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John Mancini – Founder and Executive Director

Our Saintly Competition

This week the Irish celebrate an Italic saint while we celebrate a Jewish one. Modern Romanophiles still celebrate Matronalia, motherhood & feminism The Roman St. Patrick not only led the conversion of heathen Celts but taught them to read and ...

Bill Dal Cerro, Senior Analyst

From Calabria to Chicagoland

Though writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous phrase "There are no second acts in American lives" has long been disproven (think of Clint Eastwood winning his second-Best Director Oscar in his 70s after winning one ten years earlier in his 60s), ...

Rosario A. Iaconis, Senior Analyst

What Ken Burns Left Out

Contrary to Ken Burns’ recent documentary on the American Revolution, it was a band of Italians, the ancient Romans—not the Iroquois—who served as the model for our fledgling republic. Those are Roman fasces mounted in the U.S. House of Representatives ...