NIAF Italia Hosts Legal Conference
Following the Gala, on November 12, 2015, NIAF Italia hosted a legal conference “Innovation through Regulation: How Legal Reforms Can Strengthen Economic Cooperation between Italy and the United States.”
25 Years of N.I.C.E., New Italian Cinema Events
Every fall for the past 25 years, N.I.C.E., New Italian Cinema Events, has brought an important selection of Italian films by first time and second time directors to New York. Directed by Viviana del Bianco N.I.C.E. has a mission: supporting and promoting contemporary Italian cinema on an international level. Through the years the festival has discovered many talents, including Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino. I-Italy spoke to Maya Breschi, US Executive Director.
Ammaniti & Bertolucci: Adapting Novels into Films
Me and You, Io e Te, is a film from 2012 by Bernardo Bertolucci, his last one for now. The film, based in the novel by the same title by Niccolò Ammaniti, was screened at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò as part of The New Literature from Europe Festival “an annual celebration of writing from across the European continent, featuring readings and discussions between leading and emerging literary voices from Europe.” Among this year’s representative there was Roman writer Niccolò Ammaniti.
Un paese di carta
“Un paese di carta” (Pacini Editore), è prima opera narrativa di Laura Benedetti, scrittrice e saggista aquilana che vive negli Stati Uniti, dove insegna letteratura italiana alla Georgetown University di Washington.
Alcune osservazioni sul pensiero di Leopardi
Esce un nuovo saggio che riesamina ed interroga lo scrittore di Recanati. Un'indagine puntuale e poggiata sulle fonti
Il mercato dei bisogni ed il mercato del superfuo
Una politica economica che volesse essere etica dovrebbe poter ragionare non tanto e non solo su cosa serve al mercato, ma cosa serve davvero alla gente cui il mercato deve ritornare a prestare servizio. Il futile non è più raccomandabile.
La libertà dalla paura
Una tragedia enorme, questa di Parigi della notte del 13 novembre, a pochi mesi dalla strage di Charlie Hebdo. Allora per esprimere solidarietà bastava dire “Je suis Charlie”, questa volta penso che andrebbe bene qualcosa come “J’aime Paris”.
Giovanni, Antonella & Gianluca Rana. “Not only Pasta!”. Donating to those in need of NYC.
Giovanni Rana is renewing its collaboration with the Food Bank for New York City. The company created by Italy’s “patriarch of pasta” will donate 100,000 meals to people in need throughout the city. In addition, until December 31, 2015, $1 will be donated for every dish prepared and sold by guest chefs of the “United Tastes of Pasta” initiative and at Rana’s restaurant in Chelsea.
Everything You Need to Know to Be a Great Italian Cook
Exclusive interview with Lidia Bastianich.
From the Emmy-winning host of Lidia’s Kitchen, best-selling author, and beloved ambassador for Italian culinary traditions in America comes the ultimate master class: a beautifully produced definitive guide to Italian cooking, coauthored with her daughter, Tanya—covering everything from ingredients to techniques to tools, plus more than 400 delectable recipes
Vatileaks, Round Two
All eyes this week were turned across the Tiber and toward St. Peter's, where Pope Francis has stumbled twice in the past 10 days, and the Church itself has been bruised by two new books which document alleged grave financial abuse inside the Vatican. The Church has launched a probe into the two Italian authors over revelations of confidential documents, but for some the issue at stake is freedom of the Italian press.
“Make in Italy” Arrives in the Big Apple
Breakthroughs From the First PC to the First Space-Bound Espresso Machine.
"The first desktop computer in the world": this is how America welcomed the launch of Programma 101 (P101) in New York in 1965. Created by a small group of "crazy" young Italian engineers at Olivetti, P101's success was so huge, that the US space agency NASA bought it and used it for its mission to the moon.
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