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Cerca trova.   Translated means “seek, find.”  Words almost hidden in the fresco “Battle of Marciano” painted by Italian artist Giorgio Vasari in 1563 found in Florence at Palazzo Vecchio in the Hall of the Five Hundred.   Perhaps a …

Il momento più emozionante della visita (la prima del suo pontificato) di Papa Bergoglio nell’isola di Lampedusa – estremo lembo d’Italia, autentica porta, per chi proviene dalle coste africane, verso l’Europa – si è verificato quando il Pontefice, scortato da …

Once a year since 1955 Hollywood moves to Sicily for a week. The Ancient Theatre of Taormina, atop a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, turns into the setting of one of the most famous film festivals in the world, and …

Anche quest’anno si è svolta, la meravigliosa infiorata di Genzano di Roma, unica nel suo genere e famosa in tutto il mondo, caratterizzata dalla messa in scena di un incantevole tappeto floreale combinato dai migliori maestri infioratori. Questa celebrazione, seppur …

Simone Cinotto has a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Genoa. He teaches U.S. and Italian history, as well as food history, at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy, where he also directs the Masters Program …

Contemporary jazz hits the stage of the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles. Sottovoce (literally “softly”) was the title of this performance, a unique combination of traditional and contemporary music, a lyrical musical journey where folk, jazz, and classical sounds …

In my last column, we opened the wine book on the big, stately and beautiful wine country of Sonoma and stretched our legs at Jordan Winery, the 1,200 acre Bordeaux style winery and vineyard just north of Healdsburg.  This week …

Dear Readers, On July 4th let me refresh your memory and mine on the Declaration of Independence, signed July 4, 1776 (in Philadelphia) and learn about Italian and Italian American contributions to the American Revolutionary War.   Although the colonists …

On my first few visits to Montalcino, I would pass a little closed door in one of the walls of the village.  I was never able to catch it open to learn what was behind this mysterious door. Finally a …

As the traveling exhibition “Italy of The Future” makes its round of the world’s major cultural capitals, the innovative international tour is now arriving in the City by the Bay.   After its debut in Tokyo last April, 2013, cities …