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Le personalità decorate dalla Repubblica Italiana saranno oggetto di un elegante volume che l'ASILM - American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit - sta preparando sull'argomento, secondo quanto reso noto dal Presidente della Società, Lucio Caputo. L'ASILM, che come è noto, è la società che raggruppa tutti i decorati residenti negli USA, vuol...

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La UIL Milano e Lombardia e la Fondazione Anna Kuliscioff organizzano per il 18 marzo p.v. alle ore 18,00 , presso la sala "G.Polotti" di Via Campanini 7 a Milano, la presentazione del volume "I prigionieri di guerra Italiani in America".Il libro, scritto da Flavio Conti, a lungo collaboratore della UIL Confederale, riporta alla luce le vicende di...

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The History Press, a publisher located in Charleston, South Carolina has announced a February 23, 2015 publication date for one of its new titles: "BALTIMORE'S LITTLE ITALY: History and Heritage of The Neighborhood" by Suzanna Rosa Molino, director of Promotion Center for Little Italy.   Future newsletters of Promotion Center for Little Ital...

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by Sal Ottaviano   Ocean County Library will celebrate the Italian immigration era by paying homage to Italian women and their creative handcrafted items made for every-day use in the home as part of the library's Columbus Day festivities.   "Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora" will...

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L'Italian American Museum di Mulberry Street a New York segnala gli appuntamenti in programma per il mese di aprile. Si comincia da giovedì 11, alle ore 18.30, con la presentazione di un libro di ricette della cucina italiana tradizionale curato da Angel Marinaccio, nato e cresciuto a Manhattan da una famiglia composta da siciliani, calabresi, nap...

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Italian American author David Baldacci was born in Richmond, VA, in 1960. He started writing in elementary school when his mother gave him a notebook, though he didn't start writing seriously until high school. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.   He later attended the...

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In Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema, Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy’s African and Balkan colonies. These “empire films” were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic.   The fil...

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Nell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, Laudomia Bonanni (L'Aquila, 8 dicembre 1907- Roma, 21 febbraio 2002) approda in America, come avrebbe davvero meritato in vita, cominciando il suo viaggio da Washington, dalla capitale.   La vita e le opere della scrittrice aquilana, tra i grandi del Novecento, il 30 settembre 2013, alle or...

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By Michael Dirda Today, Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) is little known to most American readers, being remembered, if at all, as some sort of decadent poet and novelist who enjoyed a stormy love affair with the great actress Eleonora Duse. But in his time, he was as famous as a rock star and in Italy remains to this day a figure of huge literary,...

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by Mauro Battocchi   San Francisco's annual literary festival Litquake is gearing up for a week of panels, cross-media events and literary readings this October 11th to 19th in myriad locations around the Bay. For over a decade, Litquake has brought thousands of author appearances for an audience of over 100,000. What a great honor that risi...

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