Dear friends, since the beginning of the year, we have been working on a new version of our website, which will be online by the end of May. Our new We the Italians will be more innovative, faster, and more rational. There will be several new features, but the biggest change concerns the areas into which we have divided the United States from the v...

The new tour of Italian Gesture Ambassador Luca Vullo will begin on April 7 and conclude on April 11 in Florida. Through one-man shows, workshops, and cultural entertainment talks, Vullo will visit the Universities of Boca Raton and Orlando, completing the tour in Miami with events at the Italian Cultural Institute and Italian classes at the Intern...

On Oct 24, 2024, the UNICO Highland Beach Chapter proudly hosted its annual Italian Heritage Night at Saint Joan of Oak, Roman Catholic Church, Mercy Hall ,  Boca Raton, FL  in honor of Italian Heritage Month. The event brought together over 120 guests to celebrate Italian culture, cuisine & community. The event featured many traditional Italian di...

We are thrilled to announce that on March 28th, the anthology "E c'erano gerani rossi dappertutto" will be released in Italy in both print and ebook formats. This anthology, published by Radici Edizioni, was meticulously curated by Valentina Di Cesare and Michela Valmori, with the aim of amplifying the voices of the Italian diaspora in North Americ...

What better timing than Italian-American Heritage Month to officially welcome Michele Misto in his new post as consul general of Italy in Miami. “Now you have a second home in Palm Beach County,” Vice Mayor Maria Sachs said at the College of Arts & Letters’ official welcome luncheon in the East Engineering building on Florida Atlantic University’s...

FAU Italian Program presents two nights with Maria Teresa Cannizzaro: “Italian Jewels from Dante to Rhode Island” Show and Lecture. Thursday March 2, 7PM in PA 101 Precious Stones and their Meanings in  Dante’s Divine Comedy; Friday March 3, 7PM in PA 101 Italian American Custom Jewelry: Tradition and Creativity. Maria Teresa Cannizzaro is an autho...

The VII International Symposium “Italy in Transit” will be hosted by the Italian program at Florida Atlantic University, on February 10th and 11th, 2023. The Symposium is organized in collaboration with the FAU Study of the Americas Initiative of the College of Arts and Letters, the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, New York, the Sardini...

The Grand Lodge of Florida has opened the door to a possible partnership with the Italian Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Last January, at a special event hosted by the Sgt. F.M. Bonanno Lodge #2549 (Boca Raton, FL), a $1,000 check was presented to Dr. Ilaria Serra, Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies and the director...

Italy has wonderful representatives in the United States who tell its story, exalt its culture and language, narrate its traditions and innovations, its places and its beauties. To see them from Italy, where we are always ready to describe only our worst things, is exciting. One of the most competent people I have met in this field is also a person...

Ilaria Serra, Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies, recently published Italia cantata: Storia d’Italia attraverso le canzoni da Napoleone a Berlusconi, 1797-1997 (New York: Linus Learning, 2021). The volume is an Italian language and culture textbook for intermediate to advanced students. “I noticed that there was a lack of advanced Italian...