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I often realize how much my love for Italy has greatly increased since We the Italians was born, and therefore from the moment I started to tell those who live in America about my country. I found that it doesn't just happen to me. Luca Cottini is a fantastic Italian who teaches at Villanova University, in Pennsylvania. He perfectly embodies all th...

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Wednesday June 15th, 2022, 6:30 pm. Ethical Society, 906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103. This event is FREE. Dear Friends, In collaboration with the Italian Consulate in Philadelphia, PI-Philly is happy to invite you to the “Art & Innovation Series.” Professor Luca Cottini will hold the first conversation: The Italian Renaissance & cont...

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The new episode of Italian Innovators is dedicated to Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello (1906-1969), pioneer of Italian studies in America, war hero, journalist and scholar. He was the mind behind the naming of the Verrazzano bridge in New York City and a major architect of Italy’s cultural Renaissance in the United States in the aftermath of WWII. His...

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The new episode of Italian Innovators is conversation with Luigi Crema (associate professor of international law at the University of Milan) on the Italian legal system and constitution. We observed Italian law from a historical, juridical, and cultural perspective. We examined the making of Italy’s constitution and the current state of its democra...

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In the new episode of the show I tell you the story of Giovanni Battista Ceirano, the man behind the birth of Fiat and Italy’s automotive industry. It all started in his bicycle workshop at the time of Turin’s national exposition in 1898, when he assembled the “Welleyes” car, the first ever produced in Italy. It was in a nearby café that a group of...

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Chapman University is presenting Design & Culture: An Italian Perspective in association with Musco Center Present which will be held at the Musco Center for the Arts on 1 University Drive, Orange, California on Saturday, April 23 at 10:30 am. This celebration of Italian design and culture, exploring the vitality, beauty, and complexity of Italy’s...

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The new episode of the show is a fascinating conversation with Simone Cinotto (professor, author, and food scholar at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy) on the reciprocal influences of Italian and American cuisines and the creation of a two-way “transatlantic diet.” We discussed the meanings of “local” and “global” (or “Ital...

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In the new episode of the show I present the story of Pietro Catelli, founder of the globally renowned brand of childcare products Chicco. While investigating his innovative approach to childcare as a complex relational ecosystem at the intersection of medicine, pharmaceutical research, and day-to-day parenting, I also explore his own experience as...

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The new episode of the show marks the beginning of a trilogy of episodes dedicated to the “converging influences” of American and Italian culture in the post-war years. In this first episode, we’ll examine American penetration in Italian society following the Marshall Plan, in the company of Jessica L. Harris, assistant professor of history at Sain...

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This is the story of Ducati, a legendary brand in Italian motorcycling, which started in the 1920s from the work of the radio pioneer Adriano Cavalieri Ducati and developed after the war with the creative design of visionary engineer Fabio Taglioni. So how did the greatest Italian manufacturer of radio parts become the most important producer of mo...

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