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As futurist poet ➔ Letizia Airos Aldo Palazzeschi ● ● For starters: “Cucù rurù,/ rurù cucù,/cuccuccurucù!/Cosa sono suggests, let’s have queste indecenze? Queste strofe some (Italian-style) bisbetiche?/ Licenze, licenze,/ licenze poetiche!/ Sono la mia fun these first days of passione.” (Cocca docca, / docca summer in New York. cocca, / cock-a-doodle-doo! / What are these vulgarities, / these oafish strophes? / Liberties, liberties, / poetic men show us that the city is not just liberties! / They’re my passion). about truffles and wine. Ah, Italy, I said I would always open with some country of endless surprises! lines of poetry. This month I’ve chosen And, last but not least, Lucia futurist poet Aldo Palazzeschi’s 1910 Pasqualini bids goodbye as she poem “E lasciatemi divertire” (Let Me finishes her mandate as deputy Have My Fun). So let’s have some consul. We hope she’ll be back soon. Italian-style fun these first days of Interviewing Flavio Manzoni at the Center for Italian Modern Art. ● ● ● ● summer in New York, beginning with There’s much more to mention, but the beautiful Futurism exhibit at the Show, the massive enogastronomy In our “Bookshelf” section, Anthony I only have so much room. Before I Guggenheim. And to get ready before that, as Italian Trade Commissioner J. Tamburri takes a look at sign off, however, I want to point out heading to the museum, first check PierPaolo Celeste explains, continues Italoamericana, an anthology of this issue’s “Pasta Mania” insert, out Steve Acunto’s excellent piece. to attract more and more Italian writings on, about and from the great which includes several recipes from ● ● ● ● participants. Italian migration, edited by Francesco De Cecco that over the coming Then there’s Italy’s Republic Day The issue also features several Durante and finally translated into weeks will be presented on our TV Festival, spread out over two days in-depth articles on a wide range of English. And musician Mauro Pagani show. If you’re interested, rip the this year, on June 1st and 2nd, and subjects. Stefano Albertini’s interview talks about remixing Crêuza de insert out and tuck it away in your featuring music, special events, and with Walter Veltroni, in town to mä, his experimental-cum-historic drawer. Just like an Italian an Italian treasure hunt (see schedule present his new film about Enrico Mediterranean recorded thirty grandmother. Naturally, all you of events on p. 23). Berlinguer, a key 20th century Italian years ago with the great Fabrizio De grandchildren can find the recipes What else? Flip through the magazine politician. 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century. You could be swayed by the rhyme of Italian Futurists sentimental poetry, swept up in the insistently managed to swim in the rich orchestrations of Brahms or return to relive Beethoven’s peasants dancing in a ring unexplored current, far from the city as a storm approaches. Or not drowning, but you could return to the inevitably tragic view of love embodied by Goethe’s Werther or the paddling toward the plight of Byron’s prisoner of Chillon. Or, you could accept the noise, the sound, the new shore of the real. friction and the dynamism of a new century, The art hanging on the of a post-industrial revolution world where screeching noises, the palpable friction of steel walls of the museums running on rails, the persistent smoke puffing seemed “lifeless” to from a chimney 75 feet tall, or the thrill of commanding a horseless carriage at 25 miles them, vague and per hour with a foot pedal. You could accept it and embrace it, let it permeate your new 20th sentimental relics. century sensibility as you rode off with a bang, They would find this not a whimper. You could open your soul and make it one article boring because with the new mechanistic order of things. You it contains no noise, no could see a future for expression that matched the future of life in the new interdependent, surprise blasts, no fast, steely, two-lanes-ahead world. color, no violence. A revaluation of all values Into this milieu came a movement that declared itself a revaluation of values. In the by Steve Acunto 1880s no less a figure than Nietzsche, living between Italy, and Germany, ●● What was the future like in 1909? called for exactly that: a revaluation of all The world had changed as never before, or so values. Other philosophers, poets and artists it seemed. There were no precedents. followed suit, as the antique drum faded Imagine if you can the way the future looked and a new sound emerged. And the Italians to the best minds in turn-of-the-century were, as usual, among the first to champion . Imagine if you can the sudden impact a new order in art, a “now” movement that of the Industrial Revolution of the 1880s. wholly embraced the shimmering body of Imagine the heart-stopping, world-changing the industrial revolution. Marinetti and his mechanical inventions at the time, just like followers cried, Make war. Exult in bombs. Turn our world-changing inventions today. the impersonality of this world into a structure What did the future look like to Filippo for art, architecture, music, food and every Tommaso Marinetti in 1909 Paris? What part of life. They looked ahead to the inevitable did it look like for the Italian artists, poets, remaking of society and its worldview. architects, cooks and expats in Paris, Futurism was born as a modus vivendi, a way and ? Yes, the world had changed as of living and seeing and hearing. The art never before, or so it seemed. There were no hanging on the walls of the museums seemed precedents, no paradigms to study. The past “lifeless” to them, vague and sentimental was slow and teary-eyed; the present, an relics. Futurists found master works self- electric jolt. indulgent, decadent, unresponsive to the They were troubling and confusing times. You evolving new order—the same way, I suppose, could look backward and embrace the sweet a young person today might see newspapers and melancholy 1800s, the 1879 of Vienna, or or printed books or sea voyaging in the age of the Romantic world of the early and mid 19th the Concorde.

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Unlike sentimental artists or academics, the Futurists would have relished it, if, in the middle of an interview, one’s cell phone went off loudly or if a play were interrupted by shouts of protest or praise. They didn’t see such things as interruptions, but as complements to an experience.

The present of Futurism The movement hasn’t quite ended. Today, even graffiti takes its iconoclastic place in a Futurist world. It is highly self-expressive. It is full of bold colors. It is not the stuff of museums. It is fresh to some and irritating to others. We find hints of futurism in architecture, music, industrial design, art, film and even . Futurists loved Industry and conflict, war and spread a new sense of dis-ease borne by demonstrations. Think of it. In 1909 an art of speed, machine energy and power. Their paintings They would find this article boring because beautiful machinery, the combustion and would defy the confines of the canvas with it contains no noise, no surprise blasts, no friction of life in cities, endless smoke and blaring onomatopoeia. They wanted the color, no violence. Please don’t tear up this unprecedented noise was engulfing artists scope and dimension of their paintings page! But do think about it! Ah, there are cars looking at their easels or blank pages trying and sculptures to issue sound and energy. passing outside, but I can only refer to them. to divine a form or message. Italian Futurists They glorified social disturbance, light rays Planes pass overhead and a bus stops and managed to swim in the unexplored current, emitted from a street lamp, the swish of a resumes on its way. Maybe I should end this not drowning, but paddling toward the new dog on its leash, the forward surge of a train. trifling essay with awhoosh , erk, erk, thump, shore of the real. In the music of Pratella, which would have and whaaaaaa!!!!! They reviled critics, labeling them been pure cacophony to Liszt or Mozart, To Futurists, the present does not simply embalmers whose “corpses” glorified the they played for audiences the sounds of reject the past. It embraces the inevitable old world of manners and refinements, of the days and nights of the new age, with future, the technology that they believed sentimental love and idleness. They wanted instruments made from cans or pipes, or would transform the world. the world to be infected with the germs played in unusual ways to simulate the And has. of industry and conflict, war and speed, squeaking of wheels on a railroad track violence and danger, and they worked to or the painful whirr of a factory machine. Zoom. ●● www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 7 Italian actor and director (Academy Award for Best Actor, 1999, for his perfonrmance in Life Is Beautiful) declared publicly his admiration and personal love for Enrico Berlinguer. Besides playing the main character in Giuseppe Bertolucci’s 1977 movie Berlinguer ti voglio bene (“Berlinguer I love you”), in 1983 Benigni appeared during a political demonstration of the Italian Communist Party, taking in his arms and dandling Berlinguer.

