The 15 Greatest Italian Directors of All Time
by Matthew Benbenek Since the early years of cinema, Italian filmmakers have been at the forefront of the international film scene, working to promote and innovate the medium. From the experimental silent films, Italian cinema evolved and invented a new genre of neo-realism through which they created some of the most emotionally powerful a...
Sarà un museo la collezione segreta dei Torlonia
Una mostra subito, di alto valore scientifico. E un nuovo museo nel centro di Roma, in tempi non troppo lunghi. Certo più brevi dei quarant'anni passati dalla chiusura della Collezione Torlonia in via della Lungara. Dopo sei mesi di trattative, incontri intensi, a tratti difficili, rispunta la luce sulle 620 statue della più pregiata raccolta d'art...
How To Communicate Like A True Italian, Using Only Your Hands
As if learning to speak a foreign tongue wasn't tough enough, there's also the body language to master. That's where Sergio Solazzo, a tour guide in Italy, comes in. He was recently filmed explaining to a group of American tourists how his fellow countrymen communicate using solely their hands. "There's an entire dictionary," he...
5 Italian Sports Cars that owned the road with American muscle
Exotic Italian cars are distinguished by their amazing and sophisticated multi-cylinder engines and sexy, hand-hammered sheetmetal crimson curves. But some Italian car builders have long been jealous of America's abundance of rumbling V8 power and scratched their heads and wondered how they could marry their art to yankee technology. ...
Ten great bike trails in Italy
Writer Alfredo Oriani once claimed, "A bicycle can be well worth a library". Of course any book-lover will take that statement to be ironic, but bicycles are indeed a great tool for knowledge. Even Hemingway would agree: It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them...
Arriva a Torino "BEST", il programma Italia-USA per corsi e stage nella Silicon Valley
Mercoledì 9 novembre, alle ore 18, nel Salone d'Onore della Fondazione CRT, in via XX Settembre 31 a Torino, il Console Generale degli Stati Uniti d'America Philip T. Reeker interverrà alla presentazione di "Best Program" - il progetto bilaterale Italia-Usa per valorizzare giovani imprenditori di talento - con il Segretario Generale della Fondazion...
The Sicilians: Installment 1
by Mark Spano Through the 19th Century, serializing books in magazines was a very popular practice in both Europe and America. Among the authors whose books first appeared as serials are Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas (Sr. & Jr.), Henry James, Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert to name only a few. This custom h...
The Bronzes of Riace
The Bronzes of Riace were discovered by Mr Stefano Mariottini, an amateur scuba diver from Rome, during a holiday on the Calabrian coast. They turned out to be one of Italy's most important archeological finds of the last 100 years. The two sculptures look human and divine at the same time, between reality and myth.&nb...
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: sfide e obiettivi
di Alessandro Tronconi Questa mattina si è tenuto presso l'Istituto Bruno Leoni un incontro con Elena Bryan, Senior Trade Representative presso la delegazione USA a Bruxelles, in cui si sono approfonditi gli obiettivi e le problematiche posti dal TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), un accordo in fase di negoziazione tra...
Yoox Repeats 2013 Outlook as Sales Surge in Italy, North America
By Andrew Roberts Yoox Group (YOOX), operator of e-commerce stores for brands from Armani to Zegna, repeated its guidance of revenue and earnings growth in 2013 after quarterly sales rose 18 percent, buoyed by demand in Italy and North America. Second-quarter revenue grew to 97 million euros ($128.8 million) from 81.9 million euros a year earlier...
Working with Paolo Sorrentino-Go Out and Get It (Part 2)
Chapter 3: "Wait, I have a couple of things to tell you" Two years later, I was called in to work on another of Paolo Sorrentino's films. Pre-production had already begun on a film that was much 'bigger', more expensive, ambitious and complicated that his previous projects: Il Divo (The Celebrity), the story of one of the most controversial and fa...
Milan's 53rd International Furniture Exhibition
As it has every year since 1961, Milan once again confirms itself as the undisputed Capital of design.The Salone Internazionale del Mobile (International Furniture Salon) runs this year from April 9-14. The Salone del Mobile is the global point of reference for anything and everything to do with the Home Furnishings sector, and is an extraordinary...