La Classificazione del Montefalco Sagrantino DOCG
Sagrantino Inspired by Bordeaux to Show Off its Qualities
Aristotle, “Prizzi’s Honor” and Ghost of “Two Sicilies”
The plot of “Prizzi’s Honor” is the most perfect Aristotelian plot I can recall in any movie. Every action in the film is determined causally or with high probability by preceding actions. And, the theme touches on a contemporary residual of primordial southern Italian culture.
Lo straniero (Part One)
Journalist and novelist Douglas Grant Mine, a former correspondent for the AP who now lives in Italy with his family, tells the exhilarating, thought-provoking story of an American trying to get Italian citizenship... (First of two parts)
The Meanings of Christmas Present
Decorating for Christmas can say a lot more about people than the words they use to talk about it. These are some of the things I saw around me during the day before Christmas and what some of them mean to me.
Making the invisible visible. Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art and curator Francesco Bonami, with the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and its Director Tina Cervone, have given the American public the opportunity to view the works of Italy’s most influential and exciting artists of the last forty years in an exhibition titled Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008. (November 14 – February 14, 2010.) “Italics” is one of the largest exhibits ever organized in Chicago dedicated to contemporary Italian art.
Stendhal in Parma, Italy
THE NEW YORK TIMES. FROM a practical point of view, “The Charterhouse of Parma” makes a lousy guidebook. An ardent fan of all things Italian, and a brilliant, impressionistic travel writer, Stendhal could have bequeathed to the ages an unforgettable prose portrait of Parma, the small, sleepy, provincial northern Italian city where most of the action of his great novel takes place. (Read the article)
Review: Nine. Rob Marshall's slick new musical is uninspired despite sexy A-list cast
CBC. "Be Italian!" director Rob Marshall exhorts us with his new film, Nine. To judge from his movie, that means adopting a zesty accent, wearing dark glasses indoors and smoking incessantly – in other words, taking on only the most superficial aspects of Federico Fellini's 8½, the immensely influential masterpiece on which this slick but uninspired musical is based. (Read tbe article)
Woman Knocks Pope Down During Christmas Eve Mass
WALL STREET JOURNAL Pope Benedict XVI delivered his annual Christmas Day address and blessing before a packed St. Peter's Square on Friday, hours after being knocked violently to the floor by a woman who lunged at him before Christmas Eve mass. (Read the artice)
Venice under water. Year's highest 'acqua alta' hits
ANSA. More than half of Venice was under water Wednesday as two days of driving rain helped push the acqua alta (high water) to 143 cm above sea level, a record for the year and the 11th-biggest since records began. (Read the article)
Baroque spectacular in Naples. Sweeping initiative encompasses 13 exhibitions
ANSA. Naples is celebrating the Baroque movement with a sweeping initiative encompassing 13 exhibitions and hundreds of artistic and decorative masterpieces. Six of the southern city's museums are each hosting shows spanning a period of 150 years in total, starting with Caravaggio's arrival in Naples in 1606. (Read the article)
An Italian-American Presepio
Folklorist Joe Sciorra talks about his interpretation of a peculiarly Italian and Italian American tradition
Radical Italian American Christmas Cards
Thinking about next year’s holiday cards, I turn to the leftist artists, Tina Modotti and Pietro di Donato.
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