A Young Italian Director Comes of Age: Paola Bernardini and City of Dreams
We sat down for a long conversation via Skype with Paola Bernardini about her "City of Dreams", an eighteen-minute short about two runaways boys who are convinced that life must have more to offer than their own unloving mother So with their knapsacks on their backs, they wander through the magical region of Puglia, armed only with a map, a flier about a place called “City of Dreams,” and the memory of an aunt they haven’t seen in years.
Il Falstaff burlone del baritono Ambrogio Maestri
Un altro indimenticabile appuntamento alla Casa Italianza Zerilli-Marimò grazie alla fortunata serie "Adventures in Italian Opera" di Fred Plotkin. Questa volta il noto esperto di Opera ha incontrato il baritono Ambrogio Maestri
February 22, 2016
Del Piero, Pirlo, Totti quando l'addio diventa un trauma
Del Piero, Andrea Pirlo e Francesco Totti quando l'addio è un trauma
La coscienza e l'essere cristiani
Don Milani ci consentirebbe di distinguere fra obbedienza e servitù: si obbedisce alla legge ma non al capo. Non mi sembra che a Napoli sia così.
Renato Bialetti, Italian Marketer, Dies at 93
Renato Bialetti, a businessman who put the Moka Express, an aluminum stovetop coffee maker, into nearly every kitchen in Italyand sold it to tens of millions of customers around the world, died on Feb. 11, in Ascona, Switzerland. He was 93.
Geeking Out on Primo Levi — and Elena Ferrante — With a Master Translator
The great Italian writer Primo Levi is primarily known in this country for memoirs detailing his experiences in Auschwitz, his long journey home after the end of the war and his life as a chemist of Jewish descent in the quiet precincts of Piedmont. These books, published in America as “Survival in Auschwitz,” “The Reawakening” and “The Periodic Table,” give the impression that Levi was primarily a writer of Jewish trauma.
Umberto Eco e le 40 regole per scrivere bene in italiano
Mi auguro che le professoresse ed i professori di lettere vogliano ricordare Umberto Eco divertendosi con i propri studenti a leggere e commentare le sue 40 regole contenute in La Bustina di Minerva, edito da Bompiani
Turismo e curiosità. L'Aquila. Il buono e cattivo governo
Nella chiesa di San Pietro a Coppito un interessante affresco. Aquile nere e in gabbia, una scimmia legata e una storia da raccontare
Sagra del Libro: The Italian American Book Festival Open to ALL WRITERS Friday, February 26, 2016 from 6-10 PM
This event is dedicated to our recently departed Board member and friend, Emelise Aleandri who initiated the Sagra del Libro in 2012 when it took place at Fordham University. This edition will take place at the only OSIA lodge in Manhattan, the Lt. Joseph Petrosino Lodge #285 in the heart of Little Italy.
Umberto Eco, 84, Best-Selling Academic Who Navigated Two Worlds, Dies
Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday at his home in Milan. He was 84.
Reflections on An Italian Icon
People have and will refer to Umberto Eco as any and all of the following: writer, linguist, philosopher, novelist, semiotician, journalist, etc. He was all of that, as he was also the academy’s intellectual rock star! One thing is guaranteed for sure, he shall not be lost in our memory!
February 20, 2016
Sagra del Libro: The Italian American Book Festival Open to ALL WRITERS Friday, February 26, 2016 from 6-10 PM
The Sagra del Libro represents an historic collaboration between the Order of the Sons of Italy, Lt. Joseph Petrosino Lodge #285 and the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA), which is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2016.
This event is dedicated to our recently departed Board member and friend, Emelise Aleandri who initiated the Sagra del Libro in 2012 when it took place at Fordham University. This edition will take place at the only OSIA lodge in Manhattan, the Lt. Joseph Petrosino Lodge #285 in the heart of Little Italy.
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