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What is a little free library? A little free library – literally a small free library – is a publicly owned place where free books are exhibited, available to everyone without timetables. The idea of sprinkling the world with books accessible to all started from the USA, where Todd Bol and Rick Brooks built in 2009 the first “Little Free Library” a...

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One hundred more fantastic personalities originally from 70 cities, towns, and villages around the Abruzzo region of Italy. They currently reside in 25 countries around the world and on all continents. This is the content of the second volume of I Messaggeri d'Abruzzo nel Mondo (The Messengers of Abruzzo Around the World) by Dom Serafini, published...

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The author has a relationship with a city that he describes as magical. After living in Rome, he realized that everything in this place has a story: the people, the buildings, the statues, even the street corners. In this book he gathers these stories, having interviewed street performers, Romans, expats, historians and archaeologists. Reading thi...

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Fabio Girelli-Carasi’s, Rope and Soap: Lynchings of Italians in the United States (the English translation of Patrizia Salvetti’s work intitled Corda e sapone: storie di linciaggi di Italiani negli Stati Uniti) and the documentary, Linciati: Lynchings of Italians in America in jointly provide an enlightened understanding of the episodes of lynching...

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In 1818, Giovanni Grassi, S.J., published the first of three Italian-language editions of a pamphlet of his observations of the United States. Georgetown’s Second Founder presents the first English translation of his insights based on his seven years of residence in Washington. This college administrator shared with Italian readers his observations...

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Congratulations to NIAF Friend Giovanna McBride for publishing her new children’s book about her own childhood, Gigi at the White House! During the George W. Bush Administration, Gigi had many adventures visiting her mother Anita Bevacqua McBride, then chief of staff to First Lady Laura Bush and now a NIAF Board Member and its Vice Chair National....

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When: Wednesday, June 09, 2021 At 1:00 pm - Organized by : Red Car Press In collaboration with : San Diego Italian Film Festival and Italian Cultural Institute Los Angeles - Entrance : Free Join us for an online discussion about the events surrounding the tragic Voyage of the St. Louis, as told in the graphic novel Voyage of the St. Louis made in I...

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A cycle of 4 lectures by Professor Luigi Ballerini (Emeritus UCLA): First session: June 4, 6 PM EST Dante’s Ulysses and Boccaccio’s Guido Cavalcanti: early examples of a renewed concept of VIRTUE. The value of LITERATURE. Second session: June 11, 6 PM EST Florentine Humanism – A philological approach to Greek and Latin Texts. The Fall of Constantin...

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On March 25, 2021, in a letter to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death, Pope Francis called the Italian poet "a prophet of hope." That may surprise readers who best know Dante for his Inferno, a celebrated account of his passage into the underworld — a hell with nine circles, each more terrible than the last.  Inferno is the...

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 Sony Pictures Television’s TriStar is adapting Laurie Fabiano’s bestselling 2010 historical novel Elizabeth Street for television, with Edoardo Ponti (The Life Ahead) attached to direct and executive produce. Tyler Hisel (Treadstone, Wayward Pines) has written a pilot for the project, based on Fabiano’s own great-grandmother’s epic struggles. Eliz...

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