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In this Issue: Stefano Albertini Interviews Director Gianni The Birth of a New ‘State’ ➜ Amelio ● Natalia Quintavalle 33 on Italy at the Helm of the EU Council ● Meet the Leaders of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, Frank G. Fusaro and Angelo Vivolo ■ ● Ambassador Paolo Fulci by Mila Tenaglia Acknowledgments on How Italy Made the Small Powerful. And much more... Focus ➜18 & Financial Supporters NEW! designing your Special Insert The 2014 Events Calendar Sponsored by the Italian Heritage & Culture Committee of New York Meet Giampaolo Seguso DreamsAn exclusive interview with Flavio Manzoni, Head of Design at Ferrari

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➜78 Style: Fashion, Design & More Neighborhood by Neighborhood La Panineria: Sandwich ➜83 Addiction in the Village An Old Mediterranean craft in NY ■ by Giulia Madron Amedeo’s Cameo Revolution ➜79 ■ by Mila Tenaglia Special Suggestions ➜84 ➜88 ➜92 Best Italian Antipasti Personal Shopper Daniele Lombardi’s A conversation with former U.N. in New York City Italian Citizens of the World Futurist Music: The first Ambassador Paolo Fulci ■ by Natasha Lardera ■ by Sara Massarotto International Avant-garde Salina at the United Nations. ■ by M. T. How Italy Made the Small Bookshelf: Italian Reads Powerful and Listens ➜89 ■ by Letizia Airos Italian Jazz ➜86 Sonny’s Life Lesson ➜93 Lentricchia’s Eliot Conte Is Back ■ by Enzo Capua The Aeolian Emigration Museum A Shocking and Vital Story A Piece of Italian-American of Life History ■ by Fred Gardaphe Tourism ➜93 ➜87 Vacationing in Salina Meet ‘Pleasure Activist’ Fred Plotkin Great Sea, Excellent Exploring Italy Beyond Accommodations, and a the Traditional Tourist ➜90 Film Festival to Boot Experience From the Director of ENIT North ■ by Natasha Lardera America Italy of the Little Islands: ➜88 So Much, in Such a Small Suggested Readings Paradise ■ by B.S. ■ by Eugenio Magnani

Where To Find Us Government and Educational Institutions: Consulate General of Italy (690, Park Ave) ● Italian Cultural Insti- tute (686 Park Ave) ● Italian Trade Commission (33 E 67th St) ● Italian Government Tourist Board (630 5th Ave) ● Scuola d’Italia G. Marconi (12 E 96th St) ● John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY (25 W 43rd St) ● Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, NYU (24 W 12th St) ● Inserra Chair, Montclair State University (1 Normal Ave Montclair, NJ) ● Italian American Committee on Education (18 E 41st St) ● Collina Italiana (1556 3rd Ave) ●

Bookstores, Showrooms & Galleries: Rizzoli Bookstore (31 W 57th St) ● Poltrona Frau (141 Wooster St) ● Cassina (151 Wooster St) ● Cappellini (152 Wooster St) ● Alessi (130 Greene St) ● Casa del Bianco (866 Lexington Ave) ● Pratesi (892 Madison Ave) ● Monnalisa (1088 Madison Ave) ● Scavolini (429 W Broadway), Guzzini (60 Madison Ave) ● Bosi Contemporary (48 Orchard St) ● Boffi Soho (31 ½ Greene St) ● CIMA - Center for Italian Modern Art (421 Broome St) ●

Gourmet Stores: Eataly New York (200 5th Ave) ● Di Palo (200 Grand St) ● Citarella (2135 Broadway; 1313 Third Ave; 424 Avenue of the Americas) ● Agata & Valentina (1505 1st Ave; 64 University Pl.) ● Morton Williams Supermarkets (908 2nd Ave; 311 E 23rd St; 1565 1st Ave) ● A.L.C. Italian Grocery (8613 3rd Ave, Brooklyn) ● Arthur Avenue Market (2344 Arthur Ave, Bronx) ● Jerry’s Gourmet (410 South Dean St, Englewood, NJ) ● Giovanni Rana Pastificio e Cucina (75 9th Ave) ● La Panineria (1 W 8th St)

Restaurants, Pizzerias & Wine Bars: Acqua Santa (556 Griggs Ave, Brooklyn) ● Addeo & Sons (2372 Hughes Ave, Bronx) ● Alloro (307 E 77th St) ● Azalea (224 W 51 St) ● Ballarò Café (77 2nd Ave) ● Borgatti’s (632 E 187th St, Bronx) ● Bruno Bakery (506 LaGuardia Place) ● Cacio e Vino (80 2nd Ave) ● Crave It (545 6th Ave) ● Epistrophi Cafe (200 Mott St) ● Fabbrica (40 N 6th St, Brooklyn) ● Felice 83 (1593 1st Ave) ● Felice 64 (1166 1st Ave) ● Forcella (485 Lorimer St, Brooklyn) ● In Vino Veritas (1375 1st Ave) ● Kestè (271 Bleecker St) ● L’Arte del Gelato (Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave) ● Le Cirque (151 E 58th St) ● The Leopard at des Artistes (1 W 67th St) ● Madonia Brothers (2348 Arthur Ave, Bronx) ● Osteria del Principe (27 E 23rd St) ● Obikà (590 Madison Ave) ● Osteria del Circo (120 W 55th St) ● Raffaello Kosher Pizza (37 W 46th St) ● Piccolo Fiore (230 E 44th St) ● Pizzetteria Brunetti (626 Hudson St)● Paola’s Restaurant (1295 Madison Ave) ● Quartino bottega organica (11 Bleecker St) ● Ribalta (48 E 12th St) ● Risotteria Melotti (309 E 5th St) ● Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto (283 Amsterdam Ave) ● San Matteo (1739 2nd Ave) ● SD26 (19 E 26th St) ● Sirio (795 5th Ave) ● Stella 34 Trattoria at Macy’s (151 W 34th) ● Tarallucci e Vino (163 1st Ave; 475 Columbus Ave; 15 E 18th St) ● Club Tiro a Segno (77 MacDougal St) ● Tramonti (364 W 46th St) ● Trattoria Cinque (363 Greenwich St) ● Trattoria L’incontro (21-76 31st St, Astoria) ● Via Quadronno (25 E 73rd St) ● Villabate Alba (7001 18th Ave, Brooklyn) ● Vivoli Gelateria at Macy’s ● (151 W 34th St) ● Zero Otto Nove (15 W 21 St) ● Zibetto (1385 6th Ave) ● Zio (17 W 19th St).

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Editorial “Happy Italian Heritage Month”

business here. New York is, after all, ➔ Letizia Airos the biggest Italian city outside Italy. And, if you’re looking for a glimpse ● ● (10-10-3) so when you write of Italian American politics, about ocean you write about shore jump to Jerry Krase’s piece on the (51-6-3) there’s no water flowing and “tribulations” of Governor Andrew no flower snowing(14-1-3) when you Cuomo and Anthony Tamburri’s do what you were dreaming of you column about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s may be assailed by fears combinatio nova. We will travel to Italy, however, I’ve kept to my promise of beginning in our Tourism section. Eugenio every editorial note with a poem. Magnani, the director of the Only this time I’m using several Italian Government Tourist Board random verses. That’s right, random. for North America, relates his They’re lines from “Ellis Island,” a personal memories of Italy’s “small poem by Robert Viscusi, assembled islands,” as special as they are yet by the Random Sonnet Generator, little known. Last but not least, which can be found on the poem’s an interview with former Italian website (ellisislandpoem.com). At i-Italy’s Summer Party with Giovanni and Antonella Rana and Francine Segan Ambassador to the UN Paolo Fulci, Why “Ellis Island”? Because it’s an now president of Ferrero. Fulci, a extraordinary poem that tells the And it’s no coincidence you’ll find here who passed away this May. Sicilian who calls the small island all-American story of immigration, our interview with Frank G. Fusaro Feature articles include Stefano of Salina “home,” shares the very an event in which Italians played a and Angelo Vivolo, the leaders of the Albertini’s interview with world- Italian (and Italian-American) story large role. Columbus Citizens Foundation, the renowned film director Gianni that brought little islands—in Italy ● ● ● ● association responsible for organizing Amelio and Consul General of and across the globe—to the world’s Which leads us to this issue of the Columbus Day Parade. New York Natalia Quintavalle’s attention. i-ItalyNY. October in New York is the ● ● ● ● reflections on the challenges facing ● ● ● ● most Italian month of the year, so Yet our cover story takes us back to an Italian presidency of the EU So, take a gander at this voluminous we began a new collaboration with Italy, an Italy that gave rise to an Council. Then we travel back to issue, visit our website, follow us the prestigious Italian Heritage and internationally recognized dream: Venice to meet Giampaolo Seguso, a on Facebook and watch our show Culture Committee of New York; the Ferrari. My interview with Flavio major glassmaking artisan as well weekends on Channel 25. Our traditional booklet they publish this Manzoni, Ferrari’s Design Director, as a poet, and to Naples to meet new series is full of surprises. And time of the year, listing all Italian and explores the history and future of Amedeo Scognamiglio, the leading please send us your suggestions and Italian-American events, is now a Italian excellence; and we begin manufacturer of cameos—without, comments. They do us good. special insert of i-ItalyNY. It is by far by remembering our great friend however, leaving the comfort of Have a happy Italian Heritage the most comprehensive, up-to-date and maestro, Massimo Vignelli, the New York; indeed both men have Month! guide to our “Italian city” this fall. international icon of Italian design established major branches of their ([email protected]) Like us on Facebook Help us to get to 100,000 fans! we’re almost there ;-) www.facebook.com/iitaly www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 5 ● ● IN CONVERSATION WITH FLAVIO MANZONI Designing Your Dreams

Given that this special we immediately began addressing a topic I hold dear: design. Manzoni was generous issue is dedicated to with his time, so I figured I would go back to Italian Heritage Month, him and pick his brain about that subject for this cover story. But this time our discussion it seems fitting that our began on a sad note. We talked about the great designer Massimo Vignelli, who had cover story features the passed away in the meantime. Vignelli, head of the design team whose work has become a measuring rod for modern design, believed in functional at Ferrari, the iconic beauty and the idea that a well-made object Italian sports car was timeless. He also believed that this beauty was achieved through design (which manufacturer. Flavio is timeless) rather than styling (a passing fashion). What did Manzoni think? Could Manzoni talks about Vignelli’s idea be applied to car design? design, tradition, “Yes, definitely. Vignelli did extremely important work in the field of graphic innovation, and the design, but he was also an architect and, courage to experiment. more broadly, an intellectual who saw design as a valid modus operandi across He also shares his the board, “from a spoon to a city…” I’m fascinated by this vision. I’m even more thoughts about interested in the idea that design is such working in Italy and an elevated concept as to never grow old… Naturally, that’s true for cars too. Just abroad, his fascination think of the Citroen DS, the Fulvia Coupé di with New York’s Castagnero, and prototypes like the Stratos Zero... cultural melting pot, Design vs. Styling and the importance of What’s the difference between style and staying true to one’s design for a car designer such as yourself? In fashion, the craftsmanship and sensibility roots while looking peculiar to Italians make our best stylistic ahead to our globalized creations resemble real works of art. But to making an ultramodern look, to what we in automobile design, with its highly call styling. Design, on the other hand, must future. elevated functional and technological strike out on radically innovative paths… side, you cannot overlook the value of It’s fine to attend to the details and add conceptual innovation, which must surprising and modern touches, but only as expand the so-called “semantic quotient.” long as the structure is being enhanced, too. by Letizia Airos Design, on the other hand, is considered It’s not there to cover up a lack of courage. a “global project”; style is just a part of ●● Ferrari’s head of design Flavio Manzoni the process of development charged with How important is tradition with respect to may be the most important name in style defining the morphology of a product, with innovation? in the Italian automobile industry. A manufacturing its very essence, which is Looking back in time, it seems as though deeply proud Sardinian, the fifty-year-old to say, communicating its content and the everything has already been invented. But designer already vaunted an extraordinary original intent. that’s not true. Not only is thinking of the career before he came to Ferrari, where his future essential to survival, but research is design of the F-12berlinatta earned him the So the key to good design is innovation? always in motion. We have no idea what the prestigious ADI Compasso d’Oro Award. Definitely. And this often occurs by coming years hold in store for us in terms of The first time we met was on a campaign to redefining the architecture [of a product]. materials, technologies, propulsion systems. support recent flood victims in Sardinia, and A lot of companies today limit themselves And don’t forget legislative changes. That’s

6 | i-Italy ny | September-October 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org Flavio Manzoni working on a special watch by Ferrari and Hublot. Below and right: sketches for the F149 California and the F12 Berlinetta. Overleaf: the F150 LaFerrari, and below Flavio Manzoni and his team, winners of ADI’s Compasso d’Oro Award for industrial design in 2014.

Looking back in time, it seems as though everything has already been invented. But that’s not true. Not only is thinking of the future essential to survival, but research is always in motion. And as Le Corbusier said: “tradition is nothing but the uninterrupted chain of innovations.”

why it’s very important to always be experience. Italians are experts at doing What do you think of the United States? reaching forward. And I can’t forget what Le that. Have you ever thought about living here? Corbusier said: “tradition is nothing but the Honestly, I haven’t spent an extended period uninterrupted chain of innovations.” You have lived and worked abroad. How of time in the United States and I’m not sure did that experience affect you? What does I’d want to work in the American auto- Italy in the World and in the U.S. working in Italy today mean for you? industry. But when I think of a city like New Do you think Italy’s aesthetic culture still I spent almost six years with Volkswagen. It York, I can’t help but appreciate the melting has something to tell the world? was definitely a very formative experience. pot of cultures and customs that define it. Yes. Italy has a history—in the auto- In another country you discover procedures Perhaps the most interesting thing about the industry and elsewhere—that few and habits that are occasionally very US is its ability to marry different worlds... other countries in the world can claim. different from the ones in Italy. I’m not just That’s become a global trend and is all the Nowadays it’s very important to embrace talking about day-to-day life but about the more important because of it. the international scene and understand entire industrial system. That’s essential to that a product is made for the world, for someone in my line of work. But it doesn’t At Ferrari very different latitudes. Having said that, detract from my happiness about working You’ve been directing Design Ferrari for a staying true to one’s roots is essential for in Italy again; roots are important, and a few years. How has that experience been? imparting an added value, to give those company like Ferrari combines initiative and My career at Ferrari has been exciting. I don’t who choose our product a more gratifying the spirit of our country at a world-class level. know how else to put it. It’s probably the

www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 7 Design must importance, and at Ferrari I had the opportunity to create an strike out on extraordinarily positive radically innovative environment from scratch. paths. It’s not there to Ferrari won the Compasso d’Oro Award for the F12 cover up a lack of Berlinetta. How courage. significant is that for you and the company? The significance of the Compasso Can you tell us about your other work? most demanding job of my career, yet that’s d’Oro may not be understood that well I think there’s one design methodology. exactly why it’s the most rewarding. Keep in outside of in Italy, but receiving the award Adopting the right intellectual criteria is just mind that when I arrived in Maranello, my was a great honor for our design team. The as important when designing a chair as it is job wasn’t to direct an existing organization products and designers who have received when designing an automobile or a bookstore. but to create an internal style center, the the Compasso d’Oro in past decades That’s one reason I didn’t limit myself to cars. first in the company’s history. That was the represent the best in Italian design… Recently, I personalized the famous JJ lamp most difficult and interesting challenge. I Receiving the award during this difficult by Leucos—a small but major masterpiece still remember the numerous interviews I period for the country makes us all the of Italian design. It was inspired by Sardinia, had to set up to select the young designers more proud and hopeful for the future. and proceeds from it have gone toward giving that now make up Team Ferrari. I remember concrete aid for victims of the 2013 flood. feeling the need to create a winning team “You Can Design Everything” without egos, one that was capable of Massimo Vignelli used to say, “If you Designing the Future for Our Kids working together… For me, the human can design one thing, you can design To get personal for minute, do you ever element has always assumed a fundamental everything.” You don’t just design cars. think about how your children will see your design work? Do you seek their advice? What do cars mean to them? How do you see their city of the future? My younger kid is still too small to appreciate his father’s designs, and my eldest is no longer interested in cars! Joking aside, I really like knowing their opinion. Kids are windows onto the future, and sometimes their opinions can open up unthinkable perspectives. Today there’s a lot of talk about “smart cities” and new models for living. I don’t know what will happen. I don’t know how our way of life will change. But I hope we’ll be able to hand down a society that, if not better or more just, is at least more balanced as far as concerns the environment and the exploitation of new energy resources. Car designers must confront those problems. It’s difficult, but I’m convinced that it will also stimulate new solutions. ●●

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The past July Flavio Manzoni was at the Center for Italian Modern Art in Soho to promote his Matdreterra project based on a gigantic version of the famous JJ lamp by Leucos—that went on auction to raise funds for the victims of the 2013 flood in Sardinia. In that occasion he gave a long interview to i-ItalyTV that you can watch online or pointing your smartphone to this QR code .

In the photo to the left: Flavio Manzoni and his young daugther with Letizia Airos, architect and designer Antonio Saracino and Gabriele Cestra of Leucos.

8 | i-Italy ny | September-October 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org Bill de Blasio and the combinatio nova

by Anthony Julian Tamburri *

As some might look to Mayor de Blasio for his progressive politics, we can all surely look to him and his family as that model of a future engagement with regard to socio-ethnic politics and, more important, with regard to what we might consider a truly transgressive ethnic combinatio nova — namely, a new family paradigm that transcends not only national origin but indeed, in this case, race. Bill de Blasio himself is a child of mixed raciality, if indeed we consider Italians as part of a non-white category that is olive based, as the poet Rose Romano and others have steadfastly contended. With his family of Chirlane, Dante, and Chiara, de Blasio has taken the combinatio nova one step further in the melding of olive with black, offering up to society what portends at this juncture to be one of the newer forms of the American family of the future, one that is truly a rainbow reflection of U.S. society. But I would like to think that the de Blasios who inhabit Gracie Mansion constitute a model in other ways and for other people. In other ways, in so far as they demonstrate that the so-called power positions of a place like New York City can indeed be held not only by the white or the black, but indeed even by those of the combinatio nova. For other people, precisely because of de Blasio’s Italian heritage: during his current trip to Italy, the de Blasios met with former Minister of Integration, Cécile Kyenge, and her family, she the first African-Italian to hold a cabinet position, who is married to a “native” Italian. Thus, together with Minister Kyenge and her family, Mayor de Blasio and his family can also be a model for those in Italy who continue to look to the U.S.; for in spite of what some Bill de Blasio and family Italians and Italian Americans may think, Italy is no longer the monochromatic country they believe it to be. With its new immigration of the past three decades for sure, Italy is, at this juncture, more than ripe for its own wave of a combinatio nova.

Cécile Kyenge and family

* Anthony Julian Tamburri is the Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures.

www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 9 ● ● FILM DIRECTOR GIANNI AMELIO IN NEW YORK The Meaning of Cinema

Gianni Amelio and the posters of some of his films:Felice chi è diverso and L’intrepido were presented in July at the Open Roads festival in New York.

apprenticeship on the set of documentaries The other movie you presented at Open One of the most by directors like Liliana Cavani, Amelio Roads, L’intrepido (The intrepid), tells the influential Italian film began making his own films, starting with story of a man who creates a new job for a documentary about the making of what himself every day; he replaces anyone directors of our times probably remains the most epic contemporary who cannot do her/his job for the day. speaks about his Italian film: Bernardo Bertolucci’s1900 . Is the economic situation in Italy so disastrous? cinema, his vision of How would you describe your relationship I believe that right now in Italy—but not only with documentary filmmaking? there—the predicament of our survival is life, and his life when I don’t see much difference between very worrisome. The prospects for the future he is not working. documentaries and features; it’s all cinema for our children and ourselves are so bleak to me, and I take both [genres] on with the that we cannot afford to face them with tears same spirit, searching for the truth of feelings. in our eyes. Whether those feelings belong to a real person by Stefano Albertini or to the character that an author has created And so you chose a comedian to play the is of little relevance to me. role... ●● Gianni Amelio, one of the most influential Yes, we need to explore the road of paradox. Italian film directors of our times, was recently In your latest docufilm presented at Open When I tell the story of someone whose job in New York to present his two latest films Roads festival in New York, you interview is “being a replacement,” I am obviously at Open Roads, the Italian film festival at homosexuals about their life in the 1900s. trying to be provocative. The provocative Lincoln Center curated by Antonio Monda. I Where did this idea come from? approach makes the issue even more serious. interviewed him for i-ItalyTV in the garden of I didn’t get the idea from people but from I dealt with this problem by using a very Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò right before the things. Newspapers, news reports, some popular Italian comic actor, who is, however, beginning of the round table discussion that images from movies dating back to the ‘50s endowed with a sense of humor that doesn’t featured the entire artistic delegation of Open and ‘60s. The language being used then would belong to the Italian tradition, but rather to Roads (see video). Rather unusually for a film be totally unacceptable today. These images a far older one that has its roots in the US. I festival, Open Roads invited Amelio to present conveyed such cruelty and viciousness that I was thinking more of Charlie Chaplin’s Little a double bill: the feature film The Intrepid and wanted to compare them with the private and Tramp or Buster Keaton. the documentary Felice chi è diverso. I started personal lives of homosexuals in the postwar my discussion with Amelio by asking him period. Stories of extraordinary moral strength As you mentioned, many of your viewers about the documentary, because that’s where were being belittled, insulted and crushed by are Americans with a passion for Italy, Amelio got his start in filmmaking. After an the media. or Italian Americans whose personal

10 | i-Italy ny | September-October 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org Cinema is not my life’s goal; it’s a Gianni Amelio and Stefano Albertini on i-Italy | TV learning tool. It is an extraordinary vehicle that allows you to continuously enrich your life. Cinema allows us to try to really know the things we love, and love the things we already know even more.

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He is a grown man with three wonderful daughters. He somehow compensated me for my missing out on my original family. He allowed me to create a new family, which is what I care the most about now.

Another movie with biographical elements is Le Premiere Homme, one of my favorites. How does Gianni Amelio fit in Camus’ deeply autobiographical novel about his return to Algeria? Camus seems to tell a very personal story, strongly characterized by the fundamental political and historical background of Algeria going through the In Amelio’s Lamerica, the Albanian exodus to Italy early phases of French decolonization. in the 1990s parallels that of the Italians I’d say that his story resembles mine, to the United States the century before. especially my childhood. It all started because Camus’ daughter knew some of my movies and trusted me to direct a very intimate and or family history is one of migration, a difficult story to approach. She relied on these theme that is very close to your heart. autobiographical elements and parallels. One of your best and most successful For example, like Camus, I grew up without films on this topic isLamerica (consciously a father, with a very young mother and an misspelled), which is a story of emigration extremely authoritative grandmother. And mind is flexible and it becomes even more so and interaction between people of Camus’ childhood, like mine, was marked by if you fill it with passages from books, images different origins. Your own familiarity with hunger. from movies, pieces of music or paintings. migration comes from your father, who left I think we shouldn’t spend our time for Argentina when you were very young. What does Gianni Amelio do when he is not spasmodically looking for success, for the big What is your relationship with this topic working? movie or award, but rather try to really know today? I live. Cinema is not my life’s goal; it’s a the things we love, and love the things we My father’s emigration represented the learning tool. Of course, when you make already know even more. ●● division and ultimate dissolution of my a movie, you dig deep into your soul, right family. To me, making a film likeLamerica in into your guts, but above all you get to know Albania meant reconstructing a family of others. You search for other people’s truths, my own, since it’s there that I met my son. I and find your own in the process. Cinema is * Stefano Albertini is Professor of Italian Studies adopted an Albanian boy and, through him, an extraordinary vehicle that allows you to and Director of Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at his whole family. Today he bears my name. continuously enrich your life. The human New York University. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 11 Andrew Cuomo Mario Cuomo

● ● ANDREW CUOMO IN REVIEW Tribulations and Trials

commission’s unfinished business. To add There are two different ways to think about more fuel to the ethics fire, Andy intends to use New York State funds in case he faces the current troubles of Governor Cuomo II. criminal charges. The first is that he is an especially corrupt SPOP : Standard Political Operating politician. The second is to think that Andy Procedure is, unlike his father, a “normal” politician There are two different ways to think about the current troubles of Governor Cuomo II. who makes decisions based primarily The first is that he is an especially corrupt politician. The second is to think that Andy on how it will affect his future as opposed is, unlike his father, a “normal” politician to his saintly reputation. who makes decisions based primarily on how it will affect his future as opposed to his saintly reputation (reputazione di santo). by Jerry Krase bought campaign airtime from them in 2010. Having spent much of my long life both When Cuomo’s most senior aide Lawrence studying and being at times too involved ●● It seems that Andy, the least lovable S. Schwarz found out, he called one of the in politics, my sense is that Andy is not child of Mario, is in deeper stuff than usual. commission’s three co-chairs, William J. especially ethically challenged. For example, The New Times reported recently that he Fitzpatrick, the district attorney in Syracuse, ex-Kings County District Attorney Charles “hobbled” (ha azzoppato) investigations by the and directed him to “Pull it back.” Although Joseph Hynes, who is now under the ethics powerful Moreland Commission he himself Andy said “…he had every right to monitor microscope for prosecutorial misconduct, had had established to root out corruption, when and direct the work of a commission “… such a squeaky clean reputation that he, like it got too close to home. According to Susanne “many commissioners and investigators Andy’s father, headed several major and very Craig, William K. Rashbaum and Thomas saw the demands as politically motivated sensitive statewide investigations. The idea Kaplan, “It was barely two months old when interference that hamstrung an undertaking that Andy would be unwilling to investigate, its investigators, hunting for violations of that the governor had publicly vowed would and possibly harm, those who helped him campaign-finance laws, issued a subpoena be independent.” Andy nixed the commission get elected is hardly shocking; it is SPOP to a media-buying firm that had placed after nine of its eighteen-month shelf life. As (Standard Political Operating Procedure). The millions of dollars’ worth of advertisements he gears up for a re-run in November, federal only politicians who go after their friends are for the New York State Democratic Party.” prosecutor Preeht Bharara is looking into his those who have never been in office or are Unfortunately they didn’t know that Andy role in the shutdown and has taken up the out of the business.

12 | i-Italy ny | September-October 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org All politics is not only local, it is also very personal and both Mario and Andy made lots of enemies along their oft-shared pathways to higher office. The rap against Mario was that he thought he was smarter than everyone else (which he was), and the rap against Andrew is

Mario Cuomo that he thinks he is.

Speaking from experience was angry that he didn’t get a job for which In the interest of journalistic integrity, I should he wasn’t qualified. He asked me to “look into note that I did a lot of work in Mario Cuomo’s it” for him. When I spoke to the patronage gubernatorial and Major Owens’ congressional boss (capo-clientela), I was told that my relative- campaigns in 1982. In fact I coordinated some in-law didn’t have the requirements for the of their local campaign efforts in Brooklyn. position and that, given the scrutiny of an After they both won, for my troubles as a earlier Moreland Commission, the organization volunteer (volontario) I was asked if I wanted a wanted to make sure that all appointments “job.” My reply was “No thanks.” I already had were solid. In politics the general patronage rule a professorial “job,” which most nine-to-fivers is that if there are two people qualified for the consider a “no-show” one. I did say that I would job and one is a friend, guess who gets it? PS: accept, if offered, a pro bono position in an area When friends don’t get what they think they of my interests. Soon thereafter I received a deserve, they become your enemies. letter of my gubernatorial appointment to the New York State Council for the Humanities Politics: a very personal business on which I proudly served until George Pataki Andy’s troubles might also be the Post-FDR became governor, at which point I resigned. I curse (maladetto) placed on all New York also campaigned for recently elected New York State governors who even think of becoming City Mayor Bill DeBlasio. Shortly after he was President. Nelson Rockefeller failed three times elected, I was asked to fill out an online form (1964, 68, 72). Mario went nowhere, even after indicating how I might help his administration. he delivered the best speech ever heard at a Thereupon I also registered my lack of interest Democratic Party National Convention (1984). in doing anything more than servingpro bono in For George Pataki, Elliot Spitzer, and David areas such as civil or human rights (diritti civili o Patterson, the office, for other reasons, was umani). I have yet to hear from Bill, so I guess he also a dead end. It is also possible that Andy’s has more important things to worry about such troubles are partly a consequence of the sins as how to eat pizza with only his hands. of his father (i peccati di suo padre). All politics is not only local, it is also very personal and both Making friends, making enemies Mario and Andy made lots of enemies along Other political folks for whom I have done their oft-shared pathways to higher office. The something for nothing much are too numerous rap against Mario was that he thought he was to mention and include then newly elected smarter than everyone else (which he was), and (1983) Congressman (now U.S. Senator) Chuck the rap against Andrew is that he thinks he is. Schumer (Military Academy Candidate Review Perhaps Andrew learned at least one lesson Board). One elected official to whom I will be from his father and is trying not to piss off his eternally grateful kept me out of Rikers Island friends and thereby make more enemies. ●● Prison after a false arrest (falso arresto). Finally, in reference to political friends and enemies, * Jerry Krase is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman I must tell the story of a relative-in-law who Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 13 ● ● JULY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2014: ITALY AT THE HELM OF THE E.U. COUNCIL Fulfilling the Dream of the United States of Europe

A united Europe is an by Natalia Quintavalle business world, often asked me, “Why don’t you abandon Greece to its fate? Why doesn’t irreversible process. ●● “Doesn’t it thrill you to realize that today Italy exit from the Euro?” I tried to explain, Perhaps what we call it is our job to fulfill the dream of the United with modest success, that the process of States of Europe, the dream of our forefathers European integration is irreversible. A country the European message amid the ruins of war? Our job –the job of the cannot leave the Euro, and it is unthinkable Erasmus generation – is to tell our children for Italy to move away from the European is best summed up in that hope is still alive in the idea of Europe.” Union. The EU is a reality and a fundamental the expression “the These are the words uttered by Prime Minister part of the economic, political, and social life Matteo Renzi on July 2nd, when he introduced of member states. My counterparts listened United States of the program of the Italian Presidency of the to me with a mixture of skepticism (toward Europe,” which may EU Council. For the remainder of this year, Europe) and sympathy (for Italy). Their main from July 1 to December 31, it is Italy’s job concern, especially for the Chinese or the also be easier to to helm the Presidency of the EU Council. Latin Americans, was the financial side of the Whether it is more of an honor or a burden matter. understand for people may be unclear to the readers of this After three years of regular contact with Euro- on this side of the magazine, as it is indeed to people on both skeptics, American and not, I have come to sides of the Atlantic. realize that the most effective way to convey Atlantic, including the irreversibility of the European Union many of Italian origin, Confronting Euro-Skepticism is the one chosen by Prime Minister Renzi. When I arrived in New York in September We need to appeal to the role the European who are proud to be 2011 as the newly-appointed Consul General communities first, and the European Union of Italy, Europe was in the throes of a currency later, played in maintaining peace and citizens of the United crisis that was hitting Greece hard and casting stability in Europe after the Second World States of America. a shadow over Spain, Portugal and even Italy. War. We need to remember that, when there My American counterparts, especially in the were crises and wars, as in the Balkans, the

14 | i-Italy ny | September-October 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org Europe’s fundamental objective must be the reduction of inequalities. The same features should shape the EU’s foreign policy, starting with migration and asylum policies, through the adoption of more consistent and effective measures to aid countries

Natalia Quintavalle (photo by Iwona Adamczyk) where migratory flows originate. role of the EU, despite the weaknesses of a Italy’s Presidency of the EU Council in Europe and represents the second largest not yet “common” foreign policy, has been This brings me to the Italian Presidency constituency in the Strasbourg Parliament, for the most part positive. It is also helpful to of the EU Council. The Presidency is a as a member of the social-democratic group, mention Europe’s youth, as Prime Minister rotating position assumed by a different which can hardly be considered Euro-skeptic. Renzi does. The Erasmus program, for member state every six months according These currents of change and renewal make example, has helped thousands of students to a predetermined order. Italy inherited Italy’s responsibility as President of the EU to complete their studies in an EU country the scepter from Greece and will pass it to Council even greater, in particular regarding other than their own. It has helped to create Latvia on December 31. The holder of the the promotion of consistent sustainable a new generation of young Europeans. What presidency is responsible for managing the policies on the priority issues of economic for my generation was an act of courage and agenda of the Council, presiding over the growth and migration. required a comprehensive preparation for majority of its meetings, and representing months – getting the right travel documents, the Council in relations with the other The Europe of the future a different currency, medical coverage, EU institutions. These are tasks of great The Europe of the future must be more etc. – for the new generation only requires a importance, especially today, as the other cohesive, supportive and competitive. Its willingness to learn a new language. two major European institutions - the fundamental objective must be the reduction of Parliament and the Commission - are both inequalities. The same features should shape Building the United States of Europe undergoing a process of renewal. Elections to the EU’s foreign policy, starting with migration Perhaps this message is best summed up in the European Parliament were held on May and asylum policies, through the adoption of the expression “the United States of Europe,” 22-25, and the new Parliament took office more consistent and effective measures to aid which may also be easier to understand for on July 1. On July 15, Jean-Claude Juncker countries where migratory flows originate. people on this side of the Atlantic who are was elected President of the Commission Tackling inequality and immigration policies proud to be citizens of the United States to replace Jose Manuel Barroso. The new for people who leave their country in search of America. Obviously the United States of commission will take office on November of a better future. The two issues should Europe does not yet exist, and the national 1, and finally, on November 30, Herman sound familiar to American ears, which interest has not yet been completely Van Rompuy’s term as President of the leads us to hope that the EU will no longer be subsumed by the Union. The process of European Council will end. These changes perceived as an unnecessary supranational European integration is exactly that, a leave significant room for the presidency structure only intended to complicate “process” to which all member countries and to advance its priorities, in the midst of relations between the United States and EU institutions contribute. EU laws and their negotiations to name the right people European countries. Europe is indeed a major application in the member states proceed at to leadership positions in the European trade, economic, cultural and political partner a rapid pace. The acquis communautaire has institutions. with whom to address the many regional become the center of national legislation in This is also a unique opportunity to counter and global crises that continue to impact almost all areas of economic and social life. the Euro-skepticism that so heavily influenced and sometimes compromise the peaceful A great debate is underway on renewing the the recent European Parliament elections. coexistence of communities and states. ●● role of the EU institutions: the Parliament, the Euro-skepticism has had a major impact in Commission and, of course, the Council of the Italy. At the same time, however, the Italian * Natalia Quintavalle is the Consul General European Union. Democratic Party was the most voted party of Italy in New York. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 15 Collina Italiana Screaming ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL CENTER for Peace

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16 | i-Italy ny | September-October 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org ● ● THE ‘GARBAGE PATCH STATE’ COMES TO THE UNITED NATIONS The Birth of a New ‘State’ Artist Maria Cristina Finucci’s innovative and provocative project is set to launch at the UN. Supported by Missione Italiana and Ambassador Cardi, the event will open the semester of the Italian Presidency of the European Council. Sponsored by ENI. Above: The Garbage Patch State greeting postcard. Below: Maria Cristina Finucci working at her installation by Mila Tenaglia large wave of plastic in the piazza of the ENI, Italy’s major oil company and a true ●● “A couple years ago, I read about the MAXXI Museum of Rome. And then they “Corportate Ambassador” of Italy around Garbage Patch. It made a big impression on couldn’t resist opening its first Embassy! “I the world, last year picked up this project me, and since then I have examined the made a civil registry. I registered thousands as the official sponsor. “It’s an intelligent environmental disaster more closely. I had to of objects—possible inhabitants of the project which immediately got our support do something.” So Maria Cristina Finucci—a Garbage Patch State. Sandals, glasses, plastic not only because of its ethical message but brilliant Tuscan artist, architect and designer forks, detergents. I made birth certificates because of its innovative way of depicting who has lived and worked in New York, Paris, for anyone who wanted to become a citizen it,” explained Stefano Lucchini, then Brussels, Moscow, Madrid and Rome—decided and adopt an object. Ever since then, media Director of International Relations and to spotlight a specific environmental issue around the world has been talking about Communication at ENI. involving the disposal of waste in our oceans. these installations.” Here’s a little taste of the installation: a large First, explains Maria Cristina, she Of course there was no way she was going serpent made with 132, 500 caps will be symbolically founded the ‘Plastic State’ to skip New York. “For me it’s an honor to displayed in the inside lobby during the UN’s with a major installation on April 11, 2013 at be present at the United Nations with my general assembly. But don’t worry. If you UNESCO headquarters in Paris. “We needed installation on September 29. Ambassador can’t make it to the UN, a documentary on a synthetic and symbolic representation to Cardi was enthusiastic about the idea and he the Garbage Patch State by director Miguel capture this image, which I created using a is a very pleasant preson to work with.” Angel Tobia will soon be released. ●● transmedia technique, i.e., releasing various bits of ‘evidence’ of a different nature. I placed large transparent plastic bags filled Artists should with bottle caps to symbolize the island and created postcards” (‘Greetings From the not be as self- Garbage Patch State’). Then, a few months later she went to Venice referential as they and opened her pavilion at Ca’ Foscari were in the past. University. She got students involved and created the “founding myth” of the new state. Art’s powers of “I got them to tell me stories, and we talked persuasion are so about religion, geography, ethnic groups.” The State continued to travel. It went to an strong that they international art festival in Madrid, where maria Cristina put up a major installation. must be used at the A year later she celebrated the Garbage service of a cause. State’s first National Festival by placing a www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 17 ● ● MEET THE SOUL OF ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS ITALIAN BRANDS IN THE WORLD Mastering Glass & Poetry

nature,” says Seguso. “The greatest, most She loved flowers, gardens, greenery. Her Guardian of a millenial spiritual thing we can do is transform what grace practically knocked me over and that’s glassmaking tradition, we see into art, create by copying the creator. when I began writing. I think I simply became It began in Venice because the place itself is a a poet courting Daniela. She was my first Giampaolo Seguso miracle, an extraordinary endeavor of human reader. In the end I didn’t discover I was a invites us into his and divine effort: it’s the true communion.” poet, I discovered I was in love.” studio in New York, Glassmaking for 22 generations Coming to America Seguso was born into a family that has been Seguso’s voice is warm, calm. His intense where he talks about making glass for 22 generations. Artist, eyes seem to preserve many past lives. His the history of a craft philosopher and poet, he spent a lifetime relationship with his father Archimede shuttling back and forth between Venice was fractious. One of the most important whose roots stretch and New York until twenty years ago, when glassmakers in the twentieth century, way back to the he opened a branch of his company, Seguso Archimede founded the extraordinary Italian Viro, here in New York. His work is on display glassware manufacturer Vetreria Archimede Venetian Renaissance. at MOMA, the Guggenheim and hundreds of Seguso in 1948, where father and son worked other museums around the world. Engraved side by side until Giampaolo was almost 50. in each piece is one of Seguso’s own poems, Then came the break. “It was dramatic,” says by Mila Tenaglia and Letizia Airos little pearls of wisdom writ on vases, glasses Seguso. and paperweights. “I love synthesis,” says Eager to embark on his own artistic path, ●● Murano harbors the oldest techniques in Seguso. “I transform the metaphors of my life Seguso founded Seguso Viro in 1993, which the art of Italian glassmaking. The little island by creating poetic objects in glass.” rapidly expanded into the American market, in front of Venice is the place for glass. This leading to the creation of Seguso Viro USA is where the art and industry of glassmaking From glassmaking to poetry with offices in New York. The trick, explains was born, and there’s no better place on earth In his hands, Seguso holds a diary-like book Seguso, is to “achieve a contemporary look for learning the craft. Giampaolo Seguso has that turns out to be a copy of My Page is Glass: using ancient Renaissance techniques.” known it for as long as he can remember, Poems, the collection of verse dedicated to Seguso Viro, in fact, has a strong international seeing as his family has been making glass his son Pierpaolo. “I realize he is the one who appeal that fuses classic craftsmanship for six centuries. “This type of craftsmanship understands me the most,” explains Seguso. with experimental techniques. “With the was born and evolved in Renaissance Venice “I discovered I was a poet thanks to my wife, help of my son Pierpaolo and our team, because to create beauty, men must copy whom I loved very much. She was my muse. we succeeded in understanding American

18 | i-Italy ny | September-October 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org The most important thing is to do something well. Everyone knows how to ‘do’. But to do something well in life you must be sensitive, thoughtful and very humble. Nothing happens by accident.

with great care. Once the glass is placed in the annealer, it can sit there for 12, 24, even 42 hours, depending on the thickness of the object. During that time you don’t know whether the object will turn out well. And that’s where the third element comes in, the waiting, which is marvelous. Finally you have the revelation, and after two days you see for the first time what you have done. It’s like giving birth!”

