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Dear Friends of Italian Innovators, on June 24, 2022, I had the honor of being the closing speaker at the Superyacht Design Festival, organized in Milan by the Boat International Media Company. My presentation, entitled The Italian Way. What Makes Italian Design Unique?, explored the cultural elements that lie behind the success of contemporary Ita...

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The new episode of Italian Innovators is a fascinating conversation on Italian jewelry with Alberto Milani (entrepreneur & creator of the jewelry & lifestyle luxury brand Alberto Milani "a love affair with Italy", president of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of New York, and co-founder of Piazza Italia Market in New York City). We explored th...

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The new episode of the show presents the profile of Carlo Riva, Italy’s most renowned shipbuilder in the 20th century, and author of the Aquarama (1962), which is still considered the best boat ever built. In the episode, I explore his career as both boatman and designer in a poetic dialogue with Dante Alighieri, who similarly saw boats as technica...

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I often realize how much my love for Italy has greatly increased since We the Italians was born, and therefore from the moment I started to tell those who live in America about my country. I found that it doesn't just happen to me. Luca Cottini is a fantastic Italian who teaches at Villanova University, in Pennsylvania. He perfectly embodies all th...

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Wednesday June 15th, 2022, 6:30 pm. Ethical Society, 906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103. This event is FREE. Dear Friends, In collaboration with the Italian Consulate in Philadelphia, PI-Philly is happy to invite you to the “Art & Innovation Series.” Professor Luca Cottini will hold the first conversation: The Italian Renaissance & cont...

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The new episode of Italian Innovators is dedicated to Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello (1906-1969), pioneer of Italian studies in America, war hero, journalist and scholar. He was the mind behind the naming of the Verrazzano bridge in New York City and a major architect of Italy’s cultural Renaissance in the United States in the aftermath of WWII. His...

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The new episode of Italian Innovators is conversation with Luigi Crema (associate professor of international law at the University of Milan) on the Italian legal system and constitution. We observed Italian law from a historical, juridical, and cultural perspective. We examined the making of Italy’s constitution and the current state of its democra...

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In the new episode of the show I tell you the story of Giovanni Battista Ceirano, the man behind the birth of Fiat and Italy’s automotive industry. It all started in his bicycle workshop at the time of Turin’s national exposition in 1898, when he assembled the “Welleyes” car, the first ever produced in Italy. It was in a nearby café that a group of...

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Chapman University is presenting Design & Culture: An Italian Perspective in association with Musco Center Present which will be held at the Musco Center for the Arts on 1 University Drive, Orange, California on Saturday, April 23 at 10:30 am. This celebration of Italian design and culture, exploring the vitality, beauty, and complexity of Italy’s...

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The new episode of the show is a fascinating conversation with Simone Cinotto (professor, author, and food scholar at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy) on the reciprocal influences of Italian and American cuisines and the creation of a two-way “transatlantic diet.” We discussed the meanings of “local” and “global” (or “Ital...

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