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Albert Russell Ascoli, Terrill Dis-tinguished Professor, teaches in the Department of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley. His principal field of research and teaching is Medieval and Early Modern Italian culture from the 13th to the 16th centuries.   He is the author of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge University Press, 2008).&nb...

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by Tony Bravo   With real estate at a premium in San Francisco, there's been a lot of creative repurposing of spaces in the city of late, especially in the arts. This was evident at the grand reopening of the Italian Cultural Institute (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) on Wednesday in Opera Plaza.   Previously in North Beach, this center...

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By Mauro Battocchi   United Ventures, la più grande società di Venture Capital italiana dedicata alle tecnologie digitali, ha annunciato un round di investimenti di tipo A di 4 milioni di dollari per supportare Cloud4Wi nella sua espansione internazionale, a San Francisco. Un bell'esempio di come il software italiano abbia la qualita' per cr...

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Hoping to revitalize its brand, A.G. Ferrari Foods hired a new CEO — Jarett Peppard — and is making other changes as it prepares to move into its recently acquired Alameda headquarters next month. Peppard, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America who has more than 20 years experience in the grocery industry, will take over as CEO of the 95-...

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By Mauro Battocchi   It's San Francisco Design Week and today Italy continues its design dance in the limelight with the opening of an exhibition of the great Vico Magistretti's work at the Italian Cultural Institute (814 Montgomery Street) at 6:30PM.   The exhibition, made possible by the Fondazione Studio Museo Vico Magistretti in M...

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Have you ever noticed the jaunty vintage streetcars rolling along Market Street and around the Embarcadero? Have you ever wondered why some of them have foreign identifications on them? That would be because they are vintage streetcars from around the world, including Milan, Italy!   In 1962 San Francisco county voters approved several bond...

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by Roberto Natalini   È passato già circa un mese dai festeggiamenti in occasione della Festa della Repubblica del 2 giugno scorso, ma nella Baia di San Francisco è ancora viva l'emozione di tutta la comunità italiana. La celebrazione di questa ricorrenza storica, particolarmente sentita da tutti i nativi italiani residenti all'estero, ha v...

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by Catherine Accardi   Recently, our own San Francisco Italian Consul General, Mauro Battocchi posted an interesting observation in his San Francisco, Italy blog at www.sanfranciscoitaly.com. Mauro has noticed an increased interest in all things Italian in the San Francisco Bay Area. He calls this welcomed phenomenon the "Italian Cultural Sp...

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Since the Middle Ages, the Italian port city of Genoa (Genova) has been one of the most important commercial hubs of Europe and the Mediterranean. Both its history and current commitment to innovation make her particularly close to San Francisco – not only because they are both port cities with strong maritime culture and traditions, but becau...

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L'anno 2013 è stato dichiarato dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri "l'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti". Anche la città di San Francisco si appresta ad ospitare una serie di eventi inaugurali che marcano l'inizio di una manifestazione di così ampia rilevanza ed importanza. L'inaugurazione ufficiale si terrà il prossimo Mercoledì 12 Dice...

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