There the maestro stops, inspired by his latest creations, which he shows us with equal amounts of pride and affection. “Glass, for me, is the only material that can reproduce the colors of the Venetian lagoon.” ●● tastes and trends. We want to communicate the authentic essence of Murano. And here there’s a strong sense of youth culture.”

A soloist and his orchestra Walking through his studio in New York, Seguso admits that he has never directly crafted the glass. “I realized I was more of a conductor in this occupation,” he says. “I know I’m a terrible soloist, but I have the ability to direct the orchestra. I have a gift for playing and writing music. The most beautiful compliment I ever got was that I wasn’t a glass master, I was a master of glass.” “Five of us work on an object,” he continues. “Each of us has to know how to do his part at the right time. It becomes like a ballet, a symphony concert. In the moment, we’re all involved in a creative act, where fire plays the lead role, hands down. You have to follow the rules. If you don’t, the object will break. It is a very delicate operation.”

A sense of artisanship The sense of artisanship is palpable when it comes to this bottega-style job, as if little had changed since the 1300s. The bottega becomes a place of worship. “First there’s Giampaolo Seguso at his the altar, our oven,” says Seguso. “Second New York location there are the movements, which are made www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 19 THE MOST INNOVATIVE ITALIAN SCHOOL IN NEW YORK CITY Learn to speak Italian!

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CHEF’S KITCHEN Tue, Oct 28, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CHEF’S TABLE The Food of Campania - Promo - $60 Wed, Sep 17, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sat, Nov 8, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Fri, Sep 12, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Get to Know Gnocchi - $100 Sunday Supper/Pranzo della domenica - $100 A 4-Course Dinner Featuring the Food & Wine of Sicilia - $125 Thu, Sep 18, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Wed, Nov 12, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sat, Sep 27, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Everyday Cooking with Benedetta Parodi - $110 Fall in Campania with Cecilia Bellelli Baratta - $110 A 4-Course Dinner Featuring the Food & Wine of Campania - $125 Fri, Sep 19, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Thu, Nov 13, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sat, Oct 18, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Cooking with Beer - $80 Italian Thanksgiving - $100 A 4-Course Dinner Featuring the Food & Wine of Campania - $125 Sat, Sep 20, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Sat, Oct 18, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Sunday Supper/Pranzo della domenica - $100 A 4-Course Dinner Featuring the Food & Wine of Campania - $125 Tue, Sep 23, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM IDENTITÀ GOLOSE Sat, Nov 1, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Italian Pantry - $100 A 4-Course Dinner Featuring Urbani Truffles - $160 Thu, Sep 25, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Thu, Oct 9, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Fri, Nov 7, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM The Food of Campania - Promo - $60 Seminar with Lidia Bastianich & Rosanna Marziale - $125 A 4-Course Dinner with Gabrielle Hamilton from Prune - $150 Mon, Sep 29, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Fri, Oct 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Sat, Nov 15, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Meatless Monday in Campania - $100 Seminar with Mario Batali & Davide Scabin - $125 A 4-Course Dinner Featuring the Food & Wine of Umbria - $125 Wed, Oct 1, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Fri, Oct 10, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Fresh Fall Pasta - $100 Seminar with Michael Anthony & Carlo Gracco - $125 Mon, Oct 6, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Fri, Oct 10, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Cucina Povera in Napoli - $100 5-Course All-Star Chefs’ Dinner (Host: Lidia Bastianich) - $190 Tue, Oct 7, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sat, Oct 11, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM The Art of Fall Risotto - $100 Seminar with Daniel Humm & Massimo Bottura - $125 Wed, Oct 15, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sat, Oct 11, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM A Sauce for Each Dish - $100 Seminar with April Bloomfiels & Vintantonio Lombardo - $125 Wed, Oct 22, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sat, Oct 11, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM This is only a selectionof the Get to Know Gnocchi - $100 5-Course All-Star Chefs’ Dinner (Host: Mario Batali) – RSPV events at La Scuola di Eataly. Sat, Oct 22, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Sun, Oct 12, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM For more info visit our website: A 4-Course Fall Feast with Beer Pairings - $125 Seminar with Bryce Shuman & Luciano Monosilio - $125 http://www.eataly.com/nyc-school Mon, Oct 27, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sun, Oct 12, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Italian Pantry - $100 Seminar with Daniel Burns & Lorenzo Cogo - $125

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INTERVIEW WITH FRANK G. FUSARO (CHAIRMAN Conferences & Seminars For the full calendar point and shoot with your smartphone, or go to This is only a selection of the forthcoming Italian events in New York. Presentation Book charitable organizations and worthy in scholarships, grants, and gifts to disbursed more than $12 million indeed, throughout the years, it has and scholarship programs.” And of young people through our grant and supporting the educational goals charitable causes, and encouraging American heritage, contributing to “perpetuating pride in our Italian- Foundation describes its mission as business, education, and the arts. The fields of law, medicine, government, of Italian heritage representing the 600 prominent men and women the US and Italy. It includes nearly country, much respected both in American organizations in the is one of the best known Italian- the Columbus Citizens Foundation Established in 1944 in New York City, by Ottorino Cappelli Exhibits Arts & & Theatre Cinema to preserve them. have done or plan to do roots and what they heritage and cultural thoughts about their as well astheir professional history, activity and their community and family experience, with their personal Italian immigrants, community so that October has by the Italian and Italian-American over the years and are organized independent events have developed around this nucleus a number of of Columbus Day. Furthermore, Astoria are the main official events and the Weekend Gala at the Waldorf Mass at the Cathedral of St. Patrick, The Parade, the Celebration of the the U.S. and abroad. Avenue and on television throughout viewed by millions both on Fifth 1934 in the U.S.), the parade is of October (a Federal Holiday since Columbus Day, the second Monday landmark events. Taking place on Day Parade, one of New York’s sponsor of the Annual Columbus primarily as the main organizer and however, knows the Foundation or nationality. The general public, causes, irrespective of race, religion, ) AND N A descendants of men,Two www.i-ItalyNY www.i-italy.org Concerts Music & GELO VIVOLO (PRESIDENT) .com | September-October2014 |i- Events approach, we present first of all And, as it is customary in our Frank G. Fusaro and Angelo Vivolo. Columbus Citizens Foundation, those who lead and manage the Here we introduce our readers to period. an Italian Fall (or even Fall-Winter) American cities now actually has suggesting that the most Italian of extend from September to December, NY, Inc., the events listed in the insert Heritage and Culture Committee of Month. Sponsored by the Italian year’s Italian Heritage and Culture our special insert dedicated to this beyond a doubt, as you can see from This issue of i-ItayNY proves this the “Italian Month” in New York. become, for all intents and purposes, Manhattan’s Upper East Side. upscale two-floor restaurant on Its flagship location is “Vivolo,” an which includes four restaurants. successful Vivolo Restaurant Group, Island University and manages the Angelo Vivolo got his BS at Long & Wine Food Italy & Design Fashion ny |23 Events two men, descendants of Italian Q: Have you ever experienced immigrants, as well as the two “ethnic frictions” or anti-Italian highest ranking officials of the discrimination? Foundation. We highlight their personal and family experience, their VIVOLO: Not that I can community activity and professional remember. No, I never had that history, as well as their thoughts experience. Incidentally, in my Riccardo Chioni Riccardo

about their heritage and cultural © senior year at college I was the roots and what they have done or President of that multiethnic plan to do to preserve them. And, student body. with that said, we wish you, Buona lettura! FUSARO: I did observe ethnic frictions between the Italians, Q: Let’s start with your ancestry. Irish and Jews, but nothing very Where in Italy are your family serious. I know many other origins? ethnicities harbored anti-Italian feelings, but I never let that stop ANGELO VIVOLO: I am first me from reaching my goals. generation Italian. My father was born outside of Naples in Q: Do you speak Italian? How a town called Brusciano. When important is it for your goal to he and his family arrived in spread the knowledge of the New York City they first stayed mother tongue among Italian with some Italian friends in Americans? East Harlem, then they moved to Brooklyn, and eventually VIVOLO: My grandparents and settled in Bensonhurst, where my dad spoke Neapolitan and almost everybody was Italian. my mother’s parents spoke a Riccardo Chioni Riccardo

My mother, on the other hand, © very strong Sicilian dialect. I was born here from a family studied Italian in junior high, of Sicilian immigrants from high school and college, and I Messina. They lived in Brooklyn can speak conversational Italian. too, and that is where she met Unfortunately, most schools do my dad. He lived in the next not offer Italian as a language house down from her. It’s also option these days, and students where I was born. are limited because of that. Other FRANK FUSARO: I am second languages are viewed as more generation. My grandparents useful in general and of greater were from Naples and Forio, help to business students. As a village on the island of parents, we need to instill in Ischia, in the Gulf of Naples. our children that the Italian Unfortunately, none of my language is the centerpiece of grandparents were alive by our culture and heritage. With Riccardo Chioni Riccardo

the time I reached the age © the recent addition of the AP of reason, so I couldn’t hear Italian program, there is a better first-hand stories of their life felt good about being Italian sing. It was always fun. And mass chance of that changing. as immigrants. But I remember because everyone in my world every Sunday, of course, was living in an apartment in the Red was Italian. Then when I was mandatory. But we always knew FUSARO: Both my parents spoke Hook section of Brooklyn, now eight my mother remarried and that we lived in a multiethnic fluent Italian, but with great known as Carroll Gardens, and we moved into a more diverse society … This may have been sadness, I have to admit that having four aunts and uncles in neighborhood. It was there that I unique to us, since we were in the like so many second generation our building. It was like a great, experienced ethnic diversity for service industry and therefore Italian Americans I don’t speak extended Italian family, and I the first time. exposed to other ethnicities over the language. It is an all too have clear memories of Italian the years.Besides, when I went common phenomenon. Our food, festivities, and the mass… VIVOLO: Everything in my life to school… that was not an all- parents and grandparents was Italian, since I lived above my Italian environment. were so focused on our being Q: So you were both raised in grandfather’s Italian restaurant American that they let the a heavily Italian environment. and everyone who worked there Q: It wasn’t? language slip. It’s a great regret What was growing up Italian and patronized the restaurant of mine. You feel somehow in Brooklyn like? When did you were Italian. Food and festivities VIVOLO: No. Most of my friends separated from your roots if you realize how diverse America is? were always at the center of were Italians, of course, but I can’t speak the language. our family’s life because of the attended Lafayette High School, I think preserving the language FUSARO: My father died when I business we have been in till this which at that time had a predo- is one of a number of things that was one year old. But because we day. Even Italian music was an minantly Jewish and Italian should be done to preserve our had so many family members important part of family life: my student body. I graduated from heritage. However, that’s not close by, I don’t remember uncle would play the accordion Long Island University, and that an easy task. I believe that if wanting for anything. I always and everyone thought they could was a very multiethnic school too. all Italian-Americans who had

24 | i-Italy ny | September-October2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org Events never visited Italy (and you’d Mediterranean countries. This be amazed at how many there seems to be linked somehow to are!) were to take the time to your Italian origins, am I correct? understand and appreciate their heritage, it would be a giant step FUSARO: That’s correct. I forward. learned of Thalasimia through members of the Foundation who Q: Speaking of Italy, when was had family members who were the first time you went there? stricken with the disorder. I had Have you ever visited your no personal involvement, but ancestral town? What was your when I saw the suffering of the first impression? children and parents, I could not turn away. FUSARO: I have probably made seven or eight trips to Q: Mr. Vivolo, you ran four Italy, most recently two years successful restaurants through ago when I had the honor of the Vivolo Group. Your family representing the Foundation is in the restaurant business at the dedication of a $200,000 and, as you said, through food, vehicle that the Foundation “Italianness” has always been donated to the relief effort in an integral part of your life. You L’Aquila after the earthquake. must feel like an “ambassador” The first trip opened my eyes to of Italy in the NYC dining the amazing accomplishments scene. How important is food of the Italian people. For me, it to Italian lifestyle and culture, was a life-changer, and I’ve given and to you? over a hundred presentations to students, fellow Foundation VIVOLO: I have owned and members and others about the operated my restaurants for pride that we should take in the past 38 years and feel that being of Italian heritage. My first I have given the public an trip to Ischia made me wonder opportunity to experience a what made my grandparents part of Italian culture through Riccardo Chioni Riccardo

leave that paradise for Brooklyn! © their dining experience. It The answer was simple: piques their curiosity about opportunity for their children at Italy and all of the great great personal sacrifice. sacrificed in order to give their the Foundation events, they products and traditions that children the opportunity to learned a lot about our culture led to the creation of our VIVOLO: My first visit to Italy succeed. Both Angelo and I are and heritage. After my first cuisine. On a personal note, as was 30 years ago, and I have from what I call the blessed year at the CCF, I became a I said, my family traditions are been back many, many times generation. Our parents never board member and served embedded in food and what since. But unfortunately I never had the opportunities that were in that capacity under six it represents. But in general, visited my ancestral town, available to us. They educated different presidents, becoming you may well say that food and Brusciano. us, instilled in us great values, more and more involved in dining are integral parts of our and sent us out into the world to the mission of the Foundation. culture. First, the family table Q: What is the Columbus find our own way. Today, I am proud to be the is essential to our social fabric. Foundation for you? How did But while I am very proud of President of an organization That’s where we engage in the you join and what are you most the Parade, I am most proud of whose membership is interactions that reinforce our proud of? the generosity of our members, dedicated to preserving and commitment to family values. of having so many highly enhancing Italian culture Second, enjoying traditional FUSARO: I have always tried to accomplished individuals give and heritage through their food reminds us where we assist other Italian-American so much of themselves to the philanthropic efforts. Our come from and that we are still organizations with things like Foundation. So, there’s no scholarship program for a part of that great tradition, celebrations, fund raising, etc. question that our scholarship Italian-American students who even if we were born and live Then in 1984 a client sponsored efforts are the single most have the ability but lack the outside of Italy. me to enter the Foundation. I important thing I am proud of. financial means to receive an first joined to meet other Italian excellent education is second Q: As you mentioned, you were Americans in business, but VIVOLO: When I was 31, I to none, and it demonstrates both born and raised in an all- when I got heavily involved I got married and moved to our commitment to give back Italian environment. What are realized what it truly meant to Manhattan where I settled in to our community. These the first words in Italian you be an Italian American… a non-Italian neighborhood. students are our future leaders. remember, if any? The Parade above all else is our So after a few years, I joined opportunity to tell the world the CCF because I wanted Q: Mr Fusaro, you have raised VIVOLO: Too many! I can’t recall of the accomplishments of to expose my children to millions of dollars to treat the first words… Italians and Italian Americans, Italian Americans outside Thalasimia, a children’s fatal and to thank those who came my immediate family. In blood disorder especially rampant FUSARO: Not fit to print! [smiles]. before us for all that they fact, by participating in all in Southern Italy and other www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October2014 | i-Italy ny | 25 Events

● ● CULTURE IN THE TEMPLE OF FOOD A Very Special Month at Eataly

Two important events will Ambassador Dino Borri told us: celebrate Italian culture “We’re doing the exhibit because Oscar Farinetti (Eataly’s founder) and food: “Identità Golose” and everyone who has worked and the opening with him strongly believe in the of an exhibit dedicated culture and in promoting our to the Duomo of Milan country. In New York people can get a glimpse of the Duomo Liuzzo & Associates is dedicated to securing in collaboration with Expo and we’d love it if visitors would nonimmigrant working visas and status, U.S. 2015. Finally, Eataly make small donations to the celebrates the release Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, a permanent residence, corporate compliance non-profit after all.” The event programs, citizenship, naturalization, and of two special books. was also conceived of for the expatriation matters for its clients. As a firm promotion of Milan’s Expo 2015… Eataly will be the only box office whose practice is exclusively focused on U.S. ●● This October two important in New York authorized to sell Immigration and Naturalization law, we events will take place at Eataly. tickets for the international expo. successfully represent all foreign individuals The first, ‘Identità Golose,’ is an annual event begun ten years ago and corporate entities. From artists to in Milan that has since become multinational corporate executives, Liuzzo & the most important international Associates assists its clients in determining gathering of chefs in the world. the most appropriate and efficient strategy to “Self-Indulgent Identities” meet their objectives. In 2010, Eataly organized a spin- Given the prominence of immigration issues off event in New York, inviting in today’s political climate, recent arrivals to six Michelin star chefs from Italy to cook alongside six local chefs. the U.S. are in need of reliable and This year’s chefs include Massimo comprehensive advice upon which to base Bottura, Carlo Cracco and Davide their future plans. Liuzzo & Associates is Scabin. The latter is about to open a restaurant in New York. ideally positioned at the forefront of Every day for four days the chefs immigration regulatory changes, keeping pace will host two cooking lessons and with evolving laws as well as our clients’ two dinners. Each will prepare a expectations. dish, and the public will get the chance to taste food made by the Two special books best cooks in Italy. Finally, there will be two book parties at Eataly. The first for Presenting Milan’s symbol Stories of Courage: 12 Encounters At the same time, Eataly opens with Major Italian Winemakers, its exhibit on the Duomo of by Oscar Farinetti and Shigeru Milan, organized with the help Hayashi, Eataly’s Japanese of Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo associate and world-class expert di Milano, a non-profit aimed at in enology and gastronomy. preserving the cathedral with The second for How to Eataly, private donations, thus involving the first cookbook to come out Milanese residents in the of Eataly New York, edited by protection of their city’s symbol. Dino Borri and published in One Penn Plaza, Suite 2016 • New York, NY 10119 What to expect? For the first collaboration with Rizzoli. This Tel: 212.736.2100 • Fax: 212.736.2159 time ever in New York, a nave of manual on how to become [email protected] • www.liuzzolaw.com the cathedral will be recreated, “Eatalians” offers recipes made with a reproduction of the with ingredients found in the famous “Madonnina” and other store, so you can make the parts of the storied building. As delectable dishes from Eataly at Eataly’s top manager and Brand home. ●●

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You are enthusiastically A Message from the and wholeheartedly invited to join us in President/Chairperson this celebration and participate in as many Dear Friends: the development of our materials, activities listed in the and as well, to the overwhelming calendar of events as Welcome to the 38th annual largesse by our sponsors whose ads celebration of Italian Heritage and are included within. For without you are able. With all Culture Month. This year the Board their financial support, we might of us, the members of of Directors of the Italian Heritage not have been able to produce such a and Culture Committee, New comprehensive view of all the many the Italian Heritage York, Inc. has selected as its theme: activities for Italian Heritage and and Culture ommittee, “Celebrating the Italian American Culture Month, 2014. NY, Inc., a Board with a Experience, Legends and Icons, Italian Americans in Sports.” For this 2014 issue of our annual grace of life as “Italophiles,” I encourage you information, we have partnered to celebrate our rich heritage! We join with all Italian Americans with i–Italy Magazine in what one in celebrating this special year. might consider a new venture, by We are confident that the various inserting our former “booklet” into organizations which historically an insert in the September-October recognize Italian Americans issue, that can now be seen in some during the month of October will 50,000 copies and multiple other especially think about the important readers. We await the comments contributions to our heritage and of our esteemed readers and culture that have been made by supporters all. I-A men and women in the field of sports. You are enthusiastically and wholeheartedly invited to join us in At this time, I thank all who this celebration to partake of, and have suggested and prepared the participate in, as many activities final work towards the various listed in the calendar of events as posters, bookmarks, pamphlets, you are able. With all of us, the and solicitation of programs for members of the Italian Heritage the booklet/insert of activities for and Culture Committee, NY, Inc., the year 2014, all of which can be a Board with a grace of life as found as well on our web site. Our “Italophiles,” I encourage you to publications are provided through celebrate our rich heritage! the generosity of benefactors, among which are the Columbus Citizens Grazie a tutti e buon proseguimento! Foundation, the Office of the Consulate General of Italy in New York and many other individuals and contributors. Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame During these challenging economic President/Chairperson times, we are most appreciative of Mese della Cultura Italiana the response by those individuals Italian Heritage and Culture who generously have contributed to Committee of New York, Inc. 

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● ● SPONSORED BY THE ITALIAN HERITAGE AND CULTURE COMMITTEE – NY, INC. A Brief History of Italian Heritage and Culture Month in New York

More than three and one Government on several half decades of special occasions including that of Gran Uff. in the Order of the events, concerts, exhibits, Star of Solidarity, was the head lectures, and proclamations of the corps of volunteers who to celebrate and to better annually coordinated the celebration of Italian heritage inform New York, the largest and culture in the five Italian city outside Italy, and boroughs of New York. He was other geographic areas joined by like-minded enthusiasm in Rosamaria throughout the United States Riccio Pietanza, then President and the world, of the of the Italian Teachers important legacy of Italian Association of New York. and Italian American Together they gathered numbers of educators and culture. administrators with an interest in language and culture, many of whom ew York’s Italian continue to be presently Heritage and Culture involved with the IHCC-NY, NMonth will be Inc. celebrating its thirty-eighth Soon, after inception, the idea anniversary this year, 2014. to dedicate each year’s event The Italian Heritage and to a specific theme or Culture Committee of New personality representative of York, Inc. (IHCC-NY, Inc.) has the history and culture of Italy provided more than three and and Italian Americans was one half decades of special conceived. Dr. Gimondo events, concerts, exhibits, retired as founder and lectures, and proclamations to president of the IHCC-NY, Inc. celebrate and to better inform in December 2006, after 30 New York, the largest Italian years of outstanding city outside Italy, and other leadership and leaving an geographic areas throughout important legacy that the United States and the October 2013: Mother Italy Statue IHCC-NY, Inc. Chair Joseph Sciame continues today. He presently world, of the important legacy congratulates Honoree Joseph Di Pietro serves on the Board as a prime of Italian and Italian American collaborator and advisor.  culture. celebration of Italian Culture York and the President of the Commencing in January 2007, It is important to recognize Week under the auspices of United States joined in Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, from a historical perspective the Bureau of Foreign acknowledging this significant Vice-President for Community that in the spring of 1976, NYC Languages of the Board of annual celebration in issuing Relations at St. John’s Mayor Abraham Beame, Education of the City of New proclamations in recognition University, past president of proclaimed the first “Italian York. Nine years later, in 1985, of the heritage and culture of the national Order Sons of Culture Week,” from May 17 to the festivities moved to Italians and Italian Americans. Italy in America, and an 23. The idea for such progress October, to coincide with This pioneering month-long IHCC-NY, Inc. Board member was proposed to Dr. Leo various Columbus Day celebration was for three decades, was elected Bernardo, Director of the celebrations. By then, a week conceptualized by Dr. President/Chair of the Board of Bureau of Foreign Languages, had become too short to Gimondo, then President of Directors. Under his who was easily persuaded of encompass the range of the Italian Bilingual Educators leadership, the Board of the value and importance of programs so the week was Association and Directors of the IHCC-NY, Inc. this project. Dr. Bernardo transformed to “Italian Superintendent of School continues to be comprised of appointed Dr. Angelo Gimondo Heritage and Culture Month.” District 30 in the Borough of eminent representatives of as citywide coordinator, As the years passed, the Queens, NYC. Dr. Gimondo, New York’s Italian and Italian resulting in the first Governor of the State of New honored by the Italian American community. Each www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 29 Events ➜ Calendar

year the Board of Directors celebrate Italian Heritage and selects a new theme and then Culture Month with the IHCC’s Mission Statement proceeds to create a theme Board of Directors; poster and publish a Calendar • credited with advocating Italian Heritage and Culture of Events. and successfully being a leader Committee of New York, Inc. The role of the Board of in the quest to obtain an Directors continues to official U.S. Congressional promote, coordinate, and Resolution for the 150th The mission of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee, New manage the month long Anniversary of the Unification York, Inc. (IHCC-NY, Inc.) is to: celebration. The themes are of Italy;  • Heighten public awareness of Italian heritage and culture; herein included for review and • welcomed in 2012 an historical importance, and international exhibit from • Coordinate sponsorship of programs that celebrate Italian heritage represent many individuals, Florence, Italy, honoring and culture; concepts and events that have Amerigo Vespucci • Sponsor annually the Italian Heritage and Culture Month activities; memorialized the Italian and inaugurating the year’s theme Italian American movement. for Italian Heritage and • Promote the study of Italian language and culture among all eth- nic groups; In addition to its efforts to Culture Month, and in October promote heritage and culture, 2012 a bust statue of Amerigo • Engender pride in Italian Americans regarding their own heritage; as well as the annual Da Vinci Vespucci by sculptor Greg and Award ceremonies conferred Wyatt was unveiled for • Encourage positive portrayals of Italian Americans in the media upon distinguished Italian and permanent display at the and with the general public. Italian American personages, Organization of American the IHCC-NY, Inc. has in recent States (OAS) under the Vision Statement years: sponsorship of Ambassador The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc. will • sponsored a concert in Sebastiano Fulci;  conduct, sponsor and/or participate in activities throughout the Washington Square Park in • celebrated Italian Heritage & year, with special emphasis on the celebration of Italian Heritage honor of the 100-year birth of Culture Month at the National and Culture Month. Giuseppe Garibaldi;  Arts Club, as the IHCC – NY, The vision of the IHCC-NY, Inc. is to be a dynamic organization in - organized a special Inc. sponsored international the Italian American community that will collaborate on and foster anniversary gathering on the singer Cristina Fontanelli for a an appreciation of Italian and Italian American contributions to occasion of the 200th birthday first time event at that private the world. of Antonio Meucci, the true club in October 2012.  inventor of the telephone;  • co-sponsored in December The IHCC-NY, Inc. will: • mounted an international 2012 the famed Presepio at the • Solicit funds to carry out its mission and fulfill its vision; art exhibit from Palermo, Sicily Staten Island campus of St. • Network with Italian and Italian American resources to gain active by Rosa Ponte Fucarino; John’s University with the individual and group participation; partnered with the Institute of Casa Belvedere Foundation. Classical Architecture and The Presepio was a gift to the • Assist in promoting Italian heritage, culture, and language; and Classical America in the 500th NY Fire Department by Italian • Provide quality materials to educational, cultural groups and other Anniversary Celebration of officials of the Chamber of entities. Andrea Palladio;  Commerce of Naples following • supported the efforts of the the events of 9.11; and Programs Italian and Italian American • hosted special ceremonies The IHCC-NY, Inc. will encourage and/or sponsor programs at community in advancing the held in March 2013 at the John schools, colleges, civic entities, ethnic and other organizations so cause of the Advanced D. Calandra Italian American as to promote Italian heritage, culture and language; and foster Placement exam in Italian at Institute to inaugurate the positive recognition for the contributions of Italians and Americans high schools in the USA;  “Poster Series” created by of Italian descent to our society. • saluted the lifetime Artistic Director John Battista Adopted 7-14-09 achievements of the late Rocco DeSantis in honor of 2013: Caporale, Ph.D., and former Year of Italian culture in the Board Member; United States. Several weeks • hosted a special tribute to later Ambassador Claudio international playwright Dott. Bisogniero visited the site to Cav. Mario Fratti for his view the same posters in a recognition of the play and unique stop in New York City movie Nine;  where he marveled “…at the • participated in the annual creativity of the year’s theme flag raising ceremonies at and carried out so well…” Bowling Green, the site of the The IHCC-NY, Inc.’s role in arrival of the first Italian to the concert with the Office of the New York shores, Pietro Cesare Consulate General, now led by Alberti. Commencing in 2010, Minister Natalia Quintavalle, the October flag-raising has as well as with the American been held at the “Mother Italy” Association of Teachers of statue at Hunter College, Italian (AATI) and the Italian CUNY, NYC, followed by a American Committee on October 2013: Lawrence Inserra presents to Ida Lanza the Coccia-Inserra Teaching Award traditional luncheon to Education (IACE), has been

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Clockwise: October 2013: Luncheon honoring IHCC-NY, Inc. Board Member Joseph DiPietro. May 2014: Deputy Consul Lucia Pasqualini expresses appreciation at Mother Italy Statue. June 2014: Board Member Cav. Dr. Berardo Paradiso and wife Loyse at Italian American Night Salute at Yankee Stadium. IHCC Chair Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame looks on with 75 guests and supporters of the IHCC-NY, Inc. June 2014: IHCC-NY, Inc. Chair Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame addresses Conference of Presidents of Major I-A Organizations as Consul General Natalia Quintavalle and Cav. Dr. Anthony Julian Tamburri look on at June 2014 40th Anniversary meeting. October 2013: IHCC-NY, Inc. Board Members Cav. Mary Ann Re and Cav. Prof. Mario Fratti at the Consulate General of Italy in New York.

strengthened over the years in and multitude of programs and more collaborative ways so as events are organized by to achieve common goals in cultural associations, education, heritage, culture, community centers, libraries, language, diplomatic respect schools, and university and a better understanding of departments of Italian in the the Italianità that is so very Greater New York important to the legacy metropolitan area to proudly bequeathed to Italian celebrate October’s Italian Americans by their families. Heritage and Culture Month. In fact, for many years the Moreover, other states such as Consuls General of Italy have Illinois, Massachusetts, New each fully supported the Jersey, Rhode Island, efforts of IHCC-NY, as well as Washington D.C., Wisconsin, through the Office of the and several others, have Director of Istituto Italiano di worked to follow the lead of Cultura di New York. the IHCC-NY, Inc. and Today, owing to the work of enhanced their activities in the IHCC-NY, Inc., a variety their respective states for the www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 31 Events ➜ Calendar month of October. For the year 2013, the Board of Directors of the IHCC-NY, Inc., Members of the Board joining with the theme advocated in Italy, determined Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc. that it be appropriate in its role to recognize Italian and Founding Chairman Committee Chairs Board of Advisors Italian Americans, by Gr. Uff. Angelo Gimondo, Ph.D. Chair, Public Relations Stephen R. Aiello, Ph.D. celebrating the 2013: Year of Nancy J. Indelicato Stefano Albertini, Ph.D. Italian Culture in the US, Honorary Chairpersons Chair, Marketing Cav. Anthony Brusco thereby acknowledging the Minister Natalia Quintavalle Louis Calvelli Rosanna Coscia Consul General of Italy Chair, Membership Cav. Anthony Ciappina achievements and great Angelo Vivolo William Russo Gaetano Cipolla, Ph.D. accomplishments of Italy and President, Columbus Citizens Chair, Special Projects Frances Fusco its gifts of heritage and culture Foundation Cav. Giuliana Ridolfi Cardillo Joseph Mongitore to the world, and more Cav. di Gr. Cr. Hon. Chair, Programming Cav. Paul Patanè, Ph.D. specifically to the United Dominic R. Massaro Cav. Joan Marchi Migliori Wanda Radetti Justice, NYS Supreme Court Legal Advisor Cav. Angelo Siciliano States. In a true Italian spirit of Cav. Uff. Joseph V. Scelsa, Ed.D. Josephine Belli, Esq. enterprise, energy and President, Italian American Artistic Director Recognized Board Members * enthusiasm, Italians and Museum John Battista DeSantis 2007 Helen and Jack Como Italian Americans can be Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, Ph.D. 2008 Cav. Dott. Berardo Paradiso saluted and hailed in special Dean, John D. Calandra Italian 2009 John De Santis Board of Directors ways. Indeed, the legacy lives American Institute, Queens 2010 Cav. Joan Migliori College/CUNY Cav. Uff. George Altomare 2011 Nancy Indelicato on!  Baronessa Mariuccia Zerilli- Claudia Massimo Berns 2012 John Mustaro During the course of the year Marimò Rosa Casiello O’Day 2013 Joseph Di Pietro 2013-14, the Board of Directors Trustee, New York University Dott.ssa Antonella DeGennaro 2014 Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, continued its tradition at the Joseph DiPietro Ph.D. Mother Italy Statue with its Officers Cav. Prof. Mario Fratti Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame Barbara Gerard, Ed.D. * At Annual Flag Raising Ceremonies various recognitions, and for President and Chairman Cav. Uff. Mico Delianova Licastro on Columbus Day Weekend. the October 2013 Columbus Maria C. Marinello, Esq. Lucrezia Lindia Day weekend saluted Board Vice President Cav. Josephine A. Maietta Member Joseph DiPietro for his John Mustaro, P.E. Guy Palumbo stalwart work as the President Treasurer Cav. Dott. Berardo Paradiso Cav. Uff. Maria Fosco Cav. Mary Ann Re, Ph.D. of the Federation of Italian Secretary Adam Stefanile American Organizations of Queens, while over the 2014 Mother’s Day weekend, the Board recognized the work of The October 2014 salute will professional, ethnic and more than three and one half Deputy Consul Lucia honor Distinguished Professor cultural achievements. decades to celebrate the Pasqualini, who would be Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, A chronological listing Italian Heritage and Culture returning to Italy to continue Ph.D., Dean, Calandra representing the array of Month follows at the end of her work for the government. Institute, for his lifetime themes designated throughout this booklet.

