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Naples: Three Cities in One Beauty, Grandeur, and Mystery

Virginia Di Falco(March 03, 2021)

Few cities in Italy or the world possess a patrimony as extraordinary as Naples. Our recommended travel itinerary approaches this marvelous city from three different angles, starting with Naples’ scenic side, as beautiful today as it was ages ago, when 16th Century travelers on the Grand Tour arrived seeking beauty and gradeur. Next up is the rich, majestic Naples, capital of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, known for its monuments and squares, its culture and truly popular side streets. Finally, we’ll introduce you to a hidden Naples, which has existed underground for centuries. This may be the most mysterious and spectacular side of Naples, spanning two millennia and conti- nuing to look to the future: from catacombs to under- ground art, with the most beautiful train stations in Europe designed by 14 “archi-stars” and adorned with 200 works of art by over ninety artists.

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Nel mezzo del cammin...

Dacia Maraini *(October 26, 2020)

“Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita,/ mi ritrovai in una selva oscura (Midway upon the journey of our life,/ I found myself within a dark forest).” This powerful beginning could be enough to fall in love with the Italian language. With its musicality, its verbal intelligence, its expressive force...

Facts & Stories

Andrea Purgatori. His restless, passionate never-ending search for truth

Fred Plotkin(July 23, 2023)

Andrea and I met on the first day of school. I had just returned to my native New York after years of living in Italy and, frankly, my language skills in Italian were better than my English. Members of the talented, ambitious and idiosyncratic class of 1980 of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University are mourning the death of our beloved friend and colleague.

Art & Culture

Baroque Sicily. When History and Art Join Forces — and Win

Dominique Fernandez(July 31, 2021)

With so many possible ways to visit Sicily, we decided to take you for a tour of Sicilian cities in search of baroque treasures.

Focus in Italiano

Suzanne Vega, da New York a Roma a ritmo di folk

Monica Straniero(July 20, 2022)

L’artista pop che negli anni ’80 inaugurò una nuova stagione del cantautorato folk al femminile, si è esibita alla Casa del jazz di Roma per la sua unica data italiana

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Maneskin, the Italian band break the rules of Rock & Roll

Monica Straniero(July 27, 2023)

After Måneskin's concert had sold out in Rome and in Milan, we can state that they are the first Italian rock band break through at this levels

Life & People

Umbria. Exploring Italy’s Greenest Spot

Virginia Di Falco(January 13, 2021)

Rich in environmental, cultural, and gastronomic diversity, Italy’s greenest region offers tourists unforgettable experiences.

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Natalie Portman a Roma per il nuovo film Marvel

Monica Straniero(July 08, 2022)

A proposito del suo ruolo nel film "Thor< Love and Thunder, l'attrice tiene a precisare che queste figure di donne come eroine non dovrebbe sorprenderci, dovrebbe essere la norma

Art & Culture

Venice Against the Grain

Dominique Fernandez(April 12, 2021)

With so many possible ways to visit Venice, we decided to take you for a tour that runs against conventional views of the city.

Facts & Stories

The Truth as Told by Sicilian Women

Edvige Giunta(July 07, 2021)

Interview with Sicilian writer Giusy Sciacca about her latest book, Virità: femminile singolare-plurale

Dining in & out: Articles & Reviews

What a Story! The Italian Way to Say ‘I LOVE You’

G. M.(January 31, 2021)

Baci, the most famous Italian praline in the world has a secret. Or two. With each and every one you’ll find a love note inspired by a real love story. Few people know that behind this small piece of chocolate there is a great woman who, incidentally, was also a renowned stylist: Luisa Spagnoli. This is her story.

Art & Culture

Gargano: An Intriguing Spot in Apulia

Goffredo Palmerini(June 11, 2021)

A journey through the “spur of Italy’s boot,” tracing the path of transhumance in discovery of ancient and evocative sites. The journey begins in Abruzzo and passes through Molise before reaching the rolling hills of Tavoliere delle Puglie, where you will find the Gargano Promontory overlooking the sea. A place of wonderful little villages, ancient cathedrals and deep spirituality, today Gargano is a flourishing tourist destination – a seaside resort with an artistic and gastronomic itinerary of exceptional interest.

