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NIAF will make 30 scholarships available to students for the 2013-2014 academic year, and its Voyage of Discovery program will take about 20 U.S. students on an expense-paid trip to Italy this summer. NIAF scholarship applications and information is now available online at www.niaf.org/scholarships. Deadline to apply is March 1, 2013. NIAF Voyage...

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Inaugurating "2013—The Year of Italian Culture" in the United States, the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., will unveil the only presentation in the United States of the "David-Apollo" by Michelangelo, on loan from Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence. The "David-Apollo," last seen in Washington in 1949, will be on public view in th...

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The Abruzzo Molise Heritage Society (AMHS) is pleased to announce our next general Society meeting program for Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Casa Italiana (595 ½ 3rd Street NW, Washington DC) at 1:00 pm. We will watch an amazing film entitled "Cuore Napoletano." If you have ever wondered about the origins of the famous Neapolitan songs, this...

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On Dec. 4, a book presentation with Italian judge and chief executive of the Italian Ministry of Justice Stefano Dambruoso, author of "A Moment Before," about how fundamentalist terrorism has changed in the 10 years since 9-11. Moderated by Italians in DC President Ivan Butina, the panel will include: Italian journalist Guido Olimpio; Eric Terzuolo...

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*John M. Viola Elected NIAF President* (Washington, D.C. – March 15, 2013) Joseph V. Del Raso, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, has been elected chairman of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) for a four-year term, 2013-2017. Del Raso has been a member of the NIAF Board of Directors since 1989, and he served as general counsel of N...

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Dante Alighieri was a writer, a poet, a political figure and an innovative artist. During his time, he was famous, yet his true and wide fame came after his death. If you google his name, it is surprising how much you find and of what nature.   Dante and the Divine Comedy has inspired the most different and sometime weird kind of things over...

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On Dec. 7, ParoLab, the book club of Italians in DC, will host a presentation of "A New Map: The Poetry of Migrant Writers in Italy" co-edited by Italian-French poet and critic Mia Lecomte. Italophone Argentinian poet Candelaria Romero and Lecomte will read from their poetry collections, Georgetown University professor of Italian Nicoletta Pireddu...

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Inaugurato da MAPACI (Mamme e Papà per la Cultura Italiana) - neonato gruppo di Italians in DC - in collaborazione con Casa Italiana/Ente Gestore, parte GIRO GIROTONDO - Bambini a DC, il variegato programma di attività e corsi in italiano per bambini madrelingua!   Lo scopo delle attività è di promuovere l'uso della lingua italiana tra i bam...

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by Beth J. Harpaz   Pope Francis will visit three U.S. cities, Washington, D.C., New York and Philadelphia, Sept. 23-27. For travelers with an interest in sacred places, here are some of the top Catholic heritage sites — including several on the pope's itinerary — in those cities.   Washington, D.C. St. Matthew's Cathedral, 1725 Rhod...

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L'On. Francesca La Marca ha partecipato sabato 17 ottobre a Washington alla prima riunione di coordinamento consolare negli USA tra i COMITES, i parlamentari della ripartizione, i rappresentanti del CGIE e i Direttori degli Istituti di cultura. Ha presieduto l'incontro l'Ambasciatore d'Italia Claudio Bisogniero, presenti anche il consigliere econom...

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