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We wish to express our deep the essay awards; Community Relations Wanda S. Radetti gratitude to: Lou DiRico, Arland Printing, John DeSantis, Vice President Tasteful Croation Journeys for his generous contribution Webb Communications, Leandro P. Rizzuto Minister Natalia Quintavalle, of the special composite Inc. Westchester Italian Cultural Consul General of Italy to 38-year poster; Graphic Artist Center New York, for her generous, David A. Pope, Director collaborative support Ottorino Cappelli, Ph.D., Grand Patrons regarding the work of the Project Manager and Cav. Contributors IHCC-NY, Inc. including the Letizia Airos, Editor in Chief, Cav. Vivian Cardia use of the Italian Cultural i-Italy New York for facilitating St. John’s University Joseph Agresti Institute for meetings and the new fabrication format Italian Cultural Center Past President, UNICO conducting our administrative for the 2014 IHCC-NY, Inc. La Scuola d’Italia “Gugliemo National operations; program booklet; Marconi” Claudia Berns Comm. Stefano Accunto, Cav. Prof. Mario Fratti Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, And, Gr. Uff. Angelo Gimondo, President Barbara Gerard, Ed.D. Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Ph.D., IHCC-NY, Inc. Founding NYS OSIA, Grand Lodge Gr. Uff. Angelo Gimondo and Dean of the John D. Chairman, for his ongoing Foundation Cav. Josephine Maietta, Calandra Italian American guidance and encouragement Joseph Rondinelli, President, AIAE Institute, Queens College since 1976 to the present; President Association of Italian of The City University of and Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, Laborers Union Local 731 American Educators New York and IHCC-NY, Inc. current president/chair, Joseph D’Amato, Business Cav. Uff. Aldo Mancusi Honorary Board Member, and for his willingness to lead Manager Enrico Caruso Museum his staff for their technical this important cultural Sciame Construction LLC Foundation assistance and use of the activity on behalf of the Frank J. Sciame Jr., CEO and Cav. Joan Marchi Migliori Institute’s facilities in the Board of Directors of the Chairman Zachary Nudo preparation of the calendar Italian Heritage and Culture Rosa Casiello O’Day of events, specifically: Committee-NY, Inc. Patron Angels William S. Packard Cav. Joan Marchi Migliori, Cav. Mary Ann Re, Ph.D Carmine Pizzirusso, Marianna Association of Cavaliere of the Prestigiacomo, Olga Pappas We wish to express our Republic of Italy Friends and Rosaria Musco; deep gratitude to the Cav. Dr. Thomas S. Bellavia, financial supporters of the President George Altomare John Battista De Santis, Italian Heritage and Culture Cellini Charitable Foundation Nicolina R. Astorina Vice President of Webb Committee of New York, Inc. Catherine Ciancio Communications, Inc. and Inc., who either personally, Vincent R. Illuzzi, President Faith J. Felix IHCC-NY, Inc., Artistic or in-kind or through their Patricia Leuzzi Polack Jacqueline Gagliano Director and Board Member, respective personal and Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame Jean M. Gagliardo for generously donating the professional associations, Maria and Cav. Anthony Julian Lorraine & Teresa Iachetta art work and design for the have assisted: Tamburri, Ph.D. Billie Neri theme, and graphic services Martin & Patricia Sandler for the various publications Primary Benefactors Sponsors and website www. In Kind italyculturemonth.org; The Columbus Citizens Louis P. Calvelli, Director of  Foundation, Inc. Institutional Advancement Giovanna Auriemma, Nancy Indelicato, Board Angelo Vivolo, President Maria Regina High School Co-hosts Francesca & Antonio Member IHCC-NY, Inc., for The John D. Calandra Italian Italian Club, Hartsdale, NY Pisano assisting with media relations American Institute, Queens Coccia Foundation “Souvenir D’Italia” www. for this year’s theme; College/CUNY Elisa Coccia, President wrhu.org. Radio Hofstra Cav. Anthony Julian Prof. Fred Gardaphe 88.7FM, Sat. 10:00 am Uff. George Altomare, UFT and Tamburri, Ph.D. Octopus Garden, Inc. Tony Pasquale, “Ciao Tony” IHCC-NY, Inc. Board Member, Minister Natalia Quintavalle Pina Cutrone Radio ICN www.incradio for facilitating the distribution Consul General of Italy in Prof. Francesco & Lucrezia Mon & Fri, 1:30 to 2:30 pm of posters and bookmarks New York Lindia and Sat. 10 to 11:30AM to the New York City Public Italian Language of Inter- Maria C. Marinello, Esq. Attilio Carbone “Melodie Schools; Cultural Alliance (ILICA) National Organization of Italiane” Cav. Vincenzo Marra, Italian American Women Radio1240AM , Sunday Lucrezia Lindia, IHCC-NY, Inc. Founder and President Patricia A. Martone, Chair 4:00-5:00pm Board Member, for her work St. John’s University John Mustaro, President on the annual Essay Contest, Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, United Puglesi Federation and financial contribution for Vice President for of the Metropolitan Area www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 33 Events ➜ Calendar

Participating Schools Elementary through Secondary

ITA-AATI Programs in of Italian Americans. There Cultural Harmony Celebra- A. Maietta (jmaiettaaiae@aol. Westchester will be a particular focus on tion com). The Italian Teachers’ Associa- sports legends. P.S. 42, Benja- October 10, 3:30 – 5:30 pm Cristoforo Colombo, Queen tion of Westchester will be min Altman School 71 Hester Italian Club participates in Isabella & Amerigo Vespucci celebrating the Italian Heri- Street, Manhattan. Contact: Cultural Celebration. Italian Visit Berry Hill Elementary tage and Culture Month with Rosa Casiello ODay or Eric Club set out a table of Italian School in Syosset a series of cultural activities. Carbone 212-226-8410. foods for delicacies for tast- October 10 Dates and programs will be ing and a Tarantella dancing Colombo, Queen Isabella announced. Contact: Lucre- Una Serata all’Opera demonstration and the sing- & Vespucci will greet the zia Lindia @ 914-793.6130 ext. Date TBA ing of various Italian songs students as they arrive to 4285 (lglindia@eastchester. Students of Italian from are presented. Cafeteria, The school. Berry Hill School. 181 k12.ny.us). Garden City High School Mary Louis Academy 176-21 Cold Spring Road, Syosset. will present “Una Serata Wexford Terrace, Jamaica Admission: For students only. Local Poster Contest all’Opera”: a presentation of Estates, NY. Admission: MLA Joanne Mannion Principal October 9 salient facts about a few of Students and Family of 516-364-5790. Contact: Cav. Eastchester High school the most popular Italian op- students only. Contact: Mr. Josephine A. Maietta (jmaiet- students will create a poster eras followed by performanc- Maurantonio 718-297-2120 [email protected]). based on the theme of Italian es of famous arie. Garden City ([email protected]). Americans in Sports. The High School. Admission: For Lecture on Italian Americans winning posters, selected on students only. Contact: Prof. Italian Explorers and their in Sports creativity and effectiveness of Lea Brunetti (oratino@aol. Discoveries October 22 - 31 message, will be displayed at com). October 1 – 21 Fourth graders will research the local Public Library. Second, third and fourth and give oral presentations on Eastchester High School, East- Bocce Tournament graders will view a documen- Legends & Icons in Sports of chester NY. Contact: Lucrezia Sep/Oct 2:45 – 4:00 pm tary about famous Italian their choice. Berry Hill School, Lindia @ 914-793.6130 ext. Italian Club members explorers. Berry Hill School, 181 Cold Spring Road, Syosset. 4285 (lglindia@eastchester. compete in Team Bocce 181 Cold Spring Road, Syosset. Admission: For students only. k12.ny.us). games. New members are Admission: For students only. Joanne Mannion, Principal taught how to play the game. Joanne Mannion, Principal 516-364-5790. Contact: Cav. Con le mani in pasta Sponsored by The Mary Louis 516-364-5790. Contact: Cav. Josephine A. Maietta (jmaiet- October 16 Italian Club. The Mary Louis Josephine A. Maietta (jmaiet- [email protected]). The Italian Honor Society of Academy, 176-21 Wexford [email protected]). Eastchester High School and Terrace, Jamaica Estates, NY. Lecture on Social Classes the Italian Club will prepare a Admission: free Contact: Mr. Amerigo Vespucci and his Ac in Rome taste testing of homemade re- Maurantonio 718-297-2120 complishments October 1 - 10 gional pasta. Admission: free; ([email protected]). October 1 - 21 Fifth graders studying Latin for students only. Eastchester Second, third and fourth grad- will research and give oral High School, Eastchester NY. Italian Heritage and Culture ers will learn about the life of presentations on the Roman Contact: Lucrezia Lindia @ Month Trivia Contest Amerigo Vespucci and his ac- Society. Berry Hill School, 914-793.6130 ext. 4285 (lglin- October 1–31 school days: complishments. Students will 181 Cold Spring Rd., Syosset. [email protected]). 8:00–8:30 am develop a project to display in Admission: For students only Each day in October an the library. Berry Hill School, Joanne Mannion, Principal Michelangelo Buonarroti: 450 Italian Trivia question will 181 Cold Spring Road,Syosset. 516-364-5790. Contact: Cav. years after his death be published in the morn- Admission: For students only. Josephine A. Maietta (jmaiet- October 23 ing announcements. Each Joanne Mannion, Principal [email protected]). Guest presenter Prof. Fran- homeroom will keep track of 516-364-5790. Contact: Cav. cesco Lindia will speak about the questions and their an- Josephine A. Maietta (jmaiet- Photo Exhibit some of Michelangelo’s main swers. On Thursday, October [email protected]). October 1-31 masterpieces. Admission: 30 all the month’s questions Fifth graders studying Latin free; for students and parents will be answered using our Lecture on Italian Explorers: will display, in the school Eastchester High School, East- school computer system. The Colombo, Vespucci, Caboto library, photos taken around chester NY. Contact: Lucrezia homeroom with the most cor- and Verrazzano the City of New York of Ro- Lindia @ 914-793.6130 ext. rect answers will get a basket October 9 - 14 man monuments, Latin words 4285 (lglindia@eastchester. of Italian goodies. Sponsored Fourth graders will research written on buildings. Berry k12.ny.us). by The Mary Louis Academy and give oral presentations Hill School, 181 Cold Spring Italian Club. The Mary Louis on an explorer of their choice. Rd., Syosset. Admission: For The Italian American Legacy Academy, 176-21 Wexford Berry Hill School, 181 Cold students only. Joanne Man- Throughout the month of Terrace, Jamaica Estates, NY. Spring Rd., Syosset. Admis- nion, Principal 516-364-5790. October, integrated learn- Admission: free. Contact: Mr. sion: For students only. Joanne Contact: Cav. Josephine A. ing activities will highlight Maurantonio 718-297-2120 Mannion, Principal 516-364- Maietta (jmaiettaaiae@aol. and honor the contributions ([email protected]). 5790. Contact: Cav. Josephine com).

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St. John’s University Marillac in Sports. Business attire. Sponsored Terrace, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Until Oct 15 Queens, NY by the Westchester Coalition of Ital- official ian-American Organizations. Admis- ● An annual tribute to the year’s sion: RSVP by September 30. Contact: SS Giuseppe Verdi events theme to celebrate “The Year 2014: 914-433-6073 (WestchesterCIAO@ Thur: 6:30 – 9:00 pm; Italian Culture in the United States.” gmail.com). Sat & Sun: 12:00 – 6:00 pm The Hon. Melinda Katz presents Italian American Museum awards to distinguished individu- 155 Mulberry Street, Manhattan BRONX als in the Borough of Queens. Spon- Oct 27 ◗ ItalianAmericanMuseum.org sored by the Office of the Borough ● Original 1914 Builders Model of the Oct 16 President and coordinated by the Westchester County SS Giuseppe Verdi on display. Between  Italian Heritage and Culture Month Proclamation Ceremony the years 1915 through 1928 this ship Bronx Celebration of Committee of Queens. Contact: Cav. 6:00 pm crossed the Atlantic Ocean bringing Italian-American Heritage Uff. Joseph Sciame (718) 990-1941 or 800 Michaelian Office Building over 70,000 Italian Immigrants to the & Culture (718) 990-5892 (sciamej@stjohns. Eighth Floor Legislative Chambers and United Sates from Palermo, Naples 3:00 pm edu). Rotunda, 148 Martine Avenue, White and Genoa to Ellis Island. Admission: Plains, NY Schiff Family Great Hall at the free; open to the public. Contact: 212- ◗ LborMuseum.net Bronx Zoo 965-9000 (info@ItalianAmericanMu- ● Reception honoring Italian-Ameri- STATEN ISLAND ● In honor of Italian Heritage and Cul- seum.org). can leaders contributing to the growth ture Month in the Year 2014 Celebrat- of the Bronx. The reception will in- Oct 11 ing the Italian American Experience. clude entertainment with “cultural  Legends and Icons: Italian Americans Until Jan 15 music” and Italian cuisine. Dignitar- Rome Through Richmond in Sports. With Special Recognition of ies such as the Consulate General of Town Outstanding Students and Teachers Public Art in Bus Shelters Italy in New York, as well as elected noon to 5:00 pm of the Italian Language in Westches- Village of Wappingers Falls, officials from throughout the Bor- Historic Richmond Hill Town, ter. Business Attire. Sponsored by the NY, Route 9D, Wappingers Falls ough and City who wish to acknowl- Staten Island Westchester County Board of Legisla- (village Downtown bus shelters) edge the growing importance ofNew ● The festival will celebrate Italian- tors, Chairperson Kenneth W. Jenkins, ● Fr anc Palaia, Photographer and Pub- York’s Italian-American population, American culture, music, food and and Westchester Coalition of Italian lic Artist will display his photographs will join residents and leaders in the fashions. There will be Italian food American Organizations. Admission: on several bus shelters in the village salute. Sponsored by Bronx Borough demonstrations and tastings, mu- RSVP by October 20. Contact: 914-433- of Wappingers Falls, NY. Photos are President, Hon. Ruben Diaz. Admis- sical and comedy performances, a 6073 ([email protected]). displayed on 3 sides of glass shelters. sion: free; space is limited; RSVP is re- Bocce tournament, and educational Admission: free; open to the public. quired. Contact: Sonia Malave-Negron exhibits highlighting Italian history Contact: Franc Palaia 845-486-1378 {718 ) 590-3989 ; fax: 718-590-3537 (sma- and culture. As part of the event, Lois ([email protected]). [email protected]). and Richard Nicotra are sponsoring free performances by “The People’s ongoing Tenor” Michael Amante as well as Until Oct 30 MANHATTAN “Song, Shtick, and Sinatra” from co- events median Joe Piscopo. Admission: free; How to Create, Produce, open to the public. Contact: Christo- and Profit from Perma- Oct 9 pher DeCicco 718-351-1611 x 241 (cde- nent, Positive Portray-  [email protected]). Until Oct 14 als of Race, Ethnicity, New York City Mayor’s Gender, and Religion in Italian Heritage and Napoli: A Photographic American Mass Media Culture Reception WESTCHESTER Exhibition – Entertainment, News, TBA Thur: 6:30 – 9:00 pm; and Advertising Gracie Mansion Oct 6 Sat & Sun: 12:00 – 6:00 pm Time to be scheduled by attendees ● Mayor Bill DiBlasio welcomes mem- Italian American Museum with presenter, Patrick Morelli bers of the New York City community Westchester County Proc- 155 Mulberry Street, Manhattan Morelli Art Museum & Design to Gracie Mansion for a reception cel- lamation Ceremony in ◗ ItalianAmericanMuseum.org Studio, 100 Church Street, ebrating Italian Heritage and Culture Honor of Italian Heritage ● Napoli is a Photo Essay by pho- Amsterdam, NY ◗ Month. Sponsored by the Office of the and Culture Month tojournalist Janine Coyne. Coyne MorelliArt.com Mayor and the Columbus Citizens 7:30 pm photographed the vibrant life in ● Author, educator, and international- Foundation. Admission: By Invita- Antonio Meucci Lodge #215, OSIA, the Spaccanapoli area of Naples, ly-recognized Visual Ar tist Patr ick Mo- tion Only. 279 Maple Avenue, White Plains, NY as well as the ancient ruins sur- relli conducts a two hour seminar on: 1) ● Presentation and Proclamation rounding the city. Her photographs the nature of American mass media 2) by the Honorable Robert Astorino, include six large scale prints that the present portrayal of races, ethnici- QUEENS Westchester County Executive. With depict the natural majestic beauty ties, gender, and religion on American Special Recognition of Outstanding of Naples and the remaining nine mass media-Entertainment, News, and Oct 21 Students and Teachers of the Italian photographs show timeless mo- advertising 3) How to produce and prof- Language in Westchester. Westches- ments in inner city street life. This it from permanent, positive portrayals Queens Borough Presi- ter County Honors Italian Heritage and selection is from her larger series of one’s race, ethnicity, gender, and re- dent Melina Katz Italian Culture Month in the Year 2014. The on Napoli. Admission: suggested ligion. To register for a free American Heritage and Culture Theme of the Celebration is: Celebrat- donation: $10; open to the public. Mass Media seminar check the website. Ceremony ing the Italian American Experience Contact: 212-965-9000 (info@Itali- Admission: open to the public. Contact: 6:30 pm Legends and Icons: Italian Americans anAmericanMuseum.org). [email protected]).

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● Giorgio Vasari was a classic re- naissance man, skilled in paint- daily- ing, sculpting and writing. Most well-known for his written history Borough Contact Persons calendar of art, he is also renowned for his architectural feats, designing ma- Posters, Bookmarks and Calendar of Events may be acquired by contacting ny buildings for the Medici family. the following persons: During the Renaissance, the Swiss Bronx Queens, NY 11439 Guard was known for its valor and Sep 3 Frances Fusco and Danielle (718) 990-1486/1941 became a staple of many European Youmeni Mary Vaccaro Courts. Pope Julius II established Enrico Fermi Cultural Center, UFT Queens Borough Office Exhibit Opening: them in the Vatican and helped Belmont Branch of the New York 97-77 Queens Boulevard, 5th Floor ItaliaNY. shape Italy’s destiny. Both of these Public Library Rego Park, NY 11374 610 East 186th Street, Bronx, NY (718) 275-4400 Photographs by subjects will be covered in this in- 10458 Alexo Wandael formative lecture. Presented by Toni (718) 933-6410 Angie Markham 6:00 pm McKeen. Admission: Members $15, Federation of the Italian Ameri- Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Non-Members $25. Contact: Pa- Patricia Filomena can Organizations of Queens, Inc. (NYU), 24 West 12th Street trizia Calce 914-771-8700 ext. 109 UFT Bronx Borough Office 29-21 21st Avenue ◗ 2500 Halsey Street Astoria, NY 11105 casaitaliananyu.org ([email protected]). Bronx, NY 10461 (718) 204-2444 ● A creative force for international (718) 379-6200 brand names across the globe, Alexo Mario Lanza Society Staten Island Wandael studied photography and Fall Luncheon Brooklyn Executive Director architecture at the University of Fer- 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm John Capuano Garibaldi-Meucci Museum UFT Brooklyn Borough Office rarra, Italy, and now resides and works Patsy’s Restaurant, 236 West 56th 420 Tompkins Avenue 335 Adams Street Staten Island, NY 10305 in New York. His work has been show- Street, Manhattan Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 442-1608 cased in various exhibitions through ● Celebrate the great voice and ca- (718) 852-4900 Europe and the U.S. Admission: free reer of Mario Lanza with good food, Debra Penny and open to the public. Seating is on music, friends and anyone interested Manhattan UFT Staten Island Borough Office a first-come-first-serve basis. Contact: in this beloved tenor. Activities in- James Morgan 4456 Amboy Road Istituto Italiano di Cultura Staten Island, NY 10312 Kostja Kostic 212-998-3862. clude updates on the Society’s events 686 Park Avenue (718) 605-1400 by President, Bill Ronayne, a live per- New York, NY 10021 formance by an upcoming young op- (212) 879-4242 Long Island Sep 4 & 5 era singer, highlights from the Mario Cav. Josephine A. Maietta Lanza Show, a guest appearance by Olga Pappas AIAE, AATI-LI, IACE, NIAF, IHCC- John D. Calandra Italian American NY, Inc. Piano for Four celebrated soprano Elaine Malbin Institute Robbins Lane Elementary School Hands and our usual “Name the Tenor Quiz” 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor 157 Robbins Lane by Opera Educator, Lou Barrella. The New York, NY 10036 Syosset, NY 11791 Sep 4: 7:00 pm cost includes a 3 course meal. Spon- (212) 642-2094 (516) 364-5804 Westchester Italian Cultural sored by Mario Lanza Society of New Nancy J. Indelicato Westchester Center, One Generoso Pope Place, York. Admission: $75; $65 for mem- 310 West 106th Street David A. Pope Tuckahoe, NY bers; open to the public. Contact: Bill Sep 5: 8:00 pm New York, NY 10025 Executive Director Ronayne 718-338-8662 (wjronayne@ National Opera Center of America, (212) 662-8264 Westchester Italian Cultural 330 7th Avenue, Manhattan optonline.net). Center Uff. George Altomare Generoso Pope Place UFT Headquarters ● Acclaimed “Duo Miroirs,” as part of Sweet or Savory Tuckahoe, NY 10707 50 Broadway, 10th Floor (914) 771-8700 their 2014 USA Tour will present a se- Taralli New York, NY 10004 lection of Italian and French Classical 2:00 pm (212) 598-7771 New Jersey Music for piano for four hands. Spon- Westchester Italian Cultural Cav. Mary Ann Re, Ph.D. sored by United Pugliesi Federation Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Queens Director Tuckahoe, NY of the Metropolitan Area. Admission: Uff. Joseph Sciame Coccia Institute for the Italian ◗ wiccny.org Vice President for Community Experience in America free; open to the public. Contact: Da- Relations One Normal Avenue vide Zannoni 212-414-1780. ● Taralli are the go-to snack food St. John’s University, Administra- Dickson Hall, Suite 171 for most of Southern Italy. Similar tion Building Montclair, NJ 07043 to a breadstick, these rings can be Newman Hall, Room 155 (973) 655-4038 Sep 6 found in two versions: sweet or sa- 8000 Utopia Parkway vory, both are pretty delicious. Either Sculptor of the glaze them in sugar or sprinkle them Renaissance with pepper as you learn to make Giorgio Vasari, the this tasty treat! Appropriate for all Uffizi Gallery, and the ages. Space is limited, early regis- History of the Swiss tration is suggested. Must Register Guards in advance and prepay. Admission: 10:30 am Children’s Fee: Members $30, Non- Westchester Italian Cultural Members $40. Parent & Child Fee: Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Members $45, Non-Members $55. Tuckahoe, NY Contact: Patrizia Calce 914-771-8700 ◗ wiccny.org ext. 109 ([email protected]). www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 37 Events ➜ Calendar

Sep 7

Valentino 7:00 pm Enrico Caruso Museum of America, 1942 East 19th Street, Brooklyn ◗ EnricoCarusoMuseum.com

● A film on the life and times of Ro- dolfo Valentino. Sponsored by Enri- co Caruso Foundation and Museum Enrico Caruso Museum of America. Admission: open to the public. Con- tact: Uff. Aldo Mancusi 718-368-3993 (Amancusi@EnricoCarusoMuseum. com).

Sep 10

Coming to America: Immigration and Legal Issues for Italian Scholars, Researchers, and Artists 6:00 pm Italian Cultural Institute of New York, 686 Park Avenue ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork

● This event is organized in col- laboration with Gibney Anthony & Flaherty llp. The panel will cover the various U.S. visa options, both temporary and permanent, for Scientists and Artists. It will include a detailed discussion of basic visa criteria as well as prac- tical tips on how to plan for one’s immigration journey in the United States. Admission: free; open to the public. Seating is on a first-come- first-serve basis.

Book Presentation: Re-reading Italian Americana. With Drs. Anthony Tamburri and Josephine Hendin 6:00 pm Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU), 24 West 12th Street ◗ casaitaliananyu.org

● Josephine Handin presents the latest work by Anthony J. Tambur r i, Re-reading Italian Americana: Specifici- ties and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2014), which The Midwest Book Re - view considers a “work of impres- sive and meticulous scholarship” and Frank Lentricchia called “a Exhibition Opening. 5:30 pm ● The Walsh Gallery at Seat Hall Uiver- landmark in the field.” Admission: Strangers in a Seton Hall University, Walsh isty hostes an exhibition of more than free and open to the public. Con- Strange Land: Gallery, 400 So. Orange Avenue, 150 Italian-language books, pamphlets, tact: Kostja Kostic 212-998-3862; Italian-Language South Orange, NJ magazines, posters and sheet music. It ◗ shu.edu fax: 212-995-4012. American Books reflects the vibrant culture of Italians in

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controversial lyricist and painter. Cu- rated by Antonio Di Carlo. Admission: free; open to the public. For further in- formation please check the Institute’s web site. Contact: Fabio Troisi 212- 879-4242.

The Wine and Spirits Annual International Dinner: Boys’ and Girls’ Towns of Italy, Inc. 6:30 pm Cocktails; 7:30 pm Dinner Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury, NY ● Honoring Martin Crane, Senior Vice President of Spirit Sales at Per- nod Ricard. When friend (and BGTI founder) Monsignor Carroll-Abbing asked over 30 years ago to help raise money for disadvantaged youth, the wine and spirits industry re- sponded. And ever y year since then industry leaders have stepped up to support the young people of BGTI. Dinner Chairman is Herman Hoch- berg. Admission: For tickets con- tact: Boys’ & Girls’ Towns of Italy, Inc. 250 East 63rd Street, Suite 204, New York, NY 10065, 212-980-8770. Sep 12

Book presentation: Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, by Dianne Hales 6:30 pm Westchester Italian Cultural Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY ◗ wiccny.org ● Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered blends biography, history, and memoir to introduce Mona (Madame) Lisa Gh- erardini Del Giocondo; daughter of Florence, woman of the Renaissance, wife, mother, muse, and “noble spir- it.” Join best-selling author Dianne Hales as she walks the squalid street where Lisa was born, meets her de- scendants, traces her colorful family history, explores her neighborhoods, recreates her daily rituals, and cap- tures the tumult and pageantry of Florence during the greatest artistic outpouring the world has ever seen. Presented by Dianne Hales, prize- winning, widely published journal- ist. Book Signing and reception with 6:00 pm the author will conclude the eve- America who continued to live in their Sep 11 Italian Cultural Institute of ning. Must register in advance and native language, from the 1880s to 1944. New York, 686 Park Avenue prepay. Admission: Members $20, ◗ Exhibition continues to mid-October.  Alfredo Rapetti iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Non-Members $25. Contact: Patrizia Admission: free. Contact: Jeanne Brasile Mogol: Parole in ● An exhibition of the works of Al- Calce 914-771-8700 ext. 109 (pcalce@ 973-275-2033 ([email protected]). Pittura fredo Rapetti Mogol, an original and wiccny.org). www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 39 Events ➜ Calendar

Sep 13

Art & Perception Opening Reception 2:00 pm Westchester Italian Cultural Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY ◗ wiccny.org ● Featuring Contemporary Italian American Artists in Westchester County. Artists of Italian descent have enriched American aesthetic culture, embracing new styles and techniques. Without limitation, they opened up to a variety of new styles with fresh ideas and imagina- tion. Featured artists include world- renowned pop ar tist Charles Fazzino, as well as Westchester residents: Rosemarie Cherundolo, Hank Ron- dina, Eleanora Grace, and sculptor B.A. D’Alessandro. Meet the artists at the Opening Reception. Opening remarks from Westchester Italian Cultural Center Founder and Director Mr. David Anthony Pope and Emeri- tus Board Member Hon. Francis A Nicolai, Ret. Light refreshments and live music will conclude the evening. Must reg ister in advance and prepay. Exhibit dates: Saturday, September 13, 2014 through Friday, November 14, 2014. Exhibit Hours: Monday - Thursday 10 : 00 am to 4 : 00 pm; Fr iday 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm; Saturday 10:00 am to 12:00 noon. Hours subject to change. For more information or to schedule a guided tour or group visit please call 914-771-8700. Admission: Suggested Donation: Adults $10, Children 18 years of age and under $5. Contact: Patrizia Calce 914-771- 8700 ext. 109 ([email protected]).

Italian American Writers Association Literary Reading Series 6:30 pm Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan ◗ corneliastreetcafe.com ● Featured authors: Joanna Clapps Herman and Marie-Helene Bertino. The Italian American Writers Associa- tion hosts literary events, including a more than 20-year old ser ies held at the Cornelia St. Café in Greenwich Village, bilingual readings of various dialects and an Ethnic Encounter series inviting other ethnic g roups to read in their own languages. Reading begin with an Open Mic followed by two featured authors. Admission: $ 8 ; open to the public. Con- tact: Maria Lisella 718-777-1178.

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Book: Not in a Tuscan Villa. Presentation and Signing by Nancy Petralia 2:00 pm The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island ◗ GaribaldiMeucciMuseum.org ● Guest speaker Nancy Petralia, along with her husband John, is author of Not in a Tuscan Villa, which is currently a bestseller in the travel book section on Amazon.com. The book tells the real- life story of this middle-aged Ameri- can couple who went to live in Italy for a year, and explores the harsh reality of what unforeseen complications can happen when you try to make your dreams come true. Not in a Tuscan Villa is a quirky and sincere explora- tion of the thrills and trials that can arise when you have the courage to step out of your comfort zone and do something challenging in later life. It graphically illustrates the axiom: “Be careful what you wish for...” Books will be available for sale for the author to sig n. Admission: $10, $ 5 for members includes a light reception. Contact: Stephanie Lunegard 718-442-1608. Regular museum hours are 1 p.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Call ahead for groups of 10 or more.

Sep 14

Italian Experience Festival . AIAE Breakfast Meeting. 8:00 - 10:30 am Hofstra University, Room TBA, Hempstead Tpke, Long Island ◗ aiae.net ● AIAE, Association of Italian Ameri- can Educators, together with the NYS Commission for Social Justice and sev- eral other organizations on Long Island (TBA) will host the Second Annual Breakfast Meeting at Hofstra Univer- sity. Main Topics on Legends & Icons in Spor ts and AP Italian. Main Speaker: Prof. Michael D’Innocenzo. Admission: free for Teachers, Administrators and Students & Supporters Prof. Lea Bru- netti ([email protected]). Contact: Cav. Josephine A. Maietta (jmaiettaaiae@ aol.com; [email protected]).

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Sep 14

Italian Experience Festival 11:00 am -5:00 pm Hofstra University, Hempstead Tpke, Long Island ◗ aiae.net ● Food, music, entertainment, litera- ture display, vendors, children activ i- ties, dancing, readings, poetry and much more. Contact: aiaehofstra@ gmail.com.

Italian Experience Festival . AIAE Piazza dei Poeti 12:30 -4:30 pm Hofstra University, Hofstra Cultural Theatre in the Axinn Library ◗ aiae.net ● AIAE, Association of Italian Ameri- can Educators, will host the 16th An- nual Piazza dei Poeti. Well known Poets will recite and celebrate. Admission: free. Contact: Prof. Car- olyn DeSimone (carolynd516@aol. com; [email protected]).

Toscanini 2:00 pm Enrico Caruso Museum of America, 1942 East 19th Street, Brooklyn ◗ EnricoCarusoMuseum.com ● The life and times of Arturo To- scanini: a combination of lecture, film, and music. Sponsored by En- rico Caruso Foundation and Muse- um. Admission: open to the public. Contact: Uff. Aldo Mancusi 718-368- 3993. (Amancusi@EnricoCarusoMu- seum.com).

Sep 16

Lecture: Giambattista Vico and Naples 6:00 pm Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue nell University Press, 2011). In her ● Poets of the Italian Diaspora: A Bilin- ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork book Prof. Naddeo of The City Col- Sep 17 gual Anthology (Fordham University ● A lecture by Barbara Ann Naddeo, lege of New York, CUNY, challenges Press 2013) is the first anthology author of Vico and Naples: The Urban the commonplace view of Giambat- Poets of the Italian of its kind to document the writ- Origins of Modern Social Theory (Cor- tista Vico (1668-1744) as a solitary Diaspora with Luigi ing in Italian of poetry outside of figure removed from the political Bonaffini, Peter Italy. It introduces the reader to a life of his larger communty and Carravetta, and Joseph new canon of Italian writing that shows that at the outset of his career Perricone the literary establishment in Italy Visit the IHCC the great Neapolitan philosopher 6:00 pm has not fully acknowledged as part website with your was deeply engaged in the often- Italian Cultural Institute, of an “Italian” canon. Admission: smartphone tumultuous life of his great city. 686 Park Avenue free; open to the public. Contact: ◗ Admission: free; open to the public. iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Fabio Troisi 212-879-4242.

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Office of New York City Comptroller ● Medieval and Reinassance histori- Scott M. Stringer an Ronald G. Musto, editor of Medieval Naples: A Documentary History, 4 0 0-14 00 (Italica Press 2013) will lecture on the controversial figure of Friedrick II, one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages whose political and cultural reach, based in Southern Italy, stretched from Ger- many to Jerusalem. Admission: free; open to the public.

Verdi and Vino TBA Casa Belvedere, 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island ◗ casa-belvedere.org ● An interactive exploration of the operatic brindisi (drinking songs) of Giuseppe Verdi, paired with selected October 1, 2014 wines and light fare. Commentary will be given by opera educator, Lou Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York Barella. Space is limited. Please call to reserve your spot. Admission: TBA. 686 Park Avenue Contact: 718-273-7660 (info@casa-bel- New York, NY 10021 vedere.org; www.casa-belvedere.org).

Dear Friends, Sep 19 It is an honor to congratulate the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York on the

start of their 38th anniversary Italian Heritage and Culture Month, “Celebrating the Italian Lecture: Italian American Experience – Legends and Icons – Italian Americans in Sports.” Unification: Cavour, Mazzini and For nearly four decades, the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York has sponsored Garibaldi events and educational lectures which explore the unique history and culture of Italian American 7:00 pm Westchester Italian Cultural New Yorkers. These programs include essay contests, holiday celebrations, museum luncheons, Center, One Generoso Pope Place, and more. Notably, the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee supports programs that engage Tuckahoe, NY New Yorkers of all ages. ◗ wiccny.org ● In this lecture, Professor Louis Congratulations to the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York on their 38th Leonini will take all back in time anniversary celebration of Italian American history. Please accept my best wishes for continued to examine how Italy was actually success. unified. He will examine the role of the three major players in the uni- fication, namely Giuseppe Mazzini, Count Camillo di Cavour, and Gi- Sincerely, useppe Garibaldi. The lecture will seek to discover if, as many popular archives point out, these three men worked together to bring about this Scott M. Stringer unification, or, the more controver- New York City Comptroller sial view that rages in Italy even to- day, as if they did not actually work together, and at times were in open Memoir Writing a work-in-progress or those starting Sep 18 conflict. Admission: Members $15, Workshop fresh, this class will offer a suppor tive Non-Members $25 (Must register in 10:00 am - 12:00 pm environment wherein each week you Frederick II Holy advance and prepay). Contact: Pa- Westchester Italian Cultural will read aloud and receive construc- Roman Emperor: trizia Calce 914-771-8700 ext. 109 Center, One Generoso Pope Place, tive feedback. Writers at all levels of Southern Italy at the ([email protected]). Tuckahoe, NY accomplishment, and with projects Crossroads of European ◗ wiccny.org both full-length and short-form, are and Mediterranean ● First of several meetings including welcome. Lead by author Philomena Cultures October 1, 15, 29, November 5, 19, 2014. Abys-Smith. Admission: Members 6:00 pm WATCH If you have a stor y you wish to tell and $165, Non-Members $185. Contact: Italian Cultural Institute, 686 i-Italy|TV are serious about your writing, this Patrizia Calce 914-771-8700 ext. 109 Park Avenue, Manhattan ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork workshop is for you. For those with ([email protected]). www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 43 Events ➜ Calendar

Sep 19-21

Columbus Day - St. Pio Festival 6:00 – 10:00 pm (Friday/ Saturday); 12:00 – 8:00 pm (Sunday) Columbus Day Committee of Eastchester, Depot Square, Tuckahoe, NY

● Annual Italian festival honoring St. Pio. Saint Procession Friday and Sunday. Music, food, merchandise booths. Admission: free; open to the public. Contact: Antoinette Martino 914-261-0391.

Sep 20

Using ‘Find a Grave’ … And Genealogy 7:00 pm Westchester Italian Cultural Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY ◗ wiccny.org ● First created to help people visit celebrity graves, Find a Grave has be- come an invaluable tool to genealo- gists. With an ever growing database, this amazing site offers you so much more than just a grave site of rela- tives. You will be amazed to see all of the ways it can help you research your family tree, from dates of birth to a list of relatives. Presented by Toni McKeen. Admission: Members $15, Non-Members $20 (Must register in advance and prepay).

Opening Reception for “The Colors of Florence: Digital Paintings by Fritz (Steven) Weiss” 2:00 pm The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island ◗ GaribaldiMeucciMuseum.org ● The exhibition is culled from a col- lection of 5,000 digital images, taken over a 14-day period, which are part of Weiss’s “Italian Collection 2007.” His objective was to present the in- finite textures and vibrant colors of ‘UMBERTO E’ by year old father showing his triumphs Magnagnini Winery the Italian experience, layered in Anton Evangelista and personal struggles, his journey Trip centuries of classical history, cul- 2:00 pm as an orphan in Italy and as a young 3:00 pm ture and art. After the reception, Women’s Club of Great Neck, 94 immigrant, his assimilation into his Magnagnini Winery, Walkill, NY this show may be viewed during Old Mill Road, Great Neck, NY new home in America. Sponsored by ● Trip to Wallkill, NY to Magnag- regular museum hours with paid ● Award-winning filmmaker and Italian Amer ican Women’s Center, Inc. nini Winery, “a family affair” es- admission through November 23, actor Anton Evangelista presents a Admission: $8 Non-Members. Con- tablished in 1983 with the first 2014. Contact: Stephanie Lundegard documentary on his father Umberto. tact: Vincenza Russo 718-380-8380 bottling starting a year later. In 718-442-1608. The film is a tender story of his 90 ([email protected]). the spring of 1985, the family-style

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For tickets ($37; $57 plus process- ing fees), call 973-313-ARTS (2787) or v isit the SOPAC Box Office located at One SOPAC Way, South Orange NJ, 07079. The SOPAC Box Office is open Monday; Saturday, 12; 6:00 p.m. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.sopacnow.org/450/ MichaelCastaldo. For questions or comments, contact 877-642-7271. Participating sponsors include In- vestors Bank, headquartered in Short Hills, NJ; The Coccia Founda- tion of Saddle Brook, NJ; The Gables Historic Inn & Restaurant, of Beach Haven, NJ; NJAWBO MetroEast, of Essex County, NJ; and Woodpecker Press, of Bayville, NJ. Admission: $ 37 and $ 57; open to the public. Con- tact: Micheal Castaldo 877-642-7271 (majesticcastlemus [email protected])

Presentation: “What Italy Has Given to the World” 2:00 pm The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island ◗ GaribaldiMeucciMuseum.org

● Professor Gaetano Cipolla will reveal “What Italy Has Given the World,” in answer to the specific question: “What would the world be like if Italy had never emerged from the sea?” A well-known au- thority on Sicily, Professor Cipolla is a Professor Emeritus at St. John’s University, and President and Edi- tor of Arba Sicula, an international organization that promotes Sicilian culture. Admission of $10 or $5 for members, includes a light recep- tion. Contact Stephanie Lundegard 718-442-1608.

