Carmen and Elettra Stop in Chicago
Italian singer and songwriter Carmen Consoli stopped by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago on Tuesday, June 15 to greet fans and play a sampling of her new songs from her seventh album, ELETTRA. The theme of ELETTRA is love in its many manifestations: filial, platonic, romantic; and love in its varying emotional tones: conflicted love, egotistical love that destroys rather than nurtures, and love that has the power to heal
Cradle of Love
Back in the Middle Ages a priest named Datedo disposed the institution of Italy's first orphanage for children born out of adultery to save them from abandone and death. In 1198 Pope Innocent III ordered the Santo Spirito hospital to install a wooden “Ruota” (Wheel) behind a wooden door into which women could anonymously slip new-born babies they were unable to keep, then ring a bell before they fled into the night. The last of this "Cradles of Love" was inaugurated at Abbiategrasso, Milan, on Christmas Eve 2009. Why are they still necessary?
June 18, 2010
Cradle of love
The "Ruota" instituted by Pope Innocent III at Santo Spirito hospital
Back in the Middle Ages a priest named Datedo disposed the institution of Italy's first orphanage for children born out of adultery to save them from abandone and death. In 1198 Pope Innocent III ordered the Santo Spirito hospital to install a wooden “Ruota” (Wheel) behind a wooden door into which women could anonymously slip new-born babies they were unable to keep, then ring a bell before they fled into the night. The last of this "Cradles of Love" was inaugurated at Abbiategrasso, Milan, on Christmas Eve 2009. Why are they still necessary?
June 17, 2010
Savoring Soave II. The Wineries and the Wines
Tasting Soave in the Vineyand
Tasting Soave in the Vineyard and Wineries and Becoming "Capitano Spadarino"
Andrew Cuomo Defends Girlfriend's Lasagna Recipe Bashed by his Mom
DNA INFO. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo got in the middle of the lasagna food fight between his mother and his girlfriend on Wednesday.
The Italian-American mother of the gubernatorial candidate had thrown rotten tomatoes at the recipe used by Cuomo's girlfriend, celebrity chef Sandra Lee, which reportedly included tomato soup and cottage cheese. (Read the article)
Italian scientists think they found Caravaggio's bones
Washington Post. Italian anthropologists believe they have finally found the remains of Baroque artist Caravaggio, resolving a centuries-old mystery shrouding the master's death. (Read the article)
Mussolini diaries hidden in Spluga town. Fascist dictator did not want documents made public until 2025
ANSA. Diaries belonging to Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini along with correspondence he wrote and received before he capture and execution in 1945, are hidden somewhere in the Spluga Valley near the Swiss border, according to the son of the man who put them there. (Read the article)
Two "paesani" to duke it out...
We have two Italian Americans up for the governorship! What's a "paesano" to do? Let us please have your thoughts!
"Bike to the future" @ the Italian National Holiday
June 2. Consul General Talò and other institutional representatives joined over 1000 guests at Cipriani Wall Street driving a "Montante", a 100% Italian bicycle. "Bike to the future", this year's moto for the Italian National Day, was dedicated to ecologically sustainable transportation and to the new generation of Italian immigrants, graduates and highly specialized young men and women who form a bridge between the US and Italy and contribute to the growth of both countries.
Read more about these memorable celebrations on the eve of the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Verdek. The Yellow Car Becomes “Green” in the U.S.
i-Italy meets with Guy Mannino, president and CEO of Verdek, an Italian company that promotes electric vehicles in U.S. market
Soccer vs Baseball: Sports or Philosophies of Life?
Once the less followed sport in America, now soccer is all over the news. What are the cultural aspects are behind the choice of a country's favorite sport?
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe, Vote for the Guy Whose Name Ends in “O.”
Two (or perhaps three) people with Italian-sounding last names are simultaneously running for governor of the State of New York. This means that Italian American voters will have to decide between them. My advice to them is find out on which side your bread is buttered and which one of them would butter it better as governor.
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