Newest Bond Film Takes Rome
Sam Mendez, director of the 24th James Bond movie, Spectre, is currently in Rome for a five week shoot. Italian actress, Monica Bellucci, will star alongside Daniel Craig as the oldest ever Bond girl.
A new lease of life for Italy's aqua vitae?
The French have brandy, the Scots and the Irish have whisk(e)y and the Italians have... grappa. Outside Italy it's often been seen as a rough old stomach-burner, and even inside Italy it's not exactly fashionable. But could this ancient drink be on the verge of a revival?
Italy And Vatican City Are On High Alert After Threats From ISIS
The Italian government is on high alert after threats from the Islamic State called Italy “the nation signed with the blood of the cross.” Italy is one of a handful of major Western counties that has not been victim of a large-scale terror assault since the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S.
Antonio Monda Named Rome Film Festival Artistic Director
Following Marco Mueller’s exit from the troubled Rome Film Festival last year, Antonio Monda is stepping in to fill his shoes as the new artistic director.
Similar to Mueller, Monda has both a production and academic background. He is currently an associate professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, lecturing on Italian cinema and Hollywood auteurs
Michelangelo. Agli Uffizi, dentro e fuori
L'ultimo libro di Antonio Natali, Direttore della Galleria degli Uffizi, "Michelangelo. Agli Uffizi, dentro e fuori" (Maschietto Editore) è incentrato su due opere, il Tondo Doni e il David (opera simbolo, come annunciato da pochi giorni, del Padiglione Italia di Expo). Sul David il libro risponde a queste domande (e aiuta a vedere con occhi nuovi l'opera più conosciuta al mondo di Michelangelo)
La tragedia della Montagna. Tra Emigrazione e Storia del lavoro
Nel 50° anniversario, della catastrofe che vide morire 88 lavoratori (56 italiani) addetti al cantiere di costruzione della diga di Mattmark, è stata allestita una Mostra fotografica nella Biblioteca "Giovanni Spadolini" del Senato
After the Barcaccia, What Is To Be done?
The day after it was damaged by drunken Dutch soccer hooligans the Bernini fountain called La Barcaccia – the big boat -- was, like the surrounding Piazza di Spagna itself, spotlessly clean, and a silent, meditative crowd stood behind the new barriers surrounding the fountain, watching the beginning of a restoration. The damaged fountain raises questions about how best to protect Italy’s wealth of monuments. There is no easy answer.
February 23, 2015
"Looking" for Daniel Franzese
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The "out" gay performer is featured in the current season of the HBO series, "Looking."
A Brooklyn-born actor breaks through the Hollywood closet
February 23, 2015
“Italian Signs” of Italian American Scholars: Genovese, Lentricchia, DiLorenzo, Parenti and Paglia … Outsiders – Inside Academia
The work of some of the most renowned Italian American humanities and social science scholars reveals little if any American Italianita – per se. This is to say: humanities scholars, ‘NOT Specializing’ in Italian and Italian American Studies, such as Genovese, Lentricchia, DiLorenzo, Parenti and Paglia, grandchildren of immigrants, raised in Italian American families and communities and having a distinct sense of being Italian. Yet, nothing in their work, if published anonymously, would suggest to the reader that the writer was Italian American.
Letter written in Italian by Albert Einstein defending his theory of relativity and referring to 'God' as a scientific concept s
A letter by Albert Einstein that is unusually written in Italian has fetched £49,000 at auction.
The Austrian genius’s 1925 missive to Italian electrical engineer Giovanni Giorgi defends his 1915 theory of relativity in the face of strong criticism.
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