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  Easter travel plans and trends for Italians in 2025 Pasquetta: Italy's Easter monday Natale di Roma: happy birthday to the Eternal city National day for organ and tissue donation 2025 in Italy Made in Italy innovation: the smart waste bin for sustainability Italian real estate market trends: energy-efficient homes, bare ownership and rising luxur...

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C.I.A.O. – the Cultural Italian American Organization based on the South Shore (Boston, MA) - is moving ahead to gather the resources necessary to support its Italian Language and Cultural High school and Adult Education Programs.  The Italian American Alliance has been heavily involved with this language program since its inception through the eff...

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A "Global Community of Italophony" to promote political dialogue, international cooperation, exchanges, and connections between civil societies, as well as cultural, economic, scientific, and academic relations among its members: this is the goal outlined at the fifth edition of the General States of the Italian Language in the World, which took pl...

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Last semester saw the first few meetings of the Italian Film Club, a new student organization that meets every other Wednesday to view and discuss Italian cinema and television from across various decades. The club was brought about by Quin McGlame ‘25 and Teddy Salamone ‘27, both of whom had taken classes taught by the professor who would be broug...

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Professor of Linguistics Donna Jo Napoli has been named to the prestigious ranks of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. “A linguist down to [her] toes” and a steadfast advocate for the deaf, Napoli joins a venerable cadre of scientists, engineers, and innovators whom AAAS recognized for their achievements across an a...

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We welcome Prof. Paolo Scartoni as lecture of Italian at Washington University in St Louis. Paolo Scartoni’s research focuses on the relationship between music and language in medieval Italian literature. He earned his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from Rutgers University (2024) where he defended a dissertation entitled The Sound of Morals: Figures of G...

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Contrary to what some believe, considering them a relic of the past, Italian dialects are more alive than ever today, especially online. According to the latest available Istat data, over 45% of Italians still speak a dialect at home or with friends, and younger generations are increasingly mixing Italian with local words, often without even realiz...

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“I always say I was born here, but my heart was truly born in Italy.” Those are the words of Anna Izzo, who studied in Italy, traveled the country extensively, and now teaches Italian at Elk Grove High School in suburban Chicago. Izzo, who calls herself “a student at heart,” holds several degrees. She has undergraduate degrees in Italian, Spanish a...

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic (MAECI) offers foreign universities the opportunity to apply for grants for the creation and operation of Italian language chairs to support the promotion of the Italian language and culture abroad. The grants for Italian language chairs are intended to partially...

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We all know that Italians love to talk. It may be friends discussing soccer at a café, an elderly woman sharing stories at the market, or a businessman passionately debating politics over an espresso, it doesn’t really matter: conversation is at the heart of Italian social life. This is also why Italians are known worldwide for their expressiveness...

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