● ● WALTER VELTRONI IN NEW YORK TO PRESENT HIS FILM ABOUT ENRICO BERLINGUER Explaining the Puzzle of Italian Communism

Former communist by Bianca Soria at the age of eighteen, he had to choose between pursuing cinema or politics—and leader and Mayor ●● In the 1980s, journalist, politician and the emergence of Enrico Berlinguer on the former Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni was Italian political scene played a large part in of Rome, later the one of the national leaders of the Italian his opting for the latter. founding leader Communist Party. In the early 1990s, he was “I come from a family whose political ideals the founding leader of the Democratic Party. weren’t communist but quite democratic,” of Italy’s Democratic Last month, Veltroni was at Casa Italiana says Veltroni. “My grandfather had been Party, Walter Veltroni, Zerilli-Marimò of to incarcerated and tortured by the fascists… present his directorial debut: a documentary at home we were yearning for freedom — a life-long passion about Enrico Berlinguer, the national and justice. Berlinguer’s real historical Secretary of the Italian Communist Party importance lies in his intention and ability for cinema — made his from 1972 to 1984. The docufilm,Quando to change the Communist Party by making directorial debut with c’era Berlinguer (When Berlinguer was with it more independent from the Soviet us), brings together Veltroni’s two lifelong Union. I was someone who loved America a documentary about passions: cinema and politics. and admired the Kennedys. A pro-Soviet Enrico Berlinguer, the Professor Stefano Albertini, Director of Casa communist movement wouldn’t have Italiana, interviewd Mr. Veltroni for i-ItalyTV worked for me.” national Secretary of and their conversation will be broadcast in June in our weekend show “i-ItalyNY” on One of the world-famous episodes about the Italian Communist NYCTV (Channel 25). Here are some excerpts Berlinguer is a speech he gave in Moscow and Party from 1972 to 1984. from the show, starting with a piece of was later published on the front page of The biographic information about Mr. Veltroni: New York Times. In that speech the National

8 | i-Italy ny | June-July 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org For Berlinguer, communism Walter Veltroni on i-Italy | TV meant remaining faithful to the ideals of social justice and civil rights. His approach, unprece-dented for the secretary of a communist party, attracted the support of many people who were not ideologically sympathetic to communism

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especially for an American audience. “In the US the word never got free of its Berlinguer’s real McCarthyist connotations. It’s still an almost historical forbidden, shameful word… For Berlinguer it meant remaining faithful to the ideals importance lies in his that had shaped him, social justice and ability to change the civil rights, ideals that of Eastern European communists betrayed. Just to cite Italian Communist an example, one day in the mid-Seventies Berlinguer went on TV and said that he Party by making it more felt safer under the NATO umbrella than independent from under the protective wing of the Warsaw Pact… Once he was even the target of an the Soviet Union. I was assassination attempt in Bulgaria. His ideals someone who loved were deemed heretical by the Soviet Union.” America and admired Berlinguer, in other words, forged an Italian brand of communism that didn’t identify the Kennedys. A pro- with the Soviet brand of communism... Soviet communist “He stood by the goals of his youth, which Secretary of the Itlian Communist Party was shaped by Italian history: the resistance movement wouldn’t talked about democracy as a universal good. movement, the creation of a democratic have worked for me “I became exposed to his ideology when I was state and Italian constitution.” This was fifteen and years later I ended up working what appealed to Veltroni: “I didn’t believe for him,” Veltroni recalls. “I was in charge of in the dictatorship of the proletariat,” On a personal note, what advice has communications when he was secretary of he confesses. “I didn’t believe in the Veltroni been given by his eldest daughter, the Party. He was shy, but also charismatic. nationalization of the means of production, herself a documentarian working in New He had a deep love of the sea and a passion in a one-party system, let alone in the York? for soccer, a propensity for innovation and Soviet Union. I aspired to social justice and “She is a child of our time. She has a modern a strong sense of responsibility. He took freedom, and Berlinguer allowed people approach to communication. So her advice great pride in Italy. These are the qualities like me to identify themselves as members had to do with combining the substance that made him loved by his followers, and of a party that happened to be called of what we were talking about with more respected by his enemies.” communist. This approach, unprecedented direct and effective styles of communication. for the secretary of a communist party, I listened to her. I generally believe that As to the question, “What did communism attracted the support of many people who fathers should listen to their children… mean for Berlinguer?” Veltroni knows how were not ideologically sympathetic to There comes a point in life when fathers complex it may be to understand this, communism.” should be humble and listen….” ●● www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 9 ● ● IN CONVERSATION WITH CUNY’S JOSEPH SCIORRA AND FRED GARDAPHE Investigating Mafia(s) on a Global Scale

In a recent two-day conference at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, dozens of scholars from the U.S., Italy and elsewhere looked into the global mafia phenomenon from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The guest of honor was Italy’s former Interior Minister Vincenzo Scotti, whose book about the relationship between the Mafia and the State in Italy Joseph Sciorra: We wanted to look at Italian-American organized crime from a global perspective. has just been As we are an Italian American Institute, organizations it is obvious that in part we would be spent more money translated into dealing with Italian and Italian American English. criminality, but we wanted to expand in fighting fictional beyond those two realms. Because organized crime is not unique to any mafia than they ever one group or period. So we have invited did fighting the real by Ottorino Cappelli people to come speak about organized crime in , Sweden, , among mafia. Nobody wanted ●● Dozens of speakers and a very large Polish-Americans, African-Americans, to talk about it. The audience crowded into the and to diversify—and thus improve—our headquarters of the Calandra Italian understanding of this topic. reason why there never American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) to attend its annual two-day Are you satisfied with the results? was a real strong anti- conference—this year dedicated to mafia movement an especially hot topic. We sat down JS: Absolutely. I am really very pleased with with two of the organizers, Dr. Joseph the presentations we had as well as with the in the US, especially Sciorra, Director of Academic Programs reaction of the audience. So many people in the Italian-American at the Institute, and Fred Gardaphe, came here and said how important this Distinguished Professor of English and conference has been and how meaningful it community, is that Italian American Studies at Queens has been to have this conversation here. College, and talked about the ideas behind you couldn’t tell… this amazing gathering of mafia experts Fred Gardaphe: I think the way we what mafia really is. from all around the world. envisioned this conference—MAFIAs in

10 | i-Italy ny | June-July 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org the plural—is very important. First because, although we have talked about the Italian and Sicilian Mafia, showing that organized Fighting a State Within the State crime is not just something that belongs to Italians provides a better understanding Memories of Italy’s former Interior Minister of the Mafia and does a great service to

the Italian-American community. Second wenty years after the assassinations of Sicilian anti-Mafia Vincenzo Scottti ItalIan HIstory $22 because, as Italy’s former Interior Minister judges Falcone and Borsellino,Years havethe passed sincepresence the Capaci and Via d’Amelio of massacres, organized where the T Sicilian judges Falcone and Borsellino were brutally assassinated by the Mafia. The presence of the Mafia continues to be strong, its influence on civil and political life increasingly more evident, and many areas of the southern Italy Vincenzo Scotti said in his talk at the crime continues to be strong, its influenceremain under the grip of Mafia onclans. Incivil the new world and order, this formpolitical of or- ganized crime has even succeeded in establishing links with other Mafia-type organizations, which have modified their means of operating to more closely Conference, “The only way to fight the Mafia life increasingly more evident, andresemble many the Sicilian Mafia.areas These Mafia of operations southern are interwoven with terror -Italy ist activities, and arms and narco-trafficking. The money laundering of proceeds from criminal activities has created an expanding “gray area”, where the line be- is to fight it globally rather than locally.” remain under the grip of Mafia clans.tween legality Inand criminality his is blurredbook and interference Pax has Mafiosa become increas- orPAX MAFIOSA OR WAR? ingly violent. Since unification, the Italian Government’s strategy against the Mafia has oscillated between “co-existence” and “war,” the latter aimed at destroying War? published in English by Bordighera“Cosa Nostra” and uprooting Press the widespread and Mafia Eurilinkculture embedded in vast (the areas of southern Italy – the Mezzogiorno region. There has been growing debate recently on whether, at the beginning of the There also were some negative reactions publishing house of Rome’s Link Campus90’s and at the height of University),the “war” against the Mafia, attempts Vincenzo were made by government officials to actually bargain with the Mafia. In light of new judiciary investigations, the issue of the rapport between the Mafia and politics has come from members of the Italian-American Scotti explains what he did and to whatthe fore once again. he learned during his In this book, Vincenzo Scotti, who was one of the key Italian political figures at the time of the Mafia massacres, attempts to explain what he knew and what community who objected even to the idea years as Italy’s Interior Minister inhe didthe in fulfilling earlyhis political role, settingNineties. out the facts objectively through docu- ments, studies, and observations pertaining specifically to that period. PAX MAFIOSA OR WAR?

