Roman Falernian Wine, “The Toast of Ancient Poets and Senators”
by Susan Nelson The year is 115 AD, with Imperial Rome at the height of its power. The Commissatio is just beginning. Banquets were commonly hosted by an upper class couple in their villa, with several guests invited to partake of delectable feasting and conversation. Let me explain the commissatio as a cheerful game of toasts, after the...
L'Italia su Marte: Countdown per Exomars
Si chiama EXOMARS la missione su Marte dell'Esa – l'ente spaziale europeo – che inizierà lunedì prossimo, 14 marzo. È italiana la leadership principale delle due "fasi" che compongono la missione: nella prima (lancio previsto appunto il 14 marzo) una sonda (TGO) resterà nell'orbita di Marte mentre un modulo (EDM, denominato Schiaparelli) contenent...
Pellegrini Selected as Italy's Flag-Bearer for Rio Games
Swimming world-record holder Federica Pellegrini was selected Wednesday as Italy's flag-bearer for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics — four years after she asked not to perform the same honor at the London Games. The Italian Olympic Committee made the announcement with 100 days until the opening ceremony in Rio on Aug. 5 — a date that coincides...
Friuli Venezia Giulia in cerca di turisti Usa con l'aiuto di Lidia Bastianich
Il Friuli Venezia Giulia prende per la gola gli americani. L'intento è spingerli a visitare la Regione convincendoli con prelibatezze tipiche. Per centrare l'obiettivo, ieri il territorio si è affidato a Lidia Bastianich, chef di fama internazionale, star tv e scrittrice. Nel suo ristorante "Felidia" a New York, colei che ha cucinato anche...
Businesses in Italy’s South have started growing again, thanks mostly to young people and startups
by Marzio Bartoloni Businesses in the underdeveloped, poorer South of Italy have started growing again. Above all, thanks to young people, and startups. There are 10,000 more companies — an increase for the first time since 2008 (+0.7%). Exports are also robust (+2.5%), stronger than in the North. Another 50,000 jobs were cre...
The Lioness of the South: Michelina De Cesare
By Giovanni di Napoli "Oh difficulties to be endured, cries the coward, the feather-head, the shuttlecock, the faint-heart. The task is not impossible, though hard. The craven must stand aside. Ordinary, easy tasks are for the herd. Rare, heroic, and divine men overcome the difficulties of the way and force an immortal palm from necessity. You may...
Delegazioni di buyers USA a Mercanteinfiera (Parma)
Città: Parma - ItaliaPaese: ITALIAPeriodo di svolgimento: 28/02/2013 - 03/03/2013Partners: Fiere di Parma S.p.A.Descrizione: Dopo la positiva collaborazione instaurata con Fiere di Parma lo scorso anno, la Camera di Commercio italo-americana a Miami si impegna ad organizzare due missioni a Parma,in occasione di Mercanteinfiera, alle quali partecipe...
Visit Hear the Road Motorcycles Tours in Italy
Hear The Road Motorcycle Tours Italy - www.motorcycletoursitaly.com is an Italian tour operator dedicated exclusively to those who want to know Italy while riding a motorcycle. Hear The Road offers great motorcycle road-trips to choose from depending on the time you have available, and the type of road experience you are looking for....
Carlo Bergonzi, 90, an Operatic Tenor of Subtlety and Emotional Acuity, Dies
Carlo Bergonzi, one of the 20th century's most distinguished operatic tenors, renowned for the refined interpretive taste and keen musical intelligence he brought to his art, died on Friday in Milan. He was 90. His death was confirmed by Stefan Zucker, president of the Bel Canto Society, devoted to the history of opera singing. Considered...
SACE scored a gross profit of €485 mn, as guarantees for Italian exports rose to €10.7 bn (+27%)
SACE, the state-owned export credit guarantee agency, closed 2014 with a gross profit of €485 million. Yesterday the board of directors approved full year results, which show a significant improvement compared to 2013. Last year SACE insured €10.7 billion in export transactions and investments for international development projects, 27% mo...
A Bettola il monumento dell'emigrante piacentino
È di Getty Bisagni, nato a Bettola (Piacenza) nel 1931, artista di fama internazionale, con mostre a Parigi alla galleria de l’Odeon e medaglia d'oro dell’accademia francese "Arts Sciences Lettres", il "Monumento all'emigrante piacentino" che sarà inaugurato a Bettola il 29 marzo prossimo alle 12.15 in Viale Vittoria 1. "Il maestro Bisagni...
10 Interesting Facts about Italy
Since ancient times Etruscan, Magna Graecia and other cultures have flourished in the territory of present-day Italy, being eventually absorbed by Rome, that has for centuries remained the leading political and religious centre of Western civilisation, capital of the Roman Empire and Christianity. During the Dark Ages, the Italian Peninsul...