The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the 2016 Rome Prize. For over a century, the Academy has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative work in the arts and humanities. Through a national juried competition, Rome Prizes are awarded to emerging and established artists and scholars working in the following discipline...
READ MOREItaly, and specifically the cities of Rome and Parma, have received major recognition from UNESCO. The UN agency for education, science and culture today declared Rome a "Creative City for Film." This prestigious international endorsement was officially announced in Paris. The the capital – which is already part of UNESCO's Heritage of Mankind...
READ MOREL'italiano come risorsa, e come strumento centrale per la promozione dell'Italia e della sua cultura. Se ne discuterà nell'incontro "Parliamone: l'italiano come risorsa" in programma alla Sala delle Conferenze Internazionali della Farnesina mercoledì 29 gennaio, a partire dalle ore 10. Interverranno in qualità di relatori il Ministro degli...
READ MORERoma - Con l'intervento alla convention dei Cavalieri di Colombo, davanti a una platea di oltre duemila delegati provenienti da tutti gli Stati Uniti e ad altri ospiti internazionali, ha avuto inizio la missione del sindaco Gianni Alemanno a Los Angeles e San Francisco. L'intervento del sindaco ha ripercorso la quasi centenaria relazione tra la com...
READ MORECommander, U.S. 6th Fleet traveled to the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial in Nettuno, Italy, to honor American service members who have lost their lives in the line of duty, May 26. Vice Adm. Phil Davidson, commander, U.S 6th Fleet, attended the memorial service as a guest speaker to honor 7,861 dead and 3,095 missing American sons and...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #49 2014 December, 10Author : Anna Stein Translation by: Celebrating Thanksgiving in the rural town of Castelnuovo, surrounded by a group of about sixty native Italians eating lasagna and parmesan crepes, my seven American friends and I were certainly in for a once-in-a-lifetime holiday experience. Despite being away fro...
READ MOREThe Temple Peace, one of the lesser known structures of Rome's Imperial Fora, is set to rise again in time for the city's birthday commemoration, a cultural heritage official said Thursday. With reconstruction work set to begin in early March, five columns missing from what remains of the temple built by Emperor Vespasian in about 75 AD wi...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #60 2015 May, 15Author : Umberto Mucci Translation by: Ciao from Rome! Next Friday May 22nd We the Italians will be in Salerno, talking about the Italian emigration to the US, presenting our good friend Luca Guardabascio's new book, "Pietre sull'oceano" – The story of Giovanni Esposito and Joe Petrosino. Luca is an Itali...
READ MOREby Giulia Crivelli The fashion world and Gucci in particular take another step in supporting the preservation of important Italian works of art. The luxury brand announced Tuesday in Rome that it will lead the sponsorship of the exhibition "Prince of Dreams: The Medici's Joseph Tapestries by Pontormo and Bronzino." Gucci is not th...
READ MOREConfcommercio organizza a Roma il prossimo 5 dicembre un Convegno, d'intesa con Ebit Roma e in collaborazione con lo Studio Legale Jason, Di Martino and Associates con sede a Los Angeles, dal titolo "Nuove Opportunità d'impresa negli Stati Uniti: avviare un'attività commerciale in California". I lavori inizieranno alle ore 9.30 e ci sarà m...
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