by John Mancini | Sep 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Lately, I’ve been editing videos made during the Institute’s previous thirty-eight years. We made most of them under our Project Italia label which you can see on our homepage (italic.org) under Galleria. We made one on the Aurora Youth Program but it didn’t quite...
by John Mancini | Sep 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
2Lt. Pasquale (Pat) Aceto For those of you who receive our free newsletter (Update) via snail-mail, you may recall a story we did in April, 2024 on 2Lt Pasquale (Pat) Aceto who died during the Second World War. Lt. Aceto is a great uncle of our Design Editor...
by Rosario Iaconis | Sep 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Capo Vaticano I recently returned from a vacation in southern Italy. Here’s an unvarnished assessment of my sojourn to the Seed of Aeneas: Spettacolare! Mine was mainly a southern-based journey across Calabria—from la Sila, the forested mountains...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
In my last blog, I wrote about the passing of Mario Pasin, the 95-year-old son of Antonio Pasin. To my surprise, a few days later, Pasin was given a full-page obit in the Chicago Sun-Times, complete with color photos. I say “surprise” as this sort of...
by John Mancini | Aug 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Is there such a thing as “affordable housing?” I’ve written before about how the 1965 law that launched chain migration, which allows legal immigrants to invite whole family clans to the U.S., has increased demand for housing. Metropolitan areas are especially...
by John Mancini | Aug 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is a new cable movie dramatizing the tortuous persecution of an American student in Italy that began in 2007. It took a full eight years for the Italian justice system to right its terrible wrong. Amanda Knox (right) and her...
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