Italian American Writers Association Literary Reading at San Gennaro 2:00 - 4:00 pm New York Public Library, Mulberry Street, Manhattan ◗ iawa.net ● The Italian American Writers Association hosts literary events, including a more than 20-year old series held at the Cornelia St. Café European restaurant was opened. South Orange, NJ in Greenwich Village, bilingual Trip includes wine tasting, 7 course Sep 21 ◗ sopacnow.org readings of various dialects and an dinner, music, dancing and tour of ● Award-winning Italian tenor, Ethnic Encounter series inviting vineyards. Round trip bus fare from A Musical songwriter, and producer, Micheal other ethnic groups to read in their NYC included. Sponsored by United Celebration of the Castaldo will perform 2 shows ‘A own languages. Readings begin Pugliesi Federation of the Metropoli- Italian Spirit Musical Celebration of the Ital- with an Open Mic followed by two tan Area. Admission: $85 (includes 2:00 pm & 6:30 pm ian Spirit’ & ‘A Feast for the Ears, featured authors. Admission: open dinner and bus fare). Contact: John South Orange Performing Arts Eyes, and Soul’ at SOPAC (South to the public. Contact: Mar ia Lisella Mustaro 718- 837-0876. Center SOPAC, One SOPAC Way, Orange Performing Arts Center). 718-777-1178. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 45 Events ➜ Calendar

Sep 22

Writers Read Series: My Two Italies 6:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan ◗ qc.edu/calandra

● Joseph Luzzi reads from My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) Luzzi creates a personal portrait of Italy that leaps past clichés, delving into why Italian Americans have complicated relationships with the “old country” and how it is that Italy has produced astonishing and significant art while suffering from corruption, political fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society. The “two Italies” — the earthy southern Italian world of Luzzi’s immi- grant childhood and the refined north- ern Italian realm of his professional life — join and clash in unexpected way. Admission: free; open to the public. RSVP by calling (212) 642-2094. Please note that seating is limited, and we cannot reserve seats.

Giulio Gatti Casazza and the Golden Age of the Metropolitan Opera 6:00 pm Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork ● Alberto Triola, author of Giulio Gatti Casazza. Una vita per l’opera (Zecchini, 2014) will lecture on the life and work of Giulio Gatti Casazza (1869-1940), the Italian opera manager who was general manager of La Scala in Milan and later the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Sep 23

Film: Sole a Catinelle 2:00 pm Westchester Italian Cultural Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY ◗ wiccny.org ● The film, starring Checco Zalone, is set in modern Italy, which is over- loaded with public debt and struggling to emerge from a recession. The story focuses on Zalone, who plays a hus- band and father who, like many other Italians, has lived for years beyond his means. After promising his son a dream vacation that he cannot pay for,

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Zalone must scramble to please him and keep his job. Along the way, they meet Zoe and her son, and get into all sor ts of trouble. Nominated for a Dav id di Donatello Award, the mov ie is hilar i- ous, light but not commonplace. In Ital- ian with English subtitles. Admission: Members free, Non-Members $15 (Reg- istration is required). Contact: Patr izia Calce 914-771-8700 ext. 109 (pcalce@ wiccny.org).

Sep 24

Opera Night at the Columbus Citizens Foundation 6:00 pm Columbus Citizens Foundation, 8 East 69th Street, Manhattan ◗ ColumbusCitizensFd.org ● Revisiting the First Three Tenors Concert. This DVD presentation by Lou Barrella will take you behind the scenes of one of the opera world’s greatest events – a 1990 concert by Josè Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. He will present excerpts documenting the preparations for the concert, interviews with the participants and some of the wonderful per- formances including the interna- tional medley arranged by Lalo Schifrin. He will end with encores from that concert along with some other surprise encores. This is an opportunity to revisit and enjoy this wonderful concert or experi- ence it for the first time! Admis- sion: Members and Guests.Contact: Mary 212-249-9923.

Italy towards Europe - Theatre Culture, European Identity 6:00 pm Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork ● Theatre is an extraordinary mean to know each other, to meet up and to create synergy. Therefore, through the analysis of selected texts and authors, our speakers will bring the audience into a journey of European theatrical heritage to become aware of what connected dramatic art in Europe, from the past to the present. With readings by Laura Curino. Admission: free; open to the public. Contact: Fabio Troisi 212-879-4242. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 47 Events ➜ Calendar

Sep 25 Office of the President The Spirit of Saint Borough of Queens Francis of Assisi. City of New York Dal Poverello d’Assisi a Papa Francesco 7:00 pm Westchester Italian Cultural Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY ◗ wiccny.org ● The monumental figure of San Francesco humbly stands on the front line of the revolution against the corruption of the Church, the Greeting: government and the people of his Whereas, Italian Americans have contributed immensely to the progress and achievements of the times. In his eyes, they were all United States. Through hard work, perseverance, and love for family and community, g uilt y of excessive mater ial interests they have risen from their modest immigrant origins to the top of their fields and have and the illicit, avaricious acquisi- fostered pride in our great nation; and tion of political power. Portraying by personal example the most modest Whereas, the Board of Directors of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York lifestyle possible, Francesco, imita- (IHCC-NY, Inc.) has identified the theme of the 38th annual Italian Heritage and tor Christi, urged everyone to return to and practice the fundamental Culture Month as “Celebrating the Italian American Experience: Legends and Icons Chr istian principles. Francesco’s fer- – Italian Americans in Sports”; and vent followers spread and practiced Whereas, there will be lectures, panels, receptions, and awards at every level of government, in the principles of his spiritual mis- sion throughout the world. In Latin collaboration with the Italian Consulate, educational institutions, and community America, one young man heard the organizations, celebrating the lives and legends of Italian American athletes, who are call loud and clear. Albeit a Jesuit, the role models for us all; and former Argentine Cardinal Jorge Ber- goglio, became among the most cele- Whereas, I applaud Joseph Sciame, President/Chair of the IHCC-NY, Inc., for his brated followers of il poverello d’Assisi. tremendous leadership in the Borough of Queens, and for his profound dedication to the Better known today as Papa Frances- Italian American community. I am proud to partner with him on celebrating the icons co, the Pope was the first successor as well as many in the wider community during this 2014 celebration. of St. Peter to take the name Francis. The spirit of his namesake lives on today in this champion of the poor, Now, therefore, I, Melinda Katz, do hereby proclaim the month of October as a lover of all Creation and a prophet for peace. Come celebrate the Fran- ciscan spir it with Professor Giuseppe Italian Heritage & Culture Month in Queens Spedaliere as he explores the souls of these two exemplary spiritual revo- lutionarie. Admission: Members $15, Done at Queens Borough Hall, Kew Gardens, Queens, in the City of New York, on this first day of October Non-Members $25(Must register in in the year two thousand and fourteen. advance and prepay). Contact: Pa- trizia Calce 914-771-8700 ext. 109 ([email protected]). Melinda Katz Sep 27-28 President of the Borough of Queens Brook University, Nicolls Road, Motori D’Italia – exhibits, rides, crafts and more. Sep 28 Stony Brook, NY Exotic Italian Car Admission to any one day of the ◗ stonybrook.edu/italianstudies and Motorbike event is $10; children 12 and under, Robert D. Cess ● Display vehicles will rally at Stony Show accompanied by an adult are free. Concorso Brook University campus on the lawn TBA Contact: 718-273-7660 (info@casa- d’Eleganza IX/ adjacent to the Graduate Physics Casa Belvedere, 79 Howard belvedere.org). Annual Celebration of Building and directly across from the Avenue, Staten Island Italian Vehicle Excellence Sports Complex off John S. Toll Drive. ◗ casa-belvedere.org and Beauty: A display of Participation and v iewing are free and ● This event is a highlight of Casa “art forms on wheels” as a open to the public. Owners of Italian Belvedere’s annual Festa D’Italia, Download the means of illustrating one vehicles interested in participating in which features various entertain- i-Italy App form of Italian culture this display, please contact the Center ment, Italian specialt y cuisine, wine 10:00 ap - 1:00 pm for Italian Studies, 631-632-7444 or jo- tasting, culinary demonstrations, Center for Italian Studies, Stony [email protected].

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Sep 30

Ellis Island – Presentation and Readings with Robert Viscusi, Anthony J. Tamburri and Joseph Luzzi 6:00 pm Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork ● Robert Viscusi will read from his epic poem, Ellis Island, which has been heralded as “a new delicacy for aficionados of creative poetry and an anthem of sorts for those who— however far removed from immigra- tion—occasionally feel displaced from home” (Publishers Weekly). A discussion will follow with Joseph Luzzi and An- thony Tamburri. In cooperation with the John D. Calandra Italian Amer ican Institute, Queens College/CUNY.

Exhibit Opening: Io e Calliope, by Ileana Florescu 6:00 pm Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU), 24 West 12th Street ◗ casaitaliananyu.org ● An exhibit based on photographs ex- cerpted from Io e Calliope (Elliot 2012), a book by photographer and artist Iliana Florescu. Born in Asmara (Er itrea) to an Italian mother and an English-Rumen- ian father, Florescu uses the all-Italian technique of “fotoromanzo” to trans- late into images excerpts from famous Italian and non-Italian literary works.

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Ellis Island Italian Immigration Tour 10:30 am - 1:00 pm Meet near the Ellis Island Ferry ticket booths at Battery Park, Manhattan ◗ noiaw.org ● Join the National Organization of Sep 29 John D. Calandra Italian American lied with Hitler and adopted Nazi- Italian American Women (NOIAW) for Institute, Queens College/CUNY, like ideology, she would reveal the a pr ivate g uided tour of Ellis Island. The Book Presentation: 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan Duce’s decades-long intimate part- captivating tour with a focus on Italian My Fault by ◗ qc.edu/calandra nership with a Jew. That November, Immigration, tells the moving tales of Margherita Grassini ● In the summer of 1938 Mussolini’s just before Mussolini imposed harsh the 12 million immig rants who entered Sarfatti. Edited, Annotated former adviser and lover, Margher- restrictions on Italy’s Jews, Sarfatti Amer ica through the golden door of El- and Commentary by Brian ita Sarfatti, first spoke of writing a escaped into Switzerland. She would lis Island. Sponsored by National Orga- R. Sullivan, Yale Universi- highly revealing biography of the spend the next nine years in exile nization of Italian American Women. ty and U.S. Naval War dictator. The Fascist regime had be- where she would write her personal Space is limited. Gentlemen always College; with Dr. Ernest gun trumpeting vicious anti-Semitic memoir of Mussolini. Sponsored by welcome. Admission: $45 for mem- Ialongo, Hostos Com- propaganda and Sarfatti, herself of John D. Calandra Italian American bers; $55 for non-members (ferry tick- munity College, CUNY Jewish ethnicity, was issuing an Institute and the Italian Her itage and ets included). Contact: 212-642-2003 6:00 pm implicit warning – if Mussolini al- Culture Committee. ([email protected]). www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 49 Events ➜ Calendar

mission: free; open to the public. Oct 2 Contact: Teresa Fiore 973-655-7292 ([email protected]). Exhibition: Compliments of the Officers, Staff I Macchiaioli Artists Roundtable 6:00 pm Symposium & Italian Cultural Institute, 7:00 pm 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan Westchester Italian Cultural Membership of ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Center, One Generoso Pope Place, ● The Italian Cultural Institute of New Tuckahoe, NY ◗ York hosts the first Retrospective on wiccny.org I Macchiaioli the most important art ● Get to know the artists at a round- movement of the 19th Centur y and the table symposium where they will first of Unified Italy. The exhibit will share their lifetime experience and include over twenty paintings on loan the meaning of their art as an ex- from private collections. Admission: pression of their imagination. Re- free; open to the public. nowned pop artist, Charles Fazzino will show and explain what 3-D Art Writers Read Series: means. Rosemarie Cherundolo will No Longer and Not share her unique perspective for art. Yet Hank Rondina will tell us how his ar t 6:00 pm directly reflects his thoughts and John D. Calandra Italian American feelings. Sculptor B.A. D’Alessandro Institute, Queens College/CUNY, will take us into her world of steel 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan sculptures. Eleanora Grace will re- ◗ qc.edu/calandra veal how the essence of a person is ● Joanna Clapps Herman reads from captured in her sculptures. Ques- her No Longer and Not Yet (SUNY Press, tions and answers will conclude the 2014). Most of these stor ies take place presentation. Light refreshments on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, in will follow. Admission: Members the shops, hallways, and parks that $20, Non-Members $25 (Must regis- reveal this well-known neighborhood ter in advance and prepay). Contact: as the tiny, even backwater, village it Patrizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 often resembles. Herman draws her ([email protected]). characters honestly yet tenderly, re- vealing them as much through how they move as by what they do, as though their bodies speak the truths Oct 2-19 they can’t express. These stories show that, although we may think Six Passionate Joseph D’Amato Frank Bincaniello of ourselves in larger mythic narra- Women - A Play by Business Manager President tives, our days are set in terrain that Mario Fratti is the opposite of the vast. Admission: 8:00 pm (Thursday – Saturday) free; open to the public. RSVP by call- 3:00 pm (Sunday) ing (212) 642-2094. Seating is limited, Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue (10th Street), and seats cannot be reserved. Dominic J Valner Manhattan ◗ Secretary-Treasurer Italian Writings theaterforthenewcity.net Abroad: Presenta- ● First version of the musical NINE, tion of Two this play is about the life of Fellini CarmineD’Amato Ronald D. Valdner Anthologies by Fordham in Venice, where he is shooting a Field Representative Field Representative University Press film about women. Playwright Ma- 6:30 pm rio Fratti later adapted his play into Inserra Chair in Italian and the successful musical NINE. Love, Italian American Studies, passion, irony. A biting satire. Spon- Conference Center UN Hall 7th sored by Italian Theater in New York. Joseph Todaro Floor, Montclair State University, Admission: $12; open to the public. 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ Field Representative Contact: Mario Fratti 212-582-6697 ◗ montclair.edu/chss/inseraa-chair ([email protected]). ● On the occasion of the recent pub- Robert Compton Herbert Johnson lication of two groundbreaking vol- Field Representative Field Representative umes, the Inser ra Chair is pleased to present Italoamericana and Poets of the Oct 3 Italian Diaspora, which together rep- resent an invaluable contribution to From Risotto to Rice the understanding of Italian writing Pudding abroad from 1880 to the present. Ad- 6:30 pm

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Westchester Italian Cultural A Tribute to Our sored by United Pugliesi Federation Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Oct 6 Tuckahoe, NY Italian American of New York. Admission: suggested ◗ wiccny.org Sports Heroes donation; open to the public. Con- 6:30 pm tact: Davide Zannoni 212 414 1780. Symposium and ● Not all rice is created equal, and the Clinton Martin Community signing ceremony: subtle difference between riso vari- Center, 1650 Marcus Avenue, New University of eties should not be overlooked. From Hyde Park Calabria and the John D. creamy Vialone Nano to deluxe Carn- ● Dinner plus special prog ram and Oct 5 Calandra Italian American aroli, we employ the perfect grain for items to give tribute and recogni- Institute four favorite recipes. Learn the basic tion to some of our famous sports 7:30 pm recipe for risotto which can be used heroes. Sponsored by Cellini Lodge New York City’s John D. Calandra Italian American to prepare a variety of dishes such as #2206, OSIA, of New Hyde Park. First Italian Craft Institute, Queens College/CUNY, r isotto all Milanese, r isotto con piselli Contact: JoAnn Grossman 718- Beer Festival 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan ◗ and pancetta or insalata di r iso venere 428-8725. TBA qc.edu/calandra e sepia (black rice and squid salad) to Casa Belvedere, 79 Howard ● In signing an agreement of student end with riso al latte e pan di spezie IAWC Book Club Avenue, Staten Island and faculty exchange, along with con vellutata all nocciola (rice pudding Luncheon ◗ casa-belvedere.org teaching and research collaboration, with spice cake and hazelnut cream). 12:30 pm ● The day-long outdoor festival the t wo institutions will celebrate this Presented by Chef Jacob Restivo. Ad- Riviera Grill Restaurant, will feature some of Italy’s finest joint venture with a two-hour sympo- mission: Members $25, Non-Members 274 Glen Street, Glen Cove, NY craft beer, paired with delectable sium on various themes related to the ◗ $35 (Space is limited. Must register in iawcnyc.com culinary creations from Executive Italian diaspora. Sponsored by John D. advance and prepay). Contact: Pa- ● Book Club Luncheon selection: Joe Chef, Frank Bilotti. Admission: TBA. Calandra Italian American Institute trizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 DiMaggio The Hero’s Life. Sponsored by Contact: 718-273-7660 (info@casa- and the University of Calabria. ([email protected]). Italian American Women’s Center, belvedere.org). Inc. Admission: $35. Contact: Vin- Westchester County ILICA Conference. cenza Russo 718-380-8380 (iawcnyc@ Italian Heritage Day Proclamation Italian Identity: The yahoo.com). (for Children) Ceremony in Honor Next Generation 10:00 am – 3:00 pm of Italian Heritage and TBA Panzerotti Senator John Heinz History Culture Month John Jay College of Criminal 2:00 pm Center, 1212 Smallman Street, 7:30 pm Justice, Moot Court, 6th Floor Westchester Italian Pittsburgh, PA Antonio Meucci Lodge #215, OSIA, 25 West 59th Street, Manhattan Cultural Center, One Generoso ◗ heinzhistorycenter.org 279 Maple Avenue, White Plains, NY ◗ ilica.it. Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY ● A day of interactive activities ● Presentation and Proclamation ◗ ● The Italian Language Inter-Cul- wiccny.org designed for K–12 children that by the Honorable Robert Astorino, tural Alliance (ILICA) 10th Anniver- ● Panzerotti, or small, goody-filled sa- celebrates Italian ethnicity and en- Westchester County Executive. With sar y Conference is dedicated to “The vory pastries, are loved worldwide. courages multi-generational par- Special Recognition of Outstanding Strong Identity of the Young Ital- Originating in Puglia, these flaky pas- ticipation and sharing. Community Students and Teachers of the Ital- ians.” For conference details check tries are like miniature calzones, and partners and museum volunteers ian Language in Westchester. West- ILICA’s website. Sponsored by: ILI- can be stuffed with anything. Have fun will help the History Center facili- chester County Honors Italian Heri- CA, John Jay College of Cr iminal Jus- as you learn to make the dough and tate activities on all floors of the tage and Culture Month in the Year tice, and the John D. Calandra Italian stuff your own panzerotti with any- museum, which include Italian 2014. The Theme of the Celebration American Institute, Queens College/ thing from mozzarella and tomatoes language learning, genealogy, how is: Celebrating the Italian American CUNY. Admission: free; open to the to baby corn and ham. Appropriate to play bocce, and Italian foodways Exper ience Legends and Icons: Italian public.Contact: ILICA 718-392-2020 for all ages. Admission: Children’s tasting. There will also be an Italian Americans in Sports. Business attire. ([email protected]). Fee: Members $ 30, Non-Members $ 40. Amer ican bizar re with local vendors Sponsored by the Westchester Coali- Parent & Child Fee: Members $ 45, Non- and heritage organizations. Admis- tion of Italian-American Organiza- Members $55 (Space is limited, early sion: General museum admission tions. Admission: RSVP by September registration is suggested). Contact: rates for adults; free for children 17 30 914-433-6073 (WestchesterCIAO@ Oct 4 Patrizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 and under; open to the public. Contact: gmail.com). ([email protected]). Melissa Marinaro 412-454-6426 . “Hornblower Infinity Yacht”. Vito Nicola Paradiso Regina “Pops” Oct 6-12 ILICA Gala Dinner Guitar Concert Concert Cruise 8:00 pm 3:00 pm Apulian Restaurant 5:30 pm Location: tba Our Lady of Perpetual Help School Week Pier 40, Manhattan ● Internationally renowned classi- auditorium, 5902 6th Avenue, Various addresses ◗ ilica.it cal guitarist Vito Nicola Paradiso, as Brooklyn ● The United Pugliesi Federation of ◗ ● This Gala Dinner Cruise caps off par t of his 2016 US fall tour, will per- reginaopera.org Greater New York, the Apulian Roots this year’s cultural event, ILICA CE, form a concert of celebrated Italian ● Reg ina Opera soloists w ill present Cultural and Heritage Association in and celebrates ten years of ILICA evergreens especially transcribed popular opera ar ias and ensembles, Altamura, Italy, the New York State (Italian Language Inter-Cultural Al- for guitar. Including classics such as Italian songs, and Broadway tunes. Restaurant Association and the Eu- liance), founded in 2004. For further “O Sole Mio” and the eternal tunes Sponsored by Regina Opera Com- rope by Choice Travel Company in information on the details of the of Domenico Modugno, composer pany. Admission: $12 - General Brooklyn with the support of the re- Gala, visit ILICA’s website or call of “Volare,” this is a concert not to Admission; $5 - Teens; Children - gion of Puglia are joining together to the numbers below. Contact: 718- be missed, a unique opportunity to Free Open to Public. Contact: Fran sponsor a week-long celebration of the 392-2020; fax: 718-392-2023 (ilicait@ listen to beautiful music performed Garber 718-259-2772 (info@regi- foods and wines of Puglia this fall. Be- aol.com). by a very talented musician. Spon- naopera.org). ginning October 6th through Sunday, www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 51 Events ➜ Calendar

October 12th, a number of restaurants information consult the Center for in the city will be participating with Italian Studies’ web site or call 631- a special wine and food menu selec- 632-7444. Admission: free; open to tion from var ious prov inces in Puglia. the public. Contact: Jo Fusco 631- Promotional materials will include 632-7444; fax: 631-632-7421 (Jose- tourism, business and tour packages [email protected]). for exploring your ancestry in Puglia. Sponsored by United Pugliesi Federa- Study Abroad tion. Admission: open to the public. Information Contact: Kate McGrath 917-715- 5382 Session: Study in ([email protected]). Italy 2:30-3:20 pm Center for International Service, College of Staten Island, Oct 7 Bldg, 2A-Room 206, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island Italian Cultural Center Book Presentation: ◗ csi.cuny.edu Elizabeth Street by ● Come and learn about study abroad Laurie Fabiano opportunities in Italy. This program TBA hosts CSI students for winter and Conrado Gempesaw, Ph.D. The Noble Maritime Museum, Snug summer sessions as well as academ- President Harbor Cultural Center and ic semesters. Scholarships available. Botanical Gardens, Staten Island Admission: free; open to the public. ◗ noiaw.org Contact: Winnie Brophy 718-982-2100 ● In this best-seller, based on her ([email protected]). Board of Advisors family’s history, Laurie Fabiano Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, Chair examines the lives of Italian immi- Presentation: Io e grants who struggled to survive in Calliope. Foto- the tenements of NYC in the early romanzi by Ileana 1900s. Determined not to become Florescu Theresa Cantarella broken by poverty and prejudice, 6:00 pm Giovanni (Fabiano’s great-grand- Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Cav. Louis Carnesecca, Past Chair mother) immerses herself in the (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, shadowy world of extortion and Manhattan Christopher Cuccia, Ed.D. ◗ murder to fight the Black Hand, a casaitaliananyu.org Joan M. D’Andrea precursor to the Mafia, and save her ● A book by photographer and art- family. Over almost 20 years, we ist Iliana Florescu. Born in Asmara Dawn Esposito, Ph.D. watch her naivete turn to wisdom (Eritrea) to an Italian mother and an Professor Caroline Gozzer Fuchs in a place where the reality of daily English father of Rumanian origins, survival quickly overshadows even Florescu uses the all-Italian technique Hon. Joseph Golia the idea of prosperity. The book’s of “fotoromanzo” to translate into im- other heroes and villains – such as ages excer pts from famous Italian and MaryAnn Mattone Lieutenant Petrosino, the crusading non-Italian literary works. Cav. Joseph M. Mattone, Esq. cop and “Lupo the Wolf,” – are also drawn from real life in this thrilling Lina Merlino, M.D., F.A.A.P. tale. Sponsored by National Organi- zation of Italian American Women. Oct 8 Paul Patane, Ph.D. Space is limited. Gentlemen always Florence Russo, Ph.D. welcome. Admission: Members $15; European Union Non-Members $25. Contact: 212- Technology and Teressa A. Trimarco, Ph.D. 642-2003 ([email protected]). Innovation for Social Good Presentation by TBA Italian Cultural Center Fred Kudjo Italian Cultural Institute, Kuwornu, Italian- 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan St. John’s Univerisity Ghanaian filmmaker ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork 2:30 pm ● A half-day program, which high- Newman Hall, Room 155 Center for Italian Studies, Stony lights particularly innovative tech- 8000 Utopia Parkway Brook University, Harriman Hall, nologies originating in the EU, and Room 137, Nicolls Road, Stony benefitting the social good. Stories, Brook, NY Queens, NY 11439 ◗ stonybrook.edu/italianstudies

Tel (718) 990-7541 ● Lecture with film screening of Fax (718) 990-7561 selections from documentaries on Download the ethnicit y, national identit y and mul- i-Italy App ticulturalism in contemporary Italy. For additional and updated program

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examples, demos, and use cases of ● The program will feature Aldo technologies and approaches that Bianchi, a world renowned tenor are being deployed by the public sec- born in Taranto, and his group tor in Europe, as well as an emphasis l’Ensemble Lehàr as they perform on innovative European Technology a collection of classical Neapoli- for good initiatives that are happen- tan songs and famous arias. This ing right now, across the developing genre, which showcases whimsi- world. A particular focus on the many cal and romantic songs, sung in European innovations in the digital the Neapolitan dialect often by space, such as web services, mobile male tenors, has remained pop- applications, and cloud solutions, as ular since the 1830s, as you can well as lifesaving and social inventions hear the rich timbres and tradi- & innovation, will be covered and dis- tion of Southern Italy in them. cussed. Followed by a round-table in Meet the artist at a reception fol- collaboration with BrightFront Group. lowing the performance. Admis- sion: Members $20, Non-Members $25(Must register in advance and prepay). Contact: Patrizia Calce Oct 9 (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 (pcalce@ wiccny.org). Writers Read Series: My Life, a Four Letter Cellini Lodge #2206, Word OSIA, Celebrates 6:00 pm Italian Americans John D. Calandra Italian American in Sports Institute, Queens College/CUNY, 7:30 pm 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan Marcus Christ Community Hall, ◗ qc.edu/calandra New Hyde Park Road and Jericho ● Dolores DeLuce reads from My Life, a Tpke, New Hyde Park Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter ● Evening will be dedicated to the Culture Diva (Double Delinquent Press, history, lives and accomplishments 2013). Dolores DeLuce, “a five-foot of some of the famous athletes, diva in six-inch heels,” takes us on the coaches and managers through bumpy ride from a bleak New Jersey films, photos, music and talks. Light childhood through her escape to the refreshments served. ponsored by refuge of the tumultuous post-Stone- Cellini Lodge #2206 of New Hyde wall days in 1970s Los Angeles and Park. gay San Francisco. After giving birth to a mixed-race daughter and being re- jected by her Italian-American family, DeLuce created a new family with the Oct 10 most unlikely people and under the Italics most unusual circumstances. “Festa di Puglia” TBA Book Presentation: Casa Belvedere, TELEVISION FOR THE ITALIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE L’amore nvolontario 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island 6:00 pm ◗ casa-belvedere.org Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò ● The evening will explore the di- (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, versity of culture, music and food of Manhattan the beautifully scenic Puglia. The col- ◗ casaitaliananyu.org laborative presentation by renowned ● A book by Chiara Marchelli. Pro- Italian American photographer Anita gram subject to change. For details Sanseverino, Italian Music and Cul- ITALIAN HERITAGE & CULTURE2014 MONTH please visit Casa Italiana’s website. ture Educator Lou Barrella, and Ex- Celebrates All events are free and open to the ecutive Chef Frank Bilotti will focus October 9, 16, 23, 30 public. Seating is on a first-come- on the history, traditions, music and 9 AM • 3 PM • 9 PM first-serve basis. Contact: Kostja culinary delights of the region. Ad- Kostic 212-998-3862; fax: 212-995- mission: TBA. Contact: 718-273-7660 Time Warner: Channel 75 • RCN: Channel 77 4012. ([email protected]). ITALICS presents its Eighth Annual Italian Heritage and Culture Month

La Canzone Classica programming on CUNY TV. ITALICS will feature four One-Hour Specials. Napoletana Check www.cuny.tv/show/italics for episode details. 7:00 pm Westchester Italian Cultural Visit the IHCC Center, One Generoso Pope Place, website with your Tuckahoe, NY smartphone ItalicsTV @CalandraItal cuny.tv/show/italics ◗ wiccny.org www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 53 Events ➜ Calendar

Raising the Italian ● Come celebrate Italian heritage with and American Flags this unique evening of traditional and CONGRATULATIONS in Honor of 2014 contemporary Sicilian folk music Celebrating the Italian fused with other world music tradi- & American Experience tions. Musolino has teamed up with Legends and Icons, Italian musical artists Michael Delia and Fa- BEST WISHES Americans in Sports bio Turchetti for a new and exciting 12:00 pm project Terra, Sangu & Mari (Earth, Mother Italy, Sculpture located at Blood, and Sea) which signifies their New York Grand Lodge Foundation, Inc. Poses Park, East 68th Street, deep ties to Sicily whether it be “long- Order Sons of Italy in America between Lexington and 3rd ing for the earth and sea or a direct Avenues, Manhattan bloodline connection.” Admission: ● Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, President, $15. Contact: 718-982-ARTS (2787). Italian Heritage and Culture Commit- tee of New York, Inc. will officiate at the ceremony to honor “2014 Celebrating the Italian American Experience Leg- Oct 11 ends and Icons Italian Americans in Sports” at the “Mother Italy” statue by Richmond County Giuseppe Massari. Attending dignitar- Orchestra’s String ies will include Minister Natalia Quin- Quartet Conducted tavalle. Sponsored by the Italian Heri- by Alan Aurelia tage and Culture Committee of New TBA York, Inc., the John D. Calandra Italian Casa Belvedere, American Institute, Queens College/ 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island Joseph F. Rondinelli CUNY and Hunter College/CUNY. ◗ casa-belvedere.org Foundation President Special Honoree: Dr. Anthony Julian ● The theme of the evening will be Tamburri, Distinguished Professor, “Classic Italian Chamber Music.” Queens College, CUNY. Contact: Joan Admission: TBA. Contact: 718-273- Joseph DiTrapani Migliori 212-642-2094 (joan.migliori@ 7660 ([email protected]). qc.cuny.edu). Luncheon: TBA. Carmine Federico Ellis Island: an Epic Robert Ferrito The Wonders of Poem by Robert John Fratta Northern Italy Viscusi 7:30 pm 10:30 pm Eleanor Jobbagy Port Washington Library, Westchester Italian Cultural Biagio Isgro 1 Library Drive, Port Washington, NY Center, One Generoso Pope Place, ● Multi-media presentation by Jeanne Tuckahoe, NY ◗ Salvatore Lanzilotta Schnupp. Refreshments w ill be ser ved. wiccny.org Thomas Lupo Sponsored by the John Michael Mar ino ● Born in 1941, Rober t Viscusi g rew up Lodge #1389 OSIA. Contact: Petrina without being able to speak a word of Carlo Matteucci Lombardo 516-944-0303. Italian, even though all of his grand- Michele Ment parents emigrated from Italy on their Anthony Naccarato Capital Heights way through Ellis Island. Growing up, Lyric Opera he was constantly at odds with who Nancy DiFiore Quinn Company: Italian he was as an American and who he Carolyn Reres Passion in Opera and could have been as an Italian. His Song epic poem, Ellis Island¸ represents his Joseph Sciame 7:30 pm attempt, pr imar ily through emotional James Spatafora Port Washington Library, detachment, to access Italy’s collec- 1 Library Drive, Port Washington, NY tive memor y and examine what it was Arthur Spera ● Refreshments will be served. Spon- like for an immigrant passing through Robert Vaccarello sored by the John Michael Marino Ellis Island. Presented by Professor Lodge #1389 OSIA. Contact: Petrina Robert Viscusi. Book signing and re- Lombardo 516-944-0303. ception with the author will conclude Michael A. Santo, Esq., General Counsel the event. Admission: Members $20, An Evening of Non-Members $25(Must register in Sicilian Folk & Roots advance and prepay). Contact: Pa- Music Featuring trizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 2101 Bellmore Avenue Michela Musolino, ([email protected]). Michael Delia, and Fabio Bellmore, New York 11710-5605 Turchetti Italian American 1 (800) 322-OSIA (6742) 8:00 pm Writers Association Center for the Arts, College of Literary Reading Fax: (516) 221-OSIA (6742) Staten Island, 2800 Victory Series www.nysosia.org Boulevard, Bldg. 1P, Staten Island TBA ◗ cfashows.com Location: TBA

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Hoboken Historical Museum, ● Featured authors: John Domini and 1301 Hudson Street, Hoboken, NJ. Joseph Tirella. The Italian American Writers Association hosts liter- ● Guest speaker: Dr. Vincent DiGi- ary events, including a more than rolamo, Baruch College of the City Cellini 20-year old series held at the Cornelia University of New York. Part of the St. Café in Greenwich Village, bilin- Immigrant Experience. Admission: gual readings of various dialects and free; open to the public. Contact: Lodge an Ethnic Encounter series inviting Darian Worden (dworden@hobo- other ethnic groups to read in their kenmuseum.org). own languages. IAWA is the only fo- No. 2206 rum within our community that has consistently given voice to numer- ous writers – famous and emerging. Oct 13 Order Sons of Italy in America Readings begin with an Open Mic followed by two featured authors. Aldo Bianchi & Admission: $8; open to the public. Friends New Hyde Park, New York Contact: Maria Lisella 718-777-1178. 8:00 pm National Opera Center, Annual Borough of 330 7th Avenue, Manhattan Queens Columbus ● Aldo Bianchi will delight us with Day Parade an evening of Italian and Neapolitan 12:00 pm songs, excerpts from Operetta and Meet at Kaufman Studios, 34-12 famous opera arias. The company is 36th Street, Astoria, Queens from Puglia. Sponsored by United Pug- ● Parade route commences at liesi Federation of New York. Admis- Kaufman Studios located at 34-12 sion: $20 donation; open to the public. 36th Street, Astoria, NY and ends on Contact: Dav ide Zannoni 212-414-1780. Astoria Blvd. and Cav. Vincent Ian- nece Street, named in honor of the The 13th Annual co-founder and motivating force in Columbus Day Vincent R. Illuzzi reinstating this parade. Sponsored Commemoration by Federation of Italian American in Trenton, New Jersey President Organizations of Queens, Inc. Grand TBA Marshal Commissioner Cav. Daniel Meet at Columbus Park, Hamilton Nigro of the New York City Fire De- and Chestnut Avenues, Trenton, NJ partment. Admission: free; open to ● The NJIIAHC, the Ocean County the public. Contact: Angie Markham Columbus Day Committee, the Hon- 718-204-2444 ([email protected]). orary Vice Consulate of Italy in Tren- ton, and Our Lady of the Angels Parish With grateful will host the 13th annual Columbus Day Commemoration in Trenton, NJ. appreciation Oct 12 Admission: free; open to the public. Contact: Fred Proulx 848-445-4163 AIAE Networking ([email protected]). to all those who Luncheon 12:00-3:00 pm AIAE Marches in contribute to the Carmela Ristorante Italiano, New York City 912 Hempstead Tpke, Franklin Sq. Columbus Day Annual Celebration of Italian ● AIAE, Association of Italian Amer- Parade ican Educators, will host the Second 11:00 am Heritage Annual Networking Meeting. Open Meeting place TBA to college students and high school ● AIAE Board of Directors and mem- and Culture Month seniors and anyone who is inter- bers will march on 5th Ave in New ested in networking. Students will York City. AIAE will be accompanied have the opportunities to listen to by Christopher Columbus, Queen speakers in the world of business, Isabella, Amerigo Vespucci, AATI-LI politics, education and entertain- Board of Directors and Umber to Muc- ment. Admission: $25; open to the ci & Associates from “We the Italians.” public. Contact: Dr. Carmela Leon- For meeting place & location: aiae- Uff. Joseph Sciame ardi ([email protected]). [email protected]; jmaiettaaiae@ aol.com. Lecture: “Little President/Chair Aliens of a Beaten Race: Immigrant WATCH IHCC-NY, Inc. Newsboys and Newsgirls i-Italy|TV in America, 1892 – 1924” 4:00 pm www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 55 Events ➜ Calendar

