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We are pleased to announce the next meeting of our Italian Book Club We welcome the Dante Alighieri members and non members to join us in this exciting adventure in the Italian literature.   We are meeting every three months to discuss a book by an Italian Author. The discussion will be in English unless all the participants s...

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"Run away with me: Stories of love and latitudes" is a collection of short stories written by Henry J. Ginsberg and published in the United States by Lighthouse Publisher, New York. The author, Marco Pontoni – who chose the name Henry J. Ginsberg as his pen name –, is a journalist and narrator from Italy with a passion for travels and the explorati...

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YANKEE BATBOY "The Luckiest Kid in New York". From Little Italy to Yankee Stadium... The story of Anthony Florio, an Italian-American that grew up on Mott Street in Little Italy (NYC) and became a batboy for the New York Yankees in the 1960s. Anthony will be presenting his new book "Yankee Batboy - The Luckiest Kid in New York"...

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Publications announces the reissue of Roland Merullo's memoir/travelogue The Italian Summer: Golf, Food, and Family at Lake Como. Called "a colorful, affectionate tour of Italian landscape and food" by Kirkus Magazine and "simply a wonderful read" by BookReporter, it is a charming narrative of a glorious summer of golfing, eating, and learning...

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by Booth Moore   To mark 40 years in fashion, Giorgio Armani has written his autobiography. Part coffee-table book, part memoir, the lavish, 576-page tome titled "Giorgio Armani" (Rizzoli), chronicles his career in his own words.   It uses personal photos and those from runways, red carpets and ad campaigns, along with candid shots...

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by Susan Schwartz Part of what makes Emmy award-winning television host and bestselling Italian cookbook author Lidia Bastianich so popular, even beloved, is that she genuinely wants to empower her viewers and readers to cook well in their own kitchens, to mentor them to "give them the confidence to run in the field of cookery, like I do," she sai...

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Quanta storia c'è dietro un monumento? Com'era cento anni fa la Statua della Libertà? Quanto è cambiata negli anni Madison Square? E Times Square? Che evoluzioni hanno avuto nel corso degli anni? Queste sono le domande a cui ha cercato di dare una risposta Gianluca Rocchi con il suo libro " New York- Ieri e Oggi". Un libro rivolto, come dice lo ste...

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Join the Litchfield Historical Society on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 3 p.m. for a lecture by author Anthony Riccio, who will be discussing his new book Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut. This oral history collection offers new insights into the Italian American experience, told from the women's perspective.   In...

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Richard Vetere is a playwright, novelist, poet, film and TV writer, producer/director, and actor. 11:00 am: Melville Library, Room 4530 (Prof. Carravetta's HUI 338 Class) 3:00 pm: Center for Italian Studies, Frank Melville Memorial Library, Room E4340

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We are excited to announce the publication of Volume 4, Number 1, of the Italian American Review!   The journal features scholarly articles about Italian-American history and culture, as well as other aspects of the Italian diaspora, and embraces a wide range of professional concerns and theoretical orientations in the social sciences and in...

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