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  WTI Magazine #57    2015 April, 3Author : Italia.it      Translation by:   A visit to Italy during the Easter holidays is an experience of a lifetime: from north to south, cities and towns throughout the Peninsula are celebrating during this time, with processions, religious rites, holy representations, sagre or food fairs, and folkloristic tr...

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Cento milioni di piccoli pacchi escono ogni anno dalle 35 linee di confezionamento che fanno di Besana, classe 1921, il più grande produttore e distributore italiano di frutta secca al mondo, presente da poco anche in Cina attraverso i negozi della catena Walmart.   Fondata dai fratelli Emilio e Vincenzo Besana oggi l’azienda – distrutta dur...

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Un percorso per scoprire gli autori della letteratura americana. Di quelli poco conosciuti in Italia, oppure noti solo perché i loro libri hanno riscosso così tanto successo da attirare l'attenzione di registi.   Ricordati dal pubblico, quindi, solo perché ispiratori di una pellicola di grande richiamo. Una fortuna per alcuni, una 'condanna'...

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AUR Alumn David Samulski (Archeology and the Classics, 2013) has recently completed a very successful internship with the Herculaneum Conservation Project in the Campania region of Italy. Acquiring the internship through AUR, David went to join the site for a month last July.   The internship itself was chance for David to be fully immersed...

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In Italian, the word "piccolo" means small, but there is nothing small about the variety of delicacies available at the new delicatessen, Piccolo Market, on Rte. 25 in Moultonborough.   Chef/owner Bill Bennett opened his deli with a small café in late December and has been adding delicious items to his menu ever since. Bennett, originally fr...

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The terracotta statuette shows the new mayor -- who has spoken proudly of his Italian heritage -- smiling and waving and wearing an Italian flag band like the one donned by mayors in Italy. It is on sale in San Gregorio Armeno, the Naples neighbourhood specialising in Christmas crafts, alongside representations of the traditional Holy Family a...

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WTI Magazine #9    2013 Dec, 13Author : Made in Cloister      Translation by:   Help us restore a renaissance Cloister in the heart of Naples and to begin a new story of art and fine craft. Supported by Laurie Anderson, Antony and the Johnsons, Lou Reed, Timothy Greenfield – Sanders, Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmi...

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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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Neapolitan Italian tenor Giovanni Formisano sings a recital of songs in Italian and in Neapolitan dialect with opera arias from Andrea Chenier, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Corsaro and L'Arlesiana. Sunday, 12 April, 2015, at 2:30 p.m. Dante Alighieri Society of MA - 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139   He will be assisted by...

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"Napule è mille culure, Napule è mille paure" (Naples is a thousand colors, Naples is a thousand fears) reads one of the most famous songs dedicated to the city. Words that express the uniqueness of Naples, a labyrinth of contradictions where Mediterranean light and harmony live together with the pitfalls of a chaotic and a metropolis impossible to...

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