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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 #45    2014 October, 15Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin      Translation by:   One of the best meetings I had while in Piedmont was my private tour of the Ascheri winery in Bra, Italy. I was fortunate enough to have it organized for me through Martignetti's due to my work with the distributor. I entered behind the gates that day l...

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : Eszter Vajda      Translation by:   "You, Me & Sicily!" is a TV program that sprang from conversations that I had in the winter of 2014 with author/attorney Alfred Zappala in Massachusetts. Alfred has written 3 books (4th one out in December) on Sicily. He also lives and practices law in Catania 7 m...

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : Anna Stein      Translation by:   The beginning of October marks the end of my first full month living in Rome. So as an amateur Roman, and a professional American in Italy for the very first time, here are a few tips I can procure from my first impressions and initial experiences.

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : folclore.it      Translation by:   Eurochocolate in Perugia is an honored tradition eagerly awaited by thousands greedy and curious Italians.In the center of the beautiful Umbrian city there will be the inevitable and tasty chocolate sculptures made from blocks of dark chocolate a cubic meter; art a...

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   It has just come to an end a very interesting exhibition in Florence about a versatile artist of a very personal taste: Jacopo Ligozzi. This painter was born in 1547 from an active family of embroiderers in Verona but of Milanese origin, and almost certainly Ja...

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : Simone Callisto Manca      Translation by:   At We the Italians we tell not only stories about today's success and victories of Italian sport, but also of our historic triumphs. Today we will talk about one of the editions of the Olympics where the Italian team brought home more medals: Los Angeles...

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Today we continue to explore our Italian language getting back to the "false friends" which, as we already said, help us not only to avoid errors but also to become more confident and to enrich our vocabulary. "Case", for example, is in...

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : Living Adamis      Translation by:   Baglietto, historical shipyard based in La Spezia, Liguria, celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2014 inaugurating the nautical year renewing its presence at Cannes Yachting Festival and the Monaco Yacht Show, where it introduced the new 46m flagship. The yacht is...

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : buonenotizie.it      Translation by:   It is not a museum , but a big music studio: a "factory" to all intents and purposes, where the sound is the main charachter and children and guys coming from different schools are the "workers". "Fabbrica dei Suoni" (Sounds Factory) of Venasca is an idea born...

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WTI Magazine #44    2014 October, 1Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   The visit of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in the United States has just ended, and there's a final thought that passed through my mind while I was reading articles and statements about it. Reading what he declared after meeting with the Italian community in th...

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  WTI Magazine #44    2014 October, 1Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin      Translation by:   The Donnafugata winery holds 160 years of experience with owner Giacomo Rallo combining his experience with his wife Gabriella and her experience in the industry. The two combined, along with their two children Jose' and Antonio, are one of the limited w...

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  WTI Magazine #44    2014 October, 1Author : Joe Carella      Translation by:   Ever since the Italian American Museum (IAM) in New York City's Little Italy put the original shipbuilder's model of the SS Giuseppe Verdi on exhibit in May, it has been searching nationally for passengers who might still be alive and who were among the more than 70...

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