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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 #54    2015 February, 20Author : italia.it      Translation by:   Italy is the birthplace of opera, and of numerous worldwide known and loved composers: Paganini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, Monteverdi, Salieri, Tartini, Vivaldi, and so on. No less numerous are the international composers that have been inspired...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : 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 econo...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin      Translation by:   This is our first introduction on Vino Travels to the region of Liguria, also known as the Italian Riviera. Liguria is a mountainous region located in the northwestern part of Italy following along the coastline as you head towards France and the Frenc...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   The name of Giulio Cesare - Julius Caesar - echoes everywhere in the Western world. The very word "Caesar", over time, has acquired an independent meaning, becoming synonymous with "commander", the charismatic leader of a people.  

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : MIPAAF      Translation by:   The artichoke is a vegetable native to the Mediterranean basin and the first evidence of its consumption as food dates back to the Egyptian and Greek civilisations. In the fourth century BC, Theophrastus mentions it in his history of plants. It was also cultivated in t...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Expo 2015      Translation by:   Expo Milano 2015 is a global event characterized by its nature of uniting many different voices, basing its success on the involvement of all the various players taking part. As defined by the rules of the BIE (Bureau International des Expositions), Participants in...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : folclore.it      Translation by:   This is a historical re-enactment that takes place during the Carnival period. The local tradition tells about a Bibbiena divided into two districts: the one of "Piazzolini" which takes its name from the Piazza, still nowadays called Piazzolina, and the lower of t...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Morgan Collins for John Cabot University      Translation by:   As I begin to acclimate to classes and Roman culture, life at John Cabot University is becoming less unfamiliar each and every day. Living in the Eternal city so far has opened a multitude of doors for me and I couldn't be more thrille...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Nicola Bergamo      Translation by: John Cabot University   I grew up fascinated by the United States, just like all my peers who lived through the Cold War since childhood. At the time, there was the division between good and bad, between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and oppression,...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by: John Cabot University   One of the beautiful characteristics of Italy is its high concentration of art. Anywhere you find yourself in Italy, interesting historical and artistic sites are close at hand. What is extraordinary about this feature is that many times,...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Latin, which is no longer spoken nowadays, is still alive in many words that we the Italians still use. We can find a few Latin words and expressions in sports coverage, in advertising, in the official badges of our cities, in legal lan...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Living Adamis      Translation by:   The project Art Toy is born to meet the desire to collect a work of contemporary art in a simple and accessible way. The prototype of the Art Toy is the ceramic base on which a group of talents of Italian contemporary art have worked, each one of them creating a...

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