 38enne Monica Manganelli, scenografa e visual artist di Parma, da tempo al...

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The festival dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi, one of the most famous Italian composers and the most celebrated opera composer of all time, returns from October 10th to November 4th.   The new edition of the Verdi Festival this year takes place in Parma and Busseto, Verdi's countries par excellence, with a series of musical, opera and dance event...

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Get ready for four days of Italian food, nutrition and agro-alimentary customs and traditions during the 17th Salone Internazionale dell'Alimentazione in Parma (Region of Emilia Romagna). This enormous showcase boasts workshops, conferences and events that familiarize professionals – both national and international – working in food and craft servi...

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The Board of Directors of the National Institute of Verdi Studies appointed Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini as the Director of the National Institute of Verdi studies. One of the foremost Italian musicologists of the 20th century, she has worked at institutions of high prestige in musicology such as La Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, where she has been...

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