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Hundreds of lawyers, victims’ families and survivors of the wreck of the Cruise Ship Costa Concordia, which capsized off the Tuscan coast in January, converged on Grosseto, Italy, on Saturday for the first evidence hearing in the criminal investigation against the ship’s captain and others.
Since the start of the month it has been illegal to die in Falciano del Massico, a village of 3,700 people some 30 miles from Naples in southern Italy.
When five officials from Italy’s internal revenue service entered the Dal Duca restaurant in Rome’s trendy Trastevere neighborhood one night two weeks ago, they were not there to eat.
You've never seen "Mama's Boys" like these before. TLC's new series "Mama's Boys of the Bronx" (premieres Mon., April 9, 10 p.m. ET) follows five successful thirty-something Italian-American men who all grew up together and also all share an unusual living situation: They still live with their moms. And they're not ashamed of it.
Italian food is the most popular type of restaurant cuisine in America. As Fiat has learned over the past year, that’s not the case with Italian cars. U.S. sales of the Turin-based automaker’s tiny 500 subcompact have been disappointing—about half the company’s targets—since Fiat’s return to the North American market last spring following a 30-year hiatus. “We thought we were going to show up and just because of the fact people like gelato and pasta, people will buy it,” says Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne. “This is nonsense.”
Diana Fane of the Brooklyn Museum discusses examples of edible ex-votos from Southern Italy and Mexico, regions in which Christian and pre-Christian traditions frequently co-exist: their domestic production and significance for the local community; their role as substitutions for and imitations of the "real thing" whether it be a human, animal, or natural formation; the medicinal or sacred properties attributed to the medium; and the ease with which the ex-voto could be divided in portions and shared.
Diana Fane discusses examples of edible ex-votos from Southern Italy and Mexico, regions in which Christian and pre-Christian traditions frequently co-exist.
The margins of a country are real places - the poor peripheral areas of cities, overseas colonies, 'backward' rural areas, Romani camps, fast-track removal centres and many others - but at the same time they are places that are imagined and produced as margins by particular processes of definition and representation.
In 1921 Ezra Pound wrote to James Joyce from a pink-walled hotel that still today overlooks Sirmione's harbour on Lake Garda: "Dear Joyce, I'd like you to spend a week here with me. The location is well worth the journey – both Catullus and I can guarantee it!" It is still worth the journey.
ROME — When five officials from Italy’s internal revenue service entered the Dal Duca restaurant in Rome’s trendy Trastevere neighborhood one night two weeks ago, they were not there to eat.