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Piedmont town which has seen population plummet hails new arrival as a “dream come true”
Thursday, after months of delays and political jousting, the Italian Senate will begin voting on legislation to legalize civil unions, several years after a similar effort failed
An imposing equestrian statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dominated the room where Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met on Monday.
But Rouhani could not admire some of the other masterpieces at Rome's world-famous Capitoline Museums, which hosted the meeting.
Abe Vigoda, the sad-faced actor who emerged from a workmanlike stage career to find belated fame in the 1970s as the earnest mobster Tessio in “The Godfather” and the dyspeptic Detective Phil Fish on the hit sitcom “Barney Miller,” died on Tuesday morning in Woodland Park, N.J. He was 94, having outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure.
The United States, between the 1880’s and 1924, admitted about 4 million Italian immigrants. As Leon Wieseltier, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, observed to me, “We got Enrico Fermi, Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Antonin Scalia — and Al Capone. Who in their right mind would suggest that the Italian immigration was not a great blessing for our country?”
The man who made offers others couldn't refuse once refused the movie industry's heftiest honor.
A connoisseur’s love of Italian modernist painting, abstract in style and modest in scale, lies behind this compendious, museum-style exhibition, organized by the dealer Gian Enzo Sperone. It’s the sort of historical show that can take decades to pull together. And that this can be done on such a scale by a commercial gallery is surely only possible because the art in question still has a fairly limited set of of devotees and remains obtainable.
After Benedetta, 35, found out 11 weeks into her pregnancy that the baby she wanted “with all myself” had extremely serious genetic problems, she made a painful decision, and asked her longtime gynecologist for an abortion.
It's always a little funny listening to someone speak English as a second language. Their pronunciation of certain words and the roundabout sentences they use to express themselves seem adorable if not harmless. But how do we sound when speaking a second language? In many cases our mistakes are earth shattering for us and life scarring for them. Here are the top five mistakes Americans make after about a year of studying Italian.
Checco Zalone’s filmic paean to a job for life hits the spot for Italians used to precarious work contracts. A comedy that captures Italians’ love for il posto fisso – a job for life – has become an unlikely blockbuster hit in Italy.