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Balzan Foundation renews ties to USA with lectures in New York and Washington to promote culture, the sciences and the most meritorious intellectual and humanitarian initiatives
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"I’m really proud to have spent eight to ten hours a day revitalizing an institute, revitalizing the Italian image in America", said Renato Miracco on his last day as Director of of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Here you can find the English translation of the video we shoot at the Institute. i-Italy wishes him the best in his commitment to promote the Italian culture at the highest levels.
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Interview with the iconoclastic Italian musician Franco Battiato. “I come off as a difficult artist, but tell me: How can someone who has sold millions and millions of records be difficult?”. "However, I am about to release a new album in which I directly attack the political class". Battiato will have his first New York appearance after 10 years on Monday October 19, 2009
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Organized by the Italian Trade Commission, the 10th edition of the Arts & Tannery exhibition was an occasion to present new trends in the Italian Leather Industry and to further extend the economic relations between Italy and the US in the sector
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Three stories in search of something. An extraordinary confidant at a restaurant in downtown Manhattan, collects them, elaborates on them, re-thinks them, and presents them in a novel. And New York is described once again with its certainties and uncertainties, both before and after September 11. Interview with Elena Attala Perazzini, author of “Three Stops in New York,” recently released in Italy (Edizioni Barbera)
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A “tour de force” in New York for Rome’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno. Important meetings with officials, including one with his colleague Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Mayor Giuliani, as well as a visit to the “Mad Fun Farm,” the first urban garden created by children in New York. And he used the subway system to get around...
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Cipriani was again the venue for this year’s celebration of Italy's National Day, the most important event of the year for the Italian community with more than a thousand guests in attendance. Consulate General Talò and his family arrived at Cipriani Wall Street in a Fiat Cinquecento
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John Marchi passed away last Saturday. In my opinion, he was among the best and the brightest and he deserves a place alongside New York City's other unblemished political heroes such as Fiorello LaGuardia and Mario Cuomo. He left us at a time when positive political role models for Italians, Italian Americans, and those who want to be, are becoming scarce. History repeats and our time is another one during which too many elected representatives are being exposed as disgraces of one sort or another. Even in the heat of battle, John Marchi demonstrated that the connection between disgrace and politics is not a given, and on the contrary that the connection between grace and Italianita is.
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With all of the pizzerias here in New York City, we are thrilled to have Pizzeria Keste which is dedicated to making genuine Neapolitan style pizza. Roberto Caporuscio is a true pizzaiolo and Keste raises the pizza bar in this city.
