Italy must throw out its racist politics
Here is what a senior Italian politician said the other day of his country’s first black cabinet minister: “I love animals – bears and wolves, as everyone knows – but when I see the pictures of [Cécile] Kyenge I cannot but think of, even if I’m not saying she is one, the features of an orang-utan.”
A Tale of Two Perugias
Perugia. Pasticceria Sandri is closed. It is a shock. It was an icon, a Viennese style bar-caffè that anchors the Corso Vannucci. But it’s time for Umbria Jazz.
For a week, the city becomes a big party, the Corso Vannucci a combination dance floor, parade crowd, and kitchen ...
The Mystery of Underground Naples
A Conversation with Msgr. Gennaro Matino.
A different sort of trip because “Naples can be visited in so many ways"
To Sing Across the Seas
Violinist, composer, co-founder of the legendary Italian Rock band PFM, and conductor, the Maestro Mauro Pagani brought l'Orchestra della Taranta ensemble from Salento to Le Poisson Rouge in New York. Two evenings of feverish folk-music with a peastant's dance, Pizzica, performed during the celebrations surrounding religious festivities or in weddings
July 17, 2013
When ‘Military Wars’ end … then ‘Culture Wars’ begin
Photo by Vito Catalano
After their army won the military war, conquering southern Italy and administrating a crushing dehumanization to the peasant brigandage guerrillas, the Piedmontese then engaged the Culture War; proceeding to obliterate the languages, history and culture of Italy south of Rome. Again victorious; but not content with winning both the Southern Italy military and culture wars, the Northern Italians cultivated a mighty brigade of culture warriors in America, to insure no remnants of the Patria Meridionale language, history and culture survived in the southern-Italian American diaspora.
The UNICEF’s “Pigotta Project” (Rag Doll Project)
Interview with Maria Luisa Blasi, “Pigotta” project manager of the Provincial Committee of UNICEF Perugia, Italy. Blasi explained to us the aim of the project she is supervising: “Progetto Pigotta.”
L'universo americano di Cesare Pavese
L’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a New York ricorda Cesare Pavese, ospitando una lectio magistralis in occasione della ristampa de La luna e i falò con la collaborazione della Professoressa Francesca Parmeggiani, docente presso la Fordham University nel Bronx, moderatrice dell'evento
Florence mayor predicts end near for Italian government
Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi voiced doubt in the strength of the Italian government on Tuesday, predicting it will soon collapse."I don't believe this coalition with the (center-left) People of Freedom (PdL) party can go on for much longer," said Renzi, a rising center-left figure, at a festival hosted by his Democratic Party in Carpi, northern Italy.
Lovely and lyrical Bolzano
'Are we still in Italy?" The man on the platform at the station in Bolzano is perplexed, and I know what he means.So convincingly does Bolzano mirror the architecture, the language, the manners and the mores of Austria's nearby Tyrol region that it's all I can do to stop myself from answering "Ja!".Located in Italy's most northerly province, Bolzano is the capital of South Tyrol, which the Italians know as the Alto Adige, the High Adige, after the river that gallops through its heart.
Italy racism row: Cecile Kyenge compared to orangutan
Roberto Calderoli, from the anti-immigration Northern League, told a rally that the success of Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge encouraged "illegal immigrants" to come to Italy. Ms Kyenge is an Italian citizen born in the Democratic Republic of Congo.It is the latest in a series of rows over racism in Italy.
Adotta una pigotta e salva un bambino
i-Italy ha intervistato, la Sig.ra Maria Luisa Blasi, responsabile presso il Comitato Provinciale UNICEF Perugia del "Progetto Pigotta". Nel capoluogo Umbro, il progetto vede partecipi molti studenti Americani.
Random Thoughts on an Italian Elected Official’s “joke of passing fancy” on a Sunday Afternoon
A quiet afternoon on a New York summer sunday. And suddenly from Italy comes the statement of the Deputy President of the Senate Calderoli. He just compared Minister Cécile Kyenge, the first-ever African-Italian government official to an orangutan. Astonished by such gross callousness, we immediately asked a comment from Anthony Tamburri, Dean of the Calandra Italian American Institute of CUNY, the largest academic institution in the U.S. dedicated to the study of the Italian-American experience. (Letizia Airos)
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