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  • Art & Culture

    If Venice Dies: A Conversation with Salvatore Settis

    Tommaso Cartia(November 03, 2016)
    Is one of the most beautiful cities in the world about to lose its true identity? In his recent book ‘If Venice Dies’, the eminent Italian archaeologist and art historian Salvatore Settis tries to answer this question. On October 31st, NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò hosted an exclusive conversation with Settis and American author and journalist, Alexander Stille, who discussed all of the obstacles that Venice is currently facing.
  • Events: Reports

    In Translation: Time Ages in a Hurry by Antonio Tabucchi

    (April 03, 2015)
    A conversation with Alexander Stille and translators Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani to celebrate the release of Antonio Tabucchi’s short story collection "Time Ages in a Hurry, translated and published in English for the first time
  • Art & Culture

    The Force Of Things - From Italy to New York and Back

    Alessandro Cassin(May 01, 2013)
    “One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father.” So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy’s most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest "The Force of Things" by Alexander Stille follows two families across the twentieth century—one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest—and takes them across revolution, war, fascism, and racial persecution, until they collide at mid-century.
  • Life & People

    The Language of Ugo, Alexander & Sam

    Letizia Airos Soria(June 09, 2008)
    Interview with Alexander Stille. Author and journalist Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. Stille’s father, Ugo, was a famed Italian journalist and director of Il Corriere della Sera.