of having this conference. aying out the facts objectively, VthroughIncenzo scottI (, 1933) graduateddocuments, cum laude in law and has held numerous studies, presti- Bordighera Press • eurlink Twenty Years after the Palermo Massacres gious government positions over the years. They include: Member of the Parliament; Deputy Secretary of the Cristian Democratic Party and Speaker of the parliamentary group for the Christian Democrats in the Camera dei Deputati; Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of and eyewitness accounts, he findsFinance; Minister ofthat Labour; Minister in for Cultural the Heritage andnew Environmental; worldMinister of or- L Civil Protection; Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1992, as Minister of Internal Affairs, he founded the D.I.A. (Direzione Investigativa Antimafia), a specialised anti-mafia police force. He was When we sent out our call for papers der this form of organized crime hasappointed Secretarysucceeded of State at the Ministry in May 2008.in establishing JS: For over 26 years he taught Development Economics at the L.U.I.S.S. in Rome, after Vincenzo Scotti which he was visiting professor at the University of , and founded the Italian branch of the university. Professor Scotti is presently President of the Link Campus University of in May of last year there were a number of links with other Mafia-type organizationsRome. that have modified people including scholars and colleagues their means of operating to more closely resemble the Sicil- of ours who began to circulate complaints ian Mafia. Their operations extend to terrorist activitiesSaggistica 12 and ISBN 987-1-59954-074-0 Bordighera Press • eurilink about the very idea of having such a arms and drug trafficking. Laundering proceeds from criminal conference, given the predominance of activities has created an expanding gray area, where the line organized crime and Mafia in Italian- between legality and criminality is blurred and interference has become increasingly violent. American imagery in the media. It is ince Italy’s unification, Scotti reflects, the Italian Government’s strategy against the Mafia a foolish idea that scholars should be Shas oscillated between peaceful co-existence and all-out war. The former refers to attempts censoring themselves! On the contrary, apparently made by government officials to bargain with the Mafia, a subject of growing debate I believe we should be looking at this in Italy in light of recent judiciary investigation. This involves looking at the Mafia as a purely subject with all the serious rigor and criminal phenomenon. Whereas launching a “war” against the Mafia means recognizing the interdisciplinary background that we “state nature” of Mafia power and its extreme political dangerousness. The goal of the war is have. There is a notion that ethnic studies to destroy “Cosa Nostra” and uproot Mafia culture embedded in large swaths of Italy and no should only promote the positive. I disagree longer confined to the South. with that idea. How else to unpack those negative stereotypical images if not by treating them seriously? A number of scholars here looked at the emergence of FG: A long time ago, when I was a Sammartino, buonanima, who said, “We the negative image of Italian Americans member of the American Italian Historical are historians, can’t we just forget about coupled with organized crime. They Association [now the Italian American the past?” It was the funniest thing I ever documented it and so we learned from that. Studies Association] someone came up heard in my life. But he was dead serious. And to not have such scholarship presented with the idea of having a conference on the Academics at that time did not want to talk publicly would be a travesty. Mafia. And there was a great professor, Peter about the Mafia. Many people were just afraid. Every time the subject of having a conference on Mafia came up the reaction was: “That would be our last conference. The only conference we could have after it would be a conference on death. Because they’d kill us!”

Do you feel that Italian-American scholars are in a better position than others to investigate this topic?

JS: Yes, absolutely. Because we focus on Italian-American culture, we are in contact with a number of scholars who deal with Italian-American history and culture. So we’re in a unique position to bring to the fore all this amazing scholarly work being done.

FG: For me there is also a personal dimension to this. I was born in the streets, I became an academic because I wanted In one of the final scnes of Coppola’s The Godfather, Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) tells his son Michael () that he had better projects for him than just mafia. “I never wanted this for you,” to educate the streets, I wanted to go back he confesses. “I work my whole life, I don’t apologize, to take care of my family. And I refused to be a to the streets and tell them what I learned. fool dancing on the strings held by all of those big shots. That’s my life, I don’t apologize for that. But But I also wanted to bring my experiences I always thought that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone, Governor Corleone, something.” Continued on next page www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 11 of the streets into academia, so that [people there] would study reality, not fantasies. At the conference I read parts of a book I am writing now about my life growing up within Church organized crime in Chicago. When people think of the Mafia, they think about what they see on TV, in films. But for me Mafia has and the Mafia always been something that is part of life. Some people I knew committed crimes and others did not, but everybody participated in one way or another. by Mons. Gennaro Matino* You went to the podium wearing a black suit and a white tie – the stereotypical image of a Fifteen years have passed since Pope John Paul of declaring the faithful’s complete and total gangster… II launched his attack on the mafia: “Convert! aversion to a sinful way of life. There is no social, One day God’s judgment will come! No man historical, environmental or cultural justification FG: Yes, I wanted to play the stereotype. can trample this holy right of God. Mafia, stop for doing evil. But I also wanted to make people think the killing!” Not long before, the Pope had met Sadly, for the mafia to survive it needs a strong, about what it means when the Mafia is part privately with the elderly parents of Judge well-organized group of people. It needs of your life. It took me a long time before Livatino, a young magistrate murdered by the consensus and recognition. And those things are I understood that I was inside the Mafia. I mob. That experience prompted his public gained by using the kind of language and rites didn’t understand why my father was killed. outcry, which still echoes today, from the Valley of that grow out of religious superstition. The mafia The police said it was some crazy man who the Temples through the streets where innocent has not always found an enemy in the Church. In came into the store and killed him and ran people are butchered every day. Pope Francis “The Sopranos,” to take an example from popular away…Or why my grandfather was killed, repeated his predecessor’s appeal after meeting culture, one of the bosses complains to his priest or my godfather…I was just told lies about with victims of mafia crime last March. “I feel that 23 years of good works cannot guarantee him these people. And as I grew older I realized that I cannot conclude without saying a word to ascension to Paradise. It is not uncommon to hear that the very men I was working for (after my the ones missing here today,” said Pope Francis, about churchgoing Camorra bosses who carry grandfather died my mother put me to work “to the men and women of the mafia: please saints and Madonnas in processions, or read for some Men fearing I was going to get in change your lives, convert, and stop doing evil.” scripture, or go on pilgrimages to sanctuaries. trouble) were the men who were involved in To convert, to renounce your past and embark Pope Francis firmly asks that those in the mafia killing Kennedy… It took me 40 years! on a new way of life, is considered the greatest act convert. It is a just appeal to the members of the of faith. mafia, but also to a Church that has not always What about today? What is left of the power “Convert!” continued Francis, gently yet firmly. been able to free itself from its more ambiguous of those men today? “I’m down on my knees asking. It is for your own role, proposing piety on the one hand, and good. The life you lead today will not bring you insidious superstition on the other. The latter has FG: The way it was explained to me when gratification. It will not bring you joy. It will not terrible consequences when used to justify bad I was young was: “Look, we came to this bring you happiness.” behavior. In the world of believers—of all faiths—it’s country and we were not a part of the Conversion means directing your whole hard to root out superstition. Even in Hindu India, system. We had to create our system until existence toward your faith. And if for Christians Vikram Chandra describes a crime boss who we figured out how to get into the big the truth is handed down by the Lord, then justified himself by saying: “It has all been written, system.” The system was not intended converting is doing as the Lord wishes. “The and I am carrying out the role that God has given to stay a separate kingdom forever. They power,” said Francis, “the money that you have me.”. wanted to enter legitimate businesses, gained by dirty business and crime, is blood . politics, the legal system, and they did. money. It’s power bought with blood. And you * Gennaro Matino teaches Theology and History of Christianity cannot bring it with you into the afterlife.” Asking in Naples, where he runs the parish of SS. Trinità. He has Nobody wants to be a criminal. No gangster written several books and essays, and collaborates extensively wants to look around every day to see if members of the mafia to convert is a means with both traditional and new media. someone is going to shoot him. The men I was working for became successful and sent their kids to college. They became assimilated in such a way that even their children today don’t know anything about it. Those people were fundamentally proud to be Americans because they couldn’t succeed unless America succeeded. They believed in America. And they sent their kind to fight in the army, to die for the country they were able to steal money from.

JS: And that’s another good reason why we should contribute to the knowledge of this phenomenon. To really fight the Italian- Pope Francis and Father Luigi Ciotti, American mafia stereotype in the media founder of the Italian anti-Mafia group we should not bury the facts under positive Libera, participate in a prayer service images. That’s omertà. We as scholars need for Mafia victims. to study, to know, to bring facts out into the open air. ●●

