by Rosario Iaconis | Oct 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
My sojourn to Italy this summer unleashed a torrent of cascading emotions. Memories intermingled with anticipation, exultation and incipient joy. Yet such feelings were also accompanied by a brief bout of sadness. Marcus Agrippa’s Pantheon, 25 B.C. Upon arrival,...
by John Mancini | Oct 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Some Italian researchers wondered why so many residents of Bergamo, in the northern region of Lombardy succumbed to the Covid-19 pandemic — 800 died on one day. So, they sampled DNA from 10,000 survivors around the area and concluded that Neanderthal genes may have...
by Rosario Iaconis | Sep 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Lampedusa — a sun-drenched Italian isle ’twixt Sicily and North Africa — has become a tinderbox that threatens the stability of Europe. Ruthless smugglers are churning the waters of the Mediterranean, trafficking in human cargo. Lampedusa — a sun-drenched Italian isle...
by John Mancini | Sep 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
My local librarian – a young man of Italian descent – suggested I watch a DVD titled Golden Door about a Sicilian family immigrating to America in 1904. The 2006 Italian film, originally titled Nuovomondo, has an introduction by Mob-filmmaker Martin Scorsese who no...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Sep 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mrs. O’Leary (Alice Brady) is a symbol of the American pioneering spirit in In Old Chicago (1937) while Mamma Corleone (the late jazz singer Morgana King) raises a brood of law-breakers in The Godfather (1972) The musical Cabaret, play and film, got it wrong via...
by John Mancini | Sep 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
A number of people I know went to Italy this year. Overall their impressions were positive. The reasons for their trips varied. Some cousins proudly announced their journey was purely epicurean – food and wine was their goal and only Naples and Gaeta...
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