IAWC Marches in Casa Italiana’s website. All events New York City are free and open to the public. Columbus Day Seating is on a first-come-first- Parade serve basis. Contact: Kostja Kostic Congratulations 11:30 am 212-998-3862; fax: 212-995-4012. Meeting place TBA ● Since 1998 the Italian-American to the Women’s Center has marched in the Manhattan Columbus Day Parade Oct 15 Board of Directors to celebrate Columbus’ discovery of America. Men and children are also Italian American welcomed to join with IAWC. Spon- Icons in Song, sored by Italian-American Women’s Cinema and Letters IHCC-NY, Inc. Center, Inc. Contact: Jacqueline Ga- 9:00 am - 12:30 pm gliano 718-805-1833 (Jbgagliano14@ Center for Italian American yahoo.com). Studies, Nassau Community College, CCB Building, One Compliments of Education Drive, Garden City, NY ◗ ncc.edu

Oct 14 ● A rev iew of Italian Amer ican impact Cav. Vivian Cardia on selected areas of Amer ican culture. Book: The Italian Sponsored by Center for Italian Amer i- Vegetables - Talk can Studies, Nassau Community Col- and Tasting by lege. Admission: free; open to the pub- ****************************** Michele Scicolone lic. Contact: Dr. Salvatore J. LaGumina 6:30 pm 516-572-7422 (sallagumina@yahoo. Westchester Italian Cultural com). A Welcome & In Honor of Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY ◗ wiccny.org T.R.H. Princess ● Michele Scicolone shares some Oct 16 traditional and contemporary Maria Pia of Savoy Italian recipes for vegetarian and A Trip to Operatic nearly vegetarian dishes from her Italy: A DVD latest book, The Italian Vegetables. Presentation by Lou and The book is a collection of some Barrella of the tastiest vegetable, fruit, TBA Prince and nut recipes that she collected Casa Belvedere, both here and while traveling in 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island Michel de Bourbon-Parme Italy. There are classic appetizers ◗ casa-belvedere.org like juicy “Stuffed Cremini Mush- ● During the summer of 2009, Mr. rooms” and little fr itters filled with Barrella made a long awaited trip spinach and melted cheese. After to Italy and explored the places For their Special Visit on a brief presentation, the program important to Giuseppe Verdi and will continue in the kitchen where Giacomo Puccini. This presenta- Thursday, October 16, 2014 Michele will demo some recipes tion is a pictorial souvenir of that for everyone to enjoy. Admission: trip accompanied by the operatic for the Members $25, Non-Members $35 music of these two great compos- (Space is limited. Must register in ers. It is not just a typical “trav- advance and prepay).Contact: Pa- elog” but a marriage of pictures American Foundation of trizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 and appropriate music for each ([email protected]). beautiful location. This experi- Savoy Orders ence is sure to revive wonderful Adventures in memories of those who have been Lecture Series Italian Opera with to these places and ignite a new- Fred Plotkin found yearning to visit for those 6:30 pm who desire to travel there. Admis- Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò sion: TBA. Contact: 718-273-7660 (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, ([email protected]). Manhattan ◗ casaitaliananyu.org Thoughts and ● A series animated and conduct- Memories of a Royal ed by journalist, writer, and public Princess. Twelfth speaker Fred Plotkin, one of Amer- Annual Savoy History ica’s foremost exper ts on opera and Lecture, Reception and everything Italian. Program subject Dinner to change. For details please visit 6:15 pm

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The Knickerbocker Club, Film: Spirtual 2 East 62nd Street, Manhattan Exploration ● A talk by H.R.H. Pr incess Mar ia Pia 7:00 pm of Savoy, Prince Michel de Bourbon- The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Parme. Sponsored by The American 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island Foundation of Savoy Orders. Cost: ◗ GaribaldiMeucciMuseum.org TBA for dinner following lecture. ● One hour video. Reflections about Contact: Larissa Van Duser 212-972- the “spiritual” feelings at and within 1100 ext. 245. the Garibaldi Meucci Museum. Contact: Stephanie Lunegard 718-442-1608. Celebrating the Italians of Staten Italiese . L’inglese La Scuola d’Italia Island! americano in bocca 2:30-4:25 pm italiana + l’italiano uglielmo arconi Center for the Arts, College of dialettale in bocca G M Staten Island, Recital Hall, Bldg. americana 1P, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten 7:00 pm www.lascuoladitalia.org Island Westchester Italian Cultural ◗ csi.cuny.edu Center, One Generoso Pope Place, ● As Staten Island’s largest ances- Tuckahoe, NY ◗ wiccny.org tral group, the Italian population REGISTERREGISTER has had a tremendous impact on ● With words like api (happy), san- the borough and its history. This gawich (sandwich), agida (stomach FORFOR THETHE ACADEMIC ACADEMIC YEARYEAR 2014-152014-15 event by Pat Salmon will focus on acid) and tencsalotto (thanks a lot), Italian immigration, agricultural every Italian immigrant succeed- endeavors through the 1960s, influ- ed in communicating bilingually • • A Aprivate private unique unique Italian Italian / English/ English ence on other ethnic g roups, family thanks to “italiese”. First coined bilingual and bicultural school life, business enterprises, religion by Gianrenzo Clivio in 1975, ital- bilingual and bicultural school and other subjects as they relate to iese (italiano + inglese) was used • • No No prior prior knowledge knowledge of of either either the the Italian Italian Staten Island and the Italian com- to describe the mixture of Italian munity. In celebration of Italian and English spoken by immigrants or Englishor English language language is required is required for for Heritage Month. Sponsored by The in North America. It was born on Pluralism and Diversity Program at the streets of Little Italies all over enteringentering grades grades pre-k pre-k through through 9th. 9th. the College of Staten Island. Admis- the US and Canada as immigrants • • A Astrong strong foundation foundation in in liberal liberal arts arts sion: free; open to the public. Con- italianized English words and tact: Michael Maslankowski 718- united under a common identity • • Chartered Chartered by by the the Regents Regents of of the the 982-2597 (Michael.Maslankowski@ and a new-born dialect. Explore csi.cuny.edu). with Professor Giuseppe Spedaliere UniversityUniversity of of the the State State of of New New York York as as a a how words such as pinaburra (pea- private,private, independent independent co-educational co-educational In the Footsteps of nut butter) and baccausa (bath- Thomas Mann: room) allowed Italians to begin to AmericanAmerican school school and and by by the the Ministry Ministry of of Death in Venice assimilate, and helped them com- 1912-2012. Co-presented municate in the New World. Admis- thethe Republic Republic of of Italy Italy with Save Venice sion: Members $20, Non-Members • • Member Member of of the the New New York York State State Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò $25(Must register in advance and (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, prepay). Contact: Patrizia Calce AssociationAssociation of of Independent Independent Schools Schools and and Manhattan (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 (pcalce@ ◗ casaitaliananyu.org wiccny.org). thethe Guild Guild of of Independent Independent Schools. Schools. ● Par t of a ser ies of events sponsored by Save Venice Inc. and independent charitable organization established PreschoolPreschool and and Elementary Elementary in New York since 1971 and dedicated Oct 17 to raise funds to protect and restore 1212 East East 96th 96th Street, Street, NY NY works of art and architecture in Conference: Middle School and High School Venice. Events can be theatrical per- Celebrating the Middle School and High School formances, concerts, masked balls 450th Anniversary 406406 East East 67th 67th Street, Street, NY NY and Galas inspired by themes from of Galileo Galilei’s Birth the Grand Tour to Venice’s famous 8:30 am - 6:00 pm Carnevale. Each event is an oppor- Stony Brook University, Simons For information: tunity to support our restoration ef- Center for Geometry and Physics, For information: forts and give back to the city that Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY ◗ callcall 212.369.3290 212.369.3290 inspires us all. For details please v isit stonybrook.edu/italianstudies Casa Italiana’s website. All events are ● Offered by the Center for Ital- free and open to the public. Seating ian Studies in collaboration with is on a first-come-first-serve basis. Stony Brook’s Simons Center for Contact: Kostja Kostic 212-998-3862; Geometry and Physics and the Of- fax: 212-995-4012. fice of International Academic Pro- www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 57 Events ➜ Calendar

grams. Location: Simons Center for be Professor Louis Leonini, who Geometry and Physics. Program as has presented popular lectures it is currently formulated may be for us here at our Cultural Center. viewed on the Center’s web site. The professor will join us after the All sessions are open to the pub- visit for a delicious lunch at a local Sciame is pleased to join the lic and free except for the optional Staten Island Italian restaurant. mid-day luncheon activity which Admission: $75 (Must register in requires advance reservations advance and prepay).Contact: Pa- Italian Heritage (631-632-7444) and payment of $20. trizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 Admission: free; open to the public. ([email protected]). & Culture Committee of NY Contact: Jo Fusco 631-632-7444; fax: 631-632-7421 (Josephine.fusco@sto- Tour of Italian nybrook.edu). Greenwich Village Sciamein is celebrating pleased to thejoin the 9:30 am “Italian Americans Meet at the Arch at Washington Square in Baseball: A Park, 5th Avenue (one block south Italian Heritage Triple Play for the of Eighth Street), Manhattan Ages” from Tony Lazzeri ◗ noiaw.org to “Two Guys Named Joe” ● Join the National Organization of & Culture Committee of NY 4:30 pm Italian American Women for an op- United Federation of Teachers portunity to tour the South Village in celebrating the Headquarters, 52 Broadway, 19th and experience the enduring Italian Italian American Experience floor, Manhattan presence of many original Italian ● The presentation by Professor businesses now run by third and Legends and Icons Joseph Dorinson will cover a wider fourth generations. Tour includes im- playing field that goes beyond base- ages of the neighborhood which con- ball to heart of American culture. tributed to such films as The Godfather Italian Americans in Sports Film clips will be shown. Q&A. RSVP II, Reging Bull, Serpico and Moonstruck. to George Altomare 212-598-7772. Tour conducted by Joyce Gold History Tours. Sponsored by National Orga- nization of Italian American Women. Italian American Experience Admission: $25 for members; $35 for Oct 18 non-members; open to the public. Legends and Icons Contact: Carole Alexander and Susan Eduitalia Prizes for Trocchia 212-642-2003; fax: 212-642- Italian Americans in Sports Italian AP Students 2006 ([email protected]). TBA Consulate Genral of Italy in New Franc D’Ambrosio’s York, 690 Park Avenue, Manhattan “Broadway – Songs ◗ iicnewyork.org of the Great White ● As part of the Settimana della Way” lingua italiana / Week of the Italian 7:00 pm Language celebrations, EduItalia Center for the Arts, College of presents its grants and scholarships Staten Island, Spring Concert program dedicated to American stu- Hall, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island dents who take the AP Italian exam. ◗ csi.cuny.edu Sciame The event will take place at the Con- WHERE BULIDING IS AN ART sulate General of Italy in New york. ● Franc D’Ambrosio will perform an evening of Broadway songs Step Back Into as well as discuss his personal 14 Wall Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10005 History. A Day Trip journey as an Italian-American 212.232.2200│www.sciame.com to Garibaldi-Meucci from the Bronx to Broadway. Mr. Museum on Staten Island D’Ambrosio is best known as the 9:30 am “Phantom” in Andrew Lloyd Web- Sciame Westchester Italian Cultural ber’s Tony Award Winning Musical, WHERE BULIDING IS AN ART Center, One Generoso Pope Place, The Phantom of the Opera. Affec- Tuckahoe, NY tionately known as “The Iron Man ◗ wiccny.org of the Mask,” Franc was awarded 14 Wall Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10005 ● Step back in history and visit the distinction as the world’s Lon- 212.232.2200│www.sciame.com the home where two extraordi- gest Running Phantom, with over nary men lived: Giuseppe Garib- 2,300 performances of the lead role, aldi, a general and patriot in both a title he held for a decade. Franc Italy and South America and whose maintains close ties with Italy. He role was crucial in the unification studied voice with Luciano Pava- of Italy, and Antonio Meucci, the rotti in Italy and teaches voice at true inventor of the telephone. the Cherubini Music Conservatory Our special guide for this tour will in Florence as well as provides an-

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La Scuola D’Italia, 67th Street nual summer workshops for young at home in the Abruzzi countryside Oct 20 Campus, Manhattan artists at the Lorenzo Malfatti Ac- surrounding Teramo. One day, a girl ◗ lascuoladitalia.org cademia Vocale in Lucca, Italy. two years older and full of mystery Sponsored by World Languages Talk: “Leonardo: in her green eyes named Lorenza ● The students of La Scuola d’Italia and Literatures and the Center for Disaster and the arrives on vacation from the city. “Gugliemo Marconi” will participate International Services. Contact: Invisible World” For Simone, spending time with in the celebration of the Week of the Jerry Milligan 718-982-3700 (Gerry. by Gerard Passannante. her becomes a vital escape during Italian Language. Sponsored by La [email protected]). Co-presented with which the two immerse themselves Scuola d’Italia, in collaboration with Bogliasco Foundation in an imaginary world full of giant the Italian Cultural Institute and the 6:00 pm dwar ves and halved twins. In Italian Italian American Commitee on Edu- Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò with English subtitles. Registration cation (IACE). Admission: free; open Oct 19 (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, is required. Admission: Members to the public.Contact: Paola Serrone Manhattan free, Non-Members $15. Contact: 212-369-3290 (secretary@lascuoladi- ◗ Reclaiming the Vito casaitaliananyu.org Patr izia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 talia.org). Marcantonio ● The Bogliasco Foundation’s third ([email protected]). Phenomenon: An annual event at Casa Italiana Zer illi- Cristina Pegoraro Effective Radical Marimò at NYU will feature author The Four Corners of Piano Recital Politician Gerard Passannante speaking on Palermo , by TBA 12:00 - 4:00 pm the subject he researched while Giuseppe Di Piazza. Italian Cultural Institute, Gaetana’s, 143 Christopher Street in residence. Although Da Vinci is Translated by Antony 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan (corner of Greenwich and Hudson best known for his painting, his Shugaar ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Streets), Manhattan studies of human anatomy, and his 6:00 pm ● In collaboration with the Italian ● Roberto Ragone and the Drama machines, this talk will consider a John D. Calandra Italian American American Commitee on Education Workshop Project will dramatize lesser-known aspect of the artist’s Institute, Queens College/CUNY, (IACE) New York for the celebra- 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan (through speeches, monologues, work: a life-long interest in natural tion of the “Settimana della Lin- ◗ qc.edu/calandra and theatr ical scenes) the Vito Mar- disaster. Admission: all events are gua Italiana / Week of the Italian cantonio phenomenon: the style free and open to the public. Seating ● Palermo in the 1980s. Fourteen Language.” and substance that despite his pro- is on a first-come-first-serve basis. hours from any place in what one gressive politics, enabled Marcan- Contact: Kostja Kostic 212-998-3862; might call the civilized world, a city The Selected Poetry tonio to repeatedly win high politi- fax: 212-995-4012. of great beauty but torn by the sec- of Pier Paolo cal office. The dramatizations are ond great Mafia gang wars. A perfect Pasolini designed to entertain and educate Gaetano Salvemini. place for a young crime reporter to 6:00 pm the public about Vito Marcantonio’s The Letters from get his start. As our crime reporter Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò legendary career as a seven-term America looks back on his own youth, he lyri- (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, elected Congressman, the longest 6:30 cally retells four tragic stories that Manhattan ◗ incumbency for a radical left politi- Italian Cultural Institute, marked him: a Mafioso who refused casaitaliananyu.org cian in the United States House of 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan to become a professional killer; a ● Presentation of Selected Poetry Representatives. Appetizers will ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork model whom he loved and couldn’t by the renowned Italian writer Pier be served, wine for $5; guests are ● A Lecture by Renato Camurri on save; a father who succumbed to ha- Paolo Pasolini. Edited and Translat- encouraged to purchase lunch at the American experience of Gaeta- tred and jealousy; and a daughter in ed by Stephen Sartarelli. Contact: Gaetana’s. Sponsored by Vito Mar- no Salvemini, a noted Italian anti- search of her lost honor. In The Four Kostja Kostic 212-998-3862; fax: cantonio Forum. Admission: free; fascist intellectual and politician Corners of Palermo, Giuseppe Di Piazza 212-995-4012 open to the public. Contact: Rober- who left his country in the 1920s brilliantly evokes the smell of blood to Ragone 917-923-4765 (roberto. to escape arrest. For over 20 years and gunpowder, the averted gazes of Berio in NYC: [email protected]). Salvemini lived in the U.S. where he a city in lock-down, and the forced ensemble mise-en lectured in History at Harvard Uni- hilarity of young people growing up 7:00 pm Caruso! versity and ultimately became a US in a Mafia reign of terror who, sur- The Italian Academy (Columbia 2:00 pm citizen. In collaboration with Casa rounded by death on all sides, affirm University), 1161 Amsterdam Enrico Caruso Museum of Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) for their humanity in each other’s arms Avenue, Manhattan ◗ America, 1942 East 19th Street, the Settimana della Lingua Italiana. and beds. Sponsored by John D. Ca- italianacademy.columbia.edu Brooklyn For further information please landra Italian American Institute and ● Moon Young-Ha’s ensemble ◗ EnricoCarusoMuseum.com check the Institute’s web site. the Italian Heritage and Culture Com- mise-en will present the first of ● The life and times of Enrico Ca- mittee. Admission: free; open to the two concerts, “Berio in NYC,” fea- ruso: a combination of lecture, film, public. RSVP by calling (212) 642-2094. turing works composed by Luciano and music. Sponsored by Enrico Ca- Berio while living in New York City r uso Foundation and Museum Enr ico Oct 21 (1965-1972) including four of Berio’s Caruso Museum of America. Admis- solo Sequenzas, “Air,” and “O King.” sion: open to the public. Contact: Uff. Film: L’Uomo Oct 22 Berio was an important innovator Aldo Mancusi 718-368-3993 (Aman- Fiammifero in electronic music, the combining [email protected]). (The Matchman) “Giornata degli of live and taped music, aleatory 2:00 pm studenti di italiano” music, graphic notation, musical Westchester Italian Cultural collage using borrowed material, Center, One Generoso Pope Place, 10:30am – 12:00 pm and (perhaps most significantly) in Visit the IHCC Tuckahoe, NY Italian Cultural Institute, 686 musical performance pieces. Ad- website with your ◗ wiccny.org Park Avenue, Manhattan mission: free, open to the public. smartphone ◗ ● Simone, an 11-year old boy, is iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Contact: Allison Jeffrey 212-854- forced to spend an entire summer & 2:00 – 5:00 pm 8942 ([email protected]). www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 59 Events ➜ Calendar

All events are free and open to the by Mr. Barrella. Cocktails, dinner, public. Seating is on a first-come- wine and desser t will be ser ved. Ad- Leonardo da Vinci first-serve basis. mission: TBA. Contact: 718-273-7660 ([email protected]). Award Recipients Honoring Joseph Tusiani: The Poet of Symposium: On The Leonardo da Vinci Award is the highest recognition given to a dis- Two Lands Legacies of tinguished individual who has demonstrated exemplary contributions 7:00 pm Ethiopian to the Italian American community by the Italian Heritage and Culture Westchester Italian Cultural Occupation Committee of New York, Inc. Center, One Generoso Pope Place, 6:00 pm Tuckahoe, NY Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Prior Recipients to 2014: Robert B. Cattell ◗ wiccny.org (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, Past Chairman and CEO ● This evening is a celebration of Manhattan Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. KeySpan Corporation ◗ casaitaliananyu.org Director of NIAID Comm. Senator John J. Marchi the life and the work of Joseph Tu- New York State Senate siani. A writer bridging two worlds, ● Program subject to change. All Prof. Joseph Tusani Joseph Tusiani is a widely cultured events are free and open to the Herbert H. Lehman College, Michael Capasso scholar who speaks and writes in public. Seating is on a first-come- The City University of New York General Director four languages. With an introduc- first-serve basis. Sponsored by Casa DiCapo Opera Theatre Guilio Terzi di Sant’Agata Terzi tion by Professor Anthony Julian Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy A. Bartlett Giamatti, Ph.D. Tamburri, the evening will consist University. Contact: Kostja Kostic President of a screening of the documentary 212-998-3862; fax: 212-995-4012. Gr. Uff. Matilda Raffa Cuomo Yale University by Sabrina Digregorio, titled “Find- Founder of Mentoring USA ing Joseph Tusiani: The Poet of Two The Incomparable Dr. Edward J. Mortola Michael Massimino, Ph.D. President Emeritus Lands.” Joseph Tusiani was born Mario Lanza Astronaut Pace University in San Marco in Lamis in the Gar- 12:15 pm gano Mountains of Apulia, Italy, on Port Washington Library, Comm. Louis Tallarini, President Professor Robert R. Alfano January 14, 1924. He writes in Ital- 1 Library Drive, Port Washington, NY Columbus Citizens Foundation Director, The City University of ian, Latin, English, and his native ● Presented by film historian Rich- New York Center for Gr. Uff. Angelo Gimondo, Ph.D. Advanced Technology Gargano dialect. Classical scholars ard Knox. Refreshments will be Founder and President consider him the greatest living served. Sponsored by the John Mi- IHCC-NY, Inc., 1976-2006 Cav. Anthony Brusco Neo-Latin poet. In 1954, the Poetry chael Marino Lodge #1389 OSIA. Senior Vice President Society of England bestowed Joseph Contact: Petrina Lombardo 516- Baronessa Mariuccia Zerilli- Applied Graphics Technology Tusiani with the prestigious Green- 944-0303. Marimò wood Prize, marking the first time it Board of Trustees Cav. Professor Mario Fratti New York University Tony Award winning Playwright was awarded to an American. Join- From Friuli Venezia of Nine ing us in the celebration of Joseph Giulia: Colutta Tusiani are: Professor Anthony Ju- Wines lian Tamburri, Ph.D., Dean of the 6:30 pm 2014 Leonardo da Vinci Award Recipient Calandra Institute, Mario Fratti, Westchester Italian Cultural To Be Announced In October 2014 Professor Emeritus of Italian lit- Center, One Generoso Pope Place, erature and an internationally Tuckahoe, NY ◗ acclaimed playwright and drama wiccny.org critic, and Robert Viscusi, Ph.D., ● Wine and food pairing presented Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn by Charles Scicolone. Friuli-Vene- Dante and College and a well-known novelist zia Giulia is Italy’s most north- Oct 23 Heterodoxy. The and literar y cr itic. A reception with easter reg ion. Located in the cross- Temptations of 13th distinguished guests will conclude roads of Europe’s Latin, Germanic Italian Women Century Radical Thought the event. Admission: Members and Slav ic cultures its w ines reflect Writers between 6:30 pm $20, Non-Members $25. Contact: the histor ical and traditional roots Journalism and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Patr izia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext.109 of the region. The microclimate Literature (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, ([email protected]). and exposure of the eastern hills 6:30 Manhattan of Friuli, determine the sudden and ◗ Italian Cultural Institute, casaitaliananyu.org sharp diversity of this restricted 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan ● Presentation of the book edited area, from which come the pres- ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork by medieval historian Maria Lu- Oct 24 tigious D.O.C. wine production of ● Round-table with Andrea Baldi, isa Ardizzone, Professor of Italian the Colutta Farm. Among their Maria Teresa Fiore, Pietro Frassica, Literature at New York University. “Amore, Agrodolce” productions are the D.O.C. wines and Gabriella Romani. (Settimana Dante and Heterodoxy (Cambridge TBA of the Colli Orientale del Friuli, della Lingua Italiana / Week of the Scholars Publishing, 2014) traces Casa Belvedere, such as Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Italian Language).Admission: free; the profile of Dante Alighieri as a 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island Friulano, and Merlot. Pairing ap- open to the public. new kind of intellectual who looks ◗ casa-belvedere.org petizers prepared by Louis Coluc- at learning in a new way, in which ● An opera night featuring Sabri- cio of A.L.C. Italian Grocery in Bay secular contents, goals, and ideas na Palladino (soprano) and Pablo Ridge. Admission: Members $55, WATCH about human beings are not seen Buffagni (tenor), hosted by Opera Non-Members $65 (Must register i-Italy|TV as opposed to theology, one who is Educator Lou Barrella. The concert in advance and prepay). Contact: open to confronting himself with will reflect both the “sweet and Patrizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. what is stigmatized as heterodox. sour” aspects of love with narrative 109 ([email protected]).

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Ducati Trio – The and updated program information An Afternoon of Great Italian consult the Center for Italian Stud- Music with Award- Oct 28 Songbook ies web site or call 631-632-7444. Winning Italian 7:30 pm Admission: free; open to the public. Tenor Micheal Castaldo A Rose is a Rose Port Washington Library, Contact: Jo Fusco 631-632-7444; fax: 5:00 pm is a Rose 1 Library Drive, Port Washington, NY 631-632-7421 (Josephine.fusco@sto- Church of the Sacred Heart, TBA ● Refreshments will be served. nybrook.edu). 37 Schuyler Avenue, Stamford, CT Italian Cultural Institute, Sponsored by the John Michael Ma- ● Meet and greet after the perfor- 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan rino Lodge #1389 OSIA. Contact: mance with Micheal Castaldo and ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Petrina Lombardo 516-944-0303. Fundraiser Committee. Recep- ● Presentation of a picture book by Oct 26 tion after the performance in the Luca Bracali in collaboration with Church Hall. Admission: $50, $75, Mondadori Electa (Settimana della 113th Feast of San $100; open to the public. Contact: Lingua Italiana).(Settimana della Oct 25 Vincenzo Martire di John or Princess Sabia 203-329- Lingua Italiana).Admission: free; Craco in New York 0434. open to the public. Cases That Made My 12 Noon Eyes Cross Church of St. Joseph, 5 Monroe Mondadori: A 10:30 am Street, Manhattan Publisher in the Westchester Italian Cultural ◗ thecracosociety.org Oct 27 History of Italy Center, One Generoso Pope Place, ● Roman Catholic Mass celebrating TBA Tuckahoe, NY the Feast of San Vincenzo Mar tire di The Bedroom Italian Cultural Institute, ◗ wiccny.org Craco, the patron saint of the town by Attilio Bertolucci 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan ● Have you come to halt while tr y ing of Craco, the southern Italian hill 6:30 pm ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork to find a relative that doesn’t want town located in the province of Ma- Italian Cultural Institute, ● Round table in collaboration with to be found? Sometimes records are tera in the Basilicata Region. Origi- 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan AIE, Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto either so muddled that information nally started by immigrants from ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Mondadori, and Mondadori Editore. is impossible to find or they seem the town in Manhattan in 1901 at the ● The novel in verse La Camera Da (Settimana della Lingua Italiana). to be missing the information you Church of St. Joachim, this feast day Letto (The Bedroom), published in the Admission: free; open to the public. need entirely. Genealogist Toni celebration has continued annually 1980s, was one of the most ambi- McKeen will teach you some help- since then. Sponsored by The Craco tious works of writer and poet At- ful tricks and sites she used to get Societ y. Admission: free; open to the tilio Bertolucci (1911–2000). This past these very obstacles in her public. Contact: Fred Spero 774-269- exploration of a personal world Oct 29 own genealogical quest. Admis- 6611 (memberservices@thecracoso- reached out to a far wider audience sion: Members $15, Non-Members ciety.org). than he had known previously, and Ada Gobetti’s $20 (Must register in advance and the book became a great literary Partisan Diary prepay). Contact: Patrizia Calce Pavarotti success. Presentation and readings 6:30 pm (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 (pcalce@ 2:00 pm with Luigi Bonaffini, Luigi Fonta- Italian Cultural Institute, wiccny.org). Enrico Caruso Museum of nella, and Paolo Lagazzi. (Settimana 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan America, 1942 East 19th Street, della Lingua Italiana / Week of the ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Brooklyn Italian Language).Admission: free; ● I n the early days of Fascism, Ada and ◗ EnricoCarusoMuseum.com open to the public. Piero Gobetti were among the leading Oct 25 & 26 ● The life and times of Luciano Pava- intellectual voices of the liberal op- rotti: a combination of lecture, film, Westchester position to the regime. After Piero’s Eleventh/Annual and music. Sponsored by Enrico County Legislators’ death from a vicious beating by the Center for Italian Caruso Foundation and Museum Proclamation Fascists, Ada supported herself and Studies Italian Film Enrico Caruso Museum of America. Ceremony family by writing, teaching English, Festival at Stony Brook Admission: open to the public. Con- 6:00 pm and translating English literature into University tact: Uff. Aldo Mancusi 718-368-3993 800 Michaelian Office Building, Italian. As a partisan in the Piedmont 2:00-8:00 pm (Amancusi@EnricoCarusoMuseum. Eighth Floor Legislative Chambers region in northwest Italy, Ada was the Center for Italian Studies, Stony com). and Rotunda, 148 Martine Avenue, commander of a Justice and Liberty Brook University, Wang Center White Plains, NY brigade. Published for the first time in Theatre, Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, An Afternoon with ● In honor of Italian Heritage and 1956, her Diario partigiano is recog nized NY David Righeschi & Culture Month in the Year 2014 as one of the classics of Italy’s Resis- ◗ stonybrook.edu/italianstudies Friends Celebrating the Italian American tance literature. Presentation with ● Screening with English subtitles 2:00 pm Experience Legends and Icons: Majorie Alano and Stanislao Pugliese. of some recently produced Italian Proctors Theatre, 432 State Street, Italian Americans in Sports. With Admission: free; open to the public. films and some favorites from the Schenectady, NY Special Recognition of Outstand- past. Remarks and Q & A sessions ● Opera and music perfomances. ing Students and Teachers of the “Spotlight on Italy” conducted by Stony Brook Universi- Some of the proceeds will be used Italian Language in Westchester. 12:30-1:10 pm ty’s Festival Director. For additional for Italian scholarships, children Business Attire. Sponsored by the College of Staten Island, hospitals and other community Westchester County Board of Leg- Campus Center, 2800 Victory needs. Sponsored by Italia-Amer- islators, Chairperson Kenneth W. Boulevard, Staten Island ◗ ica Cultural Foundation of New Jenkins, and Westchester Coali- csi.cuny.edu Visit the IHCC York. Admission: $60; open to the tion of Italian American Organiza- ● Presentation by Annalisa Susca, Ad- website with your public. Contact: Joseph DeFronzo tions. RSVP by October 20 (Phone: junct Lecturer of Italian, Department smartphone 518-852-0900 (jdefronzoO@nycap. 914-433-6073; email: Westchester- of World Languages and Literatures, rr.com). [email protected]). College of Staten Island. Sponsored by www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 61 Events ➜ Calendar

emy, and the communities involved the cornerstone of Italian cooking. in the towers’ preservation and in- Stuffed pasta such as tortellini and Participating Colleges terpretation. Admission: free; open ravioli, are delicious variations on to the public. RSVP by calling (212) the traditional formula, and Italians and Universities 642-2094. Please note that seating have been making them for centu- is limited, and seats cannot be re- ries. Learn how to make the basic Activities listed in Calendar of Events served. pasta dough and have fun with the fillings, spices, cheeses and sauces unt il you find your favor ite combina- College of Staten Island/ Nassau Community College tion. Feature recipes include squash CUNY New York University Oct 30 ravioli, meat agnolotti and cappel- leti in broth. Presented by Chef Jacob Columbia University Seton Hall University Concert: Matteo Restivo. Admission: Members $25, Hofstra University St. John’s University Arevalos Non-Members $35 (Must register in 6:00 advance and prepay). Contact: Pa- Hunter College/CUNY Stony Brook/SUNY Italian Cultural Institute, trizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan ([email protected]). ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Montclair State University Queens College/CUNY ● Dedicated to the 20th Century “Ghost Tour” Italian Composer Giacinto Scelsi in- presented by cluding a US Premiere. Admission: Louisa free; open to the public. Contact: Mastromarino Fabio Troisi 212-879-4242. 7:00 pm The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Exhibit Opening: 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Center for International Service, Col- ● Stefano Vaccara will talk about Giulio Turcato Island ◗ lege of Staten Island. Admission: free; “The Creation of LA VOCE” which 6:00 pm garibaldimeuccimuseum.org open to the public. Contact: Winnie he describes as “an independent Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò ● Contact: Stephanie Lundegard 718- Brophy 718-982-2100 (winnie.brophy@ daily online newspaper that caters (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, 442-1608. Regular museum hours are csi.cuny.edu). to all the readers who in the Italian Manhattan 1 pm-5 pm, Wednesday through Sat- ◗ language and culture have found the casaitaliananyu.org urday. Admission is $5 per person, Shrouded in Pompei, passion for life. Without any ideo- ● Painter Giulio Turcato (1912 -1995) members and children under 10 are by Lisa Fantino logical or partisan connotation, the was one of the main exponents of free. Call ahead for groups of 10 or 2:30 pm VOICE New York is the agora to the informal abstract art in Italy. His more. The first floor of the museum Westchester Italian Cultural debate and the free expression of long participation in the Venice is wheelchair accessible, but the rest- Center, One Generoso Pope Place, ideas, without exceptions or cen- Biennale began by invitation with room is on the second floor. Tuckahoe, NY sorship. With employees around the the 23rd Esposizione Internazio- ◗ wiccny.org world it covers topics that go well nale d’Arte della Città di Venezia ACK Quartet ● In this intriguing new mystery beyond the U.S. and Italy and aims in 1942. He then moved to Rome 7:00 pm novel, Lisa Fantino weaves the ele- to become the Italian voice in the a few months later and joined the The Italian Academy ments of murder and politics with world.” Admission: free; open to the Resistance. His art is abstract with (Columbia University), 1161 an international flavor across three public. Contact: Jo Fusco 631-632- expressionistic overtones. The deci- Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan ◗ continents. Her character, broadcast 7444; fax: 631-632-7421 (Josephine. sion of the Venice Biennale to devote italianacademy.columbia.edu journalist Mickey Malone, exposes [email protected]). a room exclusively to his work at the ● JACK Quar tet will g ive its first per- the intr icate political dir t y tr icks lurk- 29th Esposizione Internazionale formance at the Italian Academy, ing behind the power. Lisa Fantino is The Philip V. d’Arte della Città di Venezia in 1958 presenting new music by William the Top 20 bestselling author, Kindle Cannistraro contributed to his international re- Anderson, Jonathan Dawe, Matthew books on Italy, for her travel memoir, Seminar Series in nown.Program subject to change. Greenbaum, and Charles Wuor inen. Amalfi Blue - lost & found in the south of Italian American Studies. All events are free and open to the With guest artists Miranda Cuck- Italy. With Shrouded in Pompei she in- Sabato Rodia’s Towers in public. Contact: Kostja Kostic 212- son, violin, and Jay Campbell, cello. troduces the Mickey Malone Mystery Watts: Art, Migrations, 998-3862; fax: 212-995-4012. Admission: free, open to the public. series. Book signing reception will Development, by Luisa del Contact: Allison Jeffrey 212-854- follow. Admission: Suggested dona- Giudice Stuffed Pasta 8942 ([email protected]). tion $10 (Registration is required). 6:00 pm 6:30 pm Contact: Patrizia Calce (914) 771-8700 John D. Calandra Italian American Westchester Italian ext. 109 ([email protected]). Institute, Queens College/CUNY, Cultural Center, One Generoso 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY Nov 1 ◗ qc.edu/calandra ◗ Stefano Vaccara, wiccny.org Journalist, Author, ● The Watts Towers were created ● Consisting of mainly three ingre- The Power of Titian and Director of “La over the course of three decades by a dients, flour, eggs and salt, pasta is 10:30 am Voce” determined artist, Italian immigrant Westchester Italian 3:00 pm Sabato “Sam” Rodia. This book by In- Cultural Center, One Generoso Center for Italian Studies, Stony dependent Scholar Luisa Del Giudice Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY ◗ Brook University, Frank Melville is a much-anticipated reappraisal of Download the wiccny.org Memorial Library, Room E4340, the man and his work, compiling es- i-Italy App ● When alive, Titian, known for his Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY says from twenty authors, who offer innovative and bold use of color, was ◗ stonybrook.edu/italianstudies perspectives from the arts, the acad- sought after internationally and de-

