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Most people are familiar with the 2003 blockbuster movie Under the Tuscan Sun with Diane Lane, based on the New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years, by author Frances Mayes. Mayes bought the famed villa in 1990, and the movie was based on her memoir about restoring the house. In fact, you can even experience living that movie…...

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On Nov. 6, 2019, months before the coronavirus swept Italy, customers lined up outside bookstores there waiting for The Lying Life of Adults, the new novel from Elena Ferrante, whose Neapolitan quartet has become an international phenomenon. Book groups across the country held vigils reading aloud from previous works by their favorite author. Meanw...

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Ciao Amici! This year, the Italian American Program is celebrating 30 years as a part of the History Center and, in honor of this milestone, we are publishing a book entitled Highlights from the Italian American Collection: Western Pennsylvania Stories. While we might not be able to host a public event as we originally intended, we are offering a v...

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In Italian, we say "sempre avanti" — always forward, no matter what. That is what we've been telling ourselves these past few days, even as we received bad news about the government's Paycheck Protection Program. We had applied for the loan on day one, sent all the requested documentation, and our application had been pre-approved. But on Friday mo...

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In a place as vast and gastronomical as New York City, an instant sense of family and comfort is like finding a diamond in the rough. Chef Pietro Mosconi’s two family’s restaurants, Monte’s Trattoria and Villa Mosconi are exactly that. He is the “Nonno” that we all need when we go out to eat, still emerging from his New York City kitchens greeting...

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A comic book artist in coronavirus-ravaged Italy has crafted a set of drawings paying homage to the real-life female heroes of the pandemic. Milo Manara, 74, is spending his time in self-isolation in the hard-hit Veneto region drawing women on the front-lines of the fight against the virus, including medical professionals, police officers and sanit...

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In “Big Flavors From Italian America,” the new cookbook from Cook’s Country magazine, you get a healthy dose of history along with all the great recipes. There are countless cookbooks on Italian cooking, but this one focuses on how the Italian immigrants who settled in our country adapted dishes from their homeland. Tucker Shaw, editor in chief of...

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Few Italian novels have recently been able to cross national borders, without losing their expressive power. The so-called ‘Neapolitan novels’ written by Elena Ferrante — on which the successful TV series produced by Rai and HBO is based — have certainly been capable to do so. My Brilliant Friend’s tetralogy’s uniqueness lies not only in the powerf...

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Nei giorni della pandemia l'America scopre Alessandro Manzoni: la prima traduzione inglese in quasi mezzo secolo dei capitoli sulla peste dei Promessi Sposi è stata messa online dal sito LitHube e la loro attualità è risuonata piùforte che mai nella conversazione virtuale tra Stefano Albertini, il direttore della Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò della...

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Mon, April 13, 2020. 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT. Our Brilliant Friends - After Dinner Book Club and Watch Party. To benefit #SaveIndieBookstores. Join Elena Ferrante’s translator Ann Goldstein, Europa’s Editor in Chief Michael Reynolds, writer and poet Alexander Chee, and writer and producer Sarah Treem (The Affair) for an informal online conversation...

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