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Govt mulls life bans over hooligan shame

The Italian government on Monday said it was mulling lifetime bans for soccer hooligans amid mounting outrage over the latest instance of alleged 'ultra rule' and the worst case of violence in years.
Source: ANSA

Gunfire injures three Naples fans ahead of Italy final

Three Napoli football fans were injured by gunfire in Rome before the Italian cup final between Napoli and Fiorentina, Italian media report.
All three fans were taken to hospital, at least one in a serious condition.
Source: BBC News

New York, dove il calcio italiano è di casa

Luca Martano

Fra ospiti illustri, spettacoli, bar e ristoranti sempre “sold out”, i tifosi italiani hanno potuto vivere a pieno la loro passione anche a distanza. E il Mondiale è alle porte…

Il Calcio che vogliamo

Mico Delianova Licastro

Un commento a caldo, ma molto razionale e condivisibile, a seguito degli avvenimenti allo Stadio Olimpico della finale di Coppa Italia del rappresentante USA del Coni - Italian National Olympic Committee

In montagna con il Trento Film Festival

Carlo Di Stanislao

Si concluderà a Bolzano il 7 maggio, la 63° edizione del Trento Film Festival, apertasi il 25 aprile all’Auditorium S.Chiara, con “The epicf Everest”, film inglese realizzato con filmati original del capitano John Noel, che documentanola tragica e tuttora misteriosa scalata a di Mallory e Irvine del 1924.

“Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life”. Italy introduces to the World the Milan Expo 2015

I. I.

The universal non-commercial exposition "Expo Milano 2015" will be hosted by Milan, Italy, between May and October 31, next year. "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" is the theme chosen for this edition. A topic that merges in a global scenario innovation, culture, technology, traditions and creativity, and their relationship to food and diet. A conversation with Piero Galli, Event Management General Director of the Expo.

“La casa sulla roccia”: non solo un romanzo

Pietro Luciano Belcastro

La casa sulla roccia di Antonio Monda. Una storia d’amore vissuta quaranta anni prima ritorna prepotentemente nella vita di Beth. Seppure leciti, c’è poco spazio per i rimpianti; ormai è tempo di bilanci, di capire cosa c’è dopo la vita.

Margherita Oggero's L'amica americana

Traci Andrighetti

An Italian-American intrigue, Piedmontese-style. Because L’amica americana is set in Turin, the language of the novel contains dialect and regional Italian specific to Piedmont as well as terms from other regions, including Lombardy, Veneto and Campania.

Alla scoperta delle parole. Morfo-sintassi e semantica

Luigi Casale

Spiegherò quindi – hic et nunc (qui e adesso) – le parole “morfologia”, “sintassi” e “semantica”, dando per scontato che le altre due: “evoluzione” e “parole” siano abbastanza trasparenti alla maggior parte dei lettori.

Renaissance and Rebirth. From Leonardo to the Third Paradise

I. I.

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man represents a male figure placed in both a circle and square, as specified by Vitruvius in his treatise De Architectura (On Architecture). A Conversation with Prof. Paola Salvi from the Accademia of Belle Arti, Milan, and the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto

May 1, 2014

Lentricchia’s “The Sadness of Antonioni” –A Segue Novel from High-Brow “Italian Actress” to Pop-Gangster “Eliot Conte Mysteries”

Tom Verso

Just as Lentricchia’s recently published “The Dog Killer of Utica” is the second in the Eliot Conte pop-crime series following “Accidental Pallbearer”, critical reading of “The Sadness of Antonioni” strongly suggests that it may have originally been intended as a Jack Del Piero sequel to the high-brow “The Italian Actress”. “The Italian Actress” was only 122 pages long. Clearly, at the end, protagonist Del Piero was a character in transition, whom Lentricchhia then picked up in the very beginning of “The Sadness of Antonioni”.

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Wins Best Actress @ Tribeca Film Festival

Natasha Lardera

Italian-French actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi has won Best Actress in the World Narrative category at the 13th edition of the of the Tribeca Film Festival for her performance as Carla Bernaschi for her performance in Paolo Virzi's Human Capital. The film will be released in US theaters at the beginning of 2015.

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