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...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Aug 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
When our Institute published its amazing magazine, The Italic Way, one of the highlights, oddly, was a two-page section where it displayed short obits of major achievers both in America and even around the world. Mario Pasin Far from being morbid, these tributes made...
by John Mancini | Aug 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
The old saw is that history repeats itself. Not exactly, suggested Neapolitan scholar Giambattista Vico (1668-1744). It’s more like a spiral: it develops or moves through repetitions, much like a spiral staircase ascends and descends the same space but at...
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