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President and CEO Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR'84, will reflect on the history and preservation strategy that were key to the rebuilding of the American Academy in Rome, as she prepares to step down after 25 years at the helm. Adele Chatfield-Taylor, President and CEO of the American Academy in Rome, is an historic preservationist. She was directo...

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The day Riccardo receives a phone call, his sister - Irene - is only a bothersome thought, a memory angrily chased away. He has never forgiven her for writing about him in the novel that made her famous. Now, Irene is in a coma and Riccardo finds himself having to spend time by her side.   It is the story of a man's transformation, a tale of...

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by Dolores Alfieri   In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak to author Maria Laurino, who has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, and whose essays are widely anthologized. Her first memoir, Were You Always an Italian?, (W.W. Norton, 2000) was a national bestseller and explored the issue of ethni...

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by Sara Tracey   Decades ago, on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, Theresa DiSpirito drove her dad, Henry, to Utica College. He never could drive himself – the Italian immigrant never got a driver's license. Henry DiSpirito, the sculpting artist-in-residence for the college for 32 years and a constant perfectionist, needed to work. It didn't...

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Umberto Eco's "Numero Zero," a best-seller in the novelist's native Italy, will come out in the U.S. this fall. On Monday, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced a Nov. 3 release date for Eco's story of a ghostwriter in Milan caught up in an underworld of crime and conspiracy. Eco is known for his complex plots, and his publisher said the latest...

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The Italian Heritage Society of the Monterey Peninsula recently released their new book "Italian Fishing Families of Monterey", a work that is written by fishermen, their families and friends. The purpose of the 302-page book is to preserve the history of the Italian fishing community of Monterey. Impressively, the Italian Heritage Society has co...

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Former Ramsey mayor Richard Muti's fourth book "Essays for my Father: A legacy of passion, politics, and patriotism in small-town America" has been named a 2013 USA Best Book Awards finalist in the Anthologies: Non-Fiction category.   "Essays for my Father" is a collection of Muti's essays about Chris Christie and Jersey-style politics, unne...

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L'Italia, a fronte di un debito pubblico elevato che negli ultimi anni è comunque cresciuto meno che altrove, ha un indebitamento privato molto basso, la metà di quello di Francia e Regno Unito. Secondo uno studio di servizi professionali alle imprese (Kpmg) il "Made in italy" è il terzo marchio più conosciuto al mondo, dopo Coca Cola e Visa. &nbs...

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"Pensate a fumetti misti a fotografie di grandi attori e attrici degli anni '50 e '60 in Italia, strettamente intrecciati e dedicati a storie d'amore strazianti.   Ne deriva il fotoromanzo, un genere tutto italiano che ha goduto di enorme popolarità in Italia del dopoguerra e può ancora contare su un devoto - anche se ridotto - numero di let...

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"The crux of all of Italy's problems," wrote the great Italian journalist Luigi Barzini in his 1964 classic, The Italians, "is why did Italy, a land notoriously teeming with vigorous, wide-awake and intelligent people, always behave so feebly? Why was she invaded, ravaged, sacked, humiliated in every century, and yet failed to do the simple things...

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