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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 #68    2015 September, 18Author : Cookie Curci      Translation by:   My grandfather was never a man of many words, but when he spoke we listened. Though his words were few they were filled with wisdom. He would often say to us: "Pray for the things you want, but work for the things you need". If grandpa said that phrase once, he...

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  WTI Magazine #68    2015 September, 18Author : Elda Buonanno Foley      Translation by:   Whoever travels in Italy cannot but be amazed by the immense treasures in terms of natural and artistic sites that the country offers. Places such as Rome with its Coliseum, the Vatican City, the Renaissance monuments in Florence and the romantic landscap...

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  WTI Magazine #68    2015 September, 18Author : Living Adamis      Translation by:   Metamorphosis is the new Misis collection. A result of insights, analysis and research on past and present, it is not a simple change, but rather a transformation, the transformation of a brand that after 20 years in the gold and silver sector, enters the world...

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  WTI Magazine #68    2015 September, 18Author : John Cabot University      Translation by:   There are countless ancient sites for students to visit while they study abroad in Italy, from ruins of once-grand markets to aqueducts, catacombs, and temples. Many ancient sites are still standing in the Eternal City – even though some of them are clo...

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WTI Magazine #68    2015 September, 18Author : Expo 2015      Translation by:   WAME & Expo2015 (World Access to Modern Energy)* is an initiative at Expo Milano 2015 designed to increase public awareness of a problem, that of exclusion from access to electricity by a large part of the world's population. It also aims above all to highlight the ve...

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WTI Magazine #67    2015 September, 4Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 67th issue of our online magazine. Are you recovering from the Labour Day weekend? As previously told, we're working on a renovation of a few things about our website, and not only that. On Tuesday September 8th, we'll move the websit...

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  WTI Magazine #67    2015 September, 4Author : Elda Buonanno Foley      Translation by:   When talking about music and the melodious sound of the Italian language, we cannot but remind ourselves that Italy needs to be associated to "melodrama" and specifically, to the melodrama featured in Operas. Thus, here I am to address the stereotype of wh...

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  WTI Magazine #67    2015 September, 4Author : italia.it      Translation by:   Genoa, the Capital of the lively Region of Liguria, is "superb for its people and its walls," as Petrarch characterized it. One could walk right into infinity, treading the city's historic center and enchanting caruggi, the tight and winding streets lined by very ta...

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  WTI Magazine #67    2015 September, 4Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a unique case in the history of Italian art: one of the most innovative, original and whimsical painters ever known in world artistic history. Born in Milan, very attached to his city and to its origins, he came from an artistic family:...

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  WTI Magazine #67    2015 September, 4Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com      Translation by:   It's summer time and mentally or physically being on the beach is just what the doctor ordered for most: that's why Sardinia is the perfect feature today as they have over 300 days of sunshine with a nice warm, Mediterranea...

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  WTI Magazine #67    2015 September, 4Author : Rita Richardson      Translation by:   Why should people worldwide give their money, their time and their talents to restoring a small, ancient, boarded-up church in a small town in Tuscany? Because Oratorio San Filippino is not just any church. It is a modern day pilgrimage site. You won't find it...

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  WTI Magazine #67    2015 September, 4Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn      Translation by:   Panzerotti are so Italian that there is no a real translation into English, like pasta, pizza or focaccia. They are prepared with a dough similar to that of pizza or focaccia and are stuffed with tomato and mozzarella, closed to a half moon shape and...

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