12 | i-Italy ny | June-July 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org ● ● (ITALIAN-AMERICAN) ELECTORAL STRUGGLE IN STATEN ISLAND Rather Grimm Fairytales Conservative- Republican Congres- sman Michael Grimm, a protégé of the all- powerful Molinari family and part Italian himself, is being challenged by (Italian American) Democrat Dominic Recchia. But has someone cast an evil eye (malocchio) on the most conservative seat in New York City? by Jerry Krase daughter Susan. She resigned in1997, just shape-shift in office and, among other things after her keynote speech at the Republican grotesque, voted against what Democrats ●● Ex-NYC Democratic Party Council National Convention, to become co-host call the “Affordable Care Act,” and Mike’s new Member Dominic M. Recchia is challenging of CBS News Saturday Morning. Today she is friends call “Obamacare.” As The Staten island Republican-Conservative Congressman Google’s chief lobbyist and among Elle’s 10 Advance reported it just before his losing Michael Grimm for his seat. However, I must most influential women in D.C. Since she left, reelection bid, Rep. Michael McMahon said warn him that strange things have happened the seat’s been cursed. he’s yet to see anything in President Barack to those elected to represent Staten Islanders Obama’s revamped health care plan that (and South Brooklyners) in Congress ever Enter (and exit) Vito Fossella would make him vote for it. “I haven’t seen since la famiglia Molinari) decided they had With his fair-haired daughter in greener enough to have me come off my ‘no’ vote.” better things to do with their charmed pastures, Guy Molinari helped his protégé, Consequently Democratic voters saw little lives. It’s like someone has cast an evil eye Vito Fossella, replace her in another “special reason to support him in 2011, and the right- (malocchio) on the most conservative seat in election.” Vito ran as a regular “family leaning McMahon lost to real right-winger New York City. values” guy, and while in office got high and RINO (Republican In Name Only) Michael Editorial Board with a rare, marks by voting to impeach Bill Clinton Grimm. almost FoxNewsian, sense of black humor for moral turpitude, and supporting “The noted, the “Republicans Have a Grimm Marriage Protection Act.” After four terms in Think twice Problem … the only Republican in New office helping to purge America of various Grimm, another Molinari protégé, was the York City’s congressional delegation, was leftist immoralities, Fossella was caught perfect conservative candidate; decorated indicted last week on charges of tax fraud. driving drunk on the way to visit his gumada ex-Marine, U.S. Marshall, and FBI undercover He insists he is innocent, but these charges (or cummare, Neapolitan for mistress) and agent. Backed by Sarah Palin, John McCain, come at a particularly bad time for his fellow their three-year old child. As to other lapses, Rudy Giuliani, and Party folks, Grimm was Republicans. A former Federal Bureau of Fossella was accused of misusing campaign victorious only to be hoisted by his own Law Investigation agent, Mr. Grimm was already in funds for personal expenses and family and Order petard (petardo) by being accused trouble with many voters after he was shown vacations, to which he replied honestly of under-paying his Healthalicious restaurant on television threatening to throw a NY1 “Mistakes have been made.” Advised by his workers off the books and lying to Federal reporter off a balcony.” ex-mentor Molinari one might assume, Vito officials. Right now, Recchia is making all the decided not to run for re-election in 2008. right (centrist) noises and has a good chance La Famiglia and La Bella Isola Fosella was unfortunately followed by DINO of winning but given the fates of the past Once upon a time in Statenislandia, (Democrat in Name Only) Michael McMahon three “winners” perhaps he should think twice Republican Party magnate Guy Molinari who lasted only one term (2009-11). The Times about it. ●● represented La Bella Isola in the U.S. Congress had cryptically endorsed Mike as a “Less- (1983-1989). When he left to become Staten Liberal Democrat” who supported capital * Jerry Krase is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Island Borough President he was magically punishment as well as offshore drilling. Professor at Brooklyn College, The City University replaced in a “special election” by his McMahon completed his right-leaning of New York. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 13 La Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi www.lascuoladitalia.org

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The students of La Scuola d’Italia performing at the Gala. To the right: Honoree, Cristiana Falcone Sorrell, Chairman of the World Economic Forum The 2014 Gala Benefit alumni will become citizens of a global city.” Ambassador Claudio Bisognero, who took This year’s Gala Benefit is an important the opportunity to remember the AP Italian honors the school’s occasion for honoring the school’s successes program: “A great chance for those students and supporting its future endeavors. The who want to enter the workplace at the top successes and Benefit brings together parents, teachers, of their game.” students and notable members of New York’s “We all hope that the school can establish supports future cultural and business communities. The party a solid reputation among Americans endeavors to was held at Cipriani’s stunning event space and, at any rate, all non-Italians who live in the heart of Manhattan, once home to the in New York,” said Natalia Quintavalle, consolidate the National City Bank. New chairman of the board Consul General of Italy to New York, Steve Acunto summed up the school’s mission “as an alternative for broader cultural school’s reputation nicely: “We have to focus on quality. For us, understanding.” among Americans. the Scuola d’Italia has to provide a Champions Also attending the gala—as a father—was League education open to multiculturalism.” beloved Italian singer Lorenzo Cherubini, The Scuola d’Italia has practiced various better known as . When we asked by Maria Giovanna Pagnotta methods to achieve its goal, one example him what he thought to be the school’s being the agreement made last March between greatest strength, he said, “Definitely its ●● Now celebrating its thirty-seventh the Scuola and the Università per Stranieri multiple identity, the fact that it’s an Italian anniversary, La scuola d’Italia Gugliemo di Perugia. “Signing this memorandum,” school open to both the best American and Marconi has established a substantial presence explained Professor Giovanni Paciullo, Rector best European methods for teaching.” ●● in New York, acting as an ambassador of of the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italian culture and language, and being “paves the way for organizing Italian courses committed to giving the next generation for adults at the Scuola d’Italia.” a topnotch education. Marconi provides Emceed by distinguished TV journalist bilingual classes to students from preschool Maria Bartiromo, the gala also provided an through high school, bringing together the occasion to award honorees for their hard best of both educational systems. While the work, such as Cristiana Falcone Sorrell, school’s mission is firmly anchored in Italy’s Senior Adviser to the Chairman of the glorious past, its compass is always pointing World Economic Forum. “Being on stage to toward the future. In fact, as headmaster introduce Cristiana, especially doing it under Anna Fiore explains, “Italian creativity doesn’t the auspices of the Scuola d’Italia gala, is die, and we’re the ones passing it on to the a real thrill for me,” said Lucia Pasqualini, Jovanotti performing next generations, especially important in an Deputy Consul of Italy in New York. at the Gala international city like New York, where our Another honored guest was Italian www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 15 ● ● ON LEAVING OFFICE AFTER 4 YEARS, THE VICE COUNSUL SHARES WHAT SHE LEARNED Arrivederci New York!

I learned how special New York is for Italy. Nor had I fully realized assistant to the Consul General for the past how much thiscity had been shaped by forty years, asked me: “How was the parade?” New York is for Italy, Italian immigration and how much it has She then told me something I will never forget: been influenced by the Italian American “To get know the community, you need to love how much this city has community. the community.” After four years in New York, I finally realized what she meant. been shaped by Italian My first Columbus Day I remember vividly the first event I attended The ‘three souls’ of the community immigration, and how in an official capacity almost 4 years ago. It I have attended hundreds of events across much it has been was the Columbus Day Parade in Queens. New York and Connecticut. I have met Each borough has its own parade as part of thousands of people, the “three souls” of the influenced by the the Columbus Day celebrations. At the time, I community: the ItalianAmericans of second did not even know what a parade was. When or third generations; the Italians who came Italian American I was informed that Congresswoman Carolyn to the US in the fifties and sixties; and the Maloney would be the Grand Marshal, I newest wave of immigration, the Italians community. remembered never seeing a Member of the who in Italy are often called the brain-drain Italian Parliament at a similar event. This was generation. One must learn to grasp the my first contact with the ItalianAmerican great asset this multi-faceted community By Lucia Pasqualini Community and American democracy. represents for Italy. If Italian is spoken I was very struck by the presence of a everywhere in New York today, it is thanks to ●● When I was appointed Vice Consul of Congresswoman at the parade. On that day I the Italian American community, which has Italy in New York I never imagined how understood that in a democracy a politician worked hard to promote an appreciation of much the experience would change me is always close to his or her constituency and Italian culture. This was not always so. There both professionally and personally. I did the constituency’s needs. was a time when Italians hesitated to speak not yet know what it meant to hold such a When I went back to the office the following their own language. In many cases they tried post in a city like New York, or how special Monday, Lisa Calello, who has served as the to assimilate by changing their family names.

16 | i-Italy ny | June-July 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org The Italian community here has “three souls”: the ItalianAmericans of second or third generations; the Italians who came to the US in the fifties and sixties; and the newest wave of immigration, the Italians who in Italy are often called the brain-drain generation. These are not three different groups with different

Above: Lucia Pasqualini with popular musician, needs and little or actor, and director Renzo Arbore during his last visit to New York. Left: Celebrating i-Italy’s new Fiat 500 nothing in common. with us. Left page: at the Italian Consulate General. They share the same

