Rapahel's Dream | A Live Zoom Presentation by Marzia Faietti
Friday, May 15, 2020 | 11:00am PST. This event is in English. Free and open to the public. REGISTER HERE. The presentation will be moderated by Prof. Emanuele Lugli, Stanford University. On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Raffaello Sanzio’s death, while we wait for cultural destinations to reopen and to be able to see works of art live aga...
Italian woman returns home after 18-month African kidnapping
Wearing a surgical mask, disposable gloves and booties to guard against COVID-19, a young Italian woman returned to her homeland Sunday after 18 months as a hostage in eastern Africa. Silvia Romano lowered her mask briefly to display a broad smile after she stepped off an Italian government plane at Rome-Ciampino International Airport. She hugged...
La Festa della Mamma
Mamma is cherished in Italy and has always been the bedrock of the family. Mother’s Day — La Festa della Mamma — was “officially” recognized in Italy in 1958 about fifty years after it was established here in the States. A parish priest began the now annual tradition in the Umbrian hilltown of Assisi in 1957, with surrounding towns joining the cele...
The new Atlanta-chapter Italian-American Chamber of Commerce
Our newly appointed Italian Consul in Miami, Cristiano Musillo, is an offical of great initiative and promotional vigor. After visiting Atlanta, back in January, Mr. Musillo decided to re-open the local chapter of the Italian-American Chamber of Commerce. The choice of the person leading this new institution could not be better or more appropriat...
Italian Geniuses & Colorful Personalities
May 13 at 7pm EDT. $10. Click here for more info & to register. Has anyone demonstrated genius throughout history quite like the Italians? From antiquity to the present, from realms of the arts & sciences to the art of “la dolce vita”, Italians, more than any other people have profoundly shaped our worldview and how we live. Through an engaging int...
Ambassador Armando Varricchio at GEI. The relationship between the United States and Italy is fundamental for the post-Covid recovery.
The Ambassador of Italy Armando Varricchio participated today in a virtual conversation with Mario Platero, President of the Gruppo Esponenti Italiani (GEI) of New York and columnist for La Stampa. During the conversation, which was joined by numerous GEI members, representatives of the italian community and journalists in NY, the Ambassador addres...
NSA Naples Holds Food Drive for Local Italian Community
Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples Religious Ministries Department conducted a food drive to help provide much needed assistance to members of the local Italian community. While Italy has moved into the second phase of its response to COVID-19, many of its citizens are still feeling the financial strain caused by the pandemic. For many local Ital...
Cosimo Matassa’s New Orleans studio recorded “Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard
“Little Richard rolled into Cosimo Matassa’s J&M Studio (1947-1956) at 840 N. Rampart in New Orleans and cut the epochal “Tutti Frutti” in the fall of 1955. Richard wailed “A wop bop a loo mop a lomp bomp bomp” and kicked off one of the first great wailers in rock history. In 1956’s Here’s Little Richard — his boogie-woogie piano stylings weren’t a...
Vincenzo Sellaro ed il contributo degli emigrati italiani in USA
La vicenda migratoria transoceanica della seconda metà del XIX secolo ha contribuito a segnare una forma specifica di insediamento etnico nella realtà statunitense. In quella fase storica, negli Stati Uniti, il processo migratorio ha assunto caratteri di massa a partire dagli anni settanta dell’ottocento, quando arrivarono nel paese più di due mili...
Has the Coronavirus Global Emergency Pushed Real Estate Buyers to Consider More Homes in the Italian Countryside?
Great Estate is an International real estate agency network based in Italy specialized in the sale and purchase of farmhouses, villas, farms, hamlets and luxury castles towards an international clientele, as well as for the Italian real estate investment field in general. The international market prefers regions like Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Liguri...
A Tribute to Our Irreplaceable Italian American Mothers
What is the most beautiful love song ever written? Was it a song of passion sung by a young man to profess his unending love to his sweetheart? Or maybe a song of joy from a young woman in response to a marriage proposal? If you ask me, it was neither. Of the thousands of love-songs written throughout the years, perhaps the most beautiful, the most...
Nuovo flash mob digitale per un viaggio in Italia attraverso i manifesti pubblicitari
“Viaggio in Italia – per un’estate italiana” è la nuova campagna promossa dal Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali e per il Turismo in collaborazione con l’Enit, il Touring Club Italiano e l’Associazione dei Borghi più belli d’Italia in vista della più ampia attività di promozione istituzionale di questa prossima stagione estiva. Un avvicin...