Vespa, storia di un miracolo italiano
di Marco Gillo Sabato 23 aprile la Vespa compie settant'anni. Uno dei pezzi più pregiati e suggestivi del made in Italy, del design e della creatività italiana nasce nel 1946, dai progetti dell'ingegnere aereonautico Corradino D'ascanio e da alcune sue intuizioni innovative: la sospensione anteriore ispirata a quella dei carrelli per aerei...
Nei primi sei mesi del 2016 investiti 86,2 milioni in startup italiane. Più 240% sul 2015
Il parziale è di 3 a 1. Per ogni euro investito in startup nel 2015 ne sono stati investiti tre, o giù di lì, nel 2016. Se nel 2015 avevamo registrato investimenti complessivi per 97,7 milioni, nei primi 6 mesi del 2016 siamo a 86,2. 52 milioni in più rispetto ai primi sei mesi del 2015. Un calcolo fatto considerando solo le startup con ba...
What to Eat in Every State in Italy
There's a reason celebrated poet Shel Silverstein wrote a happy-go-lucky poem all about Italian food. To us foreigners, Italy is the land of cannolis and mobsters, bucolic landscapes and villas, and Italians and good wine. We idealize all of Italy for all of these traits rightly so-- and we often forget that each Italian province has its...
In 2017 Italy presides over the G7 and becomes non-permanent member of UN Security Council
by Gerardo Pelosi Italy assumed presidency of the G7 on January 1st and on the same day also became a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, over which they will preside during the month of November. Yesterday, Italy also entered the "troika" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), for whic...
My Tuscany: in un cortometraggio la promozione regionale a New York
Un trailer di tre minuti alla conquista dei turisti americani e canadesi. La Toscana sbarca in questo modo a New York e si presenta sul grande schermo della Indipendent Film Week, organizzata da Indipendent Filmaker Project, la più antica e più grande associazione americana di registi e produttori indipendenti. Nella trama di My Tuscany, questo è...
Florence's Giardino dei Semplici re-opens its doors for spring
Florence's public Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), located in the Museum of Natural History of Florence, closed since September of last year after a period of hydreogeological instability, recently re-opened its gates (April 1). Similarly to those in Pisa and Padua, the Tuscan Capital's botanical garden, noted as a garden of Semplici or simple med...
December jobless rate falls for the first time in seven months
by Claudio Tucci Something is moving in the Italian labor market. The planned incentives for open-ended contracts foreseen by the 2015 Stability Law and the new rules included in the Jobs Act labor reform are making businesses more confident about hiring, although with temporary contracts. Employers could however transform these new tempor...
Italy's Philosopher-Genius of Wine
Italy's Josko Gravner is the only winemaker I've met who keeps a simple wooden chair in his cellar just so he can sit down there and think about his wine. Is he making it the right way? Should he have a different approach? Is it truly the wine he wants to make? Gravner's career is a series of drastic decisions. In the 1980s, he says, he re...
The Ambassadors’ Forum: Interview with Claudio Bisogniero, Ambassador of Italy to the United States
by Ambassador Stuart Holliday Ambassadors' Forum is a joint initiative of Diplomatic Courier magazine, Meridian International Center, and the Council of American Ambassadors. The Series captures the views of Ambassadors from around the world on the critical role of diplomacy in addressing current global challenges. In this is...
13 places in Italy every wine lover needs to put on their bucket list
by Adam Teeter Sure France is a great place to visit for a wine lover, but we'd argue that no place is more magical and transporting than a trip to Italy. The food, wine and people are a combination that can't be beat, and it's a must for any lover of wine and culture. And while you could spend a lifetime traveling Italy, most of...
Two Italian women robotics experts among top 25 RoboHub
Italian scientists Cecilia Laschi, of the Sant'Anna Superior School in Pisa, and Barbara Mazzolai, of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa, are among 25 women who have made a decisive contribution to robotics, according to the journal RoboHub. Laschi chose the octopus as a model to realise the first 'soft' robot in the world whil...
Lisa Condie: After 50, Living A New, Richer Life in Italy
If you've ever dreamed of moving to Italy, but are too afraid to make the leap, read on: Lisa Condie's story will inspire you. Almost four years ago, at 56 years old, on an impulse, the Salt Lake City, Utah, native decided she would move to Tuscany. Without thinking it over too much, she sold her house, left her job of more than 30 years,...