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John D. Bessler (University of Baltimore - School of Law) has posted The Italian Enlightenment and the American Revolution: Cesare Beccaria's Forgotten Influence on American Law (Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2017) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The influence of the Italian Enlightenment—the Illuminismo—on the American R...

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06:00 - 08:00 pm, Thursday, March 2, 2017 - The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036. The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies - Beyond Memory: Italian Protestants in Italy and America (Dennis Barone, University of Saint Joseph) In Beyond Memory (SUNY Press, 2...

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When: Monday, February 20, 2017 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Entrance : Free - Italian conductors in New York series.  Rinaldo Alessandrini in conversation with Harvey Sachs. Rinaldo Alessandrini will conduct, on Tuesday February 21, Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea (opera in concert) at the Stern A...

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When: Thursday, February 16, 2017 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of New York In collaboration with : La Serenissima/Carnegie Hall - Entrance : Free In talks that explore La Serenissima’s social, cultural, and political history, bestselling Italian historian and novelist Alessandro Barbero views Venice’s relationship wit...

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When: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 From 6:45 pm To 8:45 pm Where: Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 An exceptional Lecture, open to a general audience, by the Keynote Speakers: Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin, Authors of the recent and acclaimed book "The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age"...

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As you all know, in our interviews we try to stay as far as we can from politics. It is a very sensitive topic, and We the Italians is completely impartial and unbiased, on both sides of the ocean. This is fundamental to understand the approach we are using regarding the topic of this interview, as to say the relation between Mussolini and the Unit...

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Book Presentation of: Governo OmbraI documenti segreti degli USA sull'Italia degli Anni di piombo(Rizzoli, 2012) byMaurizio Molinari The author in conversation with:Umberto Gentiloni, historian, Sapienza Università di RomaRichard Gardner, former United States Ambassador to Italy, Professor Emeritus, Columbia UniversityJoseph LaPalombara, Yale Un...

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Maria Teresa Cometto (journalist and author of "Tech and the City") Riccardo Luna (journalist and author of "Cambiamo tutto" ) Riccardo Viale (moderator, director of the Italian Cultural Institute) Introduction by Riccardo Lattanzi (professor at NYU and co-chairman of the NY Chapter of the Italian Scientists and Scholar in North America Foundation)...

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Vista dall'Italia l'America, nel senso comune degli Stati Uniti, è qualcosa che mette insieme il miraggio, la speranza, il progresso, ma che offre anche le ragioni di un certo senso di superiorità se mettiamo a confronto la nostra cultura, le nostre tradizioni, magari anche la nostra capacità di mangiare e vivere bene. L'America ha creato le basi...

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Jim Damiano knows all about immigration and Alzheimer's.The McKinney author is touching both with library-worn hands and generational words. After decades untold, his family's life has found its way onto the pages. Both sets of grandparents came through Ellis Island as Italian immigrants in the early 1900s. His father brought home English from his...

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