Italians literally built New York in New York City. His wildly popular Italian essential need: to But Italians have literally built New York City, restaurants are an example of the authentic maintain the culture, from subway to the Empire State Building value of Italian culture and the Made in Italy and the George Washington Bridge, to name brand. the language, and the just three monuments. Italians have also That is one of the reasons why we worked contributed greatly to the political and social so hard to make sure that there were Italian roots of our country. development of the city. The history of New subtitles for performances of Italian operas York has been made by such Italian American at the Metropolitan Opera. We wanted One must learn to leaders as Fiorello La Guardia, Rudolph Americans who love Italian opera also to grasp the great asset Giuliani, Mario Cuomo, Bill de Blasio, and enjoy the original libretto. This project was Andrew Cuomo. Italians who have fought made possible thanks to Italian Americans, this multi-faceted against inequalities and organized crime Italians, and Italian companies. This is an include Joe Petrosino, Carmine Russo, and example of the substantial impact that the community represents Arturo Giovannitti, among many others. community can have by working together. There are thousands of Italian names among Before my term comes to an end in a few for Italy. the officers of the NYPD, the FBI, the Secret months, I am working on another dream: to Service, and the Fire Department. These bring the Italian language to the New York men and women are our strength and an City public schools. extraordinary resource. When I first read an article about the French Sharing language, culture, and roots dual-language programs in the New York The response of the community exceeded The importance of Italian language public schools, a light bulb lit up in my head: expectations. I was overwhelmed, realizing Over the past four years, I have been trying to why shouldn’t we do the same for Italian? all of a sudden there was something else I help the community to meet and work together When three parents – Piera, Martina, and had not fully understood. I had considered in new ways and on new issues. I have been Marcello – came to the Consulate a few the three souls of the Community to be three particularly involved in the promotion of the months ago asking for support to organize different groups with different needs and Italian language, more as a personal mission a dual-language program in Italian in New little or nothing in common. This is not true. than as a duty. The study of the Italian language York’s Public Schools, I thought it was destiny. They do have something in common. They is one of the best ways to promote Italy abroad. I We then organized an event at the Consulate share the same essential need: to maintain have met Americans who have been successful to explain what a dual-language program the culture, the language, and the roots of because they have learned our language and is and how to create one for Italian. Not our country. through our language learned to love our knowing how much interest to expect, we After four years in New York, I am deeply in country and culture. An excellent example is were amazed to receive more than 200 RSVPs love with my community! Arrivederci New Michael White, one of the most admired chefs and messages of interest. York! ●● www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 17 www.eatalyny.com

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OPEN Conferences & Seminars ROADS: 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. NEW ITALIAN presentation Book on show June 6 (1pm ) and June 7 (9pm). Bottom: Tony Servillo in screened at Open Road’s Opening Night on June 5 (1pm and 6:30pm). Top: a scene of Daniele Lucchetti’s the past year. most significant Italian films of simply put, a sampling of the see diversity, art, beauty and, to American audiences eager to choosing which films to bring the artistic side of things, inception, Monda has handled Film Italia. Since the festival’s Cinema, which later became former manager of Italia CINEMA AT THE FILM Y SOCIET Exhibits Arts & Viva la libertà (Long Live Freedom) by Roberto Andò Anni felici & Theatre Cinema and independent spheres.” talents from both the commercial winners, and promising new Daniele Luchetti, top award by two films) Roberto Andò and Gianni Amelio (who is represented established veterans such as includes the latest work from “One word: diversity. This ediion 2014 edition of Open Roads? How would you describe this (Those Happy Years) which will be www.i-italy.org Concerts Music & www.i-ItalyNY OF LIN COLN Events Festival. Best Film at the Venice Film to win the Golden Lion for was the first documentary this indifferent ways. different directors do difficulties. But given its current melancholic country, disenchanted and portray Italy asa comedies. Many dramas to irreverent ranging from sober variety of films, is to showcase a Gianfranco Rosi’s have already won top prizes. two documentaries presented This is proven by the fact that they tell them successfully.” used it to tell their stories. And say that many filmmakers have disappeared. Yet we are glad to filmmaking seemed to have cinema. The art of documentary was no room for them in Italian “In past years it seemed there documentaries. season is the abundance of One clear novelty of this .com | June-July 2014 |i- & Wine Food CENTER one of our aims As inthe past, Sacro GRA Italy & Design Fashion ny

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Paolo Sorrenti- no winning the Academy Award with did help the way Italian cinema is perceived in the US. But just because one good thing has happened, you cannot be certain that more will happen. You must work hard at it. There is more curiosity and interest in Italian cinema, sure, but real truck drivers, Fasulo has about gay life in Italy from the result of the country’s unstable it needs to continue created a striking film about fall of Fascism through the early unemployment crisis. On to reinvent itself. what life is really like on the 1980s. the other hand the scathing road – including the sounds, the And several films in this year’s critique of Italian political landscape, and the longing for lineup explore the dynamics in Roberto Andò’s “The film focuses on the lives company. This film is not a pure of Italy’s political system, Long Live Freedom staring Toni that surrounds GRA (Grande documentary but a hybrid of including Daniele Luchetti’s Servillo as a seasoned politician Raccordo Anulare) Rome’s reality and fiction.” opening-night selection Those navigating the decline of his 43.5-mile highway encircling Happy Years. party by fleeing to Paris and the whole city. Inspired in part Other beautiful and thought- “As in the past, one of our aims hiding out at the home of his by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible provoking documentaries is to showcase a variety of films, ex-girlfriend.” Cities, the film offers moving include Vincenzo Marra’s ranging from sober dramas portraits of areas drivers pass Naples-centric The to irreverent comedies. Many Talking of , he is a through but never see, revealing Administrator and Gianni portray Italy as a disenchanted great actor whom Americans a different side of the bustling Amelio’s Happy to Be Different. and melancholic country, given have gotten to know after city dwellers and a paradoxical Both tackle sensitive its current difficulties. But Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty reality.” social issues. Italy’s often different directors do this in took home the Academy Award dysfunctional society is the different ways.” for Best Foreign Language Film. Then we have Alberto Fasulo’s focus of many of your films. Has that victory affected the debut docudrama Tir which Two examples? way Italian cinema is perceived won the top prize at the Rome “Indeed. Marra, for instance, “On the one hand, Gianni in the US? Film Festival... examines a superintendent’s Amelio ’s A Lonely Hero, “Well, it was an extraordinary “Fasulo is very inventive. dealings with his larger- starring comedian Antonio victory and it has helped, but The film follows a former than-life tenants, painting a Albanese. It tells the story ‘one swallow does not a summer teacher from Bosnia who tough-minded yet affectionate of a man forced to reinvent make.’ Just because one good takes a job driving a tractor portrait of crisis-addled Italy. himself in his pursuit of a thing has happened, you cannot trailer (‘tir’) through Europe. And Amelio offers a moving, job (as a train conductor, a be certain that more good things Using professional actors and enlightening work of oral history fishmonger, a tailor, etc.), as a will happen and the whole

Vincenzo Marra in Naples shooting The Administrator. Left: Gianni Amelio and Antonio Albanese (Lonely Hero) at the 2013 .

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● ● ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY: JUNE 9-24 Open Roads Program Welcome to In Scena! The Film Society of Lincoln Center Left: The world-renown Neapolitan Walter Reade Theater playwright Eduardo De Filippo (1900 - 165 West 65th Street 1984). The opening night of “In Scena!” ◗ www.filmlinc.comopenroads will be dedicated to him on the 30th anniversary of his death.

Thursday, June 5 1:00PM ● Those Happy Years to be produced or presented. The 4:00PM ● The Human Factor main reason I started doing Italian 6:30PM ● Those Happy Years theater in New York was to show 9:15PM ● A Lonely Hero New York and therefore the world that the incredible artists and Friday, June 6 beautiful stories of Italian theater 1:00PM ● Long Live Freedom could speak to foreign audiences. 3:30PM ● I Can Quit Whenever I Want Introducing Italian theater 6:30PM ● The Fifth Wheel to American audiences 9:30PM ● The Human Factor For almost twenty years my company Kairos Italy Theater and Saturday, June 7 I have introduced New York stages 1:00PM ● Tir to plays unknown in America by 3:30PM ● The Mafia Only Kills in Ennio Flaiano, Eduardo de Filippo, Summer Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franca Valeri 6:00PM ● Quiet Bliss and Dino Buzzati. 9:00PM ● Long Live Freedom Last year, I organized In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, the Sunday, June 8 first Italian theater festival to 1:00PM ● South Is Nothing take place in all five New York 3:30PM ● Small Homeland City boroughs. In ten days the 6:30PM ● Sacro GRA Festival presented three shows 9:00PM ● I Can Quit Whenever from Italy and one NY production, I Want honoring the greatest Italian playwright living in the City: Monday, June 9 Mario Fratti, author of “Nine”. We 1:00PM ● Quiet Bliss also had four readings of Italian 4:00PM ● Sacro GRA plays in translation, an Opening 6:30PM ● The Administrator Night with Italian artists based 9:00PM ● South Is Nothing in New York, and even a theater performance in the park. Each Tuesday, June 10 non-English performance played 1:30PM ● The Administrator to a full house. The response was 4:00PM ● The Referee so overwhelming that now, as I 6:30PM ● A Lonely Hero write this, I am about to start an 9:00PM ● Happy to Be Different even bigger second edition of the Festival. If it’s crazy to do Italian Wednesday, June 11 theater in New York, then my 1:00PM ● The Fifth Wheel collaborators and I are really out of 4:00PM ● Happy to Be Different our minds! 6:30PM ● A Street in Palermo by Laura Caparrotti producing Italian theater in New 9:00PM ● The Referee York, never imagining I would The 2014 edition The love story between New one day establish the Italian This year we will be presenting Thursday, June 12 York and Italian theater is an Theater Company in NY, Giorgio six productions and four readings, 1:30PM ● A Street in Palermo old one. Eleonora Duse; Eduardo Strehler was the big Italian theater plus an opulent Opening Night, 4:00PM ● The Mafia Only Kills in Migliaccio, better known as director, and independent Italian workshops, special events and Summer Farfariello; and later Luchino companies were invading the Off- the first edition of the Mario 6:30PM ● Tir Visconti, , Nino Off Broadway spaces. Fratti Award for new Italian 8:45PM ● Small Homeland Manfredi, Bice Valori, and Ugo Although the demand for Italian playwrights. The stellar schedule Betti: so many great names of our theater has never disappeared, of events includes award winning theater have shone in New York, both main stages and many Off- performances in “Mutu” by Prima On- and Off-Broadway. Off ones continue to view foreign Quinta and “L’Italia s’è desta” Twenty years ago, when I started productions as too challenging by Compagnia Ragli; a playful www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 21 Events

