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Italy will need a win over Ireland on Monday and a little Irish lucky as well if the Italians are to advance in Euro 2012.For the second time in two matches, the Azzurri went a goal up only to give up the equalizer and finish with a draw. On Thursday, it was Croatia, whose high pressure wore down the Italians in the second half, which rallied for a1-1 tie.
VENICE — Concerns grew on Monday that Italy could be the next victim of Europe’s financial infection, leading nervous investors to sell Italian stocks and bonds and damping euphoria over a weekend deal to bail out Spain’s banks.
Croatia's ability to vary their tactics, their intensity and their physical prowess make them a very different prospect to facing Spain, Italy coach Cesare Prandelli warned on Wednesday.
NEW YORK — The works of Massimo and Lella Vignelli, the famed Italian husband-and-wife, design-and-architectural modernist duo, are the subject of a small but stunning exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute on the Upper East Side.
“Good design lasts,” says Massimo Vignelli, who, with his wife, Lella, has always walked the walk. Born in Italy and trained as architects, the couple founded Vignelli Associates in New York City in 1971, putting their modernist stamp on furniture, tableware, and interiors, not to mention their legendary 1972New York City subway map.
(Reuters) - Recent financial market developments show the situation remains "extremely difficult" for the euro zone as a whole and for Italy in particular, Italian Deputy Economy Minister Vittorio Grilli said on Tuesday.
Respect is the slogan under which UEFA wants its Euro 2012 championships to be played, but too much respect can dull the spectacle. That was how things panned out here in the northern port of Poland where solidarity liberated the workers, but Italian and Spanish princes of the sport canceled out one another.
GDANSK (Reuters) - Italian football is mired in a huge crisis, goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said, but Sunday's Euro 2012 Group C opener against holders Spain is a chance to restore some battered pride.
The St. Anthony’s Italian Festival, the region’s leading weeklong Italian-American cultural celebration, will begin Sunday June 10 at 2 p.m. at St. Anthony’s of Padua on N. DuPont Street in Wilmington.
Bella Italia Mia meets Sunday.Bella Italia Mia meetings are held at Christ the King High School at 68-02 Metropolitan Ave. in Middle Village.
The next meeting will be Sunday. Doors open at noon for social time and refreshments.Anthony Julian Tamburri, a professor and Dean of The John D. Calandra Italian-American Institute, Queens College, will speak on “Italian Americans and the Media: Cinema, Video, Television.”