Prosecco players lead the US imported wine hot brands
With Prosecco surging ahead in the U.S. market, this year's Impact "Hot Brands" imported wine lineup is dominated by entries representing that rising category—which accounted for nearly half of the 22 honorees. Constellation Brands' Ruffino is the largest of imported wine's Hot Brands, posting a 10% increase to 1.1 million cases last year,...
IU and Uffizi Gallery partner to digitize in 3-D the museum's Greek and Roman sculpture collection
A cooperative agreement between Indiana University and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, will result in an unprecedented initiative to digitize in 3-D the museum's entire collection of 1,250 pieces of irreplaceable Greek and Roman sculpture. The project between the Uffizi, one of the oldest and most renowned art museums in the world,...
Francesco Sauro, the Italian geologist awarded by Time
A couple of weeks ago, the American magazine Time released its latest "Next Generation Leaders" list. Together with a maverick Olympic gymnast, a teenage rock climber, a refugee building bridges across cultures and several others men and women from around the world who are working hard to change the world we found the name of an Italian geo...
Top ten most beautiful Italian squares
A town square ("piazza" in Italian) is usually one of the main city attractions. In Italy, thanks the rich historic heritage of the country, you can find all kind of squares: from immense roman squares to renaissance squares with their perfect geometrical forms, from the squares that exist since the Ancient Greece times to the spacious modern Itali...
A Firenze l’ambasciatore Usa Phillips: incontro con il presidente della Regione Toscana Rossi
Rafforzare i rapporti di collaborazione e i legami già stretti, per esempio in ambito economico e universitario, tra la Toscana e gli Stati Uniti. E' questo il reciproco impegno che si sono presi il presidente della Regione Toscana Enrico Rossi, e l'ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia John Phillips in un incontro svoltosi questa mattina a Fire...
The ‘future’ of Lancia according to Marchionne
It was Sergio Marchionne who announced the future plans for all of the brands in late January. Fiat brand will be concentrated in two families, Alfa Romeo will become the entry premium brand of the group, Maserati will continue to grow in the top premium segment; Jeep will become more global, while Chrysler and Dodge will enlarge their range of pro...
Esce oggi "La meglio Italia. Le mobilità italiane nel XXI secolo" di Tirabassi e del Pra’
Esce oggi "La meglio Italia. Le mobilità italiane nel XXI secolo", volume di Maddalena Tirabassi e Alvise del Pra' (Torino, aAccademia University Press, 2014). Il libro scrive l'ultimo capitolo della storia migratoria italiana che è ripresa con cifre a cinque zeri: 106.000 nel 2012, con un incremento del 115% rispetto al 2002 e un aumento...
The Vatican Library's Amazing Documents Are Finally Online
The official library of the Holy See is undertaking a massive digitization project designed to upload hundred of thousands of books and images from its physical archives into an online database. As Business Insider reports, nonprofit organization Digita Vaticana Onlus was founded in 2013 with the goal digitizing 80,000 manuscripts. That's...
Statistics say 82, 000 Italians left Italy in 2013
In 2013 the number of Italians who moved abroad rose to 82,000, the highest in ten years. The number grew 20.7 percent from 2012, said the latest ISTAT report on the "International and domestic migration of the resident population". Italians' main destinations when moving abroad in 2013 included the United Kingdom (13,000 migrants), German...
Gala Liac. E' l'ora dei giovani
Per l'undicesimo anno consecutivo, la Liac ha celebrato con un gala la partecipazione di una sua rappresentativa alla Coppa Carnevale, il torneo calcistico per formazioni Primavera (calciatori fra i 16 e i 18 anni, ovvero nati tra il 2006 e il 2008) piú prestigioso al mondo. L'evento ha richiamato domenica scorsa circa 250 ospiti al "Russo...
Italian yard has deal to acquire Bertram Yachts
The parent company of the Baglietto shipyard said it signed a letter of intent to buy Bertram Yachts from the Ferretti Group. Several Italian publications are reporting that the Gavio Group, which took over Baglietto in 2012, expects the transaction to close by March 31 and that it is conditioned on due diligence. Baglietto is located in L...
In Emilia, il labirinto dell'editore
di Maria Pace Lucioli Ottieri Franco Maria Ricci ha raccolto la sua biblioteca e le sue opere d'arte dentro questo intricato, grandioso – è il più vasto del mondo – giardino. Un sogno borgesiano nato 38 anni fa e realizzato oggi a Fontanellato (Parma) Ceduti il marchio e l'attività editoriale, nata nel 1963 e conosciuta in tutto il mondo,...