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THE HUFFINGTON POST. They surprised me by naming a place I had never heard of before: Cinque Terre. Curious, I headed south and discovered a humble string of five villages along Italy's Riviera coast with almost no tourists and, it seemed, little contact with the modern world. (Read the article by Rick Steves)
NYT. The original gothic writers were much inspired by the duality in the bel paese. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and other masters of the romantic and horror genres set some of their most famous works in Italy. (Read the article)
BOSTNHERALD. Fornaciari — now known as Zucchero — grew up in a tiny Italian town where nobody shared his love for American music. Naturally, when he told his dad he wanted to make this kind of noise for a living, papa wasn’t pleased. ( Read the article)
DEFENCE.GOV. Given Italian Americans’ emphasis on family, it was fitting that the first Marine Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone Award for Distinguished Military Service was presented to a father-son duo. (Read the article)
AP. President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the National Italian American Foundation awards gala this week. (Read the article)
WASHINGTON POST. The Embassy of Italy is paying homage to 150th anniversary of the unification of their country by presenting the exhibit “Regions of Italy,” where each region has presented a symbol of their area’s culture to be represented at the embassy. Paintings, sculpture, fashion, and wines from the Tuscan region are on exhibit for the world to see. (Read the article)
THE NEW YORK POST. talian-American leaders have blasted the Godfather’s Pizza chain -- once famously headed by Herman Cain-- for making dough off negative stereotypes of Italian-Americans as mobsters. Godfather’s has a “Godfather’’ mascot who looks like a mobbed up, glorified gangster right out of Mafia movies. (Read the article by Carl Campanile)
AFP. The cultural heritage wing of Italy's main labour union UIL has urged better surveillance of the ancient city of Pompeii after an ancient wall collapsed following flash floods. The call for improved watchfulness comes a day after the EU promised 105 million euros ($145 million) to help urgently restore the site near Naples over the next four years. (Read the article)
THE TELEGRAPH. The Italian prime minister 74, gave nearly three million euros in cash as gifts to his female admirers and spent an additional 337,000 euros on jewellery which he handed out as presents, the bank details showed. (Read the article by Nick Squires)
THE JERUSALEM POST. The report was issued by the Italian Chamber of Deputies’s Committee for the Inquiry into Anti-Semitism. Deputy Fiamma Nirenstein, the committee’s chairwoman, said that the findings were “very disturbing.” It was a “shock for everybody how much anti-Semitism in Italy and Europe” exists, she said. (Read the article by Benjamin Weinthal)