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Renato Bialetti, a businessman who put the Moka Express, an aluminum stovetop coffee maker, into nearly every kitchen in Italyand sold it to tens of millions of customers around the world, died on Feb. 11, in Ascona, Switzerland. He was 93.
The great Italian writer Primo Levi is primarily known in this country for memoirs detailing his experiences in Auschwitz, his long journey home after the end of the war and his life as a chemist of Jewish descent in the quiet precincts of Piedmont. These books, published in America as “Survival in Auschwitz,” “The Reawakening” and “The Periodic Table,” give the impression that Levi was primarily a writer of Jewish trauma.
Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday at his home in Milan. He was 84.
It’s the grape that Italy has mde its own. Here are three excellent examples at three different prices that shows its full range
It may be the most evocative coastal walk in the Italian peninsula. A plan has been hatched, however, to limit access to the Sentiero Azzurro (Blue Path) linking Monterosso, Corniglia, Vernazza, Manarola and Riomaggiore, the villages famous for their pastel-coloured houses clinging to green cliffs above the sea.
Antonin Scalia made history when he became the first Italian American appointed to the Supreme Court.
More than a million ancient olive trees are being wiped out by a deadly disease in southern Italy, forcing a 20 per cent rise in the cost of olive oil across the EU.
The groves – which counts trees over 1000 years old among their number - were first infected in 2013 by xylella fastidiosa, a deadly bacterial pathogen that has no known cure.
The University of Michigan Library will welcome the papers of another veteran filmmaker to their growing archive of material that highlights visionaries in the genre of independent film.
One of the world’s greatest experts on Italian Renaissance Theater, Italy’s Maestro Antonio Fava—actor, director, teacher, practitioner, mask-maker, and author of one of the most comprehensive works on the famous Commedia dell’Arte—has taught quite a few Philadelphia-area actors and directors, including Cubby Altobelli, John Bellomo, Aaron Cromie, Dave Jadico, Rick Kemp, Benjamin Lloyd, Charles McMahon, Karen Saillant, Craig Tavani, and Blanka Zizka.
Italian film and TV company Wildside is ramping up production of TV series for the international market with a trio of high-profile projects based on hot literary properties, spearheaded by the four “The Neapolitan Novels” books by Italian author Elena Ferrante, the latest of which, “The Story of the Lost Child,” has been named one of the 10 Best Fiction Books of 2015 by the New York Times.