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Great Italians: Cato, The Stoic Italian
L’articolo tratta della vita di Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, uno dei senatori romani nel 95 d.C. È ancora noto come…
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A Book Review: “The Fortunate Pilgrim”
The movie “The Godfather” was released when I was 16-years-old. At the time, I didn’t care much about it. But…
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“The Divine Comedy”
Imagine for a moment being lost, not just I-took-the-wrong-exit-off-the-freeway-in-the-middle-of-the-day lost, but good and lost. Imagine it is the middle of…
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A Book Review: “A Bell for Adano”
L’articolo descrive il libro A Bell for Adano di John Hersey. Il libro descrive la vita di Victor Joppolo, un…
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A Book Review: “Raphael, Painter in Rome”
Why does Michelangelo always get to be the hero? That is the opening line to “Raphael, Painter in Rome” by…
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Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher King?
Have you ever seen the movie “Gladiator”? It begins with an exciting battle between the Romans and Germanic tribes. There…
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A Book Review: The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
For each culture, certain books are required reading. For Italians and Italian Americans, in addition to Dante’s “La Divina Comedia”,…
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Book Review: “A Farewell to Arms”
Questo è un riassunto del libro “Addio alle Armi” di Ernest Hemingway. Il libro è considerato “un classico” perché fu…
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Tony Bennett
A luglio, è morto Tony Bennett, il cantante famosissimo in tutto il mondo. Bennett, come Frank Sinatra, era un “crooner”,…
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Great Italians: Giuseppe Garibaldi
In the book “How to Be a Stoic”, Massimo Pigliucci discusses the highly inflated use of the word hero. Although…
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