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Tell it like a woman, al Taormina Film Fest il coraggio delle donne

Monica Straniero(July 01, 2022)

Al Taormina Film Fest, in anteprima mondiale, 7 cortometraggi internazionali, girati e interpretati da sole donne, basati su storie vere e non.

Art & Culture

“No Name”: Sicilian Singer Francesca Incudine Evokes the Memory of the Triangle Fire

Edvige Giunta(March 24, 2021)

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Brunori Sas a Roma, una festa in musica

Monica Straniero(July 01, 2022)

Sold out per l'artista calabrese che dopo due anni di stop, torna con un lieve dei suoi migliori brani

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Tiziano Ferro torna in tour negli stadi italiani

Monica Straniero(June 20, 2023)

A sei anni di distanza dall’ultimo tour, Tiziano Ferro torna finalmente nei principali stadi italiani

Tourism: Articles

Cilento: Home to the Mediterranean Diet

Virginia Di Falco(January 03, 2021)

It's been that way for centuries... and now a new slow food "presidia": Casalbuono Beans

Art & Culture

When Rome Was Italy’s Film and Fashion Capital

Stefano Dominella(January 21, 2021)

From Florence on down, craftsmanship reigns. Up north is the reign of finance, industry, and media, with Milan at the helm. And at the center presides Rome, like a classy patrician, the ancient capital of Italian couture. Leading us on this first...

Facts & Stories

Eataly Expands To North Texas in Dallas

The authentic Italian culinary destination safely opened their very first Texas location in NorthPark Center

Focus in Italiano

Roberto Bolle e la magia della danza a Roma

Monica Straniero(July 15, 2022)

Accompagnato dai migliori protagonisti della danza internazionale: Roberto Bolle & i suoi Friends si sono esibiti in tre serate eccezionali alle Terme di Caracalla

Art & Culture

Books. Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream

Italy as a haven of gay liberty: a grand tour with Oscar Wilde, featuring previously unseen photographs and archival materials. Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream 1875-1900 by Renato Miracco, Philip Kennicott

Art & Culture

PAROLE PAROLE - La parola della settimana - FIASCO

Casa Italiana Zeilli-Marimò(October 09, 2020)

An Italian word, be it old, new, out of use, impossible to translate, strange, quintessentially Italian, or used all around the world. It features famous guests of Casa Italiana, as well as students, professors and Casa members.

Intervista a Emanuele Mengotti, regista di Red Sky at Night

Arte e Cultura

Al Biografilm Festival la fine del sogno americano

Monica Straniero(May 06, 2022)

Intervista al regista di red Sky at Night di Emanuele Mengotti

Focus in Italiano

A New York una rassegna dedicata alla filmografia di Dario Argento

Dal 17 al 29 giugno nella Grande Mela, anteprima mondiale della Retrospettiva dei suoi film restaurati, un tour internazionale che toccherà anche Parigi, Los Angeles e gran parte degli Stati Uniti e un libro

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Francis Ford Coppola protagonista del Taormina Film Fest

ll Padrino in versione restaurata alla presenza del regista americano apre un'edizione che celebra il grande cinema, il talento femminile e i premi Oscar

Art & Culture

Frida Kahlo, Beyond the Myth

Monica Straniero(November 25, 2019)

Between suggestive reconstruction, letters, diaries, and private confessions, Giovanni Troli’s documentary reveals the essence of a double-sided icon.

