History & culture
At Home With Milano's Italian Restaurant - a Cookbook
May 2020 | La Gazzetta Italiana
With the current global pandemic, we are all facing, it is safe to say the restaurant industry may have been hit the hardest. With restaurant dining rooms being closed to patrons, owners have been forced to get creative with sales. From...
Michelangelo’s Pietas
May 2020 | Joanna Lucarino
Michelangelo Buonarroti, born 1475 in Florence, lauded painter and architect of the Sistine Chapel, poet, and inventor considered himself first and foremost a sculptor and worked in marble until his death in Rome in 1564. He was buried in the...
The Dante 700 Project by Timothy Schmalz
April 2020 | La Gazzetta Italiana
For over 25 years, Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz has been sculpting large scale sculptures. He is a figurative artist with his pieces installed worldwide. Some of his most reputed pieces are installed in historical churches in Rome and at the...
Michelangelo's Pieta
April 2020 | Joanna Lucarino
The greatest influence on the European world of art, economics, culture, and intellectual achievement was the Italian Renaissance. Florentine artist, Michelangelo Buonarotti, one of the most illustrious and well-known artists of this period, is...
Italian Women of the Arts
April 2020 | Janice Therese Mancuso
In the late 16th century, Europe was transitioning through the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution, but even with the invention of the printing press in the mid-15th century, technology was a slow process. The arts, however, were still...
The Gifts of the Fabbri
March 2020 | Ben Lariccia and Joe Tucciarone
Intorno alla fine del dicembre 1872, giunse voce agli oltre 530 immigrati italiani bloccati su Ward’s Island nel tentativo di raggiungere l’Argentina, che in varie parti degli Stati Uniti si cercavano operai. In particolare, la...
From the Italian American Press: "Coal War in the Mahoning Valley"
March 2020 | Janice Therese Mancuso
According to early records, Italian migration to Ohio dates back to the mid-1800s with a small number of families that lived mostly in or near Cleveland. By the turn of the century, the number of Italians had significantly increased to over 10,000...
Early Italian Immigrants Were Second-Class Citizens
March 2020 | Al Bruno
Quella degli italo americani è la storia di un lungo percorso segnato da una forma di pregiudizio etnico che ha avuto picchi drammatici e momenti di tregua. L’immigrazione verso gli Stati Uniti, iniziata alla fine degli anni ’70 dell’800, fu...
A Look Back: ITALIAN AMERICANS - A CULTURE OF LOVE
January 2020 | Phillip Campanella
As we look forward to a new decade ahead, I'd like to take some time to look back at some of my favorite articles over the years. Here is an article by Phil Campanella from January 2014. I really enjoy how Phil 's words bring to life our...
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