Guy de Maupassant’s “SICILY” – Sicilian Mosaics and Guido Education
If ever it comes to pass, that an American university or college develops a Patria Meridionale curriculum, dedicated to educating the near 17 million Americans of southern-Italian descent about their mighty history and culture, then no doubt Guy de Maupassant's "Sicily" will be required reading. It will probably come as a shocking heretical statement to the philo-Florence /Chicago literati who own and operate America's Italian Studies programs, that an artistic genius such as Maupassant thought "Sicily an indispensable land to see and one unique in the world ...
Fiat May Close Two Italian Factories
Fiat SpA may shut two of its five domestic car factories if it can’t produce competitively in Italy and export vehicles to the U.S.
Wolfgang Achtner? Chi era costui?
Politically independent journalist Wolfgang Achtner is fighting for a change in RAI. And for Italy’s and his personal (Arab) spring, he says. Courtesy of social media.
Does Italy Still Matter to the World?
A panel discussion with: Ronald Spogli, Former U.S. Ambassador to Italy; Fernando Napolitano, President and CEO of Italian Business and Innovation Initiative; Maurizio Molinari, correspondent, La Stampa and author of (noteworthy) "Italians of New York"; and Gianluca Galletto, Co-Founder, PINYC - Professionisti Italiani a New York. Contrasting the prevailing narrative of decline, lack of opportunities and fleeing talents, a tale of another Italy, with a vibrant start-up sector, producing leading edge industrial innovation.
Humanities in the 21st Century. Human sciences in Italy since Unification: historical and methodological dynamics.
Humanities in the 21st Century. Human sciences in Italy since Unification: historical and methodological dynamics
Humanities In The 21st Century: The Intangible Underpinnings of Democracy
The international conference "Humanities In The 21st Century" hosted by the Consulate General of Italy on February 13 and organized by the Italian Cultural Institute with Accademia dei Lincei was an occasion to reflect on the impact of human sciences on democracy, and on Italy in particular.
Raise your Voice: Join Singer Angélique Kidjo Against Brutality
The Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations, in collaboration with the United Nations, UNFPA and UNICEF brings to the United Nations Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist to bring awareness on a current plague: female genital mutilation. The show is produced by Massimo Gallotta Productions.
The Italian and Italian American Community Welcome Mario Monti
Italy's Prime Minister Visits New York
Consulate General of Italy, February 10, 2012
AVVISO: PUBBLICAZIONE DATE ESAME DI LINGUA ITALIANA AP 2012
E' stata pubblicata la data di svolgimento della prova dell’esame AP di lingua e cultura italiana, fissata per giovedì 17 maggio 2012, dopo le ore 12.00 PM.
Non sarà possibile sostenere l’esame in altre date diverse da quella indicata.
ANNOUNCEMENT: PUBBLICATION OF 2012 AP ITALIAN EXAM DATE
We advise all interested students that College Board has published the date of the AP Italian Language and Culture exam on its web site: it is scheduled for Thursday, May 17, 2012, after 12.00 PM.
I-ITALY.ORG (USA) MARIO MONTI INCONTRA LA COMUNITÀ ITALIANA A NEW YORK - di Francesca Giuliani
"La prima visita del presidente Monti negli Stati Uniti si è conclusa venerdì sera a Park Avenue, dove al Consolato Generale d’Italia il premier ha incontrato gli esponenti delle comunità italiana ed italo-americana. Lo accompagnavano il ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata, già ambasciatore d’Italia presso gli Stati Uniti prima della nomina ministeriale, e l’ambasciatore Claudio Bisogniero, alla sua prima apparizione ufficiale presso la comunità".
Teatro delle Albe Overture Alcina
"This is a remarkable performance, the script superb, irreproachable" - Muriel Mingau, Le Populaire
Ouverture Alcina is a vocal performance based on the figure of the sorceress Alcina from Ludovico Ariosto's renaissance poem Orlando furioso. It is a fight between the power of the voice and of music, a deep and surprising alchemy that draws the figure of the sorceress, wounded by love, in her iconic immobility. No action, no spectacle, just a ghost that howls an untreatable pain. A canto in Romagnol dialect (the dialect from Romagna, a region in the North of Italy), an "ultra-local" harsh and archaic language, that makes a strongpoint of its incommunicability, objective musi
Ouverture Alcina is a vocal performance based on the figure of the sorceress Alcina from Ludovico Ariosto's renaissance poem Orlando furioso. It is a fight between the power of the voice and of music, a deep and surprising alchemy that draws the figure of the sorceress, wounded by love, in her iconic immobility. No action, no spectacle, just a ghost that howls an untreatable pain. A canto in Romagnol dialect (the dialect from Romagna, a region in the North of Italy), an "ultra-local" harsh and archaic language, that makes a strongpoint of its incommunicability, objective musi
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