Bill De Blasio: Honorary Citizen in Sant’Agata Dei Goti
Mayor of New York Bill De Blasio arrived in Sant’Agata Dei Goti, the hometown of his grandparents, where he received an honorary citizenship. Before the ceremony he and his family enjoyed Italian pizza on the beautiful Neapolitan seafront.
Sizzling Summer for Senate and for Silvio
Giorgio Napolitano has pitted the weight of his presidency and his prestige against the delaying tactics that currently tie the Senate into knots. The introduction of 7,800 amendments to the government’s proposals for constitutional reform is already causing “serious damage” to Italy, said Napolitano Wednesday. Meanwhile, former Premier Silvio Berlusconi once again became a major player after an appeals court overturned his seven- year conviction for alleged relations with a minor accused of prostitution.
Schettino accuses Giglio residents of exploiting Costa Concordia departure
As the Costa Concordia shipwreck made its way north on Thursday after successfully departing from Giglio, former captain Francesco Schettino provoked a new furore after accusing people on the island of profiteering from the disaster.
Meriam lands in Rome, meets Pope Francis
Meriam Ibrahim, a Christian woman who was sentenced to death in majority-Muslim Sudan for apostasy before being released in the face of international outrage, landed in Rome on Thursday.
July 24, 2014
Longer Ferie in Italy this Summer
Delay for all non immigrant visa applicants in general and their entry, or reentry to the U.S
La responsabilità fra Cesare e Dio
Il libro di Augias parte dalla sfida riformatrice di Francesco per ripercorrere la storia di un'istituzione segnata da secoli di potere temporale e scandali.
FuturismMusic: la musica futurista del maestro Daniele Lombardi
FuturismMusic: per il ciclo di eventi dedicati alla mostra "Italian Futurism, 1909–1944:Reconstructing the Universe" il pianista e compositore Daniele Lombardi si è esibito la scorsa settimana in un concerto al Guggenheim. Una esibizione costellata di arte visiva, musica e atmosfera futurista.
For Israel and Palestine, musical harmony in Tuscany
For a quarter century the bucolic Tuscan town of La Foce has been the focal point for one of Italy’s many delightful summer festivals of the arts. This week’s festival included a performance attuned to better times—the Polyphony Youth Ensemble under the direction of Saleem Ashkar. Even as the Israelis and Palestinians are at war, the young musicians performing Beethoven and Dvorak are both Israelis and Palestinians, and the goal is to help pave a way toward peace.
Five held in Sicily over boat deaths of migrants
The Italian authorities have arrested five alleged human traffickers on suspicion of the murder of dozens migrants who were either stabbed or perished of engine fume inhalation inside the overcrowded hold of a smuggling boat.
Mafia wiretapped slain judge Borsellino
Palermo, July 22 - The Sicilian Mafia managed to listen into the telephone calls of judge Paolo Borsellino before it slayed him, top boss Totò Riina told a fellow prison inmate in a conversation recorded by the authorities, ANSA sources said.
July 22, 2014
Italian-American Intellectuals … Immigrant Working-Class Revolutionaries vs. Bourgeois Progeny …What Difference a War Makes!
The epitaph carve on the tomb of Tina Modotti reads in part: “…steel and wire combined with snow and pollen to make up your firm and delicate being.” /// /// The combination and juxtaposition of the gentleness and softness of “snow and pollen” with the hardness of “steel and wire” captures the essence of Modotti and Bella Dodd, and more generally the women of their pre-WW II generation. Be they revolutionaries struggling to change their world, or “Hell’s Kitchen” housewives (e.g.
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