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Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia was born on March 31, 1924, to Italian immigrants. The family moved back to Aosta, Italy, for the first five years of Leo's life before returning to California. After graduating high school, Leo joined the U.S. Navy. He never saw direct combat and was assigned to a military hospital.   Thanks to the G.I. Bill,...

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di Cinzia Romani   Le star internazionali, da Brigitte Bardot a Sophia Loren, prima d'essere attrici erano donne sexy e attraenti. Fa eccezione Anna Magnani, che non era né glamour, né seducente, pur essendo arrivata in vetta, a Hollywood: fu la prima attrice italiana a vincere l'Oscar con La rosa tatuata (1955), film scritto per lei dal com...

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by Syd Kearney   Emmy Award-winning cook and author Giada De Laurentiis is bringing her "Happy Cooking" book tour to Houston Nov. 14. Joined by a moderator on stage at the Cullen Performance Hall, De Laurentiis will share her inspiration for her latest cookbook and then take questions from the audience. De Laurentiis is the host of thr...

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A one-of-a-kind photo book that takes you inside of the oldest continuously operating open air street market in the US. PLEASE SUPPORT THE PHOTO-BOOK PROJECT FOR PHILLY'S HISTORIC ITALIAN MARKET   We are asking for your support of this Kickstarter Project to complete the printing of the Italian Market Photo Book, titled "Philadelphia's...

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"Italians have played a major role in shaping the California wine industry, as is clear by the profusion of vowel-ending names among the state's wineries. In fact, many of the Italian American wineries that now dot the map of California's wine regions are third-generation immigrant operations whose heritage goes back to men and women who left Italy...

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Presentation of the book: Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2014), by Anthony Julian Tamburri. Divided into three sections, the first deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. Section two con...

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Edited by Teodolinda Barolini - Translated by Richard Lansing. The editor in conversation with Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU). The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante's early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante's Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c....

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May 13 2015 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor - New York, N.Y. 10036 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics, 1909-1944 explores the politics of the leader of the Futurist art movement. Emerging in Italy in 1909, Futurism sought to propel Italy into the modern world...

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by Kenneth Scambray   John Keahey is a journalist turned travel writer who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Some years ago on a visit to Italy he became enamored with Italian culture: its history and art. His falling for Italy in such a big way is understandable. He joins the legions of writers since the seventeenth century who have written ab...

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Don't miss this exclusive lecture, discussion and book signing by Robert Edsel, the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed 2013 book "Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis." Edsel's dramatic story chronicles the little-known heroic effort of two U.S. soldiers—an artist and an historian—dispatched to Italy on...

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