History & culture
Author Janice Carapellucci Pays Tribute to Her Artist Ancestor
February 2025 | La Gazzetta Italiana
“The Art of Immigration: Italian Art in an American Church” tells the story of the Church of the Most Precious Blood, the church at the heart of Manhattan’s downtown Little Italy. The story is told from multiple angles. First, and most gloriously,...
NIAF Congratulates Mike Johnson on Re-Election as Speaker of the House
February 2025 | La Gazzetta Italiana
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) extends its warmest congratulations to Congressman Mike Johnson on his re-election as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Speaker Johnson, who first assumed this role in October...
Letters from Veneto: Autumn Letter from the Veneto
February 2025 | Myra Robinson
I brought a Canadian friend with me to show her my little piece of heaven on earth in Italy. I had discovered that there was a new direct flight from my hometown, Newcastle, to Tyne and to Verona. After leaving grey skies in England, we...
The Catholic Jubilee Year: A Tradition of Renewal and Grace
January 2025 | La Gazzetta Italiana
The Catholic Jubilee Year, deeply rooted in scripture and tradition, is a time of extraordinary spiritual renewal, mercy, and celebration. Instituted to reflect God’s mercy and love, a Jubilee Year invites the faithful to reconnect with their...
Letters from Veneto: Waiting for a Miracle
January 2025 | Myra Robinson
My beloved second home in Italy is now closed for winter, but of course that doesn’t stop a stream of communication between all my Italian friends and me, while I’m home in England.
I missed the Christmas market and the ceremony to open the...
From the Italian American Press - "The Rock in Our Story"
January 2025 | Janice Therese Mancuso
In the early 1920s in Southern Italy, two young women – unknown to each other and from different areas of the same village near Naples – make a decision that, by coincidence, intersects their lives. For the first young woman, Maria, war,...
La Befana: In Southern Italy, this Whimsical Character Embraces Diversity and Appeals to All
December 2024 | Rabbi Barbara Aiello
On the night of January 5 children throughout Italy and, in particular, Calabria, hang their stockings from the fireplace mantle or place their shoes by the bedroom door all in anticipation of a beloved old lady who will slide down the chimney or...
The Columbian Exchange
December 2024 | Janice Therese Mancuso
When Christopher Columbus and his crew stepped onto an uncharted land, they encountered a civilization unlike any other they had known. In his letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, written in 1493, Columbus described the people and the...
Italian Children’s Market Welcomes Dominick the Donkey Singing Plush Toy
December 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
This year, the Italian Children’s Market welcomes someone new to its family of fun yet purposeful little members. And who is this newcomer? Why, the Italian Christmas donkey! Dominick, of course!
Many long-standing, loyal Italian Children’s Market...
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