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Thursday, October 19 · 6:30 - 8pm PDT. Tualatin Public Library - 18878 Southwest Martinazzi Avenue Tualatin, OR. Join Italian Portland to meet local author and community historian Tessa Floreano. Pre-order your book, Italians in the Pacific Northwest, and bring it with you to have it signed by the author! Tessa draws primarily on unpublished images...

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The Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) is excited to announce the upcoming staged reading of “Maria Teresa Vaglio: An Italian Mystery” by Donna Inglima. This immigrant story, charged with humor and emotional pain, explores themes of abandonment, family dysfunction, and the resilience of the human spirit. This biographical upstate NY story takes the a...

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Words are not just tools for describing our surroundings; they create intricate worlds within the minds of their creators. Language serves as a vessel for our emotions, memories, and dreams. This concept finds its remarkable embodiment in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities or Le Città Invisibili. Originally published in Italian in 1972 and translated...

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It’s sometimes the fate of a single city to epitomise an era: Berlin in the 1920s, perhaps, or London in the 1960s. So which one would represent our own period of ecological anxiety, true crime and fake news? I’d wager it’s one you might not suspect: Naples. In terms of cultural clout, the place is booming. The city’s famous bay, flanked by Mount V...

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Rome’s most outspoken monument has turned author. That is the premise behind Anthony Di Renzo’s Pasquinades: Essays from Rome’s Famous Talking Statue. Published by Cayuga Lake Books, an independent press in New York State’s Finger Lakes region, this book will be released on Saturday, October 28. A launch and reading will be held that day at 3:00 PM...

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Dear friends, in September I had the pleasure of attending two events in the United States, both very interesting, which saw me together with a friend with whom we are forming a beautiful business partnership, Davide Ippolito. We were in Detroit, guests of the wonderful Italian Consul Allegra Baistrocchi, for the new edition of LoveItDetroit: a fan...

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Zeno’s Conscience (La Coscienza di Zeno) is a book written by Italian author Italo Svevo and published in 1923. The author’s real name was Ettore Schmitz (1861-1928). His father was from Germany and his mother was Italian and before engaging in the literary activity, he studied business in Germany and then in Trieste. His passion and interest for l...

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IN A 1932 INTERVIEW, MARIETTA Sabatini was asked to describe the life of her late employer, Pellegrino Artusi. It was “a continuous alternation,” she said, “between the study and the kitchen; the pen, and the saucepans.” The founder of a successful bank and a longtime resident of Florence, Artusi was a wealthy bachelor who devoted his retirement to...

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There’s an often-stated, invented fact that men think about sex every seven seconds. While psychologists have mostly disproven the fun factoid, TikTok may have helped prove that it’s not sex that men are thinking about at all times but…the Roman Empire. In thousands of posts shared on social media, women have been asking the men in their lives how...

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I have always thought, perhaps driven by my love for the Italian American community and the history of its achievements, that the greatest American athlete of all time is Joe DiMaggio, who belonged to that community. There is obviously no official ranking, everybody has their own, mine sees there at the top a very great Italian American. Someone wh...

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