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by Mauro Battocchi   It's been nearly three years since I took the post of Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, and while a lot has happened, many themes of San Francisco Italy remain strongly in force: Italians are contributing to Silicon Valley in meaningful ways; Italy is attracting world-class talent to set up shop in Europe; Italia...

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Kicking off Italy's "Year of Italian Culture in the USA", the Museo ItaloAmericano is pleased to present the a new exhibit featuring five contemporary Italian artists. From April 18 through July 21, 2013, in celebration of Italy's arts the Museo will present "Contemporaneity: Signs of Modern Times" an exhibit by the Sedna group. Sedna is made up o...

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by Mauro Battocchi   Beginning this Saturday September 21st, pristine elegance in the form of jewelry will be on display at the De Young Museum as an exhibit entitled The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950 - 1990. Approximately 150 mesmerizing pieces from the famed Roman jewelry shop will grace the museum and offer lush insight...

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On May 4th at 4:00PM at the Museo Italo Americano, we will come together to focus on the importance of adding a Latin-rooted language — Italian — to your language skills. Above all, learning a language is beneficial to your outlook on life and gives you a new perspective from which to view and understand the world.

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By Mauro Battocchi Rick Belluzzo belongs to a generation of successful Italian Americans that are eager to rediscover their roots in Italy. To that end, he recently reclaimed his Italian citizenship and is also investing in Italian startups. He even found time recently to pen a book with his colleague Krish Dhanam — available on Amazon. Entitled...

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As part of SF Design Week, the Italian Cultural Institute is proud to present a tribute to one of the greatest Italian designers of the 20th century, Vico Magistretti.   Starting from Tuesday, June 10, the galleries of the Institute will host an exhibition made possible by the collaboration with the Milan-based Fondazione Studio Museo Vico M...

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by Bianca Friundi   Nothing is as important to an Italian as their family, "La Famiglia". We Italians define our family not only in the traditional sense, but also extend it to the community which encompasses our daily lives. In San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, there is a little known group of Italian expatriates from the northern Ita...

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My father died six months before I was born in 1919. He was in his 50s and suffered a heart attack on the stoop of his house in Yonkers, N.Y. Months after I was born, my mother was institutionalized for depression. My Aunt Emilie from France and her husband took me in, and we soon moved to France, near Strasbourg.   My first memory is b...

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Did you know that an Italian castle clings to Telegraph Hill? And, this one was created and owned by Italian immigrant Julius' Roz and designed by Italian architect Louis Mastropasqua.   If you walk up to 302 Greenwich Street where it meets up with Montgomery Street, there clings a castle, called Julius' Castle. Rarely does one find a castle...

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Nei prossimi mesi di luglio ed agosto c'è un appuntamento settimanale da non perdere per gli amanti del cinema italiano residenti nella Baia di San Francisco.   Sta riscuotendo una grande popolarità, infatti, il cineforum intitolato "La Pellicola della Politica" organizzato dall'associazione di studenti di italiano all'Università di Berkeley...

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