dialogue on poetry and love in And the love story goes on Laura Caparrotti “I Corteggiatori”; a dialogue/ What we are presenting Founding Artistic Director Kairos Italy Theater and In Scena! soliloquy on work safety in constitutes a very small Italian Theater Festival NY “Raep”; and a dialogue between percentage of the proposals we two young Italians who find received from Italian theater themselves living New York for companies, and we are able to the first time in “Neighbors.” accommodate these artists only Academy Award Winner Iaia because so many locations opened Forte, lead actress in “The Great their doors to the Italians. The Bauty”, will star in “Hanno tutti Festival has doubled its duration! ragione”, based on the novel Early this year, with the YoungKIT, by Paolo Sorrentino, director of we staged “ Root” this year’s Best Foreign Film. and “The Decameron”. It was a The readings are also very success. The audience loved it

exciting: “Santos”, from a story and demanded more. And that Negron Nico by by Photo written by Roberto Saviano, means only one thing: the love author of “Gomorrah”; “Fallaci, story never ended. It’s not true a Woman Against” by Emilia that Italian theater cannot be the seats of all the location in all included, can be successful. Once Costantini about the famous understood by non-Italians. It’s five boroughs tell us that the love American theater companies Italian journalist and personality; not true that different languages story continues. We must take start producing shows by Italian and “Story of Love and Soccer” or traditions are obstacles. The one last step to convince theater playwrights, then the love story by Michele Santeramo about audience coming to our shows is producers and owners that foreign will go on and on forever! immigration in the South. the answer. The happy faces filling theater, plays in translation

In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY. The program

JUNE 9 – Arthur Avenue Market, The Bronx JUNE 15 - The Secret Theater, 44-02 23rd St., Long emerging writers from the South Bronx community 7:00PM Opening Night Island City, Queens will feature performances of both classic and original The evening will be dedicated to playwright Eduardo 8:00PM “Neighbors (an anti-romantic comedy)” works in English, Spanish, and Italian. The event De Filippo on the 30th Anniversary of his death. Written and performed by Francesco Meola and Irene is led by Dave Johnson, poet in residence for the Special guest will be Iaia Forte, a leading actress Turri, directed by Ilaria Ambrogi Department of Probation and is open to the public. in Paolo Sorrentino’s film “The Great Beauty” (Best JUNE 16 - TheatreLab, 357 W 36 St., Manhattan Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, 77 Foreign Language Film, 2014 Academy Awards.) 6:00PM Reading: “Fallaci, a woman against.” Howard Ave, Staten Island Opening Night tickets are $75 and include a buffet Written by Emilia Costantini – translated and adapted 7:00PM Show: “I corteggiatori – amore a colpi di dinner by featured Food Network Chef, Chef David by Dave Johnson and Laura Caparrotti. poesia” – The Suitors: Love by Poetry. Written and Greco. (Buy your tickets by May 20 for a chance to win two 8:00PM Show: “RaeP” performed by Vito De Girolamo and Carlo Loiudice. tickets for the musical comedy Rugantino at City center June Written by Mauro Santopietro; directed by and with JUNE 20 - Bernie Whol Center, , 647 Columbus Ave, 12-14, 2014). Mauro Santopietro and Tiziano Panici. Manhattan JUNE 10 - Dicapo Opera, 184 E 76 St. Manhattan JUNE 17 - Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU, 24 W 7:30PM Show: “L’Italia s’è desta” – Italy has Arisen 8:00PM - Show: “Hanno tutti ragione” – Everybody’s 12 St., Manhattan Written and directed by Rosario Mastrota, performed Right. Performed by Iaia Forte, based on the novel by 6:00PM Reading: “Santos” by Dalila Desirée Cozzolino. Paolo Sorrentino (Academy Award, 2014, Best Foreign Written by Mario Gelardi and Giuseppe Miale di JUNE 21 - Bernie Whol Center, , 647 Columbus Ave, Language Film). Mauro, based on the short story “Super Santos” Manhattan JUNE 11 - Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU, 24 W by Roberto Saviano, the award-winning author of 7:30PM Show: “I corteggiatori – amore a colpi di 12 St., Manhattan Gomorrah, translated and adapted by Dave Johnson poesia” – The Suitors: Love by Poetry. Written and 6:00PM Reading: “Storia d’amore e di calcio” - A Story and Laura Caparrotti performed by Vito De Girolamo and Carlo Loiudice. of Love and Soccer. Written by Michele Santeramo, 8:00PM Show: “Mutu” – “Silence!” JUNE 22 - Bernie Whol Center, , 647 Columbus Ave, translated by Peter Sppedwell Written by Aldo Rapè, directed by Lauro Versari and Manhattan 8:00PM Show: “L’Italia s’è desta” – Italy has Arisen performed by Aldo Rapé and Marco Carlino - winner 7:30PM Show: “Mutu” – “Silence!” Written and directed by Rosario Mastrota, performed of the 2012 Avignon Off Festival Award for Best Written by Aldo Rapè, directed by Lauro Versari and by Dalila Desirée Cozzolino. Foreign Show. performed by Aldo Rapé and Marco Carlino - winner JUNE 12 - Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St., JUNE 18 - Arts, 118 N 11 St., Brooklyn of the Avignon Off Festival 2012 award for Best NW, Washington, DC. 8:00PM Show: “RaeP”. Written by Mauro Santopietro; Foreign Show. 7:00PM Show: “Hanno tutti ragione” – Everybody’s directed by and with Mauro Santopietro and Tiziano JUNE 23 - Theater for the New City 155 First Avenue, Right. Performed by Iaia Forte, based on the novel by Panici. Manhattan Paolo Sorrentino (Academy Award, 2014, Best Foreign JUNE 19 - NOON- NeON Center on 198 E 161 St., 7:00PM Reading Mario Fratti Award Winner Language Film). The Bronx 9:00PM “Neighbors (an anti-romantic comedy)” JUNE 14 - Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Free Verse, the first poetry program born in a Written and performed by Francesco Meola and Irene Center, 610 E 186th St, at Hughes Ave, The Bronx – probation center waiting room, will host a workshop/ Turri, directed by Ilaria Ambrogi. Free admission performance with In Scena! Italian Theater Festival JUNE 24 – Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Noon Show: “L’Italia s’è desta” – Italy has Arisen NY, the first Italian Theater Festival to take place in all Avenue, Manhattan Written and directed by Rosario Mastrota, performed five NYC boroughs. This dynamic cultural exchange 6:00PM: Closing Night – Award Ceremony and by Dalila Desirée Cozzolino. between professional Italian actors and writers and Arrivederci al 2015.

