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di Roberto Natalini   Il più grande ed ambizioso evento nel programma delle celebrazioni per il "2013: Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti".   Si profila essere un evento storico la prima collaborazione artistica tra il Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, il più antico teatro d'opera ancora attivo in Europa, e la rinomata San Fra...

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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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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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by Andrea Carli   Cakes and candies, cakes and candies and more cakes and candies, and the diet can wait. At the end of the Easter holidays, families will have taken €400 million out of their pockets to buy confections, estimated Codacons, a consumer association.   Six out of ten Italians will serve the Colomba cake (shaped like a dov...

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Traveling around Naples, Pompeii, and Ercolano: with the Campania Express, you can now take the special train with a 50 minute ride. This special train makes only 2 stops, one at Ercolano-Scavi (Herculaneum) and the other Pompei-Villa dei Misteri (Pompeii), with six different per day.   The train has been started in May 2015 at the stat...

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November 24, 2015–January 6, 2016 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New York, NY 10028 - #MetChristmasTree - Purchase advance tickets to avoid waiting in admission lines. Exhibitions are free with Museum admission. Gallery 305   The Museum continues a longstanding holiday traditio...

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