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The Italian Cultural Institute presents: In a Dark Wood -What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love, by Joseph Luzzi Introduction by Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat of NYU with the participation of writers: André Aciman and Alexander Stille   Wednesday, May 27 - 6PMItalian Cultural Institute - 6...

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By Scott Mackay John O. Pastore was a legendary Rhode Island political figure, the son of immigrants and the first Italian-American elected as a governor and a U.S. Senator.   A dominant figure in state politics, Pastore had a distinguished 26-year tenure in the Senate and never lost an election in a long career that began in the doldrums o...

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It is our pleasure to announce the visit of Italian American author, Christopher Castellani! Chris is the recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship award, and we are pleased to have planned a two-part event. Those who register for the book club can read Chris' most recent novel, "All This Talk of Love", and discuss it at the ICC on Thursday, May 29...

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by Briana Palma   Frances Mayes is best known for her memoirs about life as an expatriate in Tuscany, including, of course, Under the Tuscan Sun, the wildly popular book that tells her story of buying and renovating an abandoned villa in the town of Cortona.   After publishing six more books about Italy, among other work, Mayes is bac...

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Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 - NOVEMBER 17, 2015 - 06:00 PM. Siena: City of Secrets (2015, University of Chicago Press) by Jane Tylus   The author in conversation with Millicent Marcus (Yale), Laura Biagi (Vassar College) and Mauro Mussolin (NYU Florence). Jane Tyl...

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The Society for Italian Historical Studies, affiliated with the American Historical Association, again offers a prize of $400 for the Ezio Cappadocia Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript on the history of Italy, of article or dissertation length.   Since the object of the award is to encourage fresh interest in Italian history, the prize is...

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You are cordially invited to attend a unique event dedicated to Italian American Culture and Sports at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, October 23rd.   About the Book: Life is a Great Game is a work of historical fiction based on real people and events in history embedded in a heartwarming, inspiring, and powerful work of fantasy. T...

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Maria Teresa Cometto e Alessandro Piol hanno scritto insieme un bellissimo libro sulle startup a New York, "Tech and the City, un modello per l'Italia", editore Guerini e Associati. Diversamente da altri di questo genere, che pretendono di indicarci l'ubicazione della pietra filosofale, o ci infliggono tediose lezioncine pratiche di management, è u...

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By Sol Park   It's not personal, it's strictly business. In one scene of a new novel by former Brooklyn resident Frank J. Pennisi, a group of Sicilians wielding flaming wine bottles full of gasoline have a confrontation with striking Irish workers on the Red Hook docks.   Giuseppe, one of the main characters in the historically-m...

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Scattered around the steel table of a monastery in the Veneto region of Northern Italy are manuscripts, one with green, red and intensely blue medieval miniatures of dragons, another adorned with ornate leaves culminating in golden flowers.   A monk gently lays an off-white leather book on the table, and opens it at a long letter A drawn in...

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