Culture

Bringing the dead back to life has long been the stuff of miracles and horror stories, strictly due to supernatural forces, whether good or evil.  However, starting with Galileo, the Father of Modern Science, people searched for a more naturalistic explanation …

Do you find it near impossible to drag your children to a museum in search of exposing them and yourself to the rich cultures upon which our modern societies were founded? Yes? No? Well, many do, and the developers at …

Fifteen years ago, I was fortunate enough to take a tour through the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and have the humbling experience of standing beneath Michelangelo’s masterpiece, “The Creation of Adam”.  I could make out the figures of God and Adam …

Dear Readers, When Christopher Columbus landed on the Caribbean island he later named San Salvador on October 12, 1492, a “New World” was discovered and the future history of the entire world was altered. “Grazie” to Signor M.A. and other …

“Ottima merce, ottimo servizio, profitto limitato”. Una risposta lapidaria accompagnava chiunque chiedesse informazioni ai fratelli Frank e Anthony sul loro successo imprenditoriale. E nelle tre frasi vi era tutta la saggezza e perspicacia di chi vedeva nella propria attività il …

We all watched Paolo Sorrentino’s Academy Award-winning film The Great Beauty, and we all dreamed of walking with the protagonist through the Rome’s magnificent Renaissance architecture. One of the most beautiful spots celebrated by the movie and loved by tourists from …

When Mina Gregori, one of the greatest living Caravaggio experts, found herself in front of a portrait of a young girl in the private collection of a European family, she said “Finally, it’s her”. The painting was found this past …

One hundred years ago, the whole world was fighting over territory and power. Unresolved political, territorial, and economic conflicts among the major European nations, where imperialism and nationalism had been constantly growing since the 19th century, fuelled military rivalries and …

My wife and I decided before our daughter was born that we wanted her to visit as many zoos, aquariums, parks and museums as possible.  Last month one of our excursions took us to the Queens Museum in New York …

Nino De Vita was born in 1950 on the western side of Sicily near the town of Marsala. Among his many books of poetry, he has published three children’s books. Over the last fifteen years, he has won some of …