Launching Pitstops, Pitfalls and Olive Pits
As part of our move into the travel guide direction, we will begin with a literary/ memoir style guide to driving in Italy. Pitstops, Pitfalls and Olive Pits is a literary license to enjoy driving escapades throughout scenic Italy. John Tabellione takes you up and down the boot sharing his experiences and providing great tips at the end of each cha...
Beyond stereotypes: Director Luca Vullo and the art of Italian gestures
A journey around Sicily and among Sicilians. The attachment to the Italian heritage and the passion to tell stories and help understand culture from a new, extraordinary perspective. Director Luca Vullo, from Caltanissetta, has put his abilities, knowledge, and interests together and is now one of the most interesting young professionals a...
Emilia-Romagna: Italy's gastronomic paradise
Emilia-Romagna's proud gastronomic traditions have been depicted in artwork and lauded in written accounts dating back to the Middle Ages, and visitors from around the globe continue to pour in for a taste of the action. A week spent prowling the cities of Bologna, Parma, Modena and Ferrara – set amidst the bountiful farmlands between the Apennine...
Going off the beaten path: 10 unusual sights in Rome
by Alexandra Turney Rome is full of secrets. Explore the crypt of a church or peer through a keyhole, and you might be surprised by what you find. Go off the beaten path to discover the lesser-known treasures of the Eternal City. 1. The turtle fountain La Fontana delle Tartarughe, one of Rome's quirkiest fountains, is tucked...
Enel to Invest $2.5 Billion in Building Fiber Network in Italy
Enel SpA, Italy's largest utility, plans to invest about 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to build a fiber-optic broadband network across the country in a move that could pit it against Telecom Italia SpA. Enel aims to cover 224 cities in phases with the broadband service, selling wholesale capacity on the network to telecommunications carriers, a...
Italians, Helped by an App, Translate the Talmud
Spanning six centuries of religious and legal teachings touching on astronomy, medicine, ethics, philosophy and more, the Babylonian Talmud is so complex, it has rarely been translated. But on Tuesday, after five years of labor by dozens of scholars, linguists, philologists and editors — as well as a crew of computer scientists and researc...
Why Italy Is Still One of the Healthiest Countries in The World
Bloomberg Rankings has rated Italy the second healthiest country in the world and the top ranked country for health in all of Europe. This health score is based on factors like mortality rates, number of people smoking, the percentage of immunizations, the percentage of population with healthcare, healthcare efficiency, healthcare satisfaction and...
Come back to Sorrento? In a heartbeat
My father enjoyed listening to recordings of the famed Italian-American tenor Mario Lanza. Lanza was a volatile figure. There were even whisperings that his mysterious 1959 death at age 38 resulted from a "revenge" hit by Lucky Luciano after Lanza refused to perform for the mobster at a Naples concert. Lanza's superb vocals, though, lived...
Luigi Tinelli: Activist, entrepreneur and exceptional immigrant
By Mariella Radaelli Luigi Tinelli arrived in America in October 1836, but he was far from an average emigrant. All his life he was a man of impassioned action – a political activist for the unification of Italy, a lawyer, a bright entrepreneur in silk production and porcelain, a diplomat and a soldier in the American Civil War. He walked...
Confetti Candy, the Ancient Italian Predecessor of the Tic Tac By Romie Stott
Wedding season in the Northern Hemisphere is already in full swing, which means a lot of guests will soon be going home with small net bags of tooth-breakingly hard candy-coated almonds, the wedding reception equivalent of candy corn. Some of the guests will joke about how they're old-person candy and must have been sitting out for years to get s...
Nel nome di Colombo
di Alessandra Moro È il 12 ottobre di cinquecentoventicinque anni fa: tre caravelle guidate dal ligure Cristoforo Colombo approdano a San Salvador (oggi isola di Watling, Bahamas), nell'erronea convinzione di esser giunti nell'Asia di Marco Polo. Invece hanno toccato un nuovo continente, quello che verrà poi chiamato "America" dal nome di Amerigo...
Software italiano per le spie Usa
Sulle capacità delle macchine Narus finora si è saputo molto poco. L'unica persona che ne ha parlato pubblicamente è stato un ex matematico/criptologo della Nsa di nome William Binney, secondo il quale un modello di circa 10 anni fa, il Semantic Traffic Analyzer (Sta) 6400, sarebbe stato in grado di elaborare dati al ritmo di 10 gigabits, ovvero 10...