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The Ameglia community and La Spezia anti-fascism remembered the 80th anniversary of the Nazi massacre at Punta Bianca. It was March 26, 1944: the victims were fifteen American soldiers of the Oss, the corps employed for special operations. The members of the commandos were chosen from among soldiers with family origins in the target countries of th...

On April 1, at 6:30 pm., at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, a group of doctoral students will come together to present Italian poetry of Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, Michelangelo, Tasso, Foscolo, and Leopardi up to Campana and Luzi.  The studies by students from various American universities,  establish stratified associations with diverse disciplines. T...

The Trevi Fountain is one of the most renowned and celebrated attractions of the Eternal City. The scene featuring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in Federico Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita certainly boosted its hype from the 1960s onwards. The Trevi Fountain is a melting pot of Roman history, mythology, and architecture that draws over 5 milli...

L'Artigiano, synonymous in Italy with creamy, flavorful gelato and a long history in the region of Umbria, is making its debut in the United States in the same city that so many Italians have called home for generations — New York. Officially launching across 12 retailers at over 400 locations in the New York City metro area, L'Artigiano is now ava...

To this day virtually everyone in the United States has heard of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Even those not expert or passionate about the Western frontier era recognize him as one of the most iconic figures of American history. Buffalo Bill also remains fairly well known throughout Europe, for the Iowa-born scout turned showman extraord...

From the 1960s to the 1980s, the Italian film industry was booming. Dramas, comedies, no matter the genre, there were so many films coming out of Rome that it was jokingly referred to as Hollywood on the Tiber. Films often mirrored the key issues of the day including changing mores, social unrest or political terrorism.   Now half a century later,...

A new Tibetan bridge, billed as the highest in Europe, was inaugurated on Saturday over the Vigi valley in the central Italian region of Umbria. The structure, which is suspended 175 metres above the valley floor, is more than 517 metres long with 1,023 steps. It takes the intrepid visitor between half an hour and 45 minutes to walk across the susp...

Just a couple of videos on social media were enough to intrigue and push many people, especially from Northern Italy, to try Gelà Monfrà, the meat ice cream made in Piedmont. "People even travel fifty kilometers to taste it; they've come from Milan specifically, and even a group from the surrounding area of Pavia," explains Alessio Macchia, the cre...

As it did for most people who spent time in the Willamette Valley, Nick’s Italian Cafe quickly wove its way into Thomas Ghinazzi’s life. After his daughter was born in 2014, the year he moved to Oregon, his parents brought Nick’s takeout to the hospital. Nick’s was the first place he and his wife ate out after getting married. And it was the obviou...

Volcanic ash rained down, followed by a fiery flood of pyroclastic rock and toxic gas; the noonday was cast into darkness. Where only moments before a normal August afternoon had been underway, now lay mayhem and devastation. The opulent villas, commoners’ homes and shops, bakeries, artisan laboratories, food vendors’ stalls …all were buried under...

Dr. Pacchioni’s book The Image of the Puppet in Italian Theater, Literature, and Film (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) has received the Nancy Staub Award for Excellence in Publications on the Art of Puppetry from the Union Internationale de la Marionnette (UNIMA), USA. The award is meant to honor books, articles, or dissertations that are exempla...

How would you describe an emotion? Well, we picture it like this: the intense and deep blue of the sea, a cliff full of vitality and colors, the lightheartedness of the boats docked side by side in the port, all of this under the suggestive and majestic shadow of a promontory on which stands a magical village framed in the spectacular setting of th...