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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 #50    2014 December, 26Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin      Translation by:   Just like the United States has every state producing wine, so does Italy with wine regions. Today we're going to cover the Lazio region, also known as Latium. Without knowing it most of you will be familiar with it or have even been to it as it houses...

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  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   We start today to explore the linguistic heritage of our beautiful language with the word "acqua" (water), to show you a few ways how to use it in the common language. Let's start with the saying "l'acqua cheta rovina i ponti" (literall...

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  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Matthew Lofstrom      Translation by:   When we arrived in Rome, our professor had us write down three goals we wanted to accomplish during our semester in Italy. My number one goal was to get to Stadio Olimpico to watch A.S. Roma play. This past week on December 10, I saw Roma play Manchester City...

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  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Associazione Bellunesi nel Mondo      Translation by:   Numerous Italians emigrated to the U.S.A. between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century to seek their fortune. Many of them came from the region of Veneto and from the province of Belluno, even if America was not on...

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  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   In this article we make a turnaround and start from the United States, more precisely from a framework that is part of the permanent collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX. It is a painting by Bartolomeo V...

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  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Giuseppina Salzano e Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Virna Lisi was one of the queens of Italian cinema, maverick figure of great talent, who never bent to the hypocrisies of the show biz and never shied away the challenges of time passing by. Virna Pieralisi was born in Ancona on November 8,...

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  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Francesca Papasergi      Translation by:   It's been a long and complicated year. We started it out with Mr. Enrico Letta at the country's helm, and then Matteo Renzi shuffled cards and ministers and replaced Letta at Palazzo Chigi.  

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  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Living Adamis      Translation by:   From the industrial form of the bolt, to the beehives in nature, the hexagon is a perfect shape, capable of giving life to infinite compositions from a single polygon. The table lamp Hexx comes from the union of two different hexagonal prisms made of perforated...

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  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Even if in the US it will be broadcasted in February, in Italy RAI has already aired the wonderful PBS documentary by John Maggio, "The Italian Americans". These are four fantastic hours of celebration of the Italian American experience, a must see that we highl...

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  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Giuseppina Salzano e Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Dante Alighieri is not only a Great Italian of the past. His name exceeds the boundaries of his and our country and the era in which he lived, to get into a universal dimension of time and space, symbol of the whole Western culture and ligh...

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  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn      Translation by:   This year I will celebrate Christmas with Pandoro, the "golden cake"! Pandoro and panettone are the most popular sweets during the winter holidays. While panettone is a native of Milan, pandoro is from Verona. It is traditionally shaped like a frustu...

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  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : italia.it      Translation by:   Jagged-edge coasts, enormous cliffs that go on for miles, enchanting, characteristic sea villages: each one is different from the other, yet each one is a reflection of the setting that is the Italian Riviera (also known as the Ligurian Riviera). The Riviera is subd...

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