Inside this special
It Takes a "Piazza"
Columbus Day, 2008
In Italy the square (the“piazza”) is the living center of any town or village - physical or virtual, local or global. Everything takes place in the piazza: culture and politics, art, and the market ...
IN THIS ISSUE:
- Letizia Airos interviews Italy's Foriegn Minister Franco Frattini;
- Anthony Tamburri introduces a conversation with Louis Tallarini, President of the Columbus Citizens Foundation;
- Piero Bassetti presents his original theory of "Italici";
- Italy's Consul General in New York, Francesco Maria Talò, speaks of the importance of creating a virtual "piazza" for Italians abroad and explains why he recently started a blog on i-Italy
Other contributors include: Stefano Benni, Ottorino Cappelli, Lucio Caputo, Peter Carravetta, Judith Harris, Amara Lakhous, Silvana Mangione, Marina Melchionda, Renato Miracco, Berardo Paradiso, Rodrigo Praino, Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano, Riccardo Strano, Paolo Timoni, Alfredo Valentini, Jana Vizmuller-Zocco.
Summary
Linking the Diaspora Culturally. Interview with Franco Frattini
The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs is contributing to the creation of an international "Piazza Italiana", where Italians and people interested in the Italian culture can meet...
Il Ritorno
The President of the Columbus Citizens Foundation and the Dean of the Calandra Italian American Institute talk about Italy, the "land of their return". And about their first...
The Institutions & the Piazza
Italy's Consulate General is the center of the "Italian Piazza" in New York. In order to reach the whole community, it supports the creation and the development of "virtual...
Italy-city: a G-local Community
Italy-city is a virtual space that transcends formal boundaries and legal barriers. About 200-250 million people of Italic origin can meet here.
Our First Year in the Internet Piazza
i-Italy is one year old. A year of accomplishments, projects, goals set and reached...or to be achieved. Its success is the living proof that the Internet can be a powerful...
Italianità on FaceBook
Nowadays several Facebook groups focus on the theme of Italian Culture. In which way they can be considered adequate testimonials of "Italianità"?
Once Upon a Piazza
In 1970 in Settefrati, a small town in Lazio, the piazza was a meeting place for the town’s citizens, a shopping center, a playground, a resting spot, a political forum. And it...
Origins of Fantasy
"....but he liked the part about the Modern World as well. He read that in New York there was a building that was 102 stories high! Per la miseria!"
Politics & the Piazza
The Piazza as a political forum, from the empires to the contemporary democracies... passing through dictatorships.
Meeting Italian Art Abroad
Renato Miracco, the director of the Italian Cultural Institute, is contributing to the creation of an Italian "Piazza degli Artisti" (Square of the Artists) in New York
Two Writers Meet the Italian Piazza. Part 1: Interview with Stefano Benni
Two writers from Italy, Stefano Benni and Amara Lakhous, will soon come to the U.S. to present their new works. The two novels embody two different conceptions and attitudes...
Two Writers Meet the Italian Piazza. Part 2: Interview with Amara Lakhous
Two writers from Italy, Amara Lakhous and Stefano Benni, will soon come to the U.S. to present their new works. The two novels embody two different conceptions and attitudes...
The Agorà of the Youth
The youngest "Italian piazza" ever: waiting for the First Convention of "Young Italians in the World" (Rome, December 2008)
The Piazza’s Mother Tongue
IACE (Italian American Committee on Education) is promoting a physical exchange between American and Italian students with the aim to give American youths the possibility to visit...
Students in Piazza
IACE’s Summer Program has partnered with Progetto Scuole in organizing a contest among American students of Italian. The students wrote articles about the “Italian Piazza”....
Scooter, USA
Vespa: Italian excellence in America. Interview with Paolo Timoni, President and CEO of "Piaggio Group Americas."
See You in Piazza!
There aren’t too many piazze in the States and the few that do exist, don’t have the charm of the Italian ones. The piazza is the symbol of Italian life and style
Linking Italian & US Business: Interview with Lucio Caputo
Lucio Caputo, President of GEI (Gruppo Esponenti Italiani) sees his organization as a piazza where Italian and American businesses meet
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