by Bill Dal Cerro | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
A 96 year old “new author” focuses on early Italian immigrants In Those Days is a short essay written by Angela M. Rosati, the daughter of Italian immigrants from Basilicata (father) and Puglia (mother). Raised in Astoria, Queens, the same...
by John Mancini | Feb 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
To those who are upset with the Trump Administration’s antipathy toward European leaders, count me out! I still love Italy and its people, but I’ve had too many dealings with Italian diplomats to retain any respect for them. Early on, I admired the European...
by John Mancini | Feb 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Imagine someone so outspoken, so contrary to accepted knowledge that authorities had to gag him during his execution so he wouldn’t have the last word. His name was Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake on February 17, 1600. Before Galileo, there was outlier...
by John Mancini | Feb 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
The yellow areas promised to Italy in 1915 included the Istrian Peninsula (center) On February 10, 1947 a defeated Italy had to surrender nearly 3,000 square miles of the homeland to Yugoslavia. The Istrian peninsula had been added to Italy only three decades...
by John Mancini | Feb 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Once upon a time, Italians were “Latins.” So were the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and even Romanians – all descended from Roman colonists who mingled with the locals. Screen idol Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was the poster boy for the “Latin lover” during the...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Jan 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
A man dies, a city resurrects itself. The man is the late NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and the city is Rome, aka the Eternal City. On January 25th, 2020, basketball superstar Kobe Bryant died in a small plane crash near Calabasas, California. The crash took the life of...
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