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mind, need power in order to work. Introduced by Anthony J. Tamburri daily- Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian June 1 & 2: Italy’s National Day American Institute of Queens Col- calendar lege, CUNY and Professor of Italian Festa della Repubblica Italiana & Italian/American Studies. Jun 10 his year the festival commemorating te birth of the Italian Republic Jun 4 (1946) will take place over two days, one for grownups and one for Tthe children. Things get started on Sunday, June 1, with abig Italian Paolo Sorrentino’s treasure hunt organized by the Italian Consulate General. The top prize is a Blue Note Jazz The Divine: The Vespa! Festivities continue all day on June 2, capped by the grand finale, a Festival : Fabrizio Spectacular Life of jazz concert featuring Marco Cappelli’s Italian Surf Academy trio. It’s going Sotti and Friends Giulio Andreotti to be a marathon of italianità throughout New York. There will be an official 8:00 pm 2:00 pm presentation of Expo Milano 2015 and a screening of Florestano Vanci’s filmThe Highline Ballroom Westchester Italian Cultural Assassination of Matteotti to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the event. 431 W 16th Street Center, One Generoso Pope There is also a surprise in store for the Italian Brand Ambassador ICE event ◗ bluenotejazzfestival.com Place, Tuckahoe on extra-virgin olive oil. The following is a list of participating organizers: the ◗ wiccny.org ● The Blue Note Jazz Festival is back Italian Consulate, Isitututo di Cultura, ICE, ENIT, Scuola d’Italia, Centro Primo for its fourth year. From June 1-30 ● The Museum of Moving Image Levi, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and La Scuola d’Italia Guglilemo Marconi. over 150 premier artists performing will screen the Italian feature film Below you will find a schedule of events. For updates on the festival, please at over 15 venues throughout New The Balancing Act directed by Ivano log on to the Italian Consulate General of New York website. York City. Fabrizio Sotti, an Italian- De Matteo and starring Valerio American jazz guitarist, composer, Mastandrea and Barbora Bobulova. songwriter and producer, will play The 2012 Italian-French drama jazz standards and tunes from his premiered at the 69th Venice In- latest duet album Right Now in the ternational Film Festival, where stellar company of Melanie Fiona, received the Claudia Acuña, M1 of , Pasinetti Award. Mastandrea was L’Officiel, , also awarded the David di Donatello Algebra’s Fan Page, Raymond An- award for best actor. gry, Res, James Genus, Alberto Pizzo JUNE 1ST, 2014 fered by Alberto . and others! Since moving to New 4:30 pm-5:30 pm - Consulate York in 1991, Sotti has solidified Jun 12 2:00 pm-6:00 pm - Consulate General of Italy. Bestowing of his reputation as a major presence General of Italy (690 Park Avenue). decorations. in the jazz world with solo releases I giovani italiani di Italian Treasure Hunt. 4.30 pm - Italian Cultural Institute including This World Upside Down in NY 2 • Young Italians 7:00 pm-9:00 pm - High Line Ball- (686 Park Avenue). “Kickstarting #2” 1999, Through My Eyes in 2004 and in New York 2 room (431 West 16th St). ICE Event Performance by Andrea Mastrovito Inner Dance in 2010. 6:00 pm “Italian Brand Ambassador” award 5:30 pm - ICE. USA debut screening Italian Cultural Institute of and Jazz Concert. of Ferrari’s “California T.” New York, 686 Park Avenue 6:00 pm - Consulate General of ◗ Jun 5 iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork JUNE 1ST, 2014 Italy. ENIT (Italian National Tour- ● This symposium will continue ist Agency). “EXPO Milano 2015 Mind and the discussion begin during the 10:00 am-5 pm - Scuola d’Italia “G. Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life - Motivation in first encounter of “I giovani italiani Marconi” (406 East 96th St) in collab- Come to Italy and meet the world” Learning Italian di NY”. Panlists will come from a oration with CONI USA.“National 6:00 pm - Casa Italiana Zerilli- Ma- 6:00 pm variety of professions and speak to Sports Day.” rimò ( 24 West 12th street) in col- Italian Cultural Institute of their experiences as young Italians 10:30 am-11:30 am - Consul- laboration with Primo-Levi Center. New York, 686 Park Avenue and the challenges they face in to- ate General of Italy. Bestowing of Panel “Giacomo Matteotti, Father ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork day’s fast-pace professional worlds. decorations. of the Republic” followed by the ● A lecture by professor Palo Balbo- The discussion will be modertated 11:30 am Consulate General of Italy. screening of the film “The Assas- ni. The topic pertains to the field of by Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean, Opening of the exhibit “Velvet Park” sination of Matteotti” by Florestano neurolinguistics, but it will be dealt John D. Calandra Italian American by Teresa Cinque. Vancini. with from the teacher’s perspective. Institute. Reception to follow. This 12:30 pm-8:30 pm - ICE. Exhibits 7:00 pm - Consulate General of Teachers have to help students to event is co-sponsored by ILICA of the Made in Italy luxury brands Italy. Women of the World sing the acquire Italian, i.e., to store words, (Italian Language Inter-Cultural Al- - Fashion (C. Attolini and R. Curiel), Italian National anthem and the grammar, speech acts, cultural liance). Accessories (D. Cenci), Automotive anthem of the European Union; models into their brains and minds (Finmeccanica, Maserati, Piag- Greeting of Italian dignitaries; Trea- – and knowing how the brain and gio), Publishing (World Cup sure Hunt award ceremony. the mind work in language learn- Modena), Hand-Crafted Goods. 7:30 pm-8:30 pm - Italian Cultural ing becomes of paramount impor- 2:00 pm-5:30 pm - ICE. Educational Institute. Concert by Jazz Trio “Mar- tance in order to let teachers work tastings of wines, and co Cappelli’s Italian Surf Academy”. properly so that learning will take salami.Twisting Tastin: an amusing Marco Cappelli on guitar, Damon place. The second part of the talk WATCH and educational Torcolato (twisted) Banks on bass and Mathias Kuntzli is based on the fact that the hard- i-Italy|TV wine tasting and food pairing of- on drums. ware and the software of language acquisition, i.e. the brain and the www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 23 Events ➜ Daily Calendar

on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger on November 10, 1928, Morricone is and in Italy. Section two discusses Jun 12, 13 & 14 Theater, where it played a sold-out, celebrating his 85th birthday this specific authors and section three three-week run in Februar y of 1964. year. He has composed a staggering examines the current state of criti- Enrico Brignano is body of music, including scores for cism dedicated to Italian/American Rugantino more than 450 films and over 100 literature. The Midwest Book Review 8:00 pm (Thursday & Jun 13 pieces of concert music. considers it a “work of impressive Friday) and 2:00 pm (Friday) and meticulous scholarship,” while New York City Center, 131 Frank Lentricchia labeled it “a land- West 55th Street 8:00 pm Jun 17 mark in the field.” ◗ nycitycenter.org Barclays Center ● Rugantino, one of Italy’s most suc- 620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn Re-reading Italian ◗ barclayscenter.com cessful musicals, is coming to New Americana Jun 22 York City Center to celebrate the ● After his extremely successful show 6:00 pm 50th anniversary of its debut on at Radio City Music Hall and at the Italian Cultural Institute of Met Duet: Anna Broadway. See Italy’s top comedian U.N. in 2007, demand for Ennio Mor- New York, 686 Park Avenue Bolena and Maria ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Enrico Brignano as Rugantino, plus ricone to return to New York City has Stuarda 70 actors, dancers and singers! Set been high. The Maestro will be back ● Fred Gardaphé, Distinguished 12:00 pm in 19th century Rome, Rugantino tells this June and will conduct an en - Professor of English and Italian BAM, Brooklyn Academy of the story of a fun-loving scoundrel semble of 200 musicians and singers American Studies at the Queens Music, 1 MetroTech Roadway, who has plenty of ‘ruganza, or ar- performing some of his landmark film College (CUNY), presents the lat- Brooklyn ◗ rogance. When he makes a bet that music. Many Americans have grown est work by Anthony J. Tamburri, bam.org he can seduce the wife of one of up hearing Morricone’s soundtracks Dean of the John D. Calandra Ital- ● BAM and the Metropolitan Opera Rome’s most prominent citizens, for popular television shows and ian American Institute. Re-reading join forces for a special encore pre- he gets more than he bargained for. films, but now they have the oppor- Italian Americana: Specificities and sentation of two Donizetti tragedia Created by Garinei and Giovannini tunity to see them performed live in Generalities on Literature and Criticism lirica productions, Anna Bolena and and written in collaboration with an impressive, brand new setting. The (Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2014) is di - Maria Stuarda. Gaetano Donizetti Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo performance will focus on his long list vided into three sections. The first was an Italian composer from Ber- Franciosa and Luigi Magni, Rugantino of movie scores, from the 60s to the deals with the general situation of gamo in Lombardy. Along with Gio- debuted at Teatro Sistina in Rome on present day, and his signature mix of Italian/American literature and its achino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, December 15, 1962. It later opened classic and pop music. Born in Rome reception both in the United States Donizetti was a leading composer of

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the bel canto opera style during the played for various musical genres. first fifty years of the nineteenth This solo concert by Luca Nostro century. Shown on the state-of-the- is an attempt to gather some of ar t Steinberg Screen at the BA M Har- them. The program features songs vey Theater, each screening of the from Michele Tadini’s Scenario Met: Live in HD productions will (2001), David Lang’s Warmth (2006), be preceded by a discussion with Maurizio Pisati’s Var är du? (2007), renowned soprano Deborah Voigt, Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint moderated by Met Opera Senior Ra- (1987), Alessandro Ratoci’s Upside dio Producer Mary Jo Heath. Down (2014), Umberto Fiorentino’s L’Uomo Duplicato (2014) and the US premiere of Fausto Romitelli Trash’s Jun 25 T V Trance (2002).

