Pavia, ritrovato il più antico 'spartito musicale': risale al 1100
Ritrovato alla Biblioteca Universitaria di Pavia un antifonario del 1100, forse il più antico finora conosciuto. Lo annuncia il ministro della cultura Bonisoli precisando che la pagina di pergamena manoscritta, antesignana dello spartito musicale, è stata ritrovata durante il restauro finanziato con l'Art Bonus dal Mibac di un volume del '600. Un r...
Family photos are windows to our past
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day have come and gone, and many friends and family members posted photos honoring their parents, as did I. As a genealogist, I can tell from the photos people posted just how well they have preserved their photo collections. Some people have 20 clear sharp images of themselves with their father or mother over a range of y...
Cafe Society: Restaurateur Giovanni Tromba returns to his roots with The Mad Rose in Ventura
Giovanni Tromba means no disrespect to any of the 11 other restaurants he has opened since moving to the U.S. from his native Italy in the late 1960s. But No. 12 — also known as The Mad Rose in downtown Ventura — is the farm-to-table place he has always dreamed of having. "Fresh food, made with ingredients that just came out of the ground. That was...
Italian antique desk once displayed in NYC’s Met recovered
Italian police said Tuesday they had recovered an 18th-century ebony desk that was illegally taken abroad after World War II and ended up for a time on display in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The desk, made with ivory and mother of pearl inlays, is considered a masterpiece of Pietro Piffetti, one of the most important ebony carpenters of...
Los Angeles va in Campania. Il Consolato: "Costruiamo ponti"
Il Satiro ebbro custodito al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), proveniente della Villa dei Papiri di Pompei, in esposizione dal 2019 alla Villa Getty di Malibu, ricostruzione della rovina pompeiana voluta dal filantropo Jean Paul Getty. Poi l'accordo tra il porto di Los Angeles e quelli della Campania per scambiarsi buone pratiche. Inf...
Brooklyn Book Festival
Bordighera Press and the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) will once again be sharing a table at The Brooklyn Book Festival, one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City. Presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors, the Festival includes a week of Bo...
The world's oldest beer-brewing abbey is taking up production again
Beer lovers around the world rejoice because a new “abbey beer” is coming to town straight from Italy and the oldest beer-producing monastery in the world. The Montecassino Abbey was founded in 529 AD by Saint Benedict of Nursia and it’s the birthplace of the Benedictine order, but it’s also the oldest monastery in the world known for its beer prod...
Italian hat maker Borsalino bought at auction by Haeres Equita
Italy’s Borsalino, one of the world’s most famous hat makers and known for Humphrey Bogart’s fedora in the film “Casablanca”, has been rescued by Haeres Equita, a group of investors led by a Swiss-Italian financier. The company was put up for sale via an auction after a judge in the town of Alessandria, where the luxury brand was founded in 1857, r...
Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake The Perfect Italian-Style Pie
The ideal Italian pizza, be it Neapolitan or Roman, has a crisp crust flecked with dark spots — marks left by a blazing hot oven. The dough is fluffy, moist and stretchy, and the toppings are piping hot. A pizzeria's brick oven pops these out to perfection, but intrepid home cooks attempting to re-create Italian-style pizzas have more than likely d...
Ferrari purists brace for change as famed Italian automaker takes the on-ramp to SUVs and hybrids
The late Enzo Ferrari, the formidable and brilliant race car driver turned automotive legend, was also a shrewd businessman when he launched his sports car company 71 years ago. His philosophy was to always build one less car than the company could sell. Ferrari, who died in 1988 at age 90, once said, “The Ferrari is a dream – people dream of ownin...
Shy Guy Gelato: A Taste of Italy in Burlington's South End
My love affair with gelato began almost two decades ago. I was 23, backpacking alone in Italy, and got lost trying to find my way back to my hotel in Venice. After an hour circling the labyrinthine streets, I spotted a sign for a gelateria at the end of an alleyway. Ducking out of the sun, I tasted my first-ever gelato — a creamy, fresh cantaloupe...
Rossini Under the Star | La scala di seta
In conjuction with the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF), a yearly international music festival held in August in Pesaro, the birthplace of Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), and on the occasion of 150th anniversary of the composer's death, the IIC will host an outdoor screening of La scala di Seta. This sparkling 1812 farsa comica in one act weaves a burl...