The Export Opportunity Index invented by SACE points the finger at the most promising countries
by Laura Cavestri After two years of false starts, Italian exports are finally accelerating in 2015. Exports have accelerated from 2% to 3.9%, doubling the rate recorded in 2014, and the positive trend is expected to reach 5% in 2017 and 2018. The figures are included in "Re-Start," the Export Report by Italy's export credit company SACE f...
Rossano Brazzi: Italian of the Week
Rossano Brazzi was born on September 18, 1916 in Bologna, Italy. His family moved to Florence when he was still a child. While in middle school, Rossano was in his school's operetta. He scored the lead – singing, dancing, acting – and the show toured Italy for several months. He began studying law at the University of San Marco. While at c...
Dove nascono i libri stampati come ai tempi di Gutenberg
di Federico Taddia «Il libro è un oggetto straordinario, il solo in grado di contenere materia che si trasforma in spirito: è l'affascinante alchimia che porta l'occhio a cogliere segni portatori di idee. Noi continuiamo con la stampa a mano non per folclore, ma perché è la tecnologia migliore per la chiarezza di lettura: è il nostro modo...
Rome The ‘Eternal City’ In Its Peak Showcased Through A Brilliantly Animated Video
Last week, we talked about the fascinating 3D rendering of the Pompeii disaster of 79 AD. Well this time around, we have decided to go the route of the eternal city itself – Rome. An incredible fruit of collaboration between the Rome Reborn projectand Khan Academy, the video in question gives us a fascinating tour through the ancient mega city in i...
To Rome With Love: 6 Hidden-Gem Neighborhoods Refreshingly Free From Tourists (for Now)
By Amanda Ruggeri Wander around the area that most guidebooks call Rome's most evocative, particularly in the high season, and you might come away with the idea that Rome is a postcard ... in which every other passersby is a tourist, restaurants hawk microwaved food, and souvenir stalls litter the cobblestoned streets. Luckily, Rome is mu...
How Italy’s Best Porchetta is Made
Vitaliano "Vito" Bernabei is one of the few real norcini there left in this decaying, morally dubious country we call Italy. A norcino is, literally, someone from Norcia in central Italy. Norcia, known for its pig-rearing, gained a reputation between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries for having the best butchers in Italy. But thes...
A Conversation with Massimo Bottura, Chef of the World's Best Restaurant in 2016
This week, The World's 50 Best Restaurants for 2016 were announced in New York. For the first time, an Italian restaurant took the top spot: Osteria Francescana, in Modena. We caught up with its mad genius chef, Massimo Bottura, to talk about his work—and about winning food. Each week on Condé Nast Traveler's podcast, Travelogue, we discuss where...
Piedmont’s wine industry looks at the movie industry to get global recognition
The financing is in place; orchestrated by Piedmont's Film Commission, which has already managed to get several wine producers interested. Sideways the movie, Italian style, might be in the cards. Soon, though not too soon: it might take some time still before the stage is set in the Langhe's most prestigious hills. "What's more, we cannot...
Dronestagram’s International Drone Photography Contest winners announced
This year www.Dronestagr.am, the first social network dedicated to aerial photography, set out to find the best aerial photographs out there. The competition received 6000 entries, which illustrated the vast diversity of the genre, but one image of Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (above) jumped out. The competition was broken down into...
Federico Marchetti Wins Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Italy
By Luisa Zargani Federico Marchetti, chief executive officer of Yoox Net-a-porter Group, is the winner of the annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The award, which Marchetti received on Thursday evening at the Italian Stock Exchange, recognizes his "original intuition" about the future possibilities of the Web and...
Media and Culture in Italy Debate
AUR President Richard Hodges was the moderator of a conference on Media advocacy for Italy's Cultural Heritage, which was held at the British School at Rome on January 24th and featured the most prominent players on the Italian and international cultural and media arenas in Rome. The conference, organized by the British School at Rome, in partners...
Democracy, Judicial Activism, and Free Markets
Discorso Bruno Leoni 2013 - Castello del Valentino – Torino27 maggio 2013 – ore 18:00 Castello del Valentino - Salone d'Onore - Viale Mattioli 39 - Torino Antonin ScaliaGiudice della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti Democracy, Judicial Activism, and Free Markets RSVP: eventi@brunoleoni.it 02 3657 7325