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Obama will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican on March 27th to discuss poverty and inequality, the White House said in a statement. While in Rome he will also meet Letta and Napolitano.   The visit is part of a wider Europe trip, which includes a US-EU summit in Brussels on March 26th, when Obama will meet with Herman Van Rompuy, presiden...

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The American Academy in Rome today announced that archaeologist and educator Kimberly Bowes, FAAR'06, has been named the 22nd Director of the American Academy in Rome. The appointment was announced today by Academy President/CEO Mark Robbins, FAAR'97.   She succeeds Professor Christopher S. Celenza, FAAR'94, who will step down...

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June 2013 - Los Angeles - Italian Cultural Institute   A conversation with the authors of the novels selected as finalists for the 2013 edition of the Premio Strega that includes Los Angeles as the only USA location for one of its readers Committes around the world.   The prestigious Premio Strega is an Award presented in Ro...

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UNICO National, the largest Italian American service and charitable organization in America and Marconi University, headquartered in Rome, Italy and accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education, announced a strategic relationship to promote educational and study abroad opportunities and to advance their shared objectives. Under the new relation...

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By John Kelly About 30 years ago, an Italian friend of ours visited. After a few days doing the tourist thing, he exclaimed: "I love Washington! It's like a Rome where everything works."   I don't know what Adriano would think of D.C. today, when Metro breaks down routinely and Congress seems proud of its dysfunction. But I understood his p...

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by Claudia Baroncelli   If you are planning to pop the question to your sweetheart, but don't know how to do it and (above all) where to do it, you should know that Italy has plenty of romantic places to act as the perfect setting for your proposal. Here are Swide's suggestions.   Perhaps secondo only to your wedding day and the arriv...

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  WTI Magazine #73    2015 November 27Author : John Cabot University      Translation by:   Italy's food culture is known the world over for being particularly tasty. For many study abroad students, the allure of a hot pizza on a night out, a steamy cappuccino on a morning walk, or some delicious tiramisù with...

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Roma, 10 ottobre 2013200esimo anniversario della nascita di Giuseppe Verdi Va pensiero.. L'importanza dell'opera di Giuseppe Verdi per le comunità italoamericaneLiceo Classico e Linguistico "G. Mazzini" di Genova Nell'anno del duecentesimo ann...

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Countries often become embattled over territory disputes, political turmoil and controversial leadership, and neighboring countries question their role in assisting the citizens in the warring country. In the mid-19th century, Italy experienced such a struggle, called the Risorgimento, which Dr. Etta Madden, professor of English at Missouri State U...

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by Hannah McGivern Five hundred years after the birth of St Teresa of Avila (1515-82), Gian Lorenzo Bernini's emotive Baroque sculpture of the Spanish nun experiencing religious ecstasy has been restored.   Conservators cleaned almost two decades of grime from statues in the Cornaro chapel of the Santa Maria della Vittoria church in Rome, i...

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