"Eat, Pray and Love" Boosts Tourism in Italy
Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir “Eat, Pray, Love,” have been following in her footsteps ever since it was first published in 2006. The book describes a year Gilbert spent living in Italy, India and Indonesia on the rebound from a divorce and failed romance. Plenty of fans have replicated parts of Gilbert’s journey on their own. As an example, Australian tourist The OLYMPIAN. Zoe Moran was reading the book as she stopped by the San Crispino ice cream shop near the Trevi Fountain in Rome, where Gilbert ate gelato three times in one day. “I just got to the part in Rome, so I’m trying to follow the footsteps of Gilbert,” she said. Gilbert writes of savoring good food and soaking up sights like the Villa Borghese and Piazza del Popolo. Meanwhile, not every place mentioned in the book has seen an uptick. Pizzeria Da Michele in Naples, where Gilbert says she had the “best pizza in the world,” and where Roberts filmed a scene in the movie, says the number of customers they’ve gotten has been about the same. (Read the Article)
Italy minister sparks heat over Palio race comment
REUTERS.COM Michela Vittoria Brambilla, an animal lover and tourism minister in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's divided conservative government, said on Thursday that it was time for Italy to review the race to prevent cruelty to horses.
"If Catalonia renounced to bullfighting, we can renounce some races or palios, not only the Siena race, which is the most famous," Brambilla was quoted as saying by Italian media on Thursday. (Read the Article)
Italy call-up of naturalized player ignites debate
SI.COM The selection of a Brazilian-born player, Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira, better known as Amauri, has sparked a nationalistic and racially charged debate about who should play for Italy's soccer team.
A lawmaker with the Northern League government party, known for its anti-immigrant rhetoric, says Italy should promote homegrown talent rather than making room for "leftovers'' from other nations. (Read the article)
Judge Dominic Massaro Given Royal Order
New York Supreme Court Justice Dominic R. Massaro, one of only a dozen Italian Americans conferred Knight of the Grand Cross of the Italian Republic, who is President of the American Society of the Italian Legions of the Merit, has been conferred Knight of the Grand Cross in the Royal Order of Francis I by H.R.H. Prince Carlo di Borbone, Duke of Castro and Head of the Royal House of Bourbon - Two Sicilies.
Can You Imagine a World Without Nutella?
“Defining Nutella as a hazelnut and chocolate spread is like saying that Michelangelo’s David is huge block of marble”. We meet with Gigi and Clara Padovani, authors of “Passione Nutella”, a book of Nutella-based recipes in its second edition written in collaboration with highly acclaimed New York chefs and soon to be released both in Italian and English.
August 7, 2010
IAWA Presents Revolutionaries and Poetry Dog Tags with Readings from Jennifer Guglielmo and Clare Ultimo on Saturday, August 14
Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
New York, NY- On Saturday, August 14, 2010 the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) continues to celebrate its 19th Anniversary with historian and author Jennifer Guglielmo whose latest book, Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City has garnered praise and attention and multi-talented digital artist and poet, Clare Ultimo.
Behind Giuliani Daughter Alleged Shoplifting
CBS. Security cameras caught Caroline Giuliani, a Harvard theater major, allegedly stealing five products worth more than $100 from a Sephora makeup store on New York's Upper East Side. (Read the article)
Sting and wife star on Tuscan festival stage
ANSA. ritish rock star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler took centre stage in this medieval Tuscan town on Thursday, starring in two renditions of an experimental work known as 'Twin Spirits'. (Read the article)
Italy minister sparks heat over Palio race comment
Michela Vittoria Brambilla, tourism minister in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's divided conservative government, said on Thursday that it was time for Italy to review the race to prevent cruelty to horses. (Read the article)
Can Italy Be Too Italian?
In a recent article New York Times reporter Michael Kimmelman asked the bizarre question “Is Italy Too Italian?” suggesting that Italy is so tradition bound, insular and lacking in upward mobility that it risks to sink in a “gradual, grinding decline". We actually find that “Magical Italy,” the “storia, cultura ed arte", is being left to rot and ruin: the country is doing its best to shoot itself in the foot, fast, beginning with a sickening neglect of its greatest single and unique strength, its deep culture.
August 4, 2010
Can Italy Be Too Italian?
Thomas Couture, "Romans during the Decadence", 1847
In a recent article New York Times reporter Michael Kimmelman asked the bizarre question “Is Italy Too Italian?” suggesting that Italy is so tradition bound, insular and lacking in upward mobility that it risks to sink in a “gradual, grinding decline". We actually find that “Magical Italy,” the “storia, cultura ed arte", is being left to rot and ruin: the country is doing its best to shoot itself in the foot, fast, beginning with a sickening neglect of its greatest single and unique strength, its deep culture.
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