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Italian Women

Italy celebrates Women's Day

Judith Harris

On March 8, Italy celebrates International Women's Day with sprigs of mimosa. You can see the scented yellow clusters everywhere -- on lapels, in shop windows, and car...

Part I: Moira Orfei and Other Brilliant Italian Women

Judith Harris

On Nov. 15 beautiful Moira Orfei died in Brescia at age 84, plunging many Italians into a special kind of nostalgic mourning. A circus kid, she flew on a trapeze, appeared in 34...

Fiat's "Seduction" Super Bowl Ad: the Same Old Postcard from Italy?

Francesca Giuliani

Fiat 500 Abarth's Ad has boosted the traffic to the model-related webpages: sex still sells, even if American ladies are #NotBuyingIt on Twitter. When comparing Fiat/Chrysler's...

Italian Women in fiction: from “La Scapigliatura” to Lisa Scottoline...“You’ve come a long way baby!”

Tom Verso

Southern-Italian American students have (albeit very limited) opportunity to study female representations in Italian Renaissance literature and in Italian American literature. ...

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