Valerio Ciriaci, a young filmmaker from Rome now living in New York, is making a documentary which focuses on Italy’s occupation of Ethiopia
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The Great Beauty is a Winner at the 86th Academy Awards. Fifteen years after Benigni's Life is Beautiful, the much coveted golden statue for Best Foreign Language Film, returns to Italy thanks to The Great Beauty, a film on an emotional crossroads that is reminiscent of Fellini's art and that has run a very successful awards season in the United States and Europe (winning, among other things, at the Golden Globes and at Britain's BAFTAs).
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Questions are raised and answered in Stefano Vaccara's book Carlos Marcello, The Man Behind the JFK Assassination, recently presented at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo'.
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Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, Lampedusa's cousin and heir, has published a new illustrated biography, which includes unpublished pictures from The Leopard's author's private albums and documents from his family archive. The book is an essential tool to further understand Lampedusa's work and the back history of one of the most famous historical novels of all time.
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Sixteen names on the list. Half of them are women.
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George Clooney is lobbying for the return of the Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa back to Italy. Inspired by his new WWII drama, “The Monuments Men,” Hollywood actor and director reopens the debate on the rightful ownership of some of the world's most famous cultural treasures
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On February 18th the Italian Consulate and the Associazione Giuliani nel Mondo of New Jersey celebrated the “Giorno del Ricordo”
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For the pleasure of American soldiers, who always craved pizza as one of their ready-to-eat meals. Researchers at a U.S. military lab in Massachusetts invented a pizza that lasts three years without any refrigeration or freezing necessary. A recipe that doesn't require any refrigeration or freezing.
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Rita Levi Montalcini's niece remembers her aunt Rita, Italian neurologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, during a special event at the Centro Primo Levi
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UN Roundtable with Joseph Stiglitz. Interactive debate among UN Permanent Representatives, international agencies, foundations and civil society. [Event hosted by the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations, with the Italian Cultural Institute and the International Development Law Organization, in cooperation with the UN Department of Public Information