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clared “the sun amidst small stars $30, Non-Members $40. Parent & to the public. Seating is on a first- not only among the Italians but all Child Fee: Members $45, Non-Mem- Nov 4 come-first-serve basis. Contact: the painters of the world.” Since his bers $55 (Must Register in advance Kostja Kostic 212-998-3862; fax: death, his fame has only grown and and prepay). Contact: Patrizia Calce Giovanni Arrighi: 212-995-4012. he has been recog nized as the g reatest (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 (pcalce@ Growth and of the Venetian Renaissance painters. wiccny.org). Inequality Presented by Toni McKeen. Admis- 6:00 sion: Members $15, Non-Members $ 25 Italian Cultural Institute, Nov 6 (Must reg ister in advance and prepay). 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan Contact: Patrizia Calce (914) 771-8700 Nov 2 ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Luigi Einaudi ext. 109 ([email protected]). ● Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009) was Today: Growth, Shifting and Shaping an Italian scholar of political econ- Public Institutions, Garibaldi-Meucci a National Identity: omy and sociology, and from 1998 and Culture Museum Brunch at Transnational a Professor of Sociology at Johns 6:00 pm The Staaten Writers and Pluricultura- Hopkins University. His work has Italian Cultural Institute, 11:00 am lism in Italy Today been translated into over fifteen lan- 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, 2:30 pm guages. A colleague and close col- ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Center for Italian Studies, Stony laborator of world-systems analyst ● Organized in collaboration with Island Brook University, Nicolls Road, Immanuel Wallerstein, Arrighi’s the New York delegation of Banca ◗ garibaldimeuccimuseum.org Stony Brook, NY most famous work was a trilogy on d’Italia, this round-table is dedicat- ◗ ● An annual brunch honoring out- stonybrook.edu/italianstudies the origins and transformations of ed to Italian politician and econo- going Commissioners (Directors) of ● Book presentation with the par- global capitalism. Round-table, in mist Luigi Einaudi (1874–1961). Ein- the Board, followed by a visit to the ticipation of author/editors, Grace collaboration with Calandra Insti- audi was Governor of the Bank of Garibaldi-Meucci Museum for refresh- Russo Bullaro (Professor of English, tute and Casa Italiana, NYU.Admis- Italy after World War II and was also ments and a viewing of the Memorial CUNY/Lehman College) and Elena sion: free; open to the public. a founding member of the Consulta Brick Walkway. Admission: $70 pp for Benelli (Lecturer in Italian Studies, Nazionale which opened the way to BrunchContact: Stephanie Lundegard Concordia University, Montreal, the new Parliament of the Italian 718-442-1608. Canada). A reception will follow Republic. Later he was Minister of the presentation when books will Nov 5 Finances, Treasury and Balance, as Italian Welfare be available for purchase and au- well as Vice-Premier, in 1947-1948. League’s Autumn tographing by the authors. For AdDRESSing Style: Einaudi served as the second Presi- in New York additional and updated program Fabrizio Ferri dent of the Italian Republic between Luncheon information consult the Center for 6:00 pm 1948 and 1955. The research center 11:30 am Italian Studies’ web site or call 631- Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò of the Bank of Italy, the Einaudi In- Metropolitan Club, 1 East 60th 632-7444. Admission: free; open to (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, stitute for Economics and Finance Street, Manhattan the public. Contact: Jo Fusco 631- Manhattan (EIEF), is named in his honor. Ad- ◗ ◗ italianwelfareleague.org 632-7444; fax: 631-632-7421 (Jose- casaitaliananyu.org mission: free; open to the public. ● Annual luncheon gala includes: Si- [email protected]). ● Fabrizio Ferri began his career For further information check the lent and Live Auctions, a raffle and pre- as a photojournalist, taking pho- Institute’s website. sentations of awards to honorees. This Regina Opera tographs of Italy’s political life. He year’s event will honor: Maria Fiorini Company: “Gotta then shifted his attention to the An Evening with Ramirez, President and CEO, MFR, Sing” fashion world, and moved tempo- Mario Fratti Inc.; and Gerard LaRocca, a Managing 3:00 pm rarily to London in 1974 and a year 7:00 pm Director and Chief Administrative Of- Our Lady of Perpetual Help School later to New York, where he lives Westchester Italian Cultural ficer, Americas at Barclay’s. The event Auditorium, 5902 6th Avenue, and works to this day. Acclaimed Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Brooklyn benefits “I Nostri Bambini” – children internationally for his sophisticat- Tuckahoe, NY ◗ reginaopera.org ◗ of Italian-American heritage with ed yet pure vision, Ferri has pho- wiccny.org special needs. Admission: $275; open ● Regina Opera soloists will present op- tog raphed many iconic por traits of ● Internationally acclaimed play- to the public. Contact: Patty Maniace era arias and ensembles, songs in sev- the last decades, including among wr ight and drama cr itic Mar io Frat- 212-861-8480 (info@italianwelfarelea- eral languages, and Broadway tunes. many others: Isabella Rossellini, ti, best known for the musical Nine gue.org). Admission: $12 - General Admission; Sophia Loren, Luciano Pavarotti, and winner of seven Tony awards, $5 - Teens; Children – free; open to the Sting, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, will present his publication Twenty- Making Gnocchi public. Contact: Fran Garber 718-259- and Julia Roberts. For his pragmatic Eight Unpredictable Plays. Unpredict- 2:00 pm 2772 ([email protected]). creativeness and comprehensive able Plays features 28 Plays, and at Westchester Italian world view, Fabrizio Ferri embod- least 28 Sur pr ises. Dr y, sly, provoca- Cultural Center, One Generoso Scholarship Dinner ies the contemporary prototype tive plays presented by the master Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY 1:30-7:00 pm of the “Renaissance Man.” As a of unpredictability, Mar io Fratti. He ◗ wiccny.org Marina del Ray, Bronx, NY young enterpreneur, he founded will also talk about his only novel ● The signature dish of every non- ◗ reginaopera.org Industria Superstudio in Milan in Diario Proibito, written 60 years ago, na, gnocchi are a staple of Italian ● Annual Dinner Dance fundraiser 1983, and later opened its New York but published only three months households and are perfect with for scholarships, for high school City outpost in 1991. With multi- ago. The program will continue any sauce. Enjoy mashing potatoes, students who have studied Italian. functional studios and musical with a performance by t wo talented rolling the dough, and eating your Sponsored by Columbus Day Com- and digital research departments, actresses Giulia Bisinella and Car- creation afterwards. With just three mittee of Eastchester, Tuckahoe. Industria is the first full-service lotta Brentan from Mar io’s new play basic ingredients, gnocchi are easy Admission: $110 in advance; $125 photographic complex of its kind. Wives. Bor n in Italy, Mar io Fratti has to make and appropriate for all ages. at door. Contact: Mario Annunziata Program subject to change. Admis- written more than 90 plays, which Admission: Children’s Fee: Members 914-879-2523. sion: all events are free and open have been performed in more than www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 63 Events ➜ Calendar

Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia gio Ficara. He will be joined onstage Street, Manhattan by Jonathan Galassi, translator of ◗ corneliastreetcafe.com Italian Language Resources Leopardi and others, and is himself ● Featured authors: Suzanne Petito a poet, as well as President and Pub- An array of learning opportunities are available to foster Italian language and Michael Trocchia. The Italian lisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. acquisition for toddlers, children, teens and adults. The following organi- Amer ican Wr iters Association hosts Giorgio Ficara is Professor of Italian zations are offering classes from basic to advanced level skills: literary events, including a more Literature at the Universit y of Tur in. than 20-year old series held at the Among his books: Solitudini. Studi Casa Belvedere, The Italian garibaldimeuccimuseum.org Cornelia St. Café in Greenwich Vil- sulla letteratura italiana dal Duecento Cultural Foundation, Inc. www.GaribaldiMeucciMuseum. lage, bilingual readings of various al Novecento (Garzanti, 1993 – Pre- 79 Howard Avenue, Grymes org. dialects and an Ethnic Encounter se- mio Lerici 1994); Casanova e la malin- Hill, NY 10301. Tel: (718) 273- ries inviting other ethnic groups to (Einaudi, 1999); 7660, Fax: (718) 273-0020, info@ Italian American Committee on conia Stile Novecento casa-belvedere.org, www.casa- Education (IACE) read in their own languages. IAWA (Marsilio, 2007). In 1984 he won the belvedere.org. 686 Park Ave LL New York, is the only forum within our com- Borgia Prize, Accademia Nazionale NY 10021. Tel: (212) 772-8755, munity that has consistently given dei Lincei. Sponsored by The Italian Center for Italian Studies, Stony Fax: (212) 772-8756, info@ voice to numerous writers – famous Academy and the Compagnia di San Brook University iacelanguage.org, www. and emerging. Reading begin with Paolo. Admission: free, open to the 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, iacelanguage.org NY 11794. Tel: (631) 632-7444, an Open Mic followed by two fea- public. Contact: Allison Jeffrey 212- Fax: (631) 632-7421, dseverino@ Italian Educational and Cultural tured authors. Admission: $8; open 854-8942 ([email protected]). italianstudies.org. Center (IECC) to the public. Contact: Maria Lisella Casa Colombo, 380 Monmouth 718-777-1178. Pico della Dorothea’s House, Casa di Cultura Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302. Mirandola and Italiana Tel: (201) 963-6332, info@ 120 John Street, Princeton, NJ casacolombo.org, www. Renaissance 08542. Tel: (908) 359-1564, gilda@ casacolombo.org. Intellectual Culture dorotheashouse.org, www. Nov 9 TBA dorotheashouse.org/classes.html. Westchester Italian Cultural Italian Cultural Institute, Center, Generoso Pope Place, Film: The Great 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Order Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Tel: (914) ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Sons of Italy in America 771-8700, Fax: (914) 771-5900, Beauty 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten [email protected], www.wiccny.org 2:00 pm ● Round table dedicated to Italian Island, NY 10305. Tel: (718) 442- The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Renaissance philosopher Count 1608, Fax: 718) 442-8635, info@ 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Island (1463–1494). Pico is famous for the ◗ GaribaldiMeucciMuseum.org events of 1486, when at the age of 23, ● Cinematic Presentation and in- he proposed to defend 900 theses on 700 theatres in 19 languages. He is please check the Institute’s web site. troduction by Rose Frisari. Contact: religion, philosophy, natural philos- best known for his musical Nine, Admission: free; open to the public. Stephanie Lundegard 718-442-1608. ophy and magic against all comers, inspired by Fellini’s famous film, 8 Contact: Fabio Troisi 212-879-4242. Regular museum hours are 1 pm-5 for which he wrote the famous Ora- ½, which in its original production pm, Wednesday through Saturday. tion on the Dignity of Man, which has in 1982, won the O’Neill Award, the Admission is $5 per person, members been called the “Manifesto of the Re- Richard Rodgers Award, two Outer and children under 10 are free. Call naissance.” For further information Critics Circle Awards, eight Drama Nov 8 ahead for groups of 10 or more. The please check the Institute’s web site. Desk Awards, five Tony Awards and first floor of the museum is wheelchair Admission: free; open to the public. in 2000 was a recipient of the Otto The 2014 NJIIAHC accessible, but the restroom is on the Award for Political Theater. A recep- Congress: second floor. tion with the author and book sign- “Achievements of ing will conclude the event. Admis- National Italian American Nov 12 sion: Members $20, Non-Members Organizations” $25 (Must Register in advance and 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Nov 11 Multicultural prepay). Contact: Patrizia Calce The Conference Center at Mercer Traditions, Values (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 (pcalce@ County Community College, 1200 Lecture: Leopardi and Belief Systems: wiccny.org). Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, NJ and Nature by Celebrating our ● Several national Italian Ameri- Giorgio Ficara with Similarities and can organizations will be present- Jonathan Galassi Differences ing their major achievements in 7:00 pm 12:15 – 1:30 pm Nov 7 preserving and promoting the Ital- The Italian Academy (Columbia Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, ian and Italian American Heritage. University), 1161 Amsterdam Queens College/Cuny, Lights from Sponsored by the New Jersey Italian Avenue, Manhattan 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY ◗ (President’s Conference Room #2 Darkness. Mafia, and Italian Amer icans Her itage Com- italianacademy.columbia.edu Level 5). Anti Mafia: A mission. Admission: free; open to the ● Columbia University’s Italian ◗ qc.cuny.edu Photographic Inventory public. Contact: Fred Proulx 848-4 45- Academy is pleased to present the 6:00 pm 4163 ([email protected]). third annual lecture of the Compag- ● Panel presentations and discus- Italian Cultural Institute, nia di San Paolo Italian Academy sions from various ethnic studies 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan Italian American Distinguished Visiting Professor- entities (TBA) at the Queens College ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Writers Association ship. This series focuses on Italian campus, with Q&A with audience ● A photographic journey high- Literary Reading literature, art history, and musicol- participation. Sponsored by ARIA lighting the struggle against Mafia Series ogy. This year’s holder of the posi- (faculty, staff and students, Asso- in Sicily. 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cans at Queens College. Admission: seating is limited, and seats cannot JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE free; open to the public. Contact: be reserved. Alexandra de Luise 718-997-3748 alexandra.([email protected]), Love Angels by Don Pierre Tribuidi 718-997-3079 (pierre. Marcello Stanzione [email protected]). 6:30 pm Westchester Italian Cultural Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY Nov 13 ◗ wiccny.org ● Don Marcello Stanzione, Jacques Lecture by Amara Coret, and Marco Gionta will pres- Lakhous ent their first book published in 2:30 pm English: The Highway to Heaven/A Center for Italian Studies, Stony closer walk with God in the Company Brook University, Nicolls Road, of The Celestial Beings-Angels (Pub- Stony Brook, NY lisher Sign). The presentation will ◗ stonybrook.edu/italianstudies be accompanied by the screening ● The Algerian-born writer who of the documentary Love Angels. has been living in Rome since 1995 The documentary tells the stor y of and fueled by his passion for Italian the angelica devotion through the culture, has written novels, all set life and mission of a simple parish in Italy in a language described as pr iest Don Marcello Stanzione that “Arabicized Italian and Italianize in just 20 years became a Chr istian Arabic.” He is the recipient of the example for disclosure and knowl- prestigious Premio Flaiano in 2006, edge of celestial creatures in the as well as Algeria’s Prix des librai- entire world. Book signing and res in 2008. Topic: To be announced. light reception will follow. Admis- For additional and updated pro- sion: Members $15, Non-Members The Italian American Review, a biannual, peer-reviewed gram information consult the Cen- $25. Contact: Patrizia Calce (914) journal of the John D. Calandra Italian American ter for Italian Studies web site or 771-8700 ext. 109 (pcalce@wiccny. Institute, publishes scholarly articles about the history call 631-632-7444. Admission: free; org). open to the public. Contact: Jo Fusco and culture of Italian Americans, as well as other 631-632-7444; fax: 631-632-7421 (Jo- aspects of the Italian diaspora. The journal embraces [email protected]). a wide range of professional concerns and theoretical Nov 14 orientations in the social sciences and cultural studies. The Philip V. Cannistraro Teaching Italian SUBSCRIPTION RATES Seminar Series in Symposium – $15 Student/Senior • $20 Individual • $$40 Institution • $$50 Int’l Airmail Italian American Studies. Workshop: Meeting Embroidered Stories: VII – Con(Testo): Perspecti- To s ubscribe online go to qc.edu/calandra. Under the publications Interpreting Women’s ves on Literature in the FL menu, click on Italian American Review and scroll down to the subscribe Domestic Needlework from Classroom button to make a secure PayPal purchase by credit card. the Italian Diaspora 8:30 am – 4:00 pm 6:00 pm Montclair State University, Or mail a note along with your check or money order made payable John D. Calandra Italian American University Hall Conference Center to “Queens College/Calandra Italian American Institute” to: Institute, Queens College/CUNY, (7th Floor), 1 Normal Avenue, Italian American Review Subscriptions 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan Montclair, NJ John D. Calandra Italian American Institute ◗ qc.edu/calandra ◗ montclair.edu 25 West 43rd Street, 17th fl oor New York, NY 10036 ● Edvige Giunta, Ph.D., New Jersey ● Seventh in a series of all-day City University and Joseph Scior- professional development pro- ra, Ph.D., John D. Calandra Italian grams for teachers of Italian at For more information, or if you are interested in American Institute. This book is an all levels, consisting of a keynote submitting an article for consideration, go to interdisciplinary collection includ- presentation, panel discussion ing academic essays and creative and five intensive workshops (two qc.edu/calandra. Under the publications menu, works from Argentina, Australia, hours each). An annual signature click on Italian American Review. Canada, and the United States. It collaboration between the Coccia explores multiple interpretations Institute for the Italian Experience of the relationships between nee- in America and the Department of ists in instructional methodology cellence and Innovation in the dlework and immigration from a Spanish and Italian at Montclair in foreign language: Professors El- Teaching of Italian (K-12) will be transnational perspective during the State University. Sponsored by the vira DiFabio (Harvard University); presented on this occasion. Admis- period of the late nineteenth to the Coccia Institute, the Department Nicoletta Marini-Maio (Dickinson sion: $ 50 registration fee for teach- late twentieth century. A number of of Spanish and Italian, and the College); Mirtilli Morgana (Studio ers; $25 fee for graduate students the book’s contributors will partici- Inserra Chair in Italian and Ital- Arcobaleno); Anna Rein (Bowdoin and student teachers. Contact: Cav. pate in the presentation. Admission: ian American Studies at Montclair College); and keynote speaker Col- Mary Ann Re, Ph.D., Director 973- free; open to the public. RSVP by call- State University. Please join our leen Ryan (Indiana University). 655-4038; fax: 973-655-4284 (rem@ ing (212) 642-2094. 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● Manuele Gragnolati is Associate ● The Oscar winning film La Grande Director of the Institute for Cultural Bellezza (The Great Beauty) is a 2014 Inquiry, Berlin and Full Professor of Italian film co-written and directed Italian Literature at Oxford Univer- by Paolo Sorrentino. Jep Gambardel- sity. Athough a significant part of la has seduced his way through the his research focuses on Dante and lavish nightlife of Rome for de- medieval literature, he also pub- cades, but after his 65th birthday lished essays on modern authors and a shock from the past, Jep looks including Cesare Pavese and Elsa past the nightclubs and parties to Morante. His latest book is entitled find a timeless landscape of ab- Amor che move. Linguaggio del cor- surd, exquisite beauty. Admission: po e formal del desiderio in Dante, Members free, Non-Members $15 Pasolini e Morante. Prof. Gragnolati (Registration is required). Contact: will share his thoughts on Elsa Mo- Patr izia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 rante (1912–1985) a world-renowned ([email protected]). Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her monumental novel La storia “The Bridge” and (History). Admission: all events are Staten Island free and open to the public. Contact: 2:30 - 4:25 pm Kostja Kostic 212-998-3862; fax: 212- College of Staten Island, Center 995-4012. for the Arts (1P) Recital Hall, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island ◗ csi.cuny.edu ● With the opening of the Verraz- Nov 18 ano-Narrows Bridge on November 21, 1964, Staten Island was changed Italo-americana: forever - but in what ways and by the Literature of the whom? This isolated borough will be Great Migration examined and the individuals and 1880 – 1943, by Francesco groups, including the vilified “De- Durante velopers” and “Brooklynites” who Westchester Italian Cultural Reading and Book 6:00 pm impacted the island will be featured. Center, One Generoso Pope Place, Italian Cultural Institute, Signing & 25 Years of Tuckahoe, NY This is an important discussion by 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan Bordighera Press. ◗ wiccny.org Pat Salmon that acknowledges Bordighera Poetry Prize – ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork the 50th anniversary of this land- Sonia Raiziss-Giop ● The program will feature the ● Or ig inally published in Italian, this mark. Sponsored by The Pluralism Charitable Foundation operas of the greatest Italian Op- landmark collection of translated & Diversity Program at the College 6:00 pm era Masters: Rossini, Donnizetti, writings establishes a rich, diverse, of Staten Island. Admission: free; John D. Calandra Italian American Puccini, Verdi and Mascagni. Spec- and mature sense of Italian-Amer- open to the public. Contact: Michael Institute, Queens College/CUNY, tacular overtures of the most loved ican life by allowing readers to see Maslankowski 718-982-2597 (Mi- 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan ar ias ever wr itten for opera such as American society through the eyes [email protected]). ◗ qc.edu/calandra La Boheme, Cavalleria Rusticana, of Italian-speaking immigrants. ● Book presentation of the 2013 Lucia di Lammermoor, Barbiere di Filled with the voices from the first winner, Joelle Biele, Broom, trans- Siviglia, and Aida, performed by the generation of Italian-American life, lated into Italian by Irene Marche- artists of the New York City-based the book presents a unique trea- Nov 19 giani. The Bordighera Poetry Prize Amore Opera. This program has sury of long-inaccessible writing has been generously sponsored by been made possible by the collabo- that embodies a literary canon for Recital: Benjamin the Sonia Raiziss-Giop Charitable ration of the Scarsdale Women’s Italian-American culture—poetry, Hochman, Piano Foundation. Reading, reception, Club and it will take place at the drama, journalism, political advoca- 7:00 pm and book signing. 2014 also marks Scarsdale Women’s Club, located cy, history, memoir, biography, and The Italian Academy (Columbia 25 years since Bordighera began on 37 Drake Rd in Scarsdale. Admis- story—the greater part of which has University), 1161 Amsterdam publishing Voices in Italian Ameri- sion: $45 (Must register in advance never before been translated. resen- Avenue, Manhattan ◗ cana followed by the series VIA Fo- and prepay. To register please call tation and readings with Anthony italianacademy.columbia.edu lios in 1993. The rest, as they say, the Westchester Italian Cultural Julian Tamburri, James J. Periconi, ● Benjamin Hochman will per- is history… Co-sponsored by Bor- Center at 914-771-8700. Payment and Robert Viscusi. In collaboration form a solo recital of works by dighera Press, Sonia Raiziss-Giop by cash or check only). Contact: Pa- with Calandra Institute and IAWA. Bach, Berio, Busoni, Dallapiccola Charitable Foundation, and the trizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 109 For fur ther information please check and Schumann. Admission: free; John D. Calandra Italian American ([email protected]). the Institute’s web site. Admission: open to the public. Contact: Alli- Institute, Queens College/CUNY. free; open to the public. son Jeffrey 212- 854-8942 (aj211@ Contact: Anthony Julian Tamburri Talk on Elsa columbia.edu). 212-642-2094 (tamburri@bordigh- Morante by La Grande Bellezza erapress.org). Admission: free; open Manuele Gragnolati - The Great Beauty to the public. 6:00 pm 2:00 pm Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Westchester Italian Cultural WATCH An Evening of (NYU), 24 West 12th Street, Center, One Generoso Pope Place, i-Italy|TV Italian Opera Manhattan Tuckahoe, NY 7:00 pm ◗ casaitaliananyu.org ◗ wiccny.org

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● Professor Louis Leonini returns ● Featuring Micheal Castaldo & rates available. Box office: Tel: 212-998- Nov 20 to our Center to complete the story The Notre Dame Academy Choral 4941. Contact: 212-217-6181 (info@cris- of how Italy finally completed her Ensemble. The concert will be held tinafontanelli.com). Pirandello unification as a result of World War at Notre Dame Academy Elemen- and the Great War I. Why and how did Italy enter this tary School, with a VIP reception at TBA war, which during its duration and Casa Belvedere. Admission: TBA. Italian Cultural Institute, the chaos that followed took a hor- Contact: 718-273-7660 (info@casa- Dec 10 686 Park Avenue, Manhattan rendous toll on all her resources, belvedere.org). ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork finances, and the lives of citizens? Berio in NYC: Sarah ● Lecture by Professor Pietro Fras- What sections of territory were Cahill and Adam sica on Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) added to Italy as a result of her par- Tendler the famous Italian dramatist, novel- ticipation in the war, and what ter- Dec 1 7:00 pm ist, poet and short story writer who ritories were promised, but then de- The Italian Academy (Columbia was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize nied? Why, after so much blood and The Philip V. University), 1161 Amsterdam in Literature for his “bold and bril- effort, did Italy feel betrayed by the Cannistraro Avenue, Manhattan ◗ liant renovation of the drama and allies, and what political forces and Seminar Series in italianacademy.columbia.edu the stage.” Pirandello was the last chaotic violence were released after Italian American Studies. ● Pianists Sarah Cahill and Adam Italian playwright to be chosen for the war that put Italy on the road to Personal Effects: Essays on Tendler will perform Luciano Berio’s the award until 9 October 1997 when dictatorship? Admission: Members Memoir, Teaching, and “Wasserklavier,” “Rounds,” “Sequenza Dario Fo was selected. Professor Fra- $15, Non-Members $ 25 (Must reg is- Culture in the Work of IV”, “5 Variazioni,” “Erdenklavier,” and ssica, Associate Chair, Department ter in advance and prepay). Contact: Louise DeSalvo “Memory.” Admission: free; open to the of French and Italian at Princeton Patrizia Calce (914) 771-8700 ext. 6:00 pm public. Contact: Allison Jeffrey 212- 854- University, is the author of a book 109 ([email protected]). John D. Calandra Italian American 8942 ([email protected]). on Pirandello’s collaboration with Institute, Queens College/CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street, Manhattan his muse, actress Marta Abba and ◗ qc.edu/calandra on Marta’s career in America, Her Maestro’s Echo: Pirandello and the Ac- Nov 22, 23, 29 ● Nancy Caronia (University of Dec 14 tress Who Conquered Broadway in One & 30 Rhode Island) and Edvige Giunta Evening (Troubador Publishing, 2010 ). (New Jersey City University). The “The Vernacular Admission: free; open to the public. first book to focus on an Italian- Architecture of Un Ballo in American woman writer, Personal Italian-American Book: From Italy: Maschera Effects includes contributions by Neighborhoods” Poems and Beauty 3:00 pm well-known and emerging scholars 4:00 pm from the Heart of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School and writers who explore the depth Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Italy Auditorium, 5902 6th Avenue, and resonance of Louise DeSalvo’s Hudson Street, Hoboken, NJ 4:00 pm Brooklyn work, particularly her memoirs. In ◗ hobokenmuseum.org ◗ Center for Italian Studies, Stony reginaopera.org addition to the editors and DeSalvo ● Guest speaker: Dr. Jerome Krase, Brook University, Frank Melville ● Regina Opera will present Verdi’s herself, the event’s participants will Brooklyn College of the City Universi- Memorial Library, Room E4340, masterpiece in Italian with 35-piece include several of the book’s con- ty of New York. Part of the Immigrant Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY orchestra and English supertitles. tributors. Admission: free; open Experience, A Free Lecture Series at ◗ stonybrook.edu/italianstudies Sponsored by Regina Opera Compa- to the public. RSVP by calling (212) the Hoboken Historical Museum. ● Presentation by Poet Francesco Paolo ny. Admission: $25 - General Admis- 642-2094. Please note that seating Contact: Darian Worden (dworden@ Tanzi, from Molise Italy of his publica- sion; $ 20 ; Seniors & College Students is limited, and seats cannot be re- hobokenmuseum.org). tion: From Italy: Poems and Beauty from under 25; $5 - Teens; Children – free; served. the Heart of Italy. Offered in collabora- open to the public. Contact: Fran Gar- tion with The Gradiva International ber 718-259-2772 (info@reginaopera. Poetry Society. For additional and up- org). dated program information consult Dec 6 the Center for Italian Studies web site or call 631-632-7444. Admission: free; Christina open to the public. Contact: Jo Fusco Nov 30 Fonatnelli’s 11th 631-632-7444; fax: 631-632-7421 (Jose- Annual “Christmas [email protected]). “Italian Christmas in Italy Concert”: From 4:00 pm Bethlehem to NYU Skirball Center for the Belvedere Performing Arts, 566 La Guardia Nov 21 TBA Place, Manhattan (off Washington Sq.) Casa Belvedere, 79 Howard Lecture: Italy Avenue, Staten Island ◗ nyuskirball.com Completes Her ◗ casa-belvedere.org ● Award-winning singer/PBS-TV Host; Unification. World PBS-TV/WNET and Affiliates Host for War I, and Its Aftermath Andrea Bocelli and Il Volo, Cristina 7:00 pm Fontanelli’s annual Italian Christmas Visit the IHCC Westchester Italian Cultural show for the entire family; a celebration ● website with your www.italyculturemonth.org Center, One Generoso Pope Place, of the joy of musical Christmas Italian ● smartphone [email protected] Tuckahoe, NY style. Admission:$ 52.00/$ 67.50; open ● 212.642.2027 ◗ wiccny.org to the public- Group sales and Senior www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 67 Events ➜ Calendar

Italian and Italian American Institutions in New York

MANHATTAN Italian American Committee BRONX STATEN ISLAND on Education Consulate General of Italy in www.iacelanguage.org Enrico Fermi Cultural Center, Casa Belvedere, The Italian New York 686 Park Avenue, LL Belmont Branch of the New Cultural Foundation, Inc. www.consnewyork.esteri.it New York, NY 10021 York Public Library www.casa-belvedere.org 690 Park Avenue Tel: (212) 772-8755 (info@ www.arthuravenuebronx.com/ 79 Howard Avenue New York, NY 10021 iacelanguage.org) enrico_fermi.htm Staten Island, NY 10301 (212) 439-8600 (info.newyork@ 610 East 186th Street, Bronx, (718) 273-7660; Fax: (718) 273- esteri.it) Italian American Museum NY 10458. (718) 933-6410 0020 ([email protected]) www.ItalianAmericanMuseum.org Istituto Italiano di Cultura 155 Mulberry Street Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, www.iicnewyork.org New York, NY 10013 BROOKLYN Order Sons of Italy in America 686 Park Avenue (212) 965-9000 (info@italiana- www.GaribaldiMeucciMuseum.org New York, NY 10021 mericanmuseum.org) Enrico Caruso Museum of 420 Tompkins Avenue (212) 879-4242 (segr@italcultny. America Staten Island, NY 10305 org) Italian Welfare League www.EnricoCarusoMuseum.com (718) 442-1608 Fax: 718) www.ItalianwelfareLeague.org 1942 East 19th Street 442-8635 (info@garibaldimeuc- Italian-American Women’s 8 East 69th Street Brooklyn, NY 11229 cimuseum.org) Center, Inc. New York, NY 10021 (718) 368-3993 (CarusoMuse- P.O. Box 656724 (212) 861-8480 [email protected]) Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Fresh Meadows, NY 11365 Botanical Gardens 718-805-1833 (iawcinc@yahoo. i-Italy (Italian/American Digi- Federation of Italian-American www.snug-harbor.org com). Contact: Jacqueline tal Project) Organizations of Brooklyn, Ltd. 1000 Richmond Terrace Gagliano: jbgagliano14@yahoo. www.i-italy.org (FIAO) Staten Island, NY 10301 com 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor www.fiaobrooklyn.org (718) 448 2500 Fax: (718) 815- New York, NY 10036 7403 – 18th Avenue 0198 ([email protected]) Italian Trade Commission (212) 642-2094 (editors@i-italy. Brooklyn, NY 11204 www.italtrade.com org) (718) 259-2828 (info@fiaobrook- 33 East 67th Street lyn.org) NASSAU New York, NY 10065 John D. Calandra Italian (212) 848-0300 (newyork@ American Institute, Queens Grand Lodge of New York, Or- newyork.ice.it) College/CUNY QUEENS der Sons of Italy in America www.qc.edu/calandra www.nysosia.org Italy-America Chamber of 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor Italian Language Inter-Cultur- 2101 Bellmore Avenue Commerce New York, NY 10036 al Alliance (ILICA) Bellmore, NY 11710 www.italchamber.org (212) 642-2094 (calandra@ www.ilica.org (516) 785-4623; Fax: 785-6742 730 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600 qc.edu) 27-28 Thompson Avenue, Suite New York, NY 10065 441, Long Island City, NY 11101 (212) 459-0044 (info@italcham- National Organization of (718) 392-2020 Fax: (718) 392- WESTCHESTER ber.org) Italian American Women 2020 ([email protected]) (NOIAW) Westchester Italian Cultural Italian Government Tourist www.noiaw.org Federation of Italian American Center Board 25 West 43rd Street, 10th Floor Organization of Queens, Inc. www.wiccny.org www.italiantourism.com New York, NY 10036 (FIAO) Generoso Pope Place 630 Fifth Avenue (212) 642-2003 (noiaw@noiaw. www.italianfederation.com Tuckahoe, NY 10707 New York, NY 10065 org) 29-21 21 AveNUE, Astoria, NY (914) 771-8700 ; Fax: (914) 771- (212) 245-5618 11105. (718) 204-2444 (Fiao@ 5900 ([email protected]) The Italian Academy for Ad- juno.com) Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, vanced Studies in America at New York University Columbia University Howard Beach Columbus Day NEW JERSEY www.casaitaliananyu.org www.italianacademy.columbia.edu Foundation, Inc. 24 West 12th Street Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam www.howardbeachcolumbusday. Coccia Institute for the Italian New York, NY 10011 Avenue, New York, NY 10027 com Experience in America (212) 998-8739 (casa.italiana@ (212) 854-2306 itacademy@ 101-42 99th Street, Ozone Park, www.chss.montclair.edu/cocci- nyu.edu) columbia.edu NY 11416. (718) 641-3469 (hb- ainstitute [email protected]) One Normal Avenue Columbus Citizens Foundation Dickson Hall, Suite 171 www.columbuscitizensfd.org Montclair, NJ 07043 8 East 69th Street (973) 655-4038; Fax: (973-655- New York, NY 10021 4050. (212) 249-9923 (ccf@columbus- citizens.org)

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The IHCM Theme Posters, 1976-2014

2014 Celebrating the Italian American Experience. Legends and Icons in Sports 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States 2012 Amerigo to America: Amerigo Vespucci 1452-1512 2011 150th Anniversary of the Unifi- cation of Italy 2010 Maria Montessori: An Internation- ally. Renowned Educator and Physician 2009 Galileo Galilei: Father of Modern Astronomy; Giuseppe Petrosino: Ital- ian American Crime Fighter 1860-1909 2008 Andrea Palladio: Architect for the Ages 1508-1580; Antonio Meucci: The True Inventor of the Telephone 1808-2008 2007 Giuseppe Garibaldi: Eroe dei Due Mondi/Hero of Two Worlds 1807-2007 2006 Celebrating the Italian Genius: The Leonardo DaVinci Legacy 2005 Giuseppe Mazzini: The Politi- cal Idealist of the Italian Struggle for Independence 2004 Amerigo Vespucci 2003 Focus on Italian Opera 2002 Constantino Brumidi: Artist of the United States Capitol 2001 Giuseppe Verdi: A Tribute to Italy’s Patriotic Composer 2000 Italy in the Year 2000: Italian Heritage and Cultural Roots at the Threshold of the New Millennium 1999 The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achieve- ment 1998 New York City at 100: Italian Americans Commemorate the Im- migrant Experience (Patria e famiglia) 1997 The Voyages of Giovanni Cabo- tto: 500th Anniversary 1996 Italy and its Regions (L’Italia delle Regioni) 1995 Guglielmo Marconi: Centennial of the Radio 1994 Italian Americans in Law: From Beccaria to Scalia 1993 The Legacy of Italy’s Artistic and Cultural Contributions to the World 1992 Cristoforo Colombo 500th An- niversary: The Legacy Lives On 1991 Italian Americans: The Legacy of Cristoforo Colombo 1990 William Paca: Signer of the Decla- ration of Independence, Jurist, 3 times Governor of the State of Maryland 1989 Italians Reaching Out: Antonio Meucci, inventor of the Telephone; Mother Cabrini, Missionary of the Im- migrants 1988 Lorenzo Da Ponte/Academia 1987 Year of the U.S. Constitution: Mazzei and the Italian Contribution 1986 Year of Lady Liberty 1985 Building America 1984 Year of the Etruscans 1983 Italian Culture Week 1982 Italian Culture Week 1981 Italian Festival of the Arts 1980 Italian Culture Week 1979 Italian Culture Week 1978 Italian Week, Board of Education of New York 1977 Italian Culture Week 1976 Italian Culture Week www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 69

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Ramassin, Bella di Garbana, conserved for consumption year Romagna. Given its distinct Tuscany’s Carmignano (known Pompìa, Porceddu, Valeggia, round by being transformed into aroma and the brittleness of the for good reason as “Carmignan sweets, pies, cakes, marmalades, fruit—which make it difficult to da’ fichi”) that didn’t have at Misso, Cocomerina--know candied fruit, syrups, ice cream sell commercially—Cocomerina least one fig tree in its portico or what these strange names and jellies. is very good for making jams and garden. Many varieties still exist stand for? They’re varieties La bella di Garbana (a small syrups. there. The best for making dried of fruit from the north and town in Piedmont) is a variety of Valleggia apricots are figs isDottato (a variety of white cherry. Bright red with a medium- unmistakable. They are known fruit that makes up about 90% of south of the bel paese that length stem, the cherry is very for their thin, lightly orange the figs grown in Carmignano). Slow Food has saved by crunchy and particularly good for skin studded with brown dots. After drying in the sun for four incorporating them into the preserving in alcohol. It is also Valleggia is also the name of the or five days, the figs are placed in excellent for making jams and as place that produces the largest a cool, dry place for 35-40 days, list of protected foods put a basic ingredient for producing quantity of them, in the province until a layer of sugar forms on the out by the “Presìdi” project. liqueurs. Combined with of Savoy in Liguria. Small in size, surface. cinnamon or cloves, it makes for its aroma and taste are far more There are no citrus trees on Italy’s an unusual but very interesting intense than other varieties on Adriatic coast, with one exception, by Dino Borri condiment for meat dishes. the market. Gargano in Puglia, where Ramassin, a small blue-violet There was never a house in citrus fruit grows year round: ●● Slow Food’s “Presìdi” is a ten- plum, is also cultivated in year-old project that safeguards Piedmont. The name comes from biodiversity and local and the dialectal word for the variety traditional cultivation practices, known as damson, itself a word which has led producers to adopt that refers to the Syrian city of clean and sustainable cultivation Damascus, where the plum was methods, and develop an ethical originally grown. The plum is market approach. You can find good eaten fresh but excellent out more about it from October dried, as a jam or cooked and 23 to 27 at the Salone del Gusto and preserved in glass jars for the Terra Madre, the international fair winter. for small agricultural producers Cocomerina: the affectionate, hosted by Slow Food every two storybook nickname suits this years in Turin. Below is a brief list small pear well. It is grown on of seasonal products that can be the Cesena Apennines in Emilia Fico Dottato www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 71 Dining In ➜ Taking Italy to your family table

