Is Failure to Predict a Crime?
I LEARNED with disbelief on Monday about the decision of an Italian judge to convict seven scientific experts of manslaughter and to sentence them to six years in prison for failing to give warning before the April 2009 earthquake that killed 309 people, injured an additional 1,500 or so and left more than 65,000 people homeless in and around the city of L’Aquila in central Italy.
Fiorenzo Magni, Italian Cyclist, Dies at 91
Fiorenzo Magni, a bicycle racing champion whose fearlessness on descents and fortitude in difficult conditions earned him victories in Europe’s most prominent road races in the postwar years, often described as Italian cycling’s golden age, died on Oct. 19 in Monza, Italy, north of Milan. He was 91.
Gino Sarfatti, Master of Light
MILAN — Call me slushy, but I always find it romantic when designers become so besotted by one thing that they devote most of their working lives to it, especially if they are as gifted as the Italian lighting designer Gino Sarfatti. Entirely self-taught, he developed nearly 700 floor lamps, chandeliers, spotlights and other “light fittings,” as he called them, between the mid-1930s and early 1970s.
As Berlusconi's Fortunes Fall, So Do A.C. Milan's
LONDON — Nowhere on earth are the fortunes of rich men, their ups and their downs, more intrinsically bound to soccer teams than in Italy. Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister, built up, or bought up, an imperious era for A.C. Milan while he was running the country. But now that he stands convicted of tax fraud, his team struggles to fill half its stadium. And struggles to hold its head above water in the Italian league.
Italian Identity and Italian Americans in the Third Millennium
Constructive dialogue at John Jay College. Italian and Italian American authors discussed the changing nature of Italian and Italian American culture in contemporary society. Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri, Professor and Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College: “The Italians tend to speak more in terms of geography, while the Italian-Americans much less under those terms.”
Italian Clubs Championships in Salsomaggiore
The 96-board Italian Clubs Championship final was played over the last four days of September in Salsomaggiore.For Associato Allegra, Norberto Bocchi, Agustin Madala and Antonio Sementa played throughout. Sementa partnered Guido Ferraro for one set and Giorgio Duboin for the other five.
Anti-Monti 5 Star Set to Be Sicily’s Third-Biggest Party
Italy’s anti-austerity movement is polling third in Sicilian regional elections that were marked by a low turnout and could serve as a barometer for the national vote due no later than May.
Berlusconi Back Again!
Berlusconi, who has dominated Italian politics for over seventeen years, is not leaving the political scene just yet. What happened?
October 28, 2012
Berlusconi Back Again!
Berlusconi, who has dominated Italian politics for over seventeen years, is not leaving the political scene just yet. What happened?
“Italia, I Was Born Here. In Italy"
Fred Kuwornu, Director of “18 IUS SOLI”, hosted at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and the Calandra Italian American Institute
October 26, 2012
IAWA Welcomes Marisa Frasca and Award-winning Poet, Judith Vollmer on Saturday, November 10, 2012
Vollmer is founding editor of poetry journal 5 AM and author of five poetry books, including the most recent collection, The Water Books, from Autumn House Press.
Three rules of IAWA: Read One Another, Write or Be Written, Buy Our Books.
New York, NY - The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) presents writers Marisa Frasca and Judith Vollmer on Saturday, November 10, 2012, at the Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street in New York City’s West Village, (212-989-9319). The reading takes place from 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. and kicks off with Open Mic readings of five minutes after which the featured writers take the stage.
A passeggiata to Italy
I’m spending a week in Frascati, the small town outside Rome which you might know, if you have heard of it at all, as the source of the golden-coloured, broad-flavoured white wine which fills the Italian capital’s carafes. In truth the wine, for serious wine buffs at least, is nothing to write home about: it lacks a sharply defined taste profile, just a hint of almonds, something honeyed, though the wine is dry.
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