Photo Exhibit
The Eternal City
June 2017 | Marcello Mellino
“Vita di Paese” has been focusing, for the last five years, on stories related to little, often remote Italian villages and towns, their lifestyles and traditions as well as their people. However, with this month’s topic of...
Farfa
May 2017 | Marcello Mellino
Often friends will ask suggestions about places to see on their next trip to Italy. The choices are infinite and the recommendations will vary depending on the friends’ knowledge of the country, its culture and their prior trips there, if...
Italy's living theatres
April 2017 | Marcello Mellino
Art is seen all over Italy; a country with an immense reservoir of works, often of unusual value, carefully preserved in museums, churches, privately owned palaces, and grandiose villas. Likely, because of such ubiquitous and pervasive influence,...
Italy's loss is America's gain
March 2017 | Marcello Mellino
America has historically seen intermittent waves of immigrants (fig. 1: Ellis Island) arriving to its shores since the original European expeditions. The Italians have greatly contributed to this process not only with manpower but also with skills...
Villa Pulcini: small yet strong
February 2017 | Marcello Mellino
Last October I wrote about the devastating earthquake which suddenly destroyed Amatrice and several other small Lazio and Umbria villages on August 24, with a subsequent event on October 30 causing extensive damage in Norcia and the nearby...
Italy is Art
November 2016 | Marcello Mellino
Art IS Italy! As one travels throughout its many regions, it is apparent that the arts have been and remain prominent in the Italian culture and way of life. The grand architectural masterpieces found all over Rome (fig. 1) are well known to most,...
Christmas
December 2016 | Marcello Mellino
Art IS Italy! As one travels throughout its many regions, it is apparent that the arts have been and remain prominent in the Italian culture and way of life. The grand architectural masterpieces found all over Rome (fig. 1) are well known to most,...
Made in Italy
January 2017 | Marcello Mellino
“Made in Italy,” what an intriguing topic indeed! The ingenuity and the creativity of our people, together with their intrinsic capacity to artistically create il bello with everything being made has led us, for centuries, to establish...
Hilltop towns of Italy
October 2016 | Marcello Mellino
Given the tragic events that took place in the Lazio and Umbria regions on August 24, with so much destruction and loss of lives suddenly upon the ancient and beautiful towns of Amatrice, Accumoli and other smaller villages nearby, I find it...
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