Call for Papers! ISSNAF & LaFondazioneNY Award for the Humanities
by Mauro Battocchi Are you an Italian researcher born after April 1974 and currently working primarily in the United States or Canada? Here is a great opportunity for you. Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation and LaFondazioneNY are pleased to announce their 2014 Award for the Humanities, which acknowledges t...
Commedia dell’Arte Troupe Pazzi Lazzi Debuts at Fenway Center
When: Friday, February 21, 2014 – 7 p.m.Where: Fenway Center, 77 St Stephen St, Boston, MA 02115Performing its debut show, the Commedia dell'Arte Troupe Pazzi Lazzi, featuring Chiara Durazzini, Emanuele Capoano and Maya Attia will perform "Aria di Commedia – An Evening of Commedia dell'Arte and Italian Renaissance Music." The troupe Pazzi Lazzi wi...
Extraordinary frescoes for Ariosto's 540th birthday
In honor of 540 years after the birth of Ludovico Ariosto, the Valtellina celebrates the poet with the expository cycle Orlando Furioso in the Valtellina, Told in Frescoes. A unique legacy in its genre, the exposition is an historical journey through words and images, in three fresco cycles dating to the second half of the 1500s. Also in the...
Italian cinema: Hollywood shakings
WTI Magazine #22 2014 Mar, 21Author : Simone doc Bracci Translation by: Earthquake in Hollywood, but in a figurative sense. The real one, with a magnitude of 4.7, was felt a few days ago, very powerful in the City of Angels, almost as a warning of what is happening these days in the world's most powerful movie industry. Los Angeles h...
Unique events in celebration of Val di Non's apple blossoms
As spring arrives in Val di Non, the Valley in Trentino Alto Adige turns white anew, with thousands of of hectares of cultivated apple blossoms creating the effect of snow. Only Val di Non can offer such a unique showing of beauty. And what better way to celebrate the colors and fragrances in the air with Aprile Dolce Fiorire ("Sweet April Bl...
Dennis Pettinelli Named One of Signator Investors' Top 10 Reps Nationwide
Dennis Pettinelli, CLU, ChFC, CLTC, LUTCF , principal, Pettinelli Financial Partners, has been named as one of the top ten financial representatives nationwide for 2013 it was announced by Signator Investors, Inc., powered by John Hancock Financial Network. Signator management meets annually with this elite group seeking best practices foc...
Bethlehem to have small Italian festival in July, larger one next year
Bethlehem is getting an Italian festival. A small, initial festival will be held July 10, followed by a bigger Italian festival next spring. Bethlehem Councilman Bryan Callahan had proposed an Italian festival as a way to bring more people downtown after the snowy winter, which was tough for merchants. Callahan had wanted to do a big fest...
New York Subway Map Designer Massimo Vignelli Is Sick and Would Like Your Well Wishes
83-year-old Italian graphic designer Massimo Vignelli has a long list of iconic designs to his credit, including branding for American Airlines, Bloomingdales, and IBM, as well as the map for the New York City subway system. According to Creative Review, Vignelli is "very ill" and in his last days, he and his son Luca are asking "all those...
Italian scientists create baby-sized dialysis machine
Italian scientists created a tiny kidney dialysis machine to treat the smallest of babies, and used it to successfully treat a newborn with multiple organ failure. Existing dialysis machines are designed for adults and are adapted for newborns, but the researchers from San Bortolo Hospital in Vicenza said the modifications make them inaccurate. &...
La storia di Giacomo Martorana: l'italo-americano (di origini lucchesi) che morì nello sbarco in Normandia
Vi saremo eternamente grati", così il presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America, Barack Obama, questa mattina, ha voluto ricordare in un discorso, sentito e toccante, di più di 25 minuti quei ragazzi "pronti a dare la vita per qualcuno che non avevamo mai visto" durante le celebrazioni per il settantesimo anniversario dello sbarco in Normandia. ...
'My father's uncle killed Joe Petrosino'
Giuseppe "Joe" Petrosino, an acclaimed New York mafia investigator who had travelled to Palermo to work on a high-profile investigation, was shot dead in Palermo's Piazza Marina on March 12th 1909 while waiting to meet someone who claimed to be an informant. He was the first policeman to be killed in Palermo. His death came after details o...
A Vincenzo Arcobelli (Comites di Houston) il Premio Proserpina
Presidente del Comites di Houston e della Confederazione dei Siciliani in Nord America, oltre che coordinatore del Ctim Usa, Vincenzo Arcobelli ha ricevuto nei giorni scorsi in provincia di Bergamo il Premio Internazionale Proserpina, dei siciliani in Italia e nel mondo. A pubblicare la notizia è stato Alfio Cartalemi sul portale "95047.it...