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History & culture
TI-RA-MI-SU “Pick-Me-Up”
“Tiramisu” is the fifth most recognized Italian word amongst Europeans, appearing in the vocabulary of 23 different languages. The literal…
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History & culture
“For Without Culture, Man Has No Soul”
L’Ohio Regional Music Arts Cultural Outreach (ORMACO) è un’organizzazione nonprofit. Quest’organizzazione porta diverse opportunità culturali alle comunità dove non ne…
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History & culture
La Sartoria Italiana in the Bespoke Tradition
L’autrice descrive la bellezza della sartoria italiana. Lei scrive che “la sprezzatura”, è un modo di cucire fatto con meno…
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In Awe of Stars and the Moon
Our family’s matriarch, my mother Clara, will celebrate 91 years of age this December. Mom was at the helm of…
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History & culture
L’Unione Italiana
L’Unione Italiana, “The Italian Club” in Ybor City just north of downtown Tampa, FL, is in this great little neighborhood…
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History & culture
Michelangelo’s Pietas
Michelangelo Buonarroti, born 1475 in Florence, lauded painter and architect of the Sistine Chapel, poet, and inventor considered himself first…
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History & culture
Michelangelo’s Pieta
The greatest influence on the European world of art, economics, culture, and intellectual achievement was the Italian Renaissance. Florentine artist,…
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People
“Le Avventure di Pinocchio: Storia di un Burattino” (The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet)
Folk and fairy tales filled with allegorical symbolism were originally shared amongst adults in the oral tradition until Charles Perrault…
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Local News
Holiday Events in Little Italy Cleveland
Even though winter is ahead of us, Little Italy Cleveland has plenty of reasons for us to venture out and…
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History & culture
To Catch a Thief
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” also known as La Gioconda, has more than just her smile and eyes shrouded in…
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