Un robot per operare i tumori addominali con gli ultrasuoni
di Giulia Cimpanelli Niente più operazioni chirurgiche invasive per curare i tumori addominali. A consentirlo il progetto «Futura» finanziato dalla Comunità europea e coordinato dai ricercatori italiani della Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa. Che ha sviluppato una piattaforma innovativa che non richiede l'inserimento di aghi o l'uso di b...
Italian yacht MCY 105 is the most innovative (and beautiful) of 2015
Italian manufacturing and craftsmanship continues to gain in strength and prestige as another Italian product wins an award, this time for innovation. In terms of luxury merged with design and innovation, Italy continues to be at the forefront in a number of industries, including those the automotive and naval ones. In fact, in the 2015 Ca...
Lando Simonetti: “The Marketing Man of World Polo”
We interviewed Lando Simonetti, a very successful entrepreneur with never-ending anecdotes during his 30 years as CEO of La Martina and in the polo world. A visionary man down to business. Founder and president of the world's most famous fashion polo brand. We spoke with Lando in his very elegant La Martina boutique in Recoleta, Buenos Aires....
Top Ten Italian Inventions
It's well known that there is a long history of bright Italian inventions, from art and architecture to food and technology. Since the Roman Empire era, the peninsula has been the perfect habitat for creativity, genius and maverick thinkers. Many of you probably remember genius like Donatello or Leonardo Da Vinci or Galileo Galilei, but th...
9 Things You May Not Know About Michelangelo
Painter, sculptor and architect Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Caprese, Italy on March 6, 1475. During a more than 70-year career, he won near-mythical fame as one of Europe's preeminent "Renaissance Men," and counted kings and popes among his many admirers and patrons. Temperamental and brilliant, Michelangelo crafted several masterp...
Celebrating Rollis in Genoa
2016 is a very important year for Genoa, as it marks the first ten-year anniversary from the declaration of Le Strade Nuove e il Sistema dei Palazzi dei Rolli as Unesco world heritage. In order to celebrate the important achievement, this little city in the North-East of Italy has organized three "Rolli Days" in which some of its best and...
Made in Italy in the world: a protocol to promote it and protect it
By Francesca Bezzone In Italy, food means much more than nutrition, it is culture, heritage, tradition. Satisfying all senses at once in a voluptuous embrace, Italian food is impossible to resist. Its variety is legendary and its history rooted deep into that of the country: you eat and you learn, you learn and you eat. That Italian cuisi...
Verrazzano Day il 17 aprile. Quel ponte tra il Chianti e New York
di Ida Bozzi Ogni 17 aprile a New York e a Greve in Chianti si festeggia il Verrazzano Day: qual è il ponte che lega la località toscana con la metropoli americana? È la celebrazione del giorno in cui nel 1524 il navigatore italiano, nato appunto a Greve, Giovanni da Verrazzano, entrò nella Baia di New York con la sua nave, la «Dauphine» (...
A Confindustria report sees signs of recovery for Italy’s Mezzogiorno
There are signs of a recovery. Even in the underdeveloped Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy) the economy is rising again. "One more reason to enhance the functioning of the instruments we already have and to set in motion what's missing," said the vice president of Confindustria (the entrepreneurs' association) for the Mezzogiorno and Regional Policies...
The eight most beautiful Waterfalls in Italy
During his Grand Tour of Italy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited the Roman ruins of Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli and stopped to admire the Grand Waterfall of the Aniene River. He then wrote in his diary, The waterfalls there with the ruins, and the whole complexity of landscapes, are of a class of subjects, acquaintance with which is an enrichment...
Hidden Venice
For a city that's roughly twice the size of NYC's Central Park – bella Venezia has no problem attracting more than 27 million (yes, million) visitors per year. But truth be told, the majority of those travelers tick only St. Mark's Square, the Doge's Palace and Rialto Bridge off their lists, before leaving for the next Italian city on their itinera...
Tacopina mediatore tra Zamparini e cordata italo-Usa
Zamparini chiama. Tacopina risponde. La richiesta «d'aiuto» formulata tre mesi fa dal presidente del Palermo al collega del Venezia, sembra aver prodotto qualche risultato. L'uomo d'affari americano, infatti, pare abbia individuato un gruppo italo-americano seriamente disposto a trattare l'acquisto del Palermo. Il condizionale è d'obbligo,...