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Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti faced increasing pressure on Thursday to stand as a candidate in next year's election after Silvio Berlusconi's surprise offer to drop his bid for a fifth term as premier.
Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi, the Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, and surgeon-in-chief of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has received the Grand Award of Merit from the American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit (ASILM), the Society's highest honor.
The Grand Award of Merit recognizes Dr. Michelassi for his world-renowned excellence in the fields of surgery and medicine and his accomplishments, dedication and leadership to improving the lives of numerous Americans, Italians and Italian Americans.
Sean Stellato will be inducted into the National Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame, one of three athletes selected from New England. The ceremony will take place in Quincy on March 9, 2013.For the former football and basketball star at Salem High, this honor is important not only for him but his entire family.
Earlier this year, I spent an evening with Silvio Berlusconi at his apartment in Rome. The former prime minister of Italy was wearing a navy-blue cashmere jogging suit and stacked shoes, and he was on sprightly form, jocular and seemingly at ease with retirement.
ROME — Italy successfully sold €6.5 billion ($8.45 billion) in bonds the country’s first debt auction since the country’s Prime Minister Mario Monti announced his decision to resign.
The Italian Treasury reported that the interest rate on the bonds was 1.46 percent, down from the 1.76 percent paid in the last such offer in November. Demand was nearly double the amount on offer.
Looking ahead and going forward: A new horizon of confidence and prosperity is what governments are asked to provide their citizens. In times of economic turmoil we refer to such a goal as a commitment to growth. I am ready to subscribe to this definition, but only if we all agree that no growth is possible without culture, and that prosperity is possible only if deeply rooted in a common ground of values and history.
WASHINGTON — Michelangelo's "David-Apollo" will be showcased publicly beginning Thursday at the National Gallery of Art to open a yearlong celebration of Italian culture in more than 30 U.S. cities.
The sculpture from 1530 was unveiled Wednesday by Italy's foreign minister to launch "2013: The Year of Italian Culture," which will showcase Italy's art, science, music, design and innovations. Events and exhibits are planned in Los Angeles, Houston, Cleveland, New York, Boston and points in between, involving about 70 cultural institutions.
Washington - Italy's foreign affairs minister will inaugurate The Year of Italian Culture in the United States event Wednesday with the loan of a Michelangelo sculpture to a major American gallery.
Giulio Terzi will open the year-long event at Washington's prestigious National Gallery of Art by unveiling the famous David-Apollo sculpture by Michelangelo.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti warned against a slide into populism on Tuesday as Silvio Berlusconi attacked his technocrat government, accusing it of failed "Germano-centric" policies that had dragged Italy into recession.
Renato Brancaleoni learned the craft of aging cheese from his father, who started in Italy in 1937, but he has taken the techniques in new directions. Mr. Brancaleoni (at right) is from Roncofreddo, in the Emilia-Romagna region. He buys young cheeses, often pecorino, and carefully ages them in caves or in huge terra cotta containers.