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Italian Cultural Institute - Auditorium. 3000 Whitehaven Street, NW. Washington, DC 20008. Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - From 6:30 pm To 8:00 pm. Organized by : Ambasciata d'Italia / Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Entrance : Free of Charge - RSVP Required Make a Reservation. The Italian Cultural Institute cor...

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If you can't make a trip to Italy in the foreseeable future, Robert St. John's newest cookbook, "An Italian Palate," might just be the next best thing. The book, which was released Wednesday by Different Drummer Press, is the culmination of the Hattiesburg restaurateur's 10-week journey through the country with his wife and two children. During th...

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Italian-American author Gina Fava releases her latest suspense novel, The Sculptor, a mystery that draws from Fava's time spent living in Rome and the real life events that inspired the shocking thriller.   In The Sculptor, the serial killer known as the Sculptor is preying on Rome's graduate students. Barely thwarting the Sculptor's attacks...

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Line your dinner table with an Italian feast of fried calamari, fresh pasta and tiramisu. Nunziata Pisani, better known as Mamma, is sharing culinary secrets with her new cookbook, Cookin with Mamma. The eighth of nine children, Pisani grew up in a small village outside Naples, Italy, called Contursi. She helped her family on a dairy farm with...

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James Kaplan's Sinatra: The Chairman takes around a thousand pages to get us from his Academy Award for From Here To Eternity in 1954 to his death in 1998. Kaplan's previous volume, Frank: The Voice (2010), used up almost 900 pages to get us from Frank's birth in 1915 to '54. The combined 1900 pages of the two books isn't long by the standards of,...

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by Sandra Tornberg   Umberto Mucci is my "virtual" friend who lives in Rome – virtual because I met him online, a friend because we share many of the same interests and I rely on him for inspiration and support. Umberto is the founder and CEO of We the Italians, www.wetheitalians.com, a website about anything regarding Italy and the US. He h...

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I just finished reading "Little Italy of the BRONX: Arthur Avenue and Belmont" (New York City). Very informative! Described as "One Big Family", the Italian immigrant culture that developed here is said to be comparable to "a new Italian village", as Italians from all over Italy merged into one newly formed community.   The authors, Stephen...

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Another of classical philology's wildest dreams is on the verge of coming true. Every so often, something lost forever suddenly re-appears.   On the eve of humanism, Petrarch rediscovered the letters of Cicero and sections of Livy. A few decades later, Poggio Bracciolini resurrected Lucretius and Quintilian.   Read more  ...

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The Italian American Museum presents SICILIAN TREASURES: Major Developments in the Architecture and Literature of Sicily. From Beginnings to the Present. Presented by Prof. Santi V. Buscemi   You are cordially invited to attend a lecture and power point presentation on the architecture and literature of Sicily at the Ital...

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Dear all, please see the following Call for Book Reviews by Carte Italiane, the journal of the Department of Italian at UCLA. In addition to our upcoming issue dedicated to how conflicts and wars have shaped Italian identities, Carte Italiane will also feature a section of Book Reviews. Not only do we believe in up-to-date and thorough scholar...

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