LIFE & PEOPLE

Joe Medeiros and his wife/producer, Justine Mestichelli, after a pernickety investigation, lasted about five years, were able to connect all the dots and to paint an exhaustive picture about the Mona Lisa’s theft, on August 21, 1911. The multi-awarded documentary, …

To me, history is like morning coffee, I need it to function. I always loved it, since I was a child, and I’ve ended up making it the subject of my master’s degree and of my doctorate. No wonder, then, …

How does the striking city of Orvieto, Italy, a comune populated since Etruscan times, connect to San Francisco? The connection is easier than it might seem.  Both are known world-wide for their iconic topography, hilly terrain, quaint charm, and, as …

The path followed – nowadays – by Italian talents is usually marked by the need of taking skills and ideas abroad in order to make them successful. Very few times, these people get the opportunity to return to Italy and …

Carlo Fiorletta is an actor and producer but his position as President of the Guild for Italian American Actors is what separates him from many in the entertainment industry.  The Guild for Italian American Actors, known as GIAA, was first …

Twenty-two years separate the painting of the vault and the painting of the mural entitled the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was in Rome in 1533, already working on the sculptures for the tomb of Julius II, when …

Nino Martoglio  is universally acclaimed in Sicily as a figure larger than life. He excelled in many activities and by the time he died at the age of fifty, he was one of the most famous Sicilians of his times.  …

Walk down Corso Venezia, located  in one of Milan’s posh areas at 6 pm, and you’ll be hard pressed not to notice the new restaurant and lounge making waves in the city. Tartufi and Friends is the only restaurant chain …

“Italian-Americans across the United States, please help out!” This is the bare-bones message from Vito M. Campese, who ranks among the most prominent nephrologists in the field and is current President of the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America …

Music, an integral part of the Italian who migrates, makes its way through the generations of a new youth, like a gentle reminder and an historical and cultural identity that excites and inspires modern paths of personal development. With his …