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Umberto Mucci

Umberto has a degree in Political Science and a master in Marketing and Communication. He is the founder and CEO of We the Italians and the representative in Italy of the Italian American Museum of New York. He gives lectures about History of Italian Emigration to the US, and he has published seven books about Italy and the US

  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Giulia Carletti      Translation by:   Nineteenth and Twentieth century art enthusiasts will find their temple in the eternal city, at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM). Founded in 1883 in Rome, GNAM was born out of the efforts and the foresight of strong personalities, and fro...

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WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn      Translation by:   Crepes with zucchini is a delicious and appetizing dish that you can serve either as a first course for an important dinner or as a main dish for a light lunch. Crescenza is a soft, fresh, creamy cow cheese that has a delicate and mild taste. It gives a d...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Vittorio Bocchi      Translation by:   As the book "L'Altro ItaloAmericano – La straordinaria storia di Vincenzo James Capone – Two-Gun il fratello di Al Capone" was published in Italy, it raised a lot of interest. It is a small and simple book, which presents for the first time to the Italian reader...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Simone Callisto Manca      Translation by:   Like every leap year, 2016 will present at least two events not to miss for the Italian sport: the Olympic Games in Rio and the European Soccer Championships in France, two events in which our teams do not start as favored but may result as interesting out...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Gae Aulenti has been one of the most symbolic Italian women of the '900. The history of the Italian architecture, not only the female one, is inextricably linked to her name. Gae Aulenti was born in Palazzolo della Stella, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, on December 4...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Elda Buonanno Foley      Translation by:   In this last part of the conversation on Italy being a land of "of artists, poets, saints, philosophers, scientists and sailors" (Please see part 1-2-3 in the previous magazines), I would like to address the stereotype of Italy often been seen as a land of S...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   These days, a storm hit the Italian box office: we are talking about the film "Quo Vado" by Gennaro Nunziante and Checco Zalone, able to earn some 52 million euros (and counting) in about ten days, a monstrous figure for the Italian box office. To give an idea,...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Giosuè Prezioso      Translation by:   Interestingly, Italian shares the etymology of its months with most of the European languages. Gennaio (January), Febbraio (February), Marzo (March), and so on are common to all the Latin languages, but also, to others. The word for "March", for instance, is the...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : John Cabot University      Translation by:   The stubborn myth that Classical Studies, and particularly the study of Latin, is an impractical and unprofitable pursuit, has been solidly discredited by wildly successful professionals like Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg (the Facebook founder with a $6.9 bi...

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WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : folclore.it      Translation by:   On January 6, the day of the Epiphany, since 1997 Florence has recovered an ancient tradition to commemorate the visit of the Three Wise Men (in Italian, "I Re Magi") to the infant Jesus. The ride of the Three Wise Men starts in the afternoon from the Pitti Palace, pas...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com      Translation by:   Welcome to 2016! For the beginning of this new year we tackle some of the lesser discovered regions of Italy and they're all to the south starting with Basilicata. I've always appreciated all wines and of course I have some f...

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  WTI Magazine #74    2015 December 11Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 74th issue of our online magazine. On Thursday December 3 in Rome We the Italians have been part of the commemoration, hosted at the House of Representatives, of the tragedy happened in 1907 in Monongah, West Virginia, where 171 Ita...

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