Italian cuisine: Seasonal Italian Fruit Torte
Springtime calls for lighter desserts that take advantage of seasonal bounty. This traditional Italian cake is a favorite of my family, and I love to make it with whatever fresh fruit I have on hand. Light and airy, it’s a great way to start the day sweetly as Italians do or to end a meal with authentic Italian flair. All across the northern Medite...
Italian sport: Piero D'Inzeo, the horse wisperer
One hundred years ago, a sports legend was born in Rome. He still holds a number of records that are impossible to equal, together with his brother. It was March 4, 1923, and in a hospital in Italy's capital city, Piero D'Inzeo, the greatest horseman in Italian history, was born along with his younger brother Raimondo, who was born two years after...
Italian books: The Leopard
The Leopard – Il Gattopardo, in Italian – is a book published in 1958 and written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957). The author didn’t live to see his work printed and made public as it came out a year after his death and in its full edition in 1969. The book gained immediate success and was awarded the Strega prize in 1959. Against the b...
Italian entertainment: Italy & the "drama" Saints. How the Holy Spirit tells their story in a journey through the Italian TV fiction. Part 2 of 2
Let's keep rolling in our journey through the lives of some "special" Christian people, some Italians who have responded 100% to The Call. As anticipated in the introduction to Part one, for their work in the world, Christians always identify themselves and act as sons and daughters of God the Father, who generates them in spiritual life (through B...
Italian lifestyle and fashion: The Italian Gentleman’s Wardrobe. A guide by Sartoria Carfora. Part 2, Summer
After the spring solstice, the sun's rays in our hemisphere increase at an accelerating rate. This acceleration awakens the energy that was dormant during the long winter. In the streets, not only the green of the trees but also the gray of the buildings no longer look the same. Everyone can, somehow, feel it. Regarding summer, it is fascinating to...
Italian little Italies: Sambuca di Sicilia. The fortress of Al-Zabut
The town's urban development follows two lines: the Arab one "inside the walls," which is projected through the sixteenth century with the thickening of residences around the fortress of Zabut, and the seventeenth-eighteenth-century one "outside the walls," with the town hall acting as a hinge. The tour begins at the 19th-century L'Idea theater at...
Italian cinema: Giancarlo Giannini
Just a little over a month ago, a new star has been added to the sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard: it's the one dedicated to the multi-award winner and Oscar nominated Italian actor and screenwriter Giancarlo Giannini who has also lent his voice to Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, as an established voice actor. Winner also of four David di Donatello Aw...
KEFA, an Italian story. A watch is not worn, IT IS OWNED
Dear friends and readers of We The Italians we are once again pleased to tell you, on the threshold of the NIAF Gala 2023, about another chapter in the history of Italian KEFA, which we have been following for some time now. This time we will give the floor to Cav. Gianluigi Di Lorenzo co-founder and creative soul of KEFA. "Dear friends and readers...
Italian culture and history: The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua
Padua’s Scrovegni Chapel is, without a doubt, an artistic masterpiece. Built on the dime and ambition of a powerful usurer, Enrico Scrovegni, the Chapel was adorned with the frescoes of Giotto, who dedicated himself to the project for 855 days between the years 1302 and 1305. Purposed as the Scrovegni Family’s personal chapel and to be annexed to i...
An Italian American in Rome: Gigi Betti, a girl from California, pursuing her dream in Rome
Gianna Betti, referred to as Gigi, is a young Italian American soccer player who is making a name for herself in the competitive world of Italian soccer. Gigi was born and raised right outside of San Francisco, California, to an Italian American father and an American mother. Gigi's passion for soccer has been a constant throughout her life, and th...
Italian design: The Situation of Italian Design Today
Design has always been a princely ambassador of Made in Italy. Companies in our country for decades through Design have been transmitting, everywhere in the World, a modern and exciting concept of Italian-ness. Design is also a phenomenon undergoing rapid and profound transformation, which sees at the same time its use spreading and the breadth of...
Italian flavors: Mortadella Bologna
The origins of Mortadella Bologna are to be found in the area of ancient Etruscan Felsina and the Bonomia of the Gallic Boii, places rich in oak forests that provided tasty acorns for the numerous local swine, both wild and domesticated. There are two theories regarding the origin of the name: one is that it derives from “murtatum”, meaning meat fi...