Il Melangolo, a medium-small Purceddu d’Alcamo is a rustic Where to find THEM spotted fruit with a sweet and variety of Sicilian melon named sour taste; Il Biondo del Gargano, for its shape, which resembles Eataly which blossoms between April a piglet (purceddu in Sicilian). 200 5th Avenue and May yet remains sweet and The melons are one of the oldest ◗ www.eatalny.com succulent through September; and most important agricultural La Duretta, almost seedless products from Trapani, Sicily, and with a hard and crunchy pulp; the melon can be preserved year and il Femminello, the oldest round. variety of lemon in Italy. Fabulous And in Sicily, you can even marmalades, candied fruit findFragoline di bosco in the and limoncello are made with mountains. These small wild Gargano’s citrus fruit. It can also strawberries come from plants DiPalo’s be eaten fresh when in season. brought to Sicily by troops 200 Grand St. (at Mott St.) A very strange fruit, as large as returning from the Great War, ◗ www.dipaloselects.com a grapefruit—it can weigh up to who must have picked them 700 grams—Pompìa has been somewhere the Alps, and around for over two centuries. It is replanted them in the rich Sicilian exclusive to Sardinia. The rind of soil. The fruit is great for making Pompìa is used to make liqueurs, marmalades, syrups, ice cream and the white part underneath for and jellies. The dried leaves and Citarella candied fruit; the pulp and juice roots are used to make cleansing 2135 Broadway Agrumi del Gargano are too acidic for consumption. and medicinal infusions. ●● 1313 Third Avenue 424 Ave of the Americas ◗ www.citarella.com

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Coffee should be hot as hell, black as the devil, pure as an angel, and as sweet as love. “Il caffé deve essere caldo come l’inferno, nero come il diavolo, puro come un angelo visit un-chaperoned. We have e dolce come l’amore” kept that tradition for over 200 years.” With a twinkle in her (see translation inside). eye, Ms. Costa adds, “We have also kept the formula for bicerin a secret for those 200 years!” by Francine Segan to make iced coffee is shakerato. Italian Coffee Lingo ●● Espresso culture in Italy has Pour a shot of hot espresso and Il caffé deve essere caldo come deep roots. Coffee first appeared ice, mix it in a shaker, then used at the time for making l’inferno, nero come il diavolo, in Europe at the port of Livorno, strain it into a martini glass. hatbands. The secret to making puro come un angelo e dolce come Tuscany, a city that was also The espresso should be freshly a marocchino is to use a dose of l’amore — “Coffee should be home to Europe’s first coffee bar brewed to preserve the aroma froth equal to the amount of hot as hell, black as the devil, in the early 1600s. Italy serves and flavor. Espresso and ice can espresso and add a generous pure as an angel, and as sweet espresso in dozens of ways— be mixed in an electric layer of cocoa powder to as love.” In Naples you’ll often from short shots (caffé ristretto) mixer for a frothier divide the two layers. hear locals order un espresso con to “long,” from espresso with a frappé shakerato. My Bicerin is a decadently le tre C, with the three C’s. The touch of milk (caffé macchiato) to favorite is made by a delicious concoction C’s are code for comm cazz coce, a glass of milk with just a dash barista named Paolo consisting of a bottom an R-rated expression that refers of espresso (latte macchiato) to the at the Café Rivoire layer of thick hot to men’s anatomy and means in-between (caffélatte). in Florence. He lines chocolate topped “piping hot!” (and note that not Many Italians prefer their the glass with cocoa with a shot of just the coffee but the cup too espresso al vetro, served in a powder so that, when hot espresso and is served so hot that it literally glass, partly because it allows he pours in the frothy finished off with cool, burns your lips). ●● you to see the gorgeous dark iced coffee, the drink has softly whipped cream. brew and frothy, caramel-colored a lovely decoration. Bicerin, which means ‘small * Noted public speaker and food crema. glass’ in Italian, was invented historian Francine Segan is the One of Italy’s most popular ways Ways to enjoy espresso with at the Café Al Bicerin in Turin in author of several books and has a hint of chocolate in Italy the 1700s as an afternoon pick- made many TV appearances. In the Tuscan seaside town of me-up for its aristocratic female Recently, she started her collabora- tion with i-ItalyNY and i-ItalyTV. Tonfano espresso is served in patrons. Echoes of the place’s chocolate-edged mini wafer history persist in the Café’s all- cones. female employment policy, The marocchino was invented remarkably still enforced. in the 1930s in the town of Owner Maria Costa explains, Alessandria, in Piedmont, home “Back in the 1700s only to famed Italian hat makers. females were allowed to The drink is named after the work in Café Al Bicerin so rich brown Moroccan leather that its lady clientele could

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A favorite dish...... Paired with the right wine by Michele Scicolone by Charles Scicolone Chickpea Minestrone Sardinia’s Favorite Red A Hearty Soup for Supper Cannonau

● A big pot of soup simmer- l find it in NYC ing on the stove is a welcome Garnet Wines and Liquors 929 Follow Michele Follow Charles sight, especially as the sea- Lexington Avenue (212) 772-3211 sons change and the nights at i-Italy.org n Chambers Street Wines 148 at i-Italy.org begin to turn chilly. Chambers Street (212) 227-1434 n This minestrone, which is per- fect for a first course or main dish, is from my cook 2 minutes new book, The l Serves 6 more. Add Italian Vegetable 1 large onion, chopped n the chickpeas, Cookbook. Though 1 medium carrot, peeled broth and there are many and chopped n 1 celery rib, water. Bring to versions of mine- chopped n 1 small fennel a simmer and strone, I liked the bulb, trimmed and chopped cook 1 hour, fact that this one n 1 garlic clove, finely or until the contains sage and chopped n 1 tablespoon vegetables are fennel, which finely chopped fresh sage or very tender. gives it a lot of 1 teaspoon crumbled dried Mash some of flavor. Serve it sage n 2 tablespoons olive the chickpeas hot or at room oil n 3 tablespoons olive with the back temperature with oil n 2 tablespoons tomato of a spoon to a drizzle of extra paste n 2 cups cooked or thicken the virgin olive oil canned chickpeas, drained n soup. or freshly grated 3 cups chicken or vegetable When the soup www.cannonau.it Parmigiano Reg- broth n 3 cups water n is almost ready, giano. Salt and pepper to taste n 4 add the pasta ● Cannonau di Sardegna Rosso Cannonau is the principal grape ounces broken spaghetti, or and stir well. is a red wine from the Italian variety in the wine but other In a large pot, a small pasta such as tubetti Cook, stirring island of Sardinia. Rectangular recommended varieties can cook the onion, or small shells n Freshly occasionally, in shape, Sardinia is the be added. It can be produced carrot, celery, grated Pecorino Romano or until the pasta second largest island in the as a Rosso, which must be fennel, garlic and Parmigiano Reggiano n is tender. If Mediterranean. aged for at least 7 months and sage in the olive the soup is too 20% of all the wine produced have an alcoholic content of oil, stirring occasionally, until thick, stir in a little warm on Sardinia is Cannonau di at least 12,5%. To be labelled the vegetables are tender and water. Taste for seasoning. Sardegna. It is believed that a Riserva, the Rosso must be golden, about 10 minutes. Serve hot with freshly grated the Spanish introduced the aged for at least two years and Stir in the tomato paste and cheese. Cannonau grape variety to the have an alcohol content of at island and today it is the most least 13%. A Rosato, which has planted red grape variety. It a bright rose color, can also is interesting to note that in be produced, as well as two France, this same variety is dessert wines, Licoroso Secco known as Grenache and it was and Licoroso Dolce. also introduced there by the Cannonau Rosso is a robust, Spanish, who call the variety full bodied wine with deep Alicante. This is the general color and aromas and flavors of accepted theory, though some berries, hints of spice and high experts argue that it is native alcohol content. Sardinians to Sardinia. enjoy it with a wide variety Cannonau di Sardegna Rosso of foods including hearty wine can be produced all over soups, meats and cheese. It is Sardinia as a DOC but the a perfect match with a bowl of grapes grow best on the warm Chick Pea Minestrone Soup. sandy soils of the coastline and on the harsh rocky terrain For more about wine, go to of the mountainous interior. charlesscicolone.wordpress.com. For more information about cooking, go to http://www.MicheleScicolone.com

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We at De Cecco have always defended the importance of excellent pasta. Just coarse-grained semolina mixed with cold spring water, slowly dried and extruded with a bronze die: exactly as tradition would have it. We are proud to have kept this knowledge alive, which would otherwise have been lost over time. An ancient and skilful method that can be re-discovered every day in the unique taste of De Cecco pasta.

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l Serves 4 24 oz De Cecco bucatini n “Pastamania” 3 teaspoons freshly ground pepper n 12 oz aged pecorino romano, grated n ... and reserved with De Cecco. pasta water! n Recipes for All.

Our series of pasta video- LaVecchia (voice). It aired on NYC raditionally a Roman recipe, this dente”—or firm to the bite—for it recipes sponsored by De Life (Channel 25) last spring and apparently very simple dish is will have to cook in its own water was screened at this year’s Summer Talso popular in other regions for a little while longer. ● When the Cecco USA continues. Fancy Food Show in New York, where throughout central Italy. The name bucatini is ready, don’t strain it in Originally produced for our it met with immediate success. The “cheese and pepper” refers to the two a colander—just remove it with a TV show on NYC Life Channel 9 original videos for “Pastamania” basic ingredients of this simple yet large slotted spoon and add to the were then posted on i-Italy.org tasty dish. But there is a third “miracle saucepan. Mix for two minutes, 25, it was then extensively and sent out to our Facebook fans. ingredient” not mentioned in the name: letting it cook through in the water circulated on Facebook. Admittedly, we held a little secret reserved pasta water! and pepper. ● Turn off the flame, And the winner is... competition among the recipes, add pecorino and stir, letting it and the winner was... Bucatini ● When the water comes to a boil, melt. ● Add pasta water until you Cacio e Pepe! In just 10 days this add coarse salt and toss in bucatini, have reached desired consistency. ●● Good news for lovers of Italian video reached over 300,000 people, stirring occasionally so it doesn’t ● Bucatini cacio e pepe should cuisine. In this issue we continue was viewed by almost 15,000 and stick. ● Meanwhile, grind the be paired with a red wine, prefer- publication of “Pastamania,” the received about 500 comments. And, pepper over a deep pan and turn ably from the Roman region of video-recipe series produced by believe it or not, the most animated the heat up. ● Once your pasta is Lazio. Try Castelli Romani Rosso or i-ItalyTV for De Cecco USA. Filmed discussion thread revolved around almost ready, spoon out a 1/2 cup Circeo Rosso, or their better-known by our video-production team, the the use of garlic in Cacio e Pepe! of cooking water, add it to the pep- counterpart, Montepulciano, from series was made possible by the Nope, people, there’s no garlic in per and stir. Reserved pasta water nearby Abruzzo. collaboration of food writer Virginia Cacio e Pepe. Just cheese and pepper contains essential starch that can De Falco (recipes), chef Luca Stefani and reserved pasta water. And be used to adjust the consistency of This video- (acting), and actress Antoinette excellent pasta, of course! your sauce. It is actually a miracle recipe on your ingredient! ● Cook bucatini for about 12 minutes. For this specific smartphone ● ● ORECCHIETTE CON BROCCOLI recipe, the pasta must be very “al

l Serves 4 When cooking a pasta dish — pasta is 12 oz De Cecco orecchiette n 40 oz broccoli, cleaned n 4 essential! Whatever recipe you are up to, tablespoons De Cecco extra and whatever brand you use, check to make virgin olive oil n 2 cloves of sure the pasta you use is made in Italy with garlic n 2 anchovy filets n 4 oz. of pecorino or ricotta salata n durum wheat semolina. The best Italian pasta Salt to taste n Chili pepper as stays firm after cooking and has a rough porous desired n texture that the sauce sticks to better. You’ll recognize it by the touch.

recchiette is a classic type ● Pour water in a large pot and doesn’t burn. ● After 11 minutes, ful dish. Traditionally, you should of pasta from Apulia whose bring to a boil, then add coarse your broccoli and pasta will be use a red wine such as Cirò, a Oname literally means “little salt and toss in the orecchiette. ready. Remove it from the pot us- very tannic and full-bodied, fruity ears”, in reference to its shape. There ● Pour large chunks of broccoli ing a large slotted spoon and add wine from Calabria. But if you are countless variations on this in and cook with the pasta. The it to the saucepan. ● Cook in the want to go for a white wine, pick dish in different parts of the region: broccoli will flavor the water and pan with sauce for a few minutes, a strongly flavored wine such as sometimes broccoli rabe is prepared the orecchiette. ● Meanwhile, stirring thoroughly. ● Sprinkle Fiano, from Campania. with lard or sausage, other times brown two cloves of garlic over a with pecorino or ricotta salata with anchovies. Other times it’s low flame with extra virgin olive and continue stirring until it has This video- served plain with pecorino cheese. oil and 2 anchovy filets. ● Coarsely melted. ● Before serving, add chili recipe on your This one includes anchovies and chop anchovies and mix thor- pepper to taste. ● A number of pecorino (or ricotta salata) -- a real oughly. ● Remove garlic as soon southern Italian wines would pair smartphone treat! as it turns golden, making sure it perfectly with this robustly flavor-

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● ● FUSILLI ALLA CARBONARA CON CARCIOFI the artichoke hearts in water with lemon. ● Cook over a high flame for a few minutes, stirring l Serves 4 occasionally. ● Add salt and pep- 12 oz De Cecco fusilli n 2 per to taste. ● Meanwhile, beat artichokes n 1 lemon n 4 eggs in a bowl with pecorino. ● tablespoons De Cecco extra When the water comes to a boil, virgin olive oil n 3.5 oz guanciale n 2 eggs n 8 oz pecorino romano add coarse salt, toss in the fusilli n 2 teaspoons of freshly ground and cook for about 12 minutes, black pepper n stirring occasionally so it doesn’t stick ● When pasta is ready, remove it from the pot using a large slotted spoon and add it to the saucepan. ● Cook over a high flame for a minute or so, stirring. usilli alla carbonara con car- ● Cut the guanciale in little cubes ● Take off burner, add eggs, and ciofi is a variation on the better and pour into a large saucepan whisk quickly until eggs thicken Fknown “carbonara”, a very with a dash of extra virgin olive a little. ● Add pecorino romano popular traditional Roman pasta oil. Cook over a high flame until and pepper and stir again before dish commonly made with eggs crisp. Mind that ‘guanciale’ is not serving ● Pair with a dry red wine and bacon. Yet adding artichokes the same as bacon: It is an Italian with good acidity, essential for (carciofi) and replacing bacon with cured meat prepared from pork cutting through the spicy pork “guanciale” (or pork cheeks) makes jowl or cheeks, whereas bacon flavor. You may try a smooth The image of a peasant woman this dish even more Roman. It has is made from pork belly. ● Add Montepulciano, from nearby Ab- carrying sheaves of harvested wheat now become one of the most wide- the artichoke hearts to sauce- bruzzo, or a Chianti from Tuscany has adorned De Cecco packages for spread national and international pan. Before doing so, remove the if you are in the mood for a little over a century. Italian dishes. tough leaves and stems, and soak more spice. Never rinse pasta unless you are preparing a cold dish such as pasta salad. Rinsing would eliminate the starch in the water, a This video- recipe on your necessary element that helps the sauce stick better. Besides, rinsing smartphone would cool the pasta and prevent it from absorbing the sauce.

asparagus, remove stems and ● ● FARFALLE CON FUNGHI E ASPARAGI cut lengthwise into thin strips. ● Pasta is love. Pour extra virgin olive oil into a And pasta- l Serves 4 large saucepan and add the onion 24 oz De Cecco farfalle n first.● After a minute or so, add making is love- 24 oz asparagus n 6 oz fresh asparagus and stir until the onion making. Every step, mushrooms n 4 tablespoons De is golden. ● Once onion is ready, from threshing the Cecco extra virgin olive oil n add porcini. Cook for ten minutes, 1 onion n 2 oz Parmigiano n A adding salt and pepper to taste wheat to setting the bunch of basil n Salt to taste n and stirring thoroughly till well table, is the product mixed. ● When the water comes of loving, meticulous to a boil, add coarse salt, toss in the farfalle and cook for 12 min- attention to detail. utes. ● When it’s ready, remove At De Cecco they clean the pasta from the pot using a the grains one by one, large slotted spoon and add it to ho said Italian cuisine the saucepan. ● Cook over a high they just keep the A difference you can tell. has no vegetarian flame for a minute or so. ● While heart. They blend it De Cecco’s low temperature, slow Woptions? You can find stirring thoroughly, sprinkle with with cool spring water. drying process this all-vegetable dish just about fresh basil and parmesan. ● Far- evokes the anywhere in the boot. However, it falle con porcini e asparagi should Then pasta is bronze traditional sun- originally comes from central Italy be paired with a crisp, fresh dried method drawn and slow dried -- especially the valley of the Tiber Italian white such as Pinot Grigio for drying at low temperatures pasta, which river, between Umbria and Lazio from the northern region of Alto preserves the -- where you have so many woods to Adige. Or if you want to stay in the to preserve natural color search for mushrooms and aspara- region of origin, try a Grechetto or the natural taste of semolina gus. Italians make this dish with Orvieto from Umbria. (so it does not both rice and pasta. Here, of course, and color of semolina. dry to a darker we’re going with pasta. This video- The pasta is rough to yellow-brown color) and helps avoid pasta recipe on your the touch and porous, ● Clean thoroughly and slice breakage. the fresh porcini mushrooms. ● smartphone allowing the sauce Finely dice the onion. ● Take the to cling to it. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 77 Dining Out Restaurants+Pizzerias+Wine Bars

●● EATING ITALIAN NEIGHBORHOOD BY NEIGHBORHOOD Sandwich Addiction in the Village

You’d think that a sandwich is quintessentially American. But Italians have been making Photo by Iwona Adamczyk by Iwona Photo panini forever. Forget hamburger meat. Panini are made with cured meats , Mario Pesce mozzarella, endless Owner of La Panineria varieties of cheeses Italiana and vegetables…

special for the American clientele, who really love it! La Panineria Italiana also does catering and delivery through Located at 1 West 8th Street in Neapolitan with a passion for food And we put a lot of passion into Seamless. And the great thing the heart of the Greenwich who moved to New York to start what we do,” says Pesce. is that you can also make your Village, La Panineria Italiana his own business with his brother own sandwich with your favorite Giuseppe and his girlfriend Olga. Their strong suit ingredients and have it delivered is the perfect place to have the The first thing that strikes you A quick glance at the menu is to your home. most delicious Italian walking into La Panineria is that enough to make your mouth “The most rich and expensive sandwich—and much more. it is like entering a typical Italian water: sandwiches, salads, sandwich a client ordered,” says Salumeria. The space is not very bruschette, cured meats, cheeses Mario, “was a baguette with big but it is very cozy. A large and delicious pastries. mortadella, salame, spicy salame, by Giulia Madron wood counter faces the street and Their strong suit? The Parma and prosciutto crudo di parma, another square table sits in the the Paestum sandwich. parmigiano reggiano, provolone, ●● La Panineria Italiana is fast middle. Beautiful vintage posters “The Parma sandwich, with tomato, lettuce, and Italian black becoming a popular destination of Italian ads cover the walls, prosciutto crudo di parma and truffle oil…$21!” for lovers of Italian food. adding a special touch to the robiola fresh soft cheese, besides Thanks to its exquisite Italian Specializing in sandwiches, La welcoming atmosphere. being delicious, holds a special products, La Panineria has already Panineria offers a large variety of All the sandwiches that you place in my heart. Indeed I become very popular. When I homemade Panini that will make eat at La Panineria Italiana are was eating it when I decided to asked Mario about his future you forget for a moment that you prepared on the spot with fresh, open La Panineria in New York,” plans to open another Panineria are in a country that isn’t Italy. high quality Italian products, just says Mario. “Also the Paestum Italiana in the Big Apple, he said, The thing Italians living abroad like in a real Italian salumeria. sandwich, with prosciutto crudo “Well, the amazing thing about miss most is Italian food, of The bread comes from the di parma, buffalo mozzarella New York is that if you use a little course. Fortunately, in New York very best bakeries in the city and olive oil, means a lot to me bit of your head and a little bit of there are some places that are just while cured meats and cheeses because Paestum is a beautiful your heart, you can do things that heaven for Italian food lovers. One are provided by Pesce’s uncle town in Campania where I grew you could not do anywhere else of these is La Panineria Italiana, a Mimmo Magliulo, owner of the up and spent my childhood.” in the whole world.” ●● lovely sandwich shop in the heart Chelsea Market Italian food For its most demanding of Greenwich Village. mecca Buon Italia. clients, La Panineria created “What differentiates us is that also 3 special sandwiches: A dream come true here in New York we only use Supermario, Olga and Peppe. La Panineria Only 4 months young, La products of the highest quality. The Supermario (prosciutto crudi on i-Italy|TV Panineria was a dream come true We prepare our sandwiches as if di Parma, mortadella, salame for owner Mario Pesce, a young we were preparing them at home. and mozzarella!) was cooked up

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rubbed with a clove of garlic, drizzled with the best olive oil, and sprinkled DiningDining OutOut SpecialSpecial with coarse sea salt. The Best Antipasti to Start Your Meal East Village The best way to start a meal is with a savory appetizer, or antipasto (literally, pre-meal). But if you’re the one cooking, choose carefully. Whatever you serve Porsena 21 East 7th Street should let the crowd know that something special’s in store. Given the chance %(212) 228-4923 to introduce their cuisine with unusual, gorgeously presented specialties, ◗ www.porsena.com chefs tend to get creative when it comes to appetizers. Below are just some cuisine pasta-centric of the ways they get their customers coming back for more. atmosphere casual price $$

● Although it’s all about the pasta at Chef Sara Jenkins’ contemporary trattoria, there are also plenty of ap- petizers and entrées to be savored. Seafood lovers can enjoy a nice plate of mussels seasoned with saf- fron and white wine and served with toasted bread. This is the ideal dish to “fare la scarpetta,” i.e., dipping your bread into the sauce or, as in this case, the broth. For some Tus- can-inspired flare, enjoy brandied chicken liver pate on grilled bread served with house made pickles. The spread has a rich, mellow flavor and a silky-smooth texture that is out of this world.

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Antipasto has a longstanding tradition in Italy and antipasto al buffet is a must in many restaurants throughout the country. cuisine tuscan atmosphere cozy price $$ Upper zucchini parmigiana (as opposed Midtown to traditional eggplant parm) with ● Lavagna is a cozy Italian spot East Side West smoked mozzarella, fresh tomato that makes you feel right at home. sauce and basil. Whether that’s due to the ambiance Alloro Il Gattopardo or the delicious food that feels home- 307 East 77th Street 13-15 West 54th Street made is anyone’s guess. Some of the % (212) 535-2866 % (212) 246-0412 West Village restaurant’s delectables, pizzette, are ◗ www.alloronyc.com ◗ www.ilgattopardonyc.com Perla cooked in a wood-burning oven and can be shared at the beginning of a cuisine creative cuisine neapolitan 24 Minetta Lane atmosphere elegant atmosphere sophisticated (212) 933-1824 meal. For a different starter try the price $$$ % price $$$ ◗ www.perlanyc.com Tuscan kale Caesar, made with thinly sliced kale, parmesan and home- ● ‘Alloro’ is Italian for laurel (as in lau- ● Il Gattopardo has been keeping the cuisine creative made croutons. This leafy green is a atmosphere cozy rel bay leaves). The restaurant owes tradition of Neapolitan cuisine alive nutritional powerhouse, packed with price $S$ its name to chef and owner Salvatore since it opened back in 2001. Execu- calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C, vita- Corea’s favorite perennial, which he tive Chef Vito Gnazzo has successful- ● This West Village “pearl” is the min K, potassium, iron, manganese, incorporates into dishes no matter ly adapted traditional dishes to con- place to go for a rustic meal. Chef and phosphorus. Another option is the season. The menu is testament to temporary tastes, earning him a loyal Michael Toscano, used to run the carciofo al forno, wood-oven roasted Salvatore’s love for experimentation. upscale clientele. A must have appe- kitchen at Eataly’s meat restaurant artichoke heart with white bean pu- In fact, one section of the menu is de- tizer is buffalo mozzarella in carrozza, Manzo and is an alumn of the great ree and cremini mushrooms. voted to “The Adventurist,” and the i.e., “mozzarella in a carriage.” This Mario Batali. Toscano whips up a se- appetizers include: gelato fritto (buffa- Neapolitan dish consists of deep- lection of appetizers that will keep lo-mozzarella fried gelato served with fried mozzarella cheese wrapped you going back. Octopus is served tomato gazpacho); cappuccino (mus- in battered bread and topped with with oven dried tomatoes, eggplant Download our sel & green pea cappuccino); and tuna a light anchovy sauce. The anchovy and fett’unta. Fett’unta, short for iPhone app tartare with candied tomatoes, capers, sauce is a grace note concocted by fetta unta, or oily slice, comes from arugula sauce and pecorino chips. Chef Gnazzo, who also prepares the Tuscany, and is simply grilled bread www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 79 Dining Out ➜ Restaurants+Pizzerias+Wine Bars

tures seasonal specials that change tini, with toppings that frequently on the wall. First things first: order Gramercy on a daily basis. One staple, however, change. Over the summer they can some cold cuts, such as finocchiona Maialino never ceases to be served: cichetti, a be enjoyed with sheep’s milk ricot- (fennel salami), bresaola (air-dried 2 Lexington Avenue Venetian sampling for two. The tiny ta, sea salt and herbs and/or foie beef) and lardo (sliced lard), and be % (212) 777-2410 bowls carry delicious stuffed fried Gras with fig conserva on brioche. sure to get some grilled bread and ◗ www.maialinonyc.com olives, eggplant al funghetto, stewed There are only a few classic anti- tigelle modenese to go with. Tigelle are squid, beans and onion, cod mousse, pasti. Of note are the steak tartara rounds of bread, about the size of an cuisine modern atmosphere classy shrimp cakes, sardines in “saor” (fried piemontese, made with wagyu beef, English muffin, crisp on the outside price $$$$ fresh sardine fillets marinated in soft- hazelnuts and black truffles; and and soft on the inside. They are ly cooked white onions), octopus with the steamed mussels prepared with the quintessence of Modena. Once ● This Danny Meyer hotspot has it celery, white baits in ceviche, meat- saffron, white wine and fregola, a baked, they are sliced in two and all: a great location, great food, great balls and chicken liver pâté served type of pasta from Sardinia that filled with cold cuts and cheeses. If service and must-have staples. Sim- with white and yellow grilled polenta. looks like couscous. you prefer fish, try the baccalà, salt plicity and freshness characterize cod croquettes with a seasonal veg- Maialino’s appetizers. Verdure crude etable salad and mint cream. is a dish of raw vegetables (carrots, peppers, celery and whatever else is in season) served with bagna cauda, Nolita a warm dip from the region of Pied- Peasant mont made with garlic, anchovies, 194 Elizabeth Street olive oil and butter. A tip on how to %(212) 965-9511 eat it: dip the veggies into the sauce ◗ www.peasantnyc.com while holding a slice of bread under- neath to catch the drippings. Once cuisine traditional atmosphere rustic the bread soaks up the sauce, eat price $$$ that too. An alternative? Prosciutto and mozzarella never fails to satisfy! ● The perfect location for dinner or drinks, this rustic yet sophisticated restaurant serves wood-fired Italian Chelsea dishes & a nice selection of wines. Del Posto Most of the appetizers feature sea- food, although there are also a few 85 10th Avenue %(212) 497-8090 vegetarian options. Insalata di tonno ◗ www.delposto.com is made with Sicilian tuna, cannel- lini beans and fennel. Sicily is a fish- cuisine refined lover’s paradise, with everything atmosphere glam from sardines to tuna to octopus. At price $$SS Peasant you can enjoy them all. In- ● Luxurious Del Posto is the place for deed, the appetizers includes polpi in a special occasion. Appetizers include purgatorio, baby octopus served with a Northern Italian classic that is sim- chili peppers; sarde al forno, baked ply to die for: vitello tonnato, sliced veal sardines seasoned with breadcrumbs topped with a creamy, mayonnaise- and olive oil; and seppie in terracotta, like tuna sauce. Usually the dish is cuttlefish with tomatoes in white served cold or at room temperature wine sauce. and that makes it a classic summer specialty. At Del Posto they serve vitel- lo tonnato with olive crostone, capers, Queens lime & lemon basil. For something Caprese (mozzarella, tomato, and basil) is a typical Neapolitan antipasto. Long Island more reminiscent of the Calabrese coast, try the diver scallop carpaccio, City served with ‘nduja—a spicy, spread- Tribeca Soho able pork sausage—ramps, maitake Testaccio mushrooms & asparagus. Locanda Verde Osteria Morini 47-30 Vernon Boulevard 377 Greenwich Street 218 Lafayette Street %(718) 937-2900 %(212) 925-3797 %(212) 965-8777 ◗ www.testacciony.com ◗ www.locandaverdenyc.com ◗ www.osteriamorini.com Le Zie 2000 cuisine roman cuisine rustic cuisine emilia romagna atmosphere romantic 172 7th Avenue atmosphere lively atmosphere casual price $$ %(212) 206-8686 price $$$ price $$$ ◗ www.lezie.com ● Testaccio is named after a neigh- cuisine venetian ● Casually stylish and designed to ● Chef Michael White’s casual Ital- borhood in Rome known for several of atmosphere casual foster a good time while enjoying ian restaurant located in downtown Rome’s best restaurants. In its Queens price $$ great food this neighborhood tav- SoHo is reminiscent of a 1700s-era incarnation, Chef Matthew Capone ● This Venetian trattoria that has ern serves an array of specialties Italian farmhouse; its hefty tables serves up contemporary Roman and been doing business in the heart of prepared by Chef Andrew Carmel- are covered with paper tablecloths, traditional Italian cuisine, like crudo Chelsea since 1999. The menu fea- lini. The place is known for its cros- and copper pots and farm tools hang d’agnello con carciofi, thinly sliced lamb

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◗ www.fragoleny.com wrapped around artichoke hearts scana, tripe stewed in white wine, with in food from Romagna and is prepared served with arugula salad and shaved soffritto (a lightly fried mixture of herbs in a way that feels genuinely authen- cuisine homemade pecorino romano cheese. And that’s and vegetables, the essence of many tic. The menu offers a nice selection of atmosphere cozy not the only artichoke dish! The menu Italian specialties) and tomatoes. homemade pastas, salads, meat and price $$ also features the classic carciofo alla gi- Tripe, the lining of the cow’s stomach, fish dishes, desserts, and of course udea, the best-known dish of Roman is a common dish in some Italian re- appetizers as well. Among our favor- ● Fragole Ristorante is a neighbor- Jewish cuisine, Roman artichokes gions, where it regularly appears on ites are carciofi con polenta, pan-fried hood spot whose mission is to serve deep-fried in olive oil and eaten extra the menus of elegant restaurants spe- pistachio crusted artichokes with homemade dishes made with the crispy. At Testaccio they are served cializing in traditional cuisine. If you’re corn meal, goat cheese and black ol- freshest and most delicious ingre- with a Black olive tapenade. not feeling traditional, and tripe is not ives; and gamberi con farro, sautéed dients. Everything is made in-house your bag, try the healthy farro salad, a shrimp with spelt, tomato concasse every day. Meat lovers should dig into warm spelt salad with roasted squash, and pesto basil oil. Il Passatore is the carpaccio classico, beef carpaccio Brooklyn cauliflower, red onion, baby spinach, known for its piadine, a thin flatbread with arugula, shaved parmesan and Park Slope hazelnuts and goat cheese in a brown from the Romagna region made with a lemon-caper dressing. Carpaccio is butter sherry vinaigrette. white flour, lard or olive oil, salt and the international name for a dish of Trattoria Al di la water. Served hot, at Il Passatore they thinly sliced raw meat or fish, lightly 248 5th Avenue stuff the piadine with prosciutto, seasoned with lemon or vinegar and %(718) 783-4565 Brooklyn mozzarella & arugula, or provolone, olive oil, salt and pepper, and topped ◗ www.aldilatrattoria.com Bushwick spicy soppressata and tomatoes. with shaved parmesan cheese. For some variety, try the crostini misti, cuisine organinc atmosphere trendy Il Passatore goat cheese & avocado and chicken price $$ 14 Bushwick Avenue Brooklyn liver pate on grilled pugliese bread. %(718) 963-3100 ● This Northern Italian Brooklyn trat- ◗ www.ilpassatorebrooklyn.com Carroll toria makes a great effort to respon- cuisine classic Gardens sibly source ingredients from local atmosphere romantic Download our sustainable farmers. If you are in the price $$ Fragole Ristorante iPhone app mood for a traditional specialty, the 394 Court Street appetizer section features trippa alla to- ● This tiny romantic spot specializes %(718) 522-7133

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● ● an OLD MEDITERRANEAN craft in NEW YORK The Cameo Revolution

Amedeo Scognamiglio. I wanted to Left: some of his splendid cameos. revolutionize the world of cameos innovators in the field, so much so that in 2007 TIME magazine that I saw as increas- included us in the list of the 100 ingly static, tied to most influential designers in the Amedeo Scognamiglio’s Greco, just happens to be where the past, immobile. world,” says Amedeo. captivating and provocative Amedeo Scognamiglio grew up. That was a time of extensive I wanted to mix this experimentation as Amedeo felt cameos have enchanted Family Business ancient Italian tradi- the urge to present the world women all over the world, “I was only 15 years old when tion with the fashion, with a new conception of the I took my first steps towards cameo. “I wanted to revolutionize many celebrities included. trends, and almost Here is Amedeo’s artistic the obscure secrets of the art the world of cameos that I saw with my father. Since 1857 futuristic energy of as increasingly static, tied to the journey, which all began the Scognamiglio family has New York City. past, immobile. I wanted to mix with an ancient family run and operated a company this ancient Italian tradition with tradition in Torre del Greco. manufacturing corals and cameos. the fashion, trends, and almost It was the most important And the master engravers had no futuristic energy that only New cameo producer in the world. intention of teaching the secrets York City can offer!” So, in October by Mila Tenaglia It’s still around today, with my of the art, which had been passed 2006, he opened Amedeo in the father Michele, fifth generation.” down over centuries from father City. The pieces were a bit crazy, ●● There is a beautiful little store Amedeo’s first memories include to son, to their boss’ son. But his different, punk. “They were sold on New York’s Upper East Side the smell of coral, the sight of father believed in him and thanks exclusively in my store. And it was called Amedeo. Entering it is thousands of shells, the sound to his support in a few years he an immediate success! Later we like entering an ancient temple of the tools in the traditional became a young ‘master engraver.’ opened stores in Dallas, Houston, full of beautiful treasures from workshop. Although he was a At only 19 his cameos were being and Bal Harbour. This new, the past. Not only do they have typical middle-class Italian student sold in Japan as high-end jewelry. fashion-friendly style was perfect classic cameos, but also bracelets, and studied accordingly: “I went “They were classic cameos, for American customers. Italians earrings and rings with symbols of to a classics high school and in the neo-classical tradition are more conservative, they are apes, monkeys, skulls, letters and majored in Law at the University dear to our cultural patrimony: somewhat afraid of innovation. crowns. of Napoli. However, having Roman matrons, goddesses, and I, instead, have always admired Cameos have as much artistic grown up in a family that was so mythological and neo-romantic innovators.” merit as they do fashion cred. artisanal, I spent my childhood scenes.” And this winter will bring yet They represent stories of gods and and adolescence surrounded by something new. “We’re working men, fears to overcome, magic engravers: my mom designing New York & World Success hard to reopen the Amedeo rituals, medical arts and talismans. cameos and jewelry, my father The New York adventure began in store in New York with a more The art of making cameos has running the company and the 2001 when Amedeo, with friend appropriate contemporary look to been passed down for centuries artisans themselves. “ and partner Roberto Faraone match the collection. At the same in the Mediterranean, and its At around 15 he decided he Mennella, was consumed with the time, we’ll be opening the new history includes a chapter on an wanted to learn the art of creation of the high-end jewelry Faraone Mennella boutique. All of ancient Neapolitan fishing village engraving cameos. Everybody in brand Faraone Mennella by RFMAS our stores are designed by Roberto that became the hotbed of cameo the family was against it. His mom (the acronym combines both Faraone Mennella, whose first production. The village, Torre del thought it was just a passing fancy. men’s initials) “We really were love is architecture.” ●● www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 83 Ideas ➜ Style

1 Personal Shopper Italian Citizens of the World

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This fall and winter the runways will be inundated with a wave of natural looks. Fashionable men and women will be sporting earthy colors with a dash of blue, salmon and yellow pastels. Citizens of the world, these men and women are unafraid to mine the Italian fashion of the ‘50s and spiff it up with a modern touch. Not a detail is too small for the “Made in Italy” brand, ever attentive to the particulars and renowned the world over for the quality of its fabrics and leather.

