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FORTY-TWO YEARS AGO, GABRIELE RAUSSE received a phone call from a childhood friend who told him he had to “drop everything and come to America.” The phone call was from one viticulturist to another. Rausse was 30 years old and working on a French vineyard. (He had been working in Australian wine, but his visa was revoked on a technicality.) His chi...

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Alessandro Sabbadini was dishonorably discharged, his head shaved for extra humiliation, and jettisoned from the Italian army for being Jewish. It was 1939. Italy the year before had passed its racial law that stripped Jews of their citizenship, property, livelihoods and ultimately their lives. Sabbadini, using family connections and a knowledge of...

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Ieg-Italian Exhibition Group (la società fieristica nata a fine 2016 dall’integrazione tra Rimini e Vicenza) sbarca negli Stati Uniti. E lo fa attraverso l’acquisizione del 51% di Fb International, uno dei più quotati player di allestimenti oltreoceano, 16 milioni di dollari di fatturato, un Ebitda sopra il 15% e un’ottantina di dipendenti tra Oakl...

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When Lewis Eisenberg's nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Italy and San Marino was confirmed earlier this summer, he said he promised himself to make the U.S. military here a top priority and to visit bases as soon as possible after his arrival in Rome. Eisenberg visited U.S. Army Garrison Italy's Caserma Ederle and Del Din Dec. 5 and Camp Darby near...

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In 2005, David Griffin and James Ferrara hosted a weeklong house party at a restored villa in Italy’s northeastern Veneto region. Villa Saraceno, built in 1545, is one of 20 or so surviving estates designed by Andrea Palladio, one of the greatest Italian architects of the Renaissance. During their stay, Griffin and Ferrara became smitten with the v...

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By Michelle E. Shaw Italian-made chandeliers, shoes and garden statues are just a few of the things Antonio Allegranzi managed to share with people in America.And it wasn't by chance that Allegranzi moved from his boyhood home in Vicenza, Italy, to Roswell in 1994, family members said. It was always part of the plan. Alessandro Allegranzi, said h...

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I leave tonight for VicenzaOro, taking place Jan. 23–28 in Vicenza, Italy, and while it's long been an event to see new designs from Italian manufacturers, it's increasingly becoming a livelier international destination.   Some American firms are in the mix: Great Neck, N.Y.–based Le Vian is exhibiting for the second consecutive year, and He...

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Americans can immerse themselves in a founding father's genius at an art exhibition dedicated to the idea that all architects are not created equal. Many make great buildings. Only a few change the world.   Among the few are Thomas Jefferson and Andrea Palladio. The exhibition, "Jefferson and Palladio: Constructing a New World," explores Jef...

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Città: HoustonPaese: STATI UNITIPeriodo di svolgimento: 01/04/2013 - 31/12/2013Partners: Made in VicenzaDescrizione: La Italy America Chamber of Commerce of Texas (IACC), in collaborazione con Made in Vicenza, Confartigianato Vicenza e Banca Popolare di Vicenza, organizzerà una delegazione in Texas di 10/15 imprese italiane del settore arredo e cer...

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Vicenza incanta l'ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti d'America John R. Phillips. E' accaduto stamani quando il massimo rappresentante della diplomazia americana in Italia, in visita per la prima volta in città insieme alla moglie e al console generale Kyle R. Scott, è stato accompagnato dal vicesindaco Jacopo Bulgarini d'Elci prima in Basilica Palladia...

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