WTI Magazine #60    2015 May, 15
Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:

Ciao from Rome! Next Friday May 22nd We the Italians will be in Salerno, talking about the Italian emigration to the US, presenting our good friend Luca Guardabascio's new book, "Pietre sull'oceano" – The story of Giovanni Esposito and Joe Petrosino. Luca is an Italian writer, filmmaker and visiting scholar at the Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania. His book is the Story of Giovanni Esposito and his best friend, the famous Joe Petrosino: a story of misery, darkness, sorrow and hope lived by many people who embarked in the journey to America.

Then, on Monday May 25, as every Memorial Day We the Italians will be honoring the 7861 American soldiers buried in the Sicily Rome American Cemetery and Memorial in Nettuno, and to the 3.000 missing in action though remembered there. They lost their lives to free Italy, and many Italian Americans were among them: they decided to fight on behalf of their new Country to free their old one. I personally and the whole We the Italians family will always be grateful about what America did for Italy: we owe our life and our freedom to the United States of America.

As always, also in our 60th issue of this magazine we will drive you on an interesting "Giro d'Italia". After learning more about pizza and why the Italian lifestyle couldn't do without it, in this magazine we will start telling you about the culture and history of Mantua, the beautiful city of Lombardy which will also be protagonist of our Italian art article. We will then move to Gubbio, Umbria, for the traditional Race of the Candles; a little bit east to Marche, for the beautiful land and nature of the Conero Riviera, and then south to the extraordinary beauty of the garden of Villa Cimbrone in Ravello, Campania. We'll head north to Vinci, in Tuscany, where the genius of our Great Italian of the past, Leonardo, was born; and then a bit further to the north to Emilia Romagna, home of the flavor of the fantastic San Daniele ham. Back in the center of Italy for the handcrafted wrought iron of Campobasso, Molise, and then we'll go to Puglia visiting Vico del Gargano, the Italian little Italy of this issue. Then up again to another beautiful Italian region, Marche, for one of its gorgeous wine. The geographical references stop here, but as always we will also tell you about Italian cuisine, lifestyle, art, cinema and much more: that's just a tiny preview of all you will find in this issue of We the Italians magazine!
Before to say goodbye, let me remind you the awesome opportunity given by the partnership between John Cabot University and We The Italian: two brand new Italian-American Heritage Scholarship. You can find the specifics in this previous editorial, or you can contact [email protected] for more information.

That's all for now. So stay tuned, fasten your seat belt and enjoy the ride. The future's so bright, we gotta wear shades!