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Quasi come fossero due mondi diversi, lontanissimi: uno, pieno di occasioni, aperto al mondo della musica; l’altro piu’ chiuso, difficile da vivere per un artista, per un musicista. Ne sa qualcosa Andrea De Luca, talentuoso bluesman romano di 37 anni, ‘costretto’ a lasciare casa, Roma, l’Italia, per gli Stati Uniti. Un amore, quello per il mondo a...

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The Hon. Frank Guarini, Chair of John Cabot University's Board of Trustees, has provided a generous donation to the Columbus Citizens Foundation providing scholarships up to $5,000 for five Italian-American visiting students at JCU each year. The scholarship application for the 2018-2019 academic year is now open for students who meet the following...

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Hello everyone! My name is Nicole and I am a Marketing major at John Cabot University. Last summer I had the chance to start interning at the Marketing Department of CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee). There, I started collaborating with the project manager of an international tennis event called Next Gen ATP Finals.

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After world war two, Rome lured several American artists whose work became more abstract as they assimilated into the city’s creative community. Piero Dorazio, the internationally-minded Italian artist, recalled that “Americans were no longer going to Paris – that had been in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1950s, Rome was full of artists.”  The image...

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Ha assunto le redini dell’American Academy in Rome, seguendo un florido triennio che ha visto sotto la direzione di Kimberly Bowes, cominciata nel 2014, la presidenza di Mark Robbins e la direzione artistica di Peter Benson Miller, entrambi in carica, l’istituzione americana diventare uno degli avamposti culturali più interessanti e all’avanguardia...

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Author: Mike Duncan, Title: "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic", Publisher: Public Affairs 2017; 265 pp. of text "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic" is Mike Duncan’s first book following on his career as a podcaster of 189 weekly episodes on the "History of Rome." Thi...

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In this intoxicating short documentary, Valerio Ciriaci chronicles a day in the life of the contemporary Roman Jewish community. The only cultural group that has lived in Rome uninterrupted since the days of the empire, Roman Jews have fostered their own unique set of traditions. Taking place over the course of one day, Iom Romi (A Day in Rome) pro...

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E' il 5 dicembre dell’anno appena concluso: dopo la Conferenza dei Servizi-fiume, durata due giorni, arriva l’attesissimo ‘sì’ al progetto di Tor di Valle. Roma e la Roma esultano, Pallotta è entusiasta: “È come se mi avessero tolto un peso dalle spalle”, dirà qualche giorno dopo. Da quel momento è entrata nel vivo la caccia agli investitori, rassi...

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Vatican City has been governed by men since it was established as an independent state in 1929. A year ago, however, a woman joined the upper ranks: Barbara Jatta, the first female director of the Vatican Museums. In the 12 months since her appointment, Ms. Jatta has put her stamp on the role, resisting some of her predecessor’s initiatives and for...

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On Tuesday, December 19th, a few blocks from the Vittorio Emanuele piazza in Rome, about 60 folks gathered at a funky cinema club called Apollo 11, one of those independent-community institutions respected by everyone in the Rome’s film scene.  It was a small yet fascinating crowd of people who had heard about Tiramisu For Two in some way or the ot...

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