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Women Making Strides in Italian Politics
April 2017 | Jennifer Spitalieri
In the wake of March’s International Women’s Day, women all over the world feel empowered, feel strong and feel like their voice has been heard. March 8 was a global day of celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political...
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
April 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Enrico Caruso è considerato il più grande tenore di tutti i tempi, sebbene la sua carriera di cantante decollò solamente dopo i venti anni a causa sia delle modeste condizioni economiche della famiglia, ma anche di scarse...
The Little Flower of New York City - Fiorello LaGuardia
March 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Soprannominato “The Little Flower”, sia per via della traduzione letterale del suo nome che per la sua bassa statura, Fiorello LaGuardia è stato un gigante della politica statunitense. Figlio di un immigrato foggiano e di una...
Arturo Toscanini
March 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Arturo Toscanini was one of the great virtuoso conductors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Known for his photographic memory, perfectionism and intensity, he worked his orchestral detail at all of the leading opera and symphony houses worldwide,...
"Lettuce" Enjoy the Cardini Caesar Salad!
March 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Caesar (Cesare) Cardini and his brother and business partner, Alex (Alessandro), invented the Caesar’s Salad in 1924 at their hotel in Tijuana, Mexico. The combination of romaine lettuce dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, Worcestershire...
Petrosino, The Crime Buster
March 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Giuseppe Petrosino was a New York Mafia-busting policeman who was murdered March 12, 1909 in Sicily during what was supposed to be a top secret, undercover fact-finding mission. An informant asked for a meeting at the piazza in Palermo and, while...
Franca Sozzani: Brilliantly Disturbing
February 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Si è recentemente spenta a soli 66 anni Franca Sozzani, la “signora italiana della moda”. Il mondo delle passerelle piange la scomparsa della storica direttrice di Vogue Italia, deceduta per una grave malattia contro cui ha...
A Lesson I Couldn't Refuse
February 2017 | Vince Guerrieri
All I needed to know about life, I learned from “The Godfather.”
At its heart, it’s a morality tale, asking the age-old question of how evil people become evil. Along the way, it preaches the importance of family (Puzo himself...
The Creator of the Big Mac: A Legend in His Own Right
January 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Si è spento all’età di 89 anni Michael James “Jim” Delligatti, italo americano inventore del Big Mac, indubbiamente uno degli “ingredienti” più importanti per il successo di McDonald da...
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