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Wednesday, May 7 · 6 – 8pm. Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway New York, NY. Free entrance, RSVP HERE. International bestselling author and journalist Aldo Cazzullo presents his brilliantly researched history of the Roman Empire and its infinite legacy, followed by a signing. This event will be in English. “The only way to narrate over a thousand yea...

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Publisher Smith Street Books released “Mangia: How to Eat Your Way Through Italy” worldwide in March 2025, offering readers a passport to Italy’s 20 distinct regions, each with its own culinary dialect. The author, Maria Pasquale, is an award-winning food journalist with over a decade of immersion in Italian culture. She has crafted a work that goe...

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Event date: The May 14 2025, 18:00 (Local time) - Place: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - For a fee: No Antonio Fava, Maestro of Commedia dell’arte, will present his book “Vita Morte e Resurrezione di Pulcinella” (Pulcinella’s Life, Death and Resurrection) at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with Laughing Stock Th...

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Lucinda Scala Quinn’s new book, “Mother Sauce” highlights Italian American family recipes and the women who created them, offering a tribute to the culinary contributions of immigrant women. The book delves into the history of Italian American cooking, focusing on the stories of women who immigrated to the United States and used their kitchens as c...

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Dear Friends of Italian Innovators, I am happy to share with you that my new book The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919 is officially out with University of Toronto Press! The book explores the cultural, political, and industrial ascent of the United States at the turn of the 20thcentury from an Italian perspective. It documents the debate on...

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Los Angeles still has bookstores. Not a lot of them, mind you, but they exist. On a recent visit home, I met a friend at The Last Bookstore in downtown L.A. (Yes, Los Angeles has a downtown, too) and spent some time browsing the shelves of new and used books about the city. I found some treasures—John Gregory Dunne’s Monster, Carey McWilliams’s Sou...

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The book "Soldati e patrie: I combattenti alleati di origine italiana nella Seconda guerra mondiale" by Matteo Pretelli and Francesco Fusi (Bologna: il Mulino 2022) won the 2025 “Willi Paul Adams Award” for the best book on American history published in a language other than English. The Organization of American Historians is one the main organizat...

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When British and American troops entered Naples on Oct. 1, 1943, they became the new rulers of hundreds of thousands of half-starved civilians and a broken city. Before withdrawing, the German occupiers had conducted a punctilious three-week campaign of sabotage and theft. They looted all the food and fuel. They blew up the city’s gas, water and se...

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When: Tuesday, April 29 from 7 to 9:30 pm - Where: Casa Belvedere – The Italian Cultural Foundation - Costs: $15 members / $25 non-members Anthony Florio was a batboy for the New York Yankees from 1962 to 1964. He will speak about his book “Yankee Batboy, From Lil’ Italy to Yankee Stadium,” sharing stories about growing up in Little Italy in New Yo...

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Born in New Jersey to an Italian American family, journalist and writer Maria Laurino has published several books about the identity and experience of Italian immigrants and their descendants in the U.S. (most notably the companion volume to theThe Italian Americans, the PBS documentary series directed by John Maggio), with specific attention to th...

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