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During the Cold War the history of the Italian Republic was dominated by the centrality of the Christian Democracy in a proportional political system. The…
Juliet Grames’s novel tells the story of Stella Fortuna—beautiful and smart, insolent and cold—who is considered an oddity in her Calabrian village. Stella uses her…
Davide Ceriani Rowan University This presentation focuses on the role Italian opera had in forming an Italian American cultural and ethnic identity during the mass…
Giorgio Bertellini University of Michigan In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, consumerism, and the democratic expansion of civic rights, Italian-born star…
In 1930 Giuseppe Prezzolini, one of the greatest Italian intellectuals of the twentieth century, arrived in New York, where he would remain until 1962. During…
Future: il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi (Future Female Writers: Tomorrow Narrated by Today’s Voices) Edited by Igiaba Scego Eleven African/Italian authors speak of…
In Vita: A Memoir, Joanne Mattera recounts her childhood in an Italian American family—the oldest of five and the only girl—as the repression of the…
Vado verso dove vengo (I’m Going Where I Came From) (2019), 63 minutes Nicola Ragone, dir. Vado verso dove vengo offers a complex meditation on…
In commemorating Women’s History Month, Italics brings to you a one-hour program dedicated to the writing of African Italian women in Italy with the presentation…
Through a presentation of two recent books by Giuseppe Faustini, Professor of Italian at Skidmore College, the panel will discuss the state of affairs of…
Four Bordighera poets will be featured on Tuesday, March 17 in the Bryant Park Reading Room series, held indoors in winter. Marisa Frasca (Wild Fennel),…
The panelists will discuss the first two volumes of Eugenio Colorni’s writings published by Bordighera Press: Critical Thinking in Action: Excerpts from Political Writings and…