NEWS FROM : ITALY  

The Association of the Celebrations of the Big Shoulder-borne Processional Structures was born in 2006 and includes four Italian religious feasts (the Santa Rosa Machine in Viterbo, the Gigli Feast in Nola, the Varia of Palmi and the Faradda di li Candareri in Sassari). Since 2013 this group is into the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by U...

The eight-part Italian miniseries, The War Is Over, airing on MHz Choice is so moving that it compelled me to dig deeper. The closing credits note that the narrative was adapted from a book, The Children of Selvino: Journey to the Promised Land, by Aharon Megged. Was the TV series faithful to the book? I wanted to find out. The fictional characters...

Barilla America received the Winds of Change Award from the Forum on Workplace Inclusion on March 12, 2021, for demonstrating sustained support for advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace. For 33 years, The Forum has served as a convening hub for those seeking to grow professional leadership and effectiveness skills in the field of DEI b...

It was a goddess that inspired Sunny Bertollini to move to Italy. The 50-year-old herbalist, and her husband, Mark Hinshaw, a 72-year-old retired architect, had been coming to Italy on vacation for years. On one trip, they visited an ancient temple to Salus, a Roman goddess of health and well-being — and Bertollini, who says she has “always been a...

La mostra “Dante ipermoderno. Illustrazioni dantesche nel mondo, 1983-2021” propone un percorso rappresentativo delle fasi più recenti della grande storia delle illustrazioni di opere dantesche in epoca contemporanea. Le nove serigrafie di Tom Phillips uniscono l’immediatezza pop a una raffinata ricerca evocativa, a tratti perfino informale. I dipi...

A group of houses, churches, monasteries and chapels were built into the natural grottos of Murgia, a limestone plateau characterized by deep cracks, ravines, rocks and caverns. These are the characteristics and aspects that have made the Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera UNESCO World Heritage Site. The UNESCO Value in Matera...

Would America have won the Revolutionary War without Benjamin Franklin’s uncanny knack for politics and persuasion? How would things have gone if the American polymath, the tenth son of a poor candle and soap maker originally from England, hadn’t learned how to be tactful in practicing the science of diplomacy in Paris? Would he have been able to s...

Two different ways of (re)viewing Dante. Canticle 21 is the contemporary art project that was launched thanks to a joint effort by MAECI and the Ministry of Culture to promote research regarding the visual arts. Within this initiative, a special section is devoted to the Poet. This section is made up of five projects inspired by Dante’s persona, wo...

The journal Cell Death & Disease (Nature) has published an international study on COVID-19 coordinated by Professors Giuseppe Novelli (University of Tor Vergata – University of Nevada, USA) and Pier Paolo Pandolfi (University of Turin – University of Nevada, USA), in collaboration with the Bambino Gesù Hospital (Rome), Istituto Spallanzani (Rome),...

Italy came top in the European Union for the circular economy for the third year running in 2019, according to a new report from the CEN-Circular Economy Network and alternative energy agency Enea Tuesday. Totting up the points from each sector of the circular economy, Italy was top with 79 followed by France with 68, Germany and Spain with 65 and...

In 1995, Andrea Bocelli entered a singing competition, and the world heard his voice for the first time. Like Pavarotti is to ‘Nessun dorma’, Andrea Bocelli is to ‘Time to Say Goodbye’. But the beloved Italian tenor’s signature song had humble beginnings, with more than a hint of the magic that was to come. Before it became ‘Time to Say Goodbye’, a...

In Palazzo Vecchio in Florence lies a more modern contribution to Italian art. This is the Gucci Garden, created in 2011 by Alessandro Michele, Gucci’s current creative director. The exterior of the structure at first glance looks like many of the other ancient buildings in Florence, but with a baby pink banner hanging from some stones. However, th...