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Francesco Petrarch: A Poet and Scholar in the Month of July
July 2017 | Danielle Selvaggio
Francesco Petrarca è stato uno scrittore, poeta e filosofo italiano, considerato il fondatore dell’Umanesimo ed uno dei capisaldi dell’intera letteratura italiana. Più di ogni altro contemporaneo ha influenzato la...
Queen Christina of Sweden
July 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Gustavus II Adolphus was 16-years-old when he was crowned king of Sweden. During his 21-year reign (1611-32), Sweden not only developed into one of the great powers of Europe, he established himself as one of the greatest military commanders of all...
Lamborghini: A “Bull’s Eye” of Supercar Luxury!
July 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of the high performance luxury super sports cars that bear his name, was born on April 28, 1916 to grape farmers in the village of Renazzo di Cento in the Emilia-Romagna region. His Zodiac sign, Taurus the bull, is...
Italian American Mayors of NYC
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
New York City’s 99th mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, the “Little Flower,” was not only the first of four Italian Americans, but probably the most colorful and dynamic of all to occupy the city’s highest office. The 5-foot tall...
Space Probe Named After Italian Astronomer Continues Mission with Saturn
June 2017 | Danielle Selvaggio
Unmanned spacecraft Cassini-Huygens is continuing to record data from Saturn. There are two parts to the craft: the Cassini orbiter, named after Giovani Cassini, and a lander for Titan, named after seventeenth-century Dutch scientist Christiaan...
Frank Sinito’s Heritage and Family Life Propel Mission of the Millennia Companies
June 2017 | Joe Marinucci
The First in a series focused on Italian Americans in Cleveland’s Business Community
This is the first of a bi-monthly column that will highlight key Italian-Americans in the Cleveland business community, both men and women who are making an...
"Learning Never Exhausts the Mind." Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Leonardo, born in a farmhouse near Florence in the village of Anchiano and later raised by grandparents and uncles in Vinci, was a leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance who had little formal education.
Born out of wedlock to a...
Luigi Palma di Cesnola
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
One of the world’s largest and finest art museums is The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City. It has more than 2 million works of art representing over 5,000 years from every corner of the world. The extensive collection is...
An American Italian: “Rosie the Riveter”
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
How about the power and strength of an Italian woman, Rosina Bonavita of Peekskill, NY who gained fame during WWII? Her high school sweetheart and husband-to-be, Jim Hickey, was serving in the Navy in the Pacific aboard the battleship USS...
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