Focus in Italiano

Venice Immersive: Victoria Bousis shares about her immersive film

Elena Dal Forno(September 26, 2022)

At the Venice Film Festival, we discovered the extraordinary story of Pin Yathay and spoke with the director about the immersive experience

Art & Culture

Roma: Travel Tales for Beauty Lovers

The Eternal City has been a source of inspiration for artists of all times. On March 11th, join for a one-of-a-kind historical, artistic, and emotional virtual tour of Rome as seen through the creations of Bulgari

Facts & Stories

The first Annual Scholarship to Italian American Students Who Exemplify the Values and Determination of Dr. Fauci

Focus in Italiano

Francis Ford Coppola apre il Taormina Film Festival

Il regista americano presenterà al Teatro Antico la versione restaurata de "Il padrino"

Life & People

NIAF Mourns the Passing of Former Board Member Jeffrey M. Capaccio (Washington, D.C. – March 24, 2021)

Jeff Capaccio’s passion for Italy and Italian American heritage was astounding,” said NIAF Chairman Patricia de Stacy Harrison. “His tireless effort to promote Italian and Italian Americans in hi-tech and innovation truly empowered exceptional leadership in our community and was of extraordinary value to our Board of Directors. The NIAF family is deeply saddened by this untimely loss. He will always be admired and remembered.”

Art & Culture

“No Name”: Sicilian Singer Francesca Incudine Evokes the Memory of the Triangle Fire

Edvige Giunta

We do not meet on the island where we were born, the island that after thirty-seven years in the United States I still call home, the island of her music. We do not meet at a bar on the lungomare of my hometown of Gela or in Aci Castello, another place in Sicily I call home, or in her native Enna, the navel of Sicily. Instead, we meet on Zoom, the salotto of COVID times: 4:00 in the afternoon for her, 10:00 in the morning for me. Women, the women who are no longer with us, bridge the time/space divide. They are the women she calls “dark fallen comets” in her song “No Name,” a mournful chant for the Triangle workers, twenty-four of them fellow women islanders, Sicilians who left the island at the beginning of the twentieth century for the mythical “Merica,” only to find death in the fire that burned the Triangle Waist Company in New York City on March 25, 1911.

Art & Culture

Naples: Three Cities in One Beauty, Grandeur, and Mystery

Virginia Di Falco

Facts & Stories

The first Annual Scholarship to Italian American Students Who Exemplify the Values and Determination of Dr. Fauci

DR. ANTHONY S. FAUCI SCHOLARSHIP – CREATED FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH FIELDS – NOW ACCEPTING APPLICANTS. Columbus Citizens Foundation to award the first $25,000 Annual Scholarship to Italian American Students Who Exemplify the Values and Determination of Dr. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden

Facts & Stories

Giorno della Memoria 2021. A Long 'Digital Day' in New York

January 27, 2021 will mark twenty years since the first commemoration of Giorno della Memoria (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Italy. In New York, each year, the Consulate General of Italy has held the ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories. This year, due to the pandemic, there will not be the usual events in person but you can virtually participate many initiatives during the day organized by the Italian Consulate in New York with Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi.

Facts & Stories

Recipe. Sweet “Coal” ... Befana is Coming!

I. I.

On January 6th, children and adults across Italy celebrate the epiphany by stuffing their stockings (and their faces) with various sweet treats, supposedly gifts from “La Befana,” a mythical old lady who comes down the chimney to bring candy to those who have been good and coal to those who misbehaved. But sometimes what looks like a punishment can reveal to be a tasty treat in disguise. That’s exactly the case with “carbone dolce” or sweet coal, for which you will find a recipe below.

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Italy: man sets himself on fire in protest against illegal loans

The head of an anti-racketeering organisation in Italy has set himself on fire in a protest against illegal loans – usually given by criminal organisations.Frediano Manzi doused himself with petrol in front of the Milan headquarters of Italian media company RAI, to whom he had written a letter about why he was taking such extreme measures.

Source: Euro News

Silvio Berlusconi's brother labels Mario Balotelli 'little black boy'

Not for the first time Mario Balotelli, who plays for one of Europe's biggest soccer teams AC Milan, is in the spotlight again.The Italian international is the focus of racially charged remarks made by Milan vice president Paulo Berlusconi, the younger brother of former prime minister and team owner Silvio Berlusconi.

