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History & culture
Brunelleschi’s Dome
One of the many wonderful things to do when visiting Italy is to admire the architecture, the Pantheon, Villa d’Este,…
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Great Italians: Saint Francis of Assisi
San Francesco d’Assisi è un santo cattolico ben noto ai cattolici. Francesco ebbe una vita difficile, povera e semplice. Nel…
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Great Italians: Rita Levi-Montalcini
This month we have just emerged from awards season, that period between November and February when all the rich and…
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Book Review: The Neapolitan Quartet
“The Neapolitan Quartet” is a set of novels to which many Americans have been introduced through the HBO series, “My…
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Great Italians: Dante, Poet of Love and War
L’articolo descrive la meravigliosa vita di Dante Alighieri. Nelle sue opere Dante aveva dato il senso ad un amore puro,…
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Why is Italian Food So Good?
November means Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving means food and family. In Italian families, food and family are one and the same.…
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Does Bambi Call His Dad on Father’s Day
L’articolo descrive il ruolo del padre nella famiglia. L’autore descrive che molte volte nelle storie delle famiglie, le madri sono…
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Bambi’s Sicilian Mother
“Mother? Where are you, mother?” If you have seen Disney’s “Bambi,” you know this scene. In the interests of those…
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Easter Traditions
I do not mean to be irreverent, but Easter Morning strikes me as kind of an epilogue, the final concluding…
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Bella Ciao
It is easy to make me cry. I know it is not considered manly to cry. Men must be stoic,…
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