L'italo-americano Staff

Three Italian films will run at the Cannes Film Festival next month: they are Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre (My Mother), Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth and Matteo Garrone’s Il Racconto dei Racconti (Tale of the Tales).      Moretti’s film Mia …

The Golden Altar at the front of the nave was made in 835: the wonderful masterpiece of the golden altar for the Basilica of Saint Ambrose was commisioned by Bishop Erminio De Scalzi who was very careful about the iconographic details.  …

  While Rome’s city council had planned in June 2014 to change the square near the Forum of Trajan into a car-free area, the Lazio regional court (TAR) rejected the pedestrain zone as people working in the area and locals complained.   For …

What does affect you most when you travel to Italy? According to a British magazine, there are ten things about Italians and their culture that visitors consider strange and they usually ignore until they have to face them, like for …

Washington chiama Milano. In attesa di Expo Milano 2015, nell’ambito di una serie di iniziative a tema organizzate dall’Ambasciata d’Italia a Washington, si sono tenute nella capitale americana due conferenze della celebre storica del cibo ed esperta di cucina italiana …

Today is the 350th birthday of the Italian inventor of the piano. Indeed, the story of the piano begins in Padua, Italy in 1709, in the shop of a harpsichord maker named Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, who was employed by …

A new exhibition of the Shroud, the alleged burial cloth of Jesus Christ, kicked off on Sunday in Turin. According to the organizers, millions of tourists and pilgrims will visit the city and the cathedral to see the relic, made …

Thirthy months after landslides which forced the closure of the tourist path in the Cinque Terre, a portion of the famous via dell’Amore has reopened. Indeed, about 200 meters on the path leading to the village of Manarola, in the …

“Dal Paradiso, canto primo; la gloria di colui che tutto muove…” così, voce ferma, occhi in telecamera e semplicità, l’astronauta dell’Esa Samantha Cristoforetti inizia la sua lettura della Divina Commedia dallo spazio. Il video è stato oggi proiettato, a cura …

For generations, molisani are known for using the Prunus Spinosa Trigno plants for beneficial purposes, as well as to make us a liqueur, the prugnoli. But now, for the first time, a scientific study of the Institute of Health (ISS) …