Source: CNN

Italy's Bersani faces choice between Monti and leftist ally

The leader of Italy's center-left Democratic Party is facing pressure to ditch his leftist allies and seek a pact with outgoing premier Mario Monti as a resurgent Silvio Berlusconi threatens to spoil an election victory that once seemed assured.

Source: the reuters

Gay Italian Couple Share Their Love Story, Plans To Marry In New York

An Italian gay couple -- Stefano and Federico -- will make their way across the ocean to New York to get married on Feb. 14 after being together for 11 years. The couple posted a beautiful video on YouTube yesterday, sharing signs in Italian (with English captions) of how the two met and fell in love.

Source: THE HUFFINGTON POST

talian police have arrested a former restorer of Pompeii on corruption charges and are investigating five others, including the former commissioner appointed to deal with the increasing degradation of the historic site. Italy declared a state of emergency in 2008 at Pompeii after archaeologists and art historians complained about the poor upkeep of the crumbling site, pointing to mismanagement and lack of investment.

Source: THE GUARDIAN

Slippers linked to Napoleon sister

A pair of slippers left in a museum collection for more than 140 years have been identified as those of Napoleon Bonaparte's sister. The tiny silk and leather shoes were left to the University of Aberdeen as part of a collection by Robert Wilson, a doctor who graduated from the university before travelling the world.

Source: BELFAST TELEGRAPH

Falstaff/Nabucco, La Scala, Milan, review

La Scala’s decision to open its Verdi-Wagner season with Lohengrin unleashed a well-publicised storm in an espresso cup. The next two productions of its season, however, shift the balance back onto Verdi. Both are joint efforts with, among others, the Royal Opera House: Robert Carsen’s Falstaff was unveiled in London in May 2012 before arriving in Milan last month.

Source: THE TELEGRAPH

Film-maker accuses Italian government of censorship after premiere is called off

He was persona non grata in Italy during the reign of Silvio Berlusconi, who was so irked by the Economist's unrelenting criticism that he gave its then editor the rather unlikely title of The E-Communist. But the British author and journalist Bill Emmott proved on Friday that, even after Berlusconi's departure from Palazzo Chigi, he still appeared to have the ability to cause a stir.

Source: THE GUARDIAN

Meet the comedian-turned-political crusader who is shaking up Italy

Beppe Grillo is a cultural, physical and political phenomenon. The burly 64-year-old former accountant has been Italy’s most popular comedian, blogger and anti-corruption activist. Now, as Italians prepare to vote on Feb. 24 and 25, the bearded showman is shaking up the national election campaign as the public face of the Five Star Movement (M5S).

Source: THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Versace is not for sale

Rumours that Santo Versace's 30 per cent share in the global fashion brand is for sale are, according to the man himself, unfounded. "I haven't spoken to anyone about selling my shares and I am not interested in doing so. My stake is not for sale," Versace told an Italian newspaper on Tuesday.

Source: THE TELEGRAPH

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Travis Scott, a sorpresa il concerto al Circo Massimo

Monica Straniero(August 05, 2023)

Travis Scott torna in Italia dopo poco più di un mese per un evento storico il 7 agosto al Circo Massimo! È la prima data in assoluto dopo il lancio del film “Circus Maximus”, sceneggiato dal rapper, e del tanto atteso album “Utopia”, usciti...

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Nastri d’Argento 2023. Trionfo per “La stranezza” di Andò e “Rapito” di Bellocchio

Monica Straniero(June 22, 2023)

Il regista di Rapito ha sbancatoi Nastri d'Argento, portandosi a casa ben sette premi.

Fatti e Storie

A NEW YORK MUORE MARIO FRATTI, TRA I PIU’ GRANDI DRAMMATURGHI AL MONDO

Goffredo Palmerini(April 15, 2023)

Aquilano d’origine, 95 anni, è deceduto nella sua casa nei pressi di Broadway, assistito dalla figlia Valentina

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