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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 #55    2015 March, 6Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin      Translation by:   One of the most beautiful parts of Italy I have been to is the Valle d'Aosta or Aosta Valley, the tip of northwestern Italy. The wine I'm sharing with you today comes from the Grosjean winery. Doesn't sound very Italian at all, does it? That's because the...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : folclore.it      Translation by:   The most renowned Carnival in Sardinia is Mamoiada's, one of the oldest in the region and, for Mamoiada, there is no carnival without Mamuthones. Who are them? Mamuthones and Issohadores are the protagonists of the carnival of this town and also are a symbol of celebr...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   The National Institute for Statistics (Istat) has released its report called "Noi Italia. 100 statistiche per capire il Paese in cui viviamo" (Noi Italia. 100 stats to understand the Country we're living in"). The report provides an overview of the various economic,...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn      Translation by:   Focaccia di Recco is a delicious snack that can be enjoyed any time during the day. When we think about focaccia, we usually think about bread dough with yeast; instead the peculiarity of the focaccia di Recco is the lack of yeast! For this reason it is...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by: John Cabot University   A year after, at the Oscars Academy Awards, Italy has gained again a pinch of success following the triumph of La Grande Bellezza as the best foreign film at the Oscars. The merit goes to one of many Italian artists/artisans who donate their...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Lucio Luca      Translation by: John Cabot University   Have you ever googled the words "Sicily" and "America"? Hundreds of thousands of results appear but what is immediately evident is that the overwhelming majority refers to Cosa Nostra bosses in the U.S., Italian-American Mafia, the murder of Joe P...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Let's do "alla Romana"! Some Italian idioms and phrases always awaken the curiosity of our LearnItaly students: some for their history, others for their irony or because they simply reflect the Italian culture. Let's see some examples. When...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Expo 2015      Translation by:   A project organized by Fondazione Cinema per Roma and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the Short Food Movie - Feed your Mind, Film your Planet initiative invites people from all over the world to interpret the Expo themes of nutrition and sustainability by creatin...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   The first Italian woman to have founded and edited a newspaper was born in Patras on March 7, 1856 to the Neapolitan lawyer Francesco Serao, who in 1848 left his city because sought as anti-Bourbon, and Pauline Borely, a Greek decayed noble. When the father returns...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : John Cabot University      Translation by:   For students who love to follow current affairs, debate domestic and international policy, and track movements that make or break governments – this is a very exciting time to study political science in Italy. As the birthplace of the European Union, capital...

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  WTI Magazine #55    2015 March, 6Author : Living Adamis      Translation by:   Roy Roger's, the iconic brand that since 1952 has written the history of Italian jeans, presents the new spring-summer 2015 campaign taken by photographer Philip Gay. Set in a former twentieth-century Brooklyn factory, today converted in the exclusive Wythe Hotel, t...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   It is not by chance that the interview published in this number of our magazine is our 100th ... Happy birthday to us! We wanted to celebrate this event in the proper way, and we thought that having John Maggio as our guest would be perfect to do it. We were rig...

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