Vacanze in famiglia: come evitare la folla e scoprire sia l’Italia storica sia quella moderna? La meta da non perdere è l’Emilia Romagna, con le prelibatezze di Parma (dal Prosciutto al Parmigiano), i mosaici paleocristiani di Ravenna, Bologna con la sua avvincente storia raccontata dal Museo della Città e ancora l’arte con la A maiuscola a Ferrara...

In the south of Kansas City on a corner of 43rd Avenue there is an Italian restaurant called Cupini’s. Eddie Cupini and his father, Franco, have dedicated nearly 15 years to serving the best pasta in town – “Just like my mom used to make,” says Franco – and earning a few awards along the way. But soon they will be leaving behind the restaurant and...

Rome’s Spanish Steps are famous around the globe. As too are Venice’s stepped bridges crossing her countless canals. And the Vatican Museum’s Bramante spiral stairway is one of the most photographed in the world. But Italy is also home to many more historic staircases. From Michelangelo’s Florentine work of art to Rome’s biblical centerpiece to Sic...

Il seminario “Il Mercato del Texas: opportunità per le PMI laziali” si svolgerà il 2 novembre 2017 presso la sede di Lazio Innova in Via Marco Aurelio, 26 a Roma. Il seminario sarà focalizzato sui seguenti settori economici: energia/meccanica, scienze della vita, ICT, agroalimentare, aerospazio. Saranno inoltre analizzati gli elementi che possono d...

Ciao from Roma, Trinity! This semester, I have the incredible opportunity, along with 19 other Bantams, to spend the Fall semester at Trinity’s Rome Campus in Italy. Deciding to study abroad was certainly not an easy choice for me. I perfectly t the Urban Dictionary definition of a homebody; “a person who enjoys the warmth and simple pleasures of...

The Library of Congress got an Italian-Jewish present, brought all the way from Rome by its chief rabbi. Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni of the Roman Jewish community on Monday (Oct. 23) presented the library the first volume of the first Talmud to be printed in Italy in 500 years. The Talmud, a book of Jewish law compiled from the 3rd to 6th centuries A.D...

Full disclaimer: Carbonara is a no more deserving subject for this article than amatriciana or cacio e pepe, both of which you should absolutely order in Rome (do Da Francesco for amatriciana, and Flavio Valevodetto for cacio e pepe). But carbonara's popularity Stateside—plus an American-slanted back story—makes it the one dish you never want to mi...

A semester abroad changed the very course of Michelle Bufano’s life. Bufano, executive director of Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, was a science major at Marquette University, on track to become a speech pathologist. When a study abroad opportunity arose during her junior year, she jumped at the chance. Off she went to Rome. Once there, she im...

The fourth edition of the Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar (IDSSS) will take place June 11-29, 2018, at Roma Tre University. This three-week summer program is designed to introduce participants (advanced graduate and/or doctoral students and professors) to cultural studies of the Italian Diaspora from a variety of academic perspectives and t...

During the last two years, also thanks to the many excavations for major urban works, numerous archaeological finds of great importance have re-emerged in Rome. The C line of the Roman subway has arrived near the historic center and even before entering the circle of the Aurelian Walls, the route excavated by the moles has brought to light several...