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By Emanuele Pettener Rick Zullo is an American blogger, teacher, and relentless Italophile. He was born in Chicago, raised in Florida, but always dreamt of Italy. After a 17-year career in dentistry, he left the United States to live in Rome where he met his wife.   He is now writing a series of ebooks which strive to decipher Italian cultu...

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  WTI Magazine #21    2014 Mar, 14Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   In common belief, it is thought that Donato Bramante was born in Milan or rather in Lombardy, but the truth is that he was born in 1444 in Fermignano, a small town near Urbino in the Marche region. In fact, the typical education from the center part of Italy, espec...

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Il nuovo ceo di Intel, Brian Krzanich in occasione del Maker Faire a Roma ha presentato la scheda Intel Galileo, il primo prodotto di una nuova famiglia di schede di sviluppo compatibili con Arduino. Arduino e' la principale piattaforma hardware open source nella community di maker e nella didattica. Krzanich ha annunciato una donazione di 50.000 s...

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„La colonna traiana è stata 'srotolata' nel suo sviluppo lineare. A presentare l'installazione il sindaco di Roma, Ignazio Marino, che si è anche improvvisato guida con un gruppo di turisti inglesi, e il sovrintendente capitolino Claudio Parisi Presicce.   Questo, ha detto Marino, "è un progetto importante che riguarda la valorizzazione una...

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The walk to Dario Franceschini's office is in itself testament to Italy's vast heritage. Past countless paintings lining the corridors of the culture ministry, he sits dwarfed by high walls adorned with books. In any other capital, such a scene might seem as if it were put on for guests, but in Rome it feels more as if Italy has simply run out...

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While most visitors inexplicably wait until summer to descend on the shiny cobblestone streets of Italy's Eternal City—when the country's capital literally bakes in the debilitating midday sun, necessitating at least three gelati daily and just as many cold showers—the spring is truly prime time to visit. Milder temperatures, a host of special even...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Giulia Carletti      Translation by:   Nineteenth and Twentieth century art enthusiasts will find their temple in the eternal city, at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM). Founded in 1883 in Rome, GNAM was born out of the efforts and the foresight of strong personalities, and fro...

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English Premier League club Chelsea and Italian team AS Roma will play an exhibition game at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. on Aug. 10, according to the AS Roma website. The mouth-watering encounter will see two of Europe's top teams, loaded with famed players, test out their rosters a week before the Premier League kicks off. The Italian League S...

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Museum of Idaho in Idaho Falls opens a new exhibit this Friday, "Rome: Military Genius & Mighty Machines". The Italian artisan created exhibit showcases the early culture and engineering created by the Roman Empire. Visitors learn how 2,000 year old technologies are still applied to how we live today.   Inventions such as pile...

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Centro Studi Americani - via M. Caetani, 32 00186 Roma   Tel 06.68.80.16.13 fax 06.68.30.72.56   info@centrostudiamericani.org www.centrostudiamericani.org   Lunedì 20 – Venerdì 24 Maggio 2013   Seminario di Letteratura, storia e cultura americana   "American Families: An Ongoing Debate on an Everchanging Ins...

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