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Below is our interview with Robert and Lili of Espressino Travel who I had the pleasure to meet years ago during a memorable trip to Italy’s Salento. What struck me personally about them was their unabashed enthusiasm for the people they had met in Puglia and how much they wanted to show their guests a once-in-a-lifetime slow travel experience. Thi...

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“If you love Italy, keep your distance,” reiterated Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on the evening of April 26. In the 30-minute live address, the PM explained plans to reopen Italy gradually, beginning on May 4. While bookstores, stationers and children’s clothing stores were allowed to resume business on April 14, all manufacturing, constru...

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An Anglo-Italian partnership is on the frontline in the development of a coronavirus vaccine, which could be ready in September, researchers said. The venture brings together Italian company Advent-IRBM -- based in the city of Pomezia, south of Rome -- and the Jenner Institute of the University of Oxford. The team has accelerated human testing of t...

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The United States Delegation of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George recently announced its full participation in fundraising efforts by the Constantinian Order Charity Onlus to assist Southern Italian hospitals to fully minister to the needs of those affected by COVID-19. “The COVID-19 crisis shows us that we are part of a world...

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Pininfarina, the legendary Italian design house, is still almost fully operational despite its 650 staff and 250 contractors all working from home during coronavirus lockdown. Headquartered in Cambiano, just outside Turin in north-west Italy, Pininfarina is best known for its automotive designs and former decades-long partnership with Ferrari—but i...

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In the epic Latin poem “The Aeneid,” written between 29 and 19 BC, the Roman poet Virgil coined the phrase “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes ” which translated into English means “Be wary of Greeks bearing gifts.” The adage is commonly used to warn of a supposed gift or act of virtue that is a hidden threat.  This timeless warning has even more import...

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How people will gather in person in the foreseeable future is unpredictable. But let's assume they won't be eager to rub shoulders with large numbers of strangers anytime very soon. So how will visitors approach places like North Beach, that swath of idiosyncratic, locally owned restaurants, coffeehouses, shops, bars, clubs and historic sites that...

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Four days before the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Italy on January 31, a small biotech firm in the outskirts of Rome announced it was pivoting its business. Researchers at Takis Biotech, which had been focused on cancer treatments, would instead set about developing a vaccine for the rapidly spreading coronavirus. With the virus now ra...

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John Joseph Corsano, loving son, brother, uncle, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, passed away April 8, 2020, of COVID-19-related complications. Corsano was born Nov. 5, 1926, in Bridgeport. A lifelong resident of Fairfield, he is the son of Carmella and Nicholas Corsano, both Italian immigrants. He is the brother to Mary Corsano...

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The coronavirus was already a disaster for Meorina Mazza. In March, it sickened her brother, killed her cousin and prompted officials in Italy’s southern region of Calabria to quarantine her seaside town of San Lucido. But the lockdown also cut her off from her off-the-books shifts as a kitchen hand and made it harder to apply for welfare. Now she...

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