❝1❞ natural dyes, with their endless Impeccable Elegance shades of green and blue, are Canali paired with old-rose, pale pink 625 Madison Avenue and sky blues, colors reminis- ◗ www.canali.com cent of the Linderhof Palace, with subtle nuances drawn ● Canali’s 2014-15 fall/winter collec- from the extraordinarily rich tion features fine, extra soft fabrics Italian tradition and a fabulous made by hand but fitting for the fash- touch of the oriental strain of ionista with modern and cutting edge the maritime Republic. tastes. For the cultured, curious man with a dash of irony and daring, there are suits as well as jackets and trou- ❝2❞ sers with blazers that are never too Metropolitan threadbare and cigarette pants that Touches show off your high-laced, modestly Missoni pointed boots. The colors have the 1009 Madison Avenue ◗ flare of the Venetian lagoon. Canali’s www.missoni.com ● Missoni’s fall/winter collection 3 specializes in comfortable plus sizes for the city-dweller. Soft, fleecy knit fabrics fit your body, accentuate your sensuality, and free you up to wriggle around. Look no further for the ideal daytime outfit: a short windbreaker with a zigzag print hoodie in cream, green and yellow; a wool-knit polo; comfy wool jogging pants; and a nappa leather blue plexi clutch. The combination of materials will trans- form you into a picture of contem- poraneity.

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● Quality products and pol- ished image have sealed Naracamicie’s reputation as an elegant, refined brand. Expect fine materials and high-quality cottons, even for the simplest items, like men’s white button-down shirts spiffed up with a violet inside collar. Slim fit models are ideal whether you’re sporting a suit or going casual in jeans. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 85 Ideas ❱❱ Bookshelf italIAN readS AND listenS

● ● ELIOT CONTE is back A Shocking and Vital Story of Life

One of the most powerful “There was a time, more than literary scholars in the field fifty years ago, when all the back yards of Mary Street bloomed continues his incursion into with cultivated plenty, especially mystery writing with this those on the 1300 block, where The Dog Killer of Utica second installment in the Conte and the Morenos lived, Frank Letricchia but many of the children of the Melville House series featuring detective original Mary Street immigrant ➤ pages 240 Eliot Conte. But there’s more Italians, not to mention the ➤ $ 15.95 to this novel than solving grandchildren, had no time for gardens and grapevines, as they the mystery of murders. worked assiduously on their day, Eliot slips back into his old professional basketball player. American lives and dreamed self-destructive ways, driving The smell of coffee too long by Fred Gardaphe of what they called freedom, in everyone out of his life except for roasted. Toma’s—a token of the California, while all gardens, all the Mexican boy next door, who East Utica that was, where he ●● When Frank Lentricchia, grapevines, disappeared,” but all reminds Eliot that he was not a discovered two months ago that once known as one of the most that has changed. good father and who gives him it was possible, however briefly, powerful literary scholars in Having returned to teach a shot at redemption. But not to lay by his troubles.” the field, turned his attention to American literature at the local before he solves the mystery that When immigrants move in next writing fiction, he plied all the college, Conte is now focused has taken hold of Utica. door, and teach Eliot how to turn tools of the critical trade, from on getting his body into shape Lentricchia’s gutsy and his backyard into a dream garden, modernism to postmodernism through a grueling exercise sometimes-gory scenes are a second mystery is built upon and beyond, to tell his stories. routine, as well as his mind, brilliantly composed. On a something that reaches deep into The body of Lentricchia’s earlier through an ongoing obsession tightrope balance of suspense Conte’s past. With Conte’s new critical work can be read as an with Herman Melville. He still and everyday reality, you never garden come new questions. Can attempt to create a space for the struggles with the demons that know what’s going to happen these transplants from Mexico development of his fiction. In the drove him to drink and continue next, and this keeps the narrative get along with their stubborn, process, he’s written dynamic to drive him to distraction. Yet alive. Conte is no mastermind opinionated, often unfeeling work in a number of genres. Most he is succeeding fairly well, until like Sherlock Holmes; he’s neighbor? The bridge between the recently he has made a foray into the radio reports that his best just your average lout (edgier houses may be the garden that has mystery writing. friend is lying in a hospital in than Colombo) whose keen taken over both yards, but the life grave condition from gunshot interpretative skills, honed by of that bridge is the neighbors’ boy, Second installment wounds. literary studies, enables him to Angel, who becomes the son that His latest publication The Dog Conte thinks he knows who the establish motives before all the Eliot never had and the accomplice Killers of Utica is the second shooter is, but when his liquor evidence turns up. he so desperately needs to solve installment in his detective storeowner gets it next, and the crime. series. Although you don’t need several local dogs and people More than just solving There are plenty of other twists to have read the first installment, close to him are attacked, doubt mistery too. One of Eliot’s students, a The Accidental Pallbearer, if you creeps in. So Conte is driven back There’s more to this novel than Bosnian Muslim, gets himself have, rest assured you’re in for to his profession as a private solving the mystery of murders. into trouble with Homeland more of the same thrills and investigator. The demons begin Lentricchia establishes a sense Security, and a local radio star chills. The Dog Killer of Utica picks to reappear as the body toll of of place in language that makes reveals a surprising secret. up right where Pallbearer left off. innocents and the number of this a literary mystery, as in Eliot chases down answers Eliot Conte, now in his late 50s, possible suspects pile higher this description of a local diner: only to find out that he doesn’t is living with Catherine Cruz, than winter snow. “What pleases Conte about know everything, and these the Utica detective he met on Eliot’s past is riddled with bouts Toma’s is its seamlessly drab developments keep The Dog an earlier case, in a bungalow of rage and vengefulness, leading appearance. The weak light. Killer of Utica from becoming inherited from his late father’s him to commit violent vigilante The crowded space. A ceiling a run-of-the-mill mystery, estate. Once upon a time Utica acts that all become the building that would give some but not turning it into a shocking and was home to Italian immigrants: blocks of this mystery. With each a great deal of clearance to a vital story of life.

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● ● CONVERSATION WITH ‘pleasure activist’ FRED PLOTKIN, an italian new yorker Exploring Italy Beyond the Traditional Tourist Experience

Fred Plotkin’s guide is a If you will Practical advice. Each area has must-have for all lovers of travel in Italy specialties, so look for them on Italian food and culture. The with this book, the menu. Let’s talk about a city I like: Ferrara. Ferrara is in Emilia author lures readers whether in print or Romagna, just a few kilometers through the nation’s many electronic form, I north-northeast of Bologna. regions, including the Bologna is the city everybody thank you for that talks about when thinking of islands of Sicily and choice. I have this region, but there are many Sardinia, and more than 500 personally seen and more realities, and Ferrara is cities, towns and hidden tasted everything one of them. A specialty here is villages, inviting them to Salama (not salame) da sugo, an described in these intensely flavored and strongly experience not just the pages. You will spiced sausage made with coppa gastronomy but also the discover an Italy that di collo (pork neck), pancetta (pork history and culture of each belly), lardo di gola (neck fat), is not pre-packaged fegato (liver), and lingua (tongue). place, in order to get the Italy for the Gourmet for tourists.You will The sausage is commonly whole picture. served sliced on a bed of mashed Traveler find the flavors and Fred Plotkin potatoes. If you’re a vegetarian, Kile Books timeless wisdom that try cappellacci con zucca, pumpkin by Natasha Lardera ravioli served with a butter and ➤ pages 736 are inherent in Italian ➤ $ 19.00 (paperback) sage sauce...Meat lovers can ●● Fred Plotkin’s Italy for the food and wine enjoy them too with a meat Gourmet Traveler is a must-have Fred Plotkin tradition. A Milanese ragout. Once in Ferrara visitors for all lovers of Italian food friend, discussing should also spend some time and culture. As the cover of the away from the dinner table. A book says, this thick volume opera, said to me must-see is the Museum of the (it weighs 2.3 pounds!), now “tradition is Risorgimento and Resistenza, available in e-book edition innovation that was a place that chronicles the as well, covers “all of Italy... participation of the local patriots restaurants, trattorias, food fairs, done exceedingly in the epic deed of the Italian festivals, bakeries, coffee bars, well.” There is Risorgimento (the 19th-century wine bars, bookstores, gourmet movement for Italian unification shops, markets, vineyards, farms, nothing wrong with that culminated in the wineries, olive oil producers, learning, honoring, establishment of the Kingdom cooking schools... and much and building on of Italy in 1861). I believe that a more.” person should not just focus on “Italy for the Gourmet Traveler tradition.This is what the gastronomy of a place but was first published in 1996 and many Italians do in understand its larger culture in is now in its sixth edition,” says their food and wine. order to experience it fully.” Plotkin, a frequent contributor Italy for the Gourmet Traveler to i-Italy. “It has gone through entices readers to experience an extensive revision process. of one dish only. In northern regions, including the islands new places. As Plotkin puts it: The way Italian people eat now Italy people have Insalatone, of Sicily and Sardinia, and into “If you are in Lombardy, don’t is different from decades ago, so large American-style salads. In more than 500 cities, towns and spend all your time in Milan. Go the material had to be updated. the past salad was eaten after hidden villages. to Mantua. If you are in Liguria, Some examples? Globalization the main course, but now it has “I take readers by the hand and there is not only Genoa but also and the economic crisis have become the main course for guide them through my favorite San Remo. Check out Martina influenced the way Italians dine. many. land,” says Plotkin, “a land which Franca in Apulia, Sulmona in People do not take long lunch Fred Plotkin presents thousands is diverse in terrain, history, and Abruzzo or Siracusa in Sicily. breaks as they used to, there is of interesting facts in these tradition. I like to give readers Each place has people who no time to spend hours at the pages and takes us beyond the who are traveling through make world-famous regional table. So lunch has become a traditional tourist experience Italy a chance to discover its specialties and a unique local quick meal, mostly it consists through the nation’s many distinctive foods and wines. history that makes it come alive.” www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 87 Ideas ➜ Bookshelf

A Pimp’s Notes Giorgio Faletti Swimming to Elba Farrar, Straus and Giroux Silvia Avallone Penguin Books ➤ pages 336 ➤ $ 14.40 Futurist Music The first international avant-garde ➤ pages 320 ➤ $ 14.40 BOOK ● Milan. BOOK ● The story 1978. Politician of the friendship Aldo Moro has just Musica Futurista ● If you love the Futurist avant-garde between Anna been kidnapped by Daniele Lombardi and music, let yourself get swept up and Francesca, the Red Brigades. Mudima Edizioni Musicali by the sonic vibrations of pianist, two fourteen The upper class (a set of 8 CDs) composer and visual artist Daniele years old who ➤ continues to lead € 30.00 Lombardi. The Florentine pianist gar- have become the good life: din- nered international fame for pioneer- very popular on ing at luxury res- ing a personal and unique musical vision the beaches of taurants, frequenting nightclubs. The that combines sounds, lights and action. their hometown, cynical Bravo makes a living off the Over the course of his artistic career, he has thanks to their newly acquired curves lifestyles of the wealthy and de- devoted a lot of energy to the musical side and skimpy bathing suits. But when praved. But when a mysterious wom- of the most important avant-garde move- their friendship staggers, they will take an named Carla enters his life, he ment of the 20th century. And like the Fu- different paths, only to reconnect later, finds himself hunted by the police, the turists, Lombardi practices having learned that the “glamorous” mob and the Red Brigades. It’s a love various forms of expres- world of adults can be banal and even story that turns into a real nightmare! sion, including painting, dehumanizing. music and video art. La Dolce Via No listener can walk away The Venetian Bargain Charles Trau untouched from a show Marina Fiorato Damiani driven by such overwhelm- St. Martin’s Griffin ➤ ➤ ➤ ➤ pages 112 $ 35.81 ing creative energy. The pages 416 $ 12.71 lighting effects and interac- BOOK ● I n tive systems always fascinate BOOK ● In 1576, this amazing audiences. Lombardi’s inter- five years after collection of est in music has also led him the defeat of the photographs, to write several books, including Il suono Ottoman Empire, Traub cap- veloce: Futurismo e futurismi in musica a ship arrives tures the (Fast Sound: Futurism and Futurisms in in Venice carry- color and Music). Last summer the music label Mudima Edizioni Musicali produced ing the bubonic spontaneity of Italian life, taking Musica Futurista, a box set of 8 CDs. The music is a mix of spoken word, plague. Aboard us back to the everyday life of the sounds and noise—elements dear to Futurism. It embodies the personal ship is Feyra, a past. This is the first comprehen- and artistic research that Daniele Lombardi has conducted over the years, young doctor escaping from her future sive collection of pictures taken by a cohesion of action and sound produced by the energy of thought. And as the Sultan’s concubine whose medi- the photographer during his several that energy is visualized as a metaphor for space. cal knowledge will keep her alive. To trips to Italy in the 1980s. Ameri- The CDs were advertised by the Guggenheim Museum in New York, save Venice, the Doge asks the architect can art critic Max Kozloff and Italian site of maestro Lombardi’s recent concert, “FuturisMusic.” Wearing a Andrea Palladio to build a church as an poet Luigi Ballerini also contribute futurist waistcoat and a charming white moustache, the maestro once offering to God. But Palladio is sick and to the collection. again enchanted audiences. The concert was just one of many events will require the assistance of Dr. Anni- surrounding the exhibit “Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the bale Cason. The Story of My Purity Universe,” which ended recently and was sponsored in part by Lavazza. Francesco Pacifico The Other Language Farrar, Straus and Giroux Francesca Marciano ➤ pages 304 ➤ $ 11.25 Pantheon ➤ pages 304 ➤ $ 15.78 BOOK ● Thirty- year-old Piero BOOK ● Hailed Rosini just de- by the New York cided to dedicate Times as “a natu- his life to religion. ral-born storytell- He has moved to er,” Francesca Mar- the outskirts of ciano brings to life Rome with his nine funny, smart, wife, searching elegant stories that for a life of purity and spirituality. span several cul- He finds a new job as an editor at tures and places, from a film festival an ultra-conservative Catholic pub- in Venice to a sun-drenched Greek vil- lishing house. But temptations are lage to a classical dance community around the corner. He can’t stop in southern India. The characters in thinking about his sister-in-law, so Daniele Lombardi plays at Guggenheim Museum (photo by Chad Heird) these fascinating stories step outside he goes to Paris, a trip that will test their physical confines to discover who his religious resolve. they really are.

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Very Valentina Live Bait Adriana Trigiani Fabio Genovesi Harper Perennial Other Press ITALIAN JAZZ ➤ pages 401 ➤ $ 13.11 ➤ pages 392 ➤ $ 15.95 Sonny’s Life Lesson Book ● This Book ● Fiorenzo Sonny Rollins in Detroit (photo by Farrad-Ali) funny, sensual, spends his days delightful and bored and alone with poignant book by his widowed father. Adriana Trigiani is He has lost a hand already a national in a fireworks mis- bestseller. The hap and passes the author describes time fishing, watch- the adventures ing horror movies of a woman com- and playing in his garage heavy metal mitted to rescuing her family’s shoe band. Then he meets Mirko, a young business who winds up falling in love. man as good at cycling as he is inept at From the streets of Manhattan to the life, and Tiziana, a smart young woman amazing landscapes of Italy, you will frustrated by her job. In fluid and effort- gulp this book down! less prose, Genovesi brilliantly depicts the boredom afflicting all three charac- by Enzo Capua A Walk in The Dark ters as they while away the summer in short while ago I traveled to see a friend of mine. That might sound (Guido Guerrieri series) their sleepy beach town. like nothing special; we all travel to see friends. But if they haven’t Gianfranco Carofiglio A Bitter Lemon Press Agostino been unwell lately and are on the mend, then paying a visit becomes for them—and for us—a little more thrilling. It enriches the feeling of seeing ➤ pages 218 ➤ $ 12.46 Alberto Moravia one another again and catching up. But there’s something else about NYRB Classics my friend that makes seeing him even more special: he happens to be a BOOK ● Carofi- ➤ pages 128 ➤ $ 14.00 truly extraordinary person, one of the great musicians in the history of glio’s Guido Guer- jazz, a giant who breaks the mold, as if he too were carved into the side rieri series has sold BOOK ● Brilliantly of Mount Rushmore beside the four presidents of the United States. And more than 2.5 mil- translated by Mi- he wouldn’t look the fool next to Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and lions copies in Italy chael F. Moore, this Jefferson. In fact, even at eighty-three, my dear friend still answers to the alone. The latest in- story of one boy’s nickname given him sixty years ago, a name that corresponds to the in- stallment tells the journey from child- strument he plays with such insurmountable grace and skill: Saxophone story of Martina, hood to stormy Colossus. Even people who only know a little about jazz know I’m talking a girl who accuses adolescence is the about Sonny Rollins. her ex-boyfriend of assault and bat- masterpiece of Ital- Colossus now lives outside New York, near Woodstock, in a beautiful house tery. Unfortunately for Martina, her ex ian litrerary icon Al- deep in the country. Ten years ago, Sonny lost his beloved wife, Lucille, who is the son of a powerful local judge. No berto Moravia - a classic portrait of in- was also his manager. Lucille was one of the only two loves of Sonny’s life. lawyer is willing to take her case, except nocence lost. Agostino is spending the The other, obviously, is more ethereal but every bit as powerful: Music. In Guido Guerrieri, who cannot avoid such summer with his beautiful widowed his case it’s totally appropriate to write that word with a capital M; Sonny seemingly hopeless cases. Nor can he mother in Tuscany. When she takes is an integral part of American history. He has received every recognition avoid Sister Claudia, the woman who up a lover, Agostino turns to a group of there is over the course of his long and glorious career, even the National Medal of Arts, which was awarded to him by President Obama in 2010. He’s tasked with looking after Martina. local toughs, who will introduce him to a true living legend, and his contribution to jazz is immeasurable. In 200 a world of love and squalor. years, people will still be talking about Sonny Rollins and listening to his Letter to a Child Never records. It’s clear, then, why being a friend of Sonny’s is a point of pride for Born Pinocchio me, and going out to see him in semi-retirement in the country, spending Oriana Fallaci Carlo Collodi hours talking about music and life, is a privilege I’ll cherish forever. Sonny’s RCS Libri/Rizzoli NYRB Classics life has had sharp highs and lows. He has nearly died from drug-use. He ➤ pages 114 ➤ $ 5.37 ➤ pages 208 ➤ $ 11.71 has lived in monastic solitude. He has played his saxophone alone under the Brooklyn Bridge. Yet he has still gotten everything an artist could want Book ● In this music ● This is out of life, and if there’s one thing about him that makes an impression on anyone that comes across his path, it’s the deep humility that trumps touching and trag- the original story any pride or vanity the man might possess. There’s not a hypocritical bone ic monologue of of the most fa- in his body. It’s a life lesson that shouldn’t be ignored. a woman speak- mous puppet in Sonny loves Italy, and anyone who loves jazz can’t help but adore him. ing to her unborn the world, Pinoc- Among the great Italian saxophonists, not one can say he hasn’t taken child, late writer chio, who, after to heart Rollins’ great artistic lesson. Many have imitated him. Few have and polemicist Ori- many adventures succeeded in achieving his technical mastery. No one can equal him. Last ana Fallaci tackles and obstacles, ful- year, when he was invited to play once more in Perugia during the Umbria the delicate sub- fills his dream of Jazz Festival, Sonny decided to call two brilliant trumpet players to accom- ject of abortion. Written in the pro- becoming a real boy. Arguably one of pany him onstage, Enrico Rava and Paolo Fresu. It was an unprecedented honor for a European musician. Unfortunately, the concert was cancelled choice climate of the 1970s, Letter to the most emotionally gripping tales on account of Sonny’s health. But, as I said, he’s on the mend. Next year, a Child Never Born provocatively ex- ever written, this powerful book when he turns 84, he plans to return to the stage. “I need to play, to blow plores the meaning of being a woman combines satire, fairy tales and folk- my horn again onstage,” he told me. Loving what you do and loving yourself who is responsible for the life of an- lore. A timeless story loved by adults without hiding your own weaknesses—now that’s a life lesson! other and wields the power to give and children. With an introduction life or take it away. by Umberto Eco. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 89 Tourism ❱❱ Little Islands Are you going to Italy SOON?

●● FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TOURIST BOARD in NORTH AMERICA Italy of the Little Islands: So Much, in Such a Small Paradise

Rich in environmental, cultural, and gastronomic diversity, Italy’s many little islands offer tourists unforgettable experiences. byEugenio Magnani

●● Italy has always exerted a great pull on the international community. I have had the great fortune to spend my whole life promoting my country. I have promoted it as a place to discover new experiences, but most of all as an emotionally restorative place, thanks to the fantastic diversity of our territory; its artistic, cultural and environmental variety; its abundance of great food and wine; and above all its humanity, the chance to encounter the people of this land. After all these years working in a promotional capacity, work I have always undertaken with pride and passion, I particularly remember the deep impression my visits to the country’s small islands have made on me. Besides visits to Sicily and Sardinia, two large and very different islands that are equally unforgettable from a cultural, environmental and human standpoint, over the years I have been lucky enough to have traveled to a few of the smaller islands, starting with Elba, the third largest island in Italy best known for being Napoleon’s Clockwise from the top: Eugenio Magnani; the logo of ENIT, Italy’s Government Tourst Board; a map of Italy’s little islands and place of exile. (This year marks archipelagos; emerald-colored sea at La Maddalena, off the north-east coast of Sardinia; a small port in Elba (Tuscany). the bicentennial of his arrival on the island.) Elba represents an Eugenio Magnani has been working in the tourism industry for over 20 years. He has been the Director of the Italian Tourist Board important time in my life. I was for the UK and Ireland, the Chairman of the European Travel Commission’s US Operations Group, and the Director General of the very young. It was the first trip I Italian Government Tourist Board from 2005-2009. He then served as the Director of the “Italia Brand Marketing Unit” for the could claim as “my own.” I went Minister of Tourism (2009-2011) and is now the Director for North America of the Italian Government Tourist Board.

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Diverse landscapes, breathtaking views, great food, and warm hospitality. All steeped in tradition and teeming with culture across the middle of the Mediterranean. with friends of my brother and got the chance to go camping for the first time in my life. I can still call up the memory of the campground in Lacona, the immediate sensation of the sea and sky. It was the feeling of independence, of freedom. Day after day I discovered Elba’s diverse landscapes, from the Clockwise: the multi-colored houses of beautiful adjacent beaches at Procida and the classical white houses Porto Ferraio to the forgotten of Capri, both in the bay of Naples; landscapes of Capolivero. the faraglioni as seen from Ponza, in the Pontino Archipelago. Behind every bend in the road, I discovered new colors, new perspectives and new contrasts. of the many islands in the My second island, or rather country. Mention should be group of islands, was the made of Giglio and all it has Aeolian archipelago. I come to represent in recent celebrated my fortieth birthday years. And of the islands made on Lipari, Vulcano and Panarea. mean sunburn. I remember famous in literature, like the Then I made a memorable the exquisite hospitality on Island of Monte Cristo in the excursion to Stromboli. I landed Panarea and the family-run Tuscan archipelago. But that’s in Ginostra, a small village hotel where we stayed, the not all. I mentioned Capri but with no port to speak of. The most traditional on the island, not Ischia. I haven’t mentioned hydrofoil stopped 100 meters which might still exist. the Pontino archipelago and from the dock, and we had to My third island experience the breathtaking panoramas of take a rowboat the rest of the came a few years ago, on an Ponza. I remember watching a way. I remember the climb up unforgettable day in December. recent documentary showing to Stromboli. The road through I was vacationing in Sorrento images of Ponza and its ocean of people dreaming of a better the village was a rich blend of with my wife and children, and floor and feeling the urge to go life arrive on Lampedusa aromas and salt air. I remember we decided to take a trip to see it myself. The wait was well every day, and the people of the black sand of the beach, Capri. It was a beautiful day, so worth it; the documentary had the island have proved very so different from the bright we rented two yellow scooters. nothing on the real thing. As hospitable given the difficult white sand of Lipari’s pomice. Alex rode with me, and Grazia with Ponza, so with Ventotene circumstances. The island is a It was just as otherworldly as took Giulia. We tooled around and the Egadi Islands, places model of human solidarity for the boiling mud on the beach the whole island. Thanks to the steeped in tradition and the whole world. of Vulcano, where you entered time of year we had the island teeming with culture across the Finally, I’d like to mention CNN’s the water only a few feet away to ourselves and could take in middle of the Mediterranean. recent look at the islands of Italy from where bubbles leapt about all of its enchantments. Capri’s Think of Pantelleria, with its that once functioned as prisons on the surface, pushed upward a place with breathtaking views historic country houses known and places of exile for political by hot steam trapped in the of seastacks in the distance. as dammusi, its cultivation undesirables. Remote, difficult water. I remember my wife and We capped off the day with of capers and production of to reach, little visited by tourists, I taking a Vespa out to see what an aperitif in the little piazza passito. Don’t leave Lampedusa these islands have remained we could find on Vulcano, and before hopping back on the off your list, with its famous unspoiled, their natural later doing the same on Lipari. ferry, with the sun setting Spiaggia dei Conigli, which landscapes and wildernesses A Vespa was the ideal means behind us. It is one of the most TripAdvisor voted one of the preserved. According to CNN, of transportation for those beautiful memories I have of most beautiful beaches in the Monte Cristo, Pantelleria, places. The rush of wind made that short but very intense world in 2012. The island has Capraia, Santo Stefano, Gorgona, you forget all about the sun vacation which my family still displayed a remarkable capacity Ventotene, Asinara, Ponza, beating down, and by the time talks about. for receiving all those who Pianosa and Favignana are all you got back home you had a I have only mentioned a few land on its shores; thousands “Prison Island Paradises.” ● ● www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 91 Tourism ➜ Little Islands

●● A CONVERSATION with former U.N. Ambassador Paolo Fulci Salina at the United Nations: How Italy Made the Small Powerful

The island of Salina seen from nearby Filicudi, in the Aeolian Archipelago. Below: Ambassador Paolo Fulci. Bottom: A view of the UN General Assembly.

In the late Nineties, Italy’s then U.N. Ambassador Paolo Fulci—a Sicilian who calls Salina home—united 32 small, insular states to block a Security Council reform that would have marginalized Italy. Influential members of the Italian-American community were mobilized in support of Italy’s national interests. Prominent among them were descendants of Aeolian immigrants... by Letizia Airos brief version of that story? had to pass through the General participate in meetings, some It was not an easy time for Assembly, where every country diplomats from rival countries ●● One of the most noted Italian diplomacy. Germany and has a vote regardless of their GDP, would make fun of me, asking moments of Paolo Fulci’s historic Japan were exerting pressure to military might, size, or population. me how I could diminish Italy to career as Italian Ambassador to reform the UN Security Council, So I decided to form a partnership the level of a small, insular state. the United Nations (1993-1999) which would have irremediably with smaller, insular states, the Nonplussed, I would answer that brought international attention marginalized our country from so-called Coffee Club, thirty-two my home was in Salina, in the to some of the smallest islands the group of nations that really countries that generally had no Aeolian archipelago, and these in the world, starting with the counted. And not only Italy but say in the goings-on of the ‘big’ islands had the same problems Aeolian archipelago—one of the also the whole European Union. countries. Out of that, a mutually as the small insular countries islands, Salina, is the place he Almost all the major powers advantageous relationship in the Caribbean or the Pacific: calls home. supported our opposition. was born, and in the end we coastal erosion, out-of-control Ambassador, can you give us a Luckily, it was a reform that were successful! When I would tourism, lack of transportation to

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Petrarch, Leonardo da Vinci, Iparticipated to the reception at the Waldorf-Astoria organized by In 1998 we even organized a gala Michelangelo, Guglielmo Marconi Ambassador Fulci with the help of prominent exponents of the Ital- evening at the Waldorf Astoria and Enrico Fermi that Italy could ian-American community (see interview) to celebrate the coalition where, under the prestigious not join the Security Council between Italy and 32 small, insular states at the UN. direction of the great Aeolian- because it had nothing to offer?” There I met the most influential members of the Aeolian commu- American judge Edward Re, the “nity in America,” says Saija “especially from the island of Salina.” ambassadors from our coalition You are originally from Messina, It turned out that the island had a very close relationship to the met a delegation from the Aeolian and have been an adopted US. Many Aeolians had emigrated to New York, the most prominent Islands in front of 1,800 guests. Salinian for decades. What among them being the late Edward D. Re, who came with his family It was an unforgettable evening ties you to Sicily and Salina in when he was a child, became a lawyer, and was later appointed to and extremely important for our particular? prominent positions by John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, finally victory over the Germans and becoming judge of the District Court of New York. With the help of Japanese for the Security Council. My love for the Aeolian Islands these people and the support of the University of Stony Brook in Long goes back all the way to 1943, Island, prof. Saija began to collect a lot of documentary material To face the ‘battle’, you recruited the year that the American from the descendants a number of influential figures troops landed in Sicily. My father, of Aeolian immigrants. from the Italian-American Sebastiano Fulci, who was an “They donated a real community. Many of them were engineer with the Genio Civile, treasure trove of ob- at the Waldorf Astoria gala that was tasked with starting the first jects concerning the night. That kind of involvement infrastructure projects–building memory of Salina.” had not occurred in many years. small piers, reservoirs, roads – that The next year, legisla- What gave you the idea and how helped transform the beautiful tors Ken La Valle and did it turn out? archipelago from a remote land Tom DiNapoli, along Back then the Clinton administra- into the welcoming slice of with Stony Brook pro- tion was ‘enthusiastically’ in favor paradise it is today. That year I fessor Mario Mignone, of German and Japanese entry began to enjoy the wondrous and traveled to Salina to into the Security Council. And extraordinary landscapes of Lipari, sign an agreement so it was against our position. Canneto, Filicudi, Panarea and, founding the museum. So I thought that the Italian- naturally, Salina, whose malvasia In the 1800s Salina American community could exert really was ‘the nectar of the gods,’ “was the island of some pressure. You are talking as they call it. I returned to the Malvasia. It was like liq- about millions of people, many Aeolian Islands many times over uid gold. Unlike for the extremely influential in American the following years, until one day rest of southern Italy, politics. It really did not take my wife Claris and I discovered the nineteenth century much to mobilize them, since a white building in Salina called was a boomtime for the they feel such a deep connection ‘Casa alla Palmara.’ We loved it so island. Today, Salina’s to their roots. I remember that much that we eventually bought it old, elegantly built at the Columbus Day Parade and renamed it ‘La Clarisita.’ Since houses are testimony there were protest signs asking then we try to spend a good chunk to that wealthy age.” President Clinton to show Italy of our summer vacation there This lasted until 1888, when a phylloxera epidemic quickly destroyed more respect in the UN. And the every year. the vineyards and sank Malvasia’s business. Hence the spike in emigra- White House received thousands tion.” “Yet it wasn’t ‘impoverished’ emigration. Aeolians had already of faxes and telegrams from What does it mean for a traveled a lot. Some were sea merchants, others expert sailors who had Italian-Americans expressing diplomat to come from a territory worked for large transoceanic companies. They had already landed their anger over the way certain surrounded by the sea, from in America, and they had invested money there. Aeolians became Washington officials were treating which so many men and women wholesale produce distributors, contractors, small businessmen, and our country. I still remember one emigrated in search of a better they held sway in the Italian community, including politics, within the of the messages. [It read:] “Mr. life? Do you yourself feel a bit like Democratic Party. It was a very peculiar emigration.” President, we have been informed an emigrant? ocated in a little two-story house on a hill in the district of that some State Department I was very lucky compared to LMalfa, surrounded by jasmine and vineyards, the museum is officials are supporting a reform the thousands of emigrants a little gem and an extroardinary trip down memory lane. And it in the UN Security Council that forced to leave Sicily after the sports a lot of evidence supporting Saija’s claims about the en- would allow Germany and Japan Second World War to find work trepreneurial successes of the Aeolian migration: one emigrant’s entrance as permanent members, in more prosperous lands. But I life insurance policy for his family that remained on the island; a leaving out our country of origin, can never forget that era when large “return suitcase” with several compartments for fine dresses Italy. Be advised, Mr. President, our fields were emptying out, and fabrics. There are also two rooms dedicated to the Aeolian that if this were to pass, it would left to desolation and poverty. communities in America, which focus a lot of attention on the be considered a literal smack Even though my job moved me activities of their mutual aid societies. in the face to 24 million Italian- quite young to Rome and then Americans.” abroad, I could never leave my www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | September-October 2014 | i-Italy ny | 93 Tourism ➜ Little Islands roots behind. In fact, living abroad, You have a special relationship wonderful party for me. It was especially far away, strengthens with New York City. Not only my ‘initiation’ into a varied your ties to your homeland, to the did you live here when you cosmopolitan world made up of point that, even when I was in were Ambassador to the UN, so many different people. That’s Japan, I would travel thousands of but you also worked as vice- how New York appeared to me miles every year to return to my consul here in the beginning of when I first arrived. beloved Sicily with my wife and your career. And before that you small children. The flight from came to Columbia University as What are the places that you Tokyo to Rome was endless—it a Fulbright scholar. It is difficult love most in Salina, the ones lasted 24 hours! to imagine such disparate that you miss most while experiences: The fascinating, traveling around the world as Salina has a very particular frenetic city that never sleeps ... a diplomat? Tell us something history of immigration, and these minuscule, wind- that could persuade Americans as detailed in the Aeolian beaten islands bursting with to come visit this small Emigration Museum founded flowers and surrounded by Mediterranean paradise. and run by Professor Marcello water. And yet something must I love absolutely everything Saija. Can you briefly give us a tie you to these territories, about Salina… Obviously my sense of that history? these landscapes. What is it? house the most; it’s situated on Thanks to his extraordinary It’s true. After Sicily, New York the edge of a forest reserve on passion and dedication, Marcello is probably the place where I an isolated promontory. It’s not has really given a soul and a have lived the longest. One year easy to get to, especially when spirit to these migrations. He has as a student, two as vice-consul, the sun is at its peak. I really collected thousands of documents and seven as Ambassador. I love Pollara, the crater of an The Postman (dir. Michael Radford) with and photographs on Aeolian almost feel more comfortable ancient volcano half immersed Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret and Maria immigration from the end of in New York than in Rome! But in the turquoise waters of the Grazia Cucinotta. A fictional story about real-life Chilean poet and Communist leader the nineteenth century in North I always remember my Sicilian Tyrrhenian Sea, where the Pablo Neruda, who actually lived in exile on and South America to the post- roots. When I arrived in New house for the filmIl Postino (The the island of Capri, the film is based on the Second World War migrations York as a young student in June Postman) is located. But above novel “Ardiente paciencia” (Burning Patience) by Antonio Skármeta. A simple postman to Australia and New Zealand. of 1954, the first thing I did was all I love the Rinella area and (Troisi) steers his bicycle along the coast of a And he retraced the paths and look for my fellow ‘countrymen’ the unforgettable sight of its Mediterranean island (Salina) to deliver mail journeys taken by immigrants, from San Filippo del Mela, a slopes in May, when they’re to his sole client (Neruda), gradually forming a relationship that will teach him the key to all the sacrifices they made, and quaint little town just north of covered with gorse. The yellow win the heart of his loved one (Cucinotta)- how they were finally able to find Milazzo. Those people knew flowers are so striking against -poetry. The film received five nominations success. my forefathers. They threw a the blue sea. ● ● and one Academy Award (1995).

Vacationing in Salina Great sea, excellent accommodations, and a film Festival to boot

isted a World Heritage Site It boasts a large garden with program of events curated by its Lalong with the other Aeoli- lemon trees, exposed beam ceil- founding director Giovanna Ta- an Islands, Salina—also named ings and floors with decorative viani. Founded in 2007 with the “Isola Verde” for its abundant tiles. Some of the rooms feature idea that the Mediterranean vegetation—offers excellent archeological remains kept un- sea represents a meeting point accommodations. Many of its der glass. Across the mountain for many different groups of beautiful buildings have been is another little village called people, over the years, the Sa- converted into vacation houses Malfa which has two very dif- linaDocFest has become much and there are various hotels. ferent hotels of note. Ravesi is more than just a festival. The We picked four of them for this a converted 19th century farm screening of documentary films short report. A stone’s throw that boasts a spectacular infin- is accompanied by different ac- from the ferry wharf in Santa ity pool with views of the bay. tivities: photography exhibits, Marina (the island’s main vil- Signum, a very classy but re- concerts and theatrical perfor- lage) is Hotel Santa Marina, a laxed structure, is completely mances, learning activities in the distinguished building that has surrounded by citrus and jas- schools, as well as literary con- retained its historic charm. The mine trees, with Middle Eastern tests, with “writing, storytelling rooms are furnished with vin- and North African inspired ar- and narrative” awards. Migration tage furniture and its remark- chitecture, and a fantastic spa and “global citizenship” is one of able terrace seems to reach out that you must not miss! its permanent themes, due to a and touch the island of Lipari. long standing collaboration with Also in Santa Marina, I Cinque t the end of September, the its main sponsor ANFE (the Na- Balconi sits on the main road ASalinaDocFest attracts peo- tional Association of Emigrant next to shops and restaurants. ple of all ages with a stimulating Families).

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