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Italy Celebrates Easter

Juidith Harris

This Easter Holy Week is marked by sorrow for the deaths in Spain of young students, including seven Italian girls, in a tragic bus accident, and by the wanton terrorist violence...

Islands of Excellence

Judith Harris

Despite the graft and graffiti, and the New York Times dissing Rome, Italy continues to vaunt countless islands of excellence, where the landscape is unspoiled, the finest of...

Florence & Its Music Scene

Fred Plotkin

Fred Plotkin, one of America's foremost experts on opera, meets with the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella in New York. They discussed his city and its music scene—rich but...

Massimiliano Finazzer Flory: Bringing Leonardo to Life

Natasha Lardera

"Being Leonardo da Vinci," written by and starring Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, depicts the Renaissance Man in all his glory as he is interviewed by a modern day journalist. The...

Il Dolce Suono: Music from Donatello's Florence

Roberta Cutillo

Salon/Sanctuary Concerts offers the New York public the opportunity to “travel” to Medieval Florence, Italy through two extraordinary musical performances featuring an...

Once Lost Leonardo da Vinci Work, Now Found Prior to Being Sold

Cristina Esmiol

One of Leonardo da Vinci’s priceless masterpieces of a Renaissance noblewoman, lost for centuries, found in 2013, then lost once more until being rediscovered this summer....

Falling in Love with NYC’s Italian American Culture

Francine Segan

Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning John Patrick Shanley is best known for his riveting Broadway play Doubt, which he has since rewritten as a screen-play and a movie, as well as...

Do You Speak Espresso?

Francine Segan

Espresso culture in Italy has deep roots. Coffee first appeared in Europe at the port of Livorno, Tuscany, a city that was also home to Europe’s first coffee bar in the early...

Do you love Futurist avant-garde and music?

Mila Tenaglia

Musica Futurista: The largest CD collection focused on the musical contents of the first worldwide avant-garde movement.

David & the Cheap Shot

Bianca Sorminis

The Illinois based company Arma Lite latest advertisement depicting Michelangelo’s David holding a bolt-action rifle, with a caption that describes it as ‘A work of art’,...

Meet Italo, Italy's New High Speed Train - and the First Breach in a Long-Standing Industrial Monopoly

N. L.

It travels at speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour between Milan, Rome and Naples. The new high-speed train is a welcomed novelty featuring innovative features, exclusive...

Springtime Emotions at ENIT New York: Introducing “Aperitivo in Piazza”

Francesca Giuliani

On March 27 ENIT offered an Italian style “Aperitivo,” an occasion for lovers of Italy to come together and better understand the culture and the lifestyle of the boot-shaped...

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