My Two Italies 6:00 pm June 28 Italian Cultural Institute of New York, 686 Park Final Day of CIMA’s Avenue Depero Installation ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork 11:00 am, 1:00 pm ● A poignant personal account from & 3:00 pm a child of Calabrian peasants whose CIMA, Center for Italian lifelong study of Italy unveils the Modern Art, 421 Broome Street mysteries of this Bel Paese, “Beauti- ◗ italianmodernart.org ful Land,” where artistic genius and ● CIMA’s inaugural installation of political corruption have gone hand masterworks by Italian Futurist in hand from the time of Michel- Fortunato Depero highlights rarely angelo to The Sopranos. The child seen paintings, sculpture, drawings of Italian immigrants Joseph Luzzi and tapestries dating from the art- straddles these two perspectives to ist’s most fertile period, from his link his family’s dramatic story to first forays into Futurism in 1913 Italy’s North-South divide, its quest through the early 1930’s. The pre- for a unifying language, and its pas- sentation marks the first time that sion for art, food, and family. My Two a large body of the ar tist’s work is on Italies (Far rar, Straus and Giroux 2014) v iew since Depero lived in New York “deals with the enduring discon- in the late 1920s and established a nect between the ideal Italy that is Futurist House in Chelsea. Guided admired as a center of civilization, visits by appointment, $10 (free for and the hardship and hardness of students with valid ID). the emigrant experience. Both come vividly alive in Luzzi’s heartfelt and illuminating book.”—Gay Talese, Jun 29 author of Unto the Sons. Presented by Anthony Julian Tambur r i, Dean, The Father of the Radio John D. Calandra Italian American 5:00 pm Institute of Queens College, CUNY Dorothea’s House. Casa di and Professor of Italian & Italian/ Cultura Italiana, 120 John Street, American Studies. Princeton, NJ ◗ dorotheashouse.org ● An illustrated lecture on Guglielmo Jun 26 Marconi, the famed “father of radio” who received the 1909 Nobel Prize Electric Guitar In in Physics for his pioneering work in My Life. Luca wireless communication. The lecture Nostro. Solo Concert will be g iven y by Marconi’s daughter, 6:00 pm Princess Elettra Marconi, co-author Italian Cultural Institute of (with her mother, Contessa Maria New York, 686 Park Avenue Cristina Marconi) and editor of Marco- ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork ni, My Beloved (1995). Pr incess Marconi ● This concert is dedicated to Ital- will speak about her lif and give eye- ian and American composers of witness accounts of her father’s work, contemporary music who brought including his development of Vatican electric guitar to its extremes. Radio and his scientific experiments From soft and groovy minimal - on board the floating laboratory, the ism to rock, psychedelic, noise and yacht Elettra. The lecture is in English electronic music, electric guitar is and free to the public. A reception and a versatile instrument that can be book signing will follow. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 25 Events ➜ Ongoing

Until Jul 20

ongoing The Poetry of events Parmigianino’s “Schiava Turca” The Frick Collection 1 E 70th Street Until Jun 14 ◗ frick.org ● Named after his native city of Born Liars Parma, Francesco (‘Parmigianino’) June Havoc Theater Mazzola only lived to be thirty-seven 312 West 36th Street years old, yet his eloquent, innovative ◗ abingdontheatre.org art led contemporaries to dub him ● Born Liars is the first original play by “Raphael reborn.” During his short Italytheater, an international not-for- life, Parmigianino was especially profit project conceived by Vittorio esteemed for his portraits. Today his Capotorto and Francesco Pagano. Be- Schiava Turca, an exquisite depiction of fore moving to New York City in 1997 a young woman, is an icon in the city Liuzzo & Associates is dedicated to securing from his native Italy, Vittorio Capotor- of Parma and admired as an expres- nonimmigrant working visas and status, U.S. to staged more than a hundred plays sion of ideal female beauty in the tra- over the course of forty years. Born Li- dition of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. Rarely permanent residence, corporate compliance ars delivers a universal message about seen outside its home institution, programs, citizenship, naturalization, and truth and lies. Truth is as fragile as a the Galleria Nazionale di Parma, this expatriation matters for its clients. As a firm bud; it needs care and protection to masterpiece the Atlantic for turn into a beautiful flower. Lies, on the first time to be displayed at NYC’s whose practice is exclusively focused on U.S. the contrary, are exactly like hur- Frick Collection and the Legion of Immigration and Naturalization law, we ricanes. They grow relentlessly and Honor, part of the Fine Arts Museum successfully represent all foreign individuals devastate everything in their paths. of San Francisco. The catalogue for Born Liars pays tribute to the genius the exhibition offers a new interpre- and corporate entities. From artists to of Eduardo De Filippo while largely tation of the sitter’s identity and will multinational corporate executives, Liuzzo & reinterpreting his original script. The be accompanied by a range of public Associates assists its clients in determining message, though, remains timeless. programs. The Poetry of Parmigianino’s the most appropriate and efficient strategy to “Schiava Turca” has been organized by The Frick Collection with the Founda- meet their objectives. Until Jun 29 tion for Italian Art & Culture. Given the prominence of immigration issues

Roberto Cuoghi’ in today’s political climate, recent arrivals to Šuillakku Corral Until Sep 1 the U.S. are in need of reliable and New Museum, 235 Bowery comprehensive advice upon which to base ◗ newmuseum.org Italian Renaissance their future plans. Liuzzo & Associates is ● For his exhibition in the third floor Drawings from the galleries of the New Museum, Cuoghi Robert Lehman ideally positioned at the forefront of will present Šuillakku – corral version Collection immigration regulatory changes, keeping pace (2014), an ambitious sound piece based The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with evolving laws as well as our clients’ on an imaginary ancient Assyrian la- 1000 5th Avenue expectations. ment from 612 BC and performed on a ◗ metmuseum.org collection of handmade instruments ● This exhibition features master- carefully researched, built, and played pieces of central and southern Ital- by the artist himself. Roberto Cuoghi ian drawing spanning the fifteenth was born in Modena, Italy, in 1973, and and sixteenth centuries. Among the lives and works in Milan. Solo exhibi- 42 works, Florentine drawings will be tions of his work have been presented especially well represented by such at the Hammer Museum in Los Ange- celebrated Renaissance masters les (2011), Castello di Rivoli in Turin as Leonardo da Vinci and Antonio (2008), the Institute of Contemporary Pollaiuolo, while among southern Arts in London, and Centre Interna- Italian examples is a rare drawing tional d’Art et du Paysage de l’Île de attributed to Antonello da Messina. Vassivière in Baumont du Lac, Explorations of the human form (2007). through fig ure studies and por traits, One Penn Plaza, Suite 2016 • New York, NY 10119 as well as expansive compositional Tel: 212.736.2100 • Fax: 212.736.2159 sketches for biblical and mythologi- [email protected] • www.liuzzolaw.com See the full cal narratives, present a wide spec- trum of drawing types and subjects, calendar both sacred and secular. The exhi- online bition examines the varying ways that drawings functioned in the

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Renaissance, from working tools in as cancer patients and their families. artists’ workshops to sheets made Bosi Contemporary focuses on creat- for patrons. Representing different ing a space that will nurture creative FROM THE MASTER DIRECTOR OF stages of the design process, the discourse between different facets of VINCERE AND GOOD MORNING NIGHT selection ranges from rapid prelimi- art and contemporary culture. nary sketches and detailed figural studies to highly finished composi- tional drawings. Jun 20 - Aug 20

From Street to Art Jun 6 - Jun 12 Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue Open Roads ◗ iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork Film Society of Lincoln ● For the first time ever, the Italian “ Center, 165 W 65th Street Cultural Institute has invited 12 Ital- AN UNQUALIFIED ◗ filmlinc.com ian street artists to participate in the ● The new generation of Italian film- contemporary art exhibition “From SUCCESS. makers continues to explore new ar- Street to Art.” These standout artists Another film of sparkling intelligence eas of Italian life and culture, telling have had the cunning to carry their ar- from Marco Bellochio.” –Deborah Young, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER new stories in surprisingly new ways. tistic vision to Italy and abroad. They Open Roads has served as the leading were also chosen for their ability to “ North American showcase of contem- straddle the gap between public art THE BEST POLITICAL porary Italian cinema for the past 13 and gallery art. Fabio Troisi, director years. More than a third of the films in of the Italian Cultural Institute’s arts FILM OF THE ERA. this year’s Open Roads are documen- department, organized the exhibition Marco Bellocchio proves that taries or by documentarians working with curator Simone Pallotta, art di- cinema is still alive.” –Armond White, NATIONAL REVIEW in fiction, with rich and fascinating rector of The Walls, an online magazine results. (For more detail see pgs. 19-21). about contemporary urban art. This kind of event suits New York, the sa- cred temple of street art, and this year Jun 9 - Jul 24 it will help people see how a countr y as old as Italy is changing, after recently In Scena! Italian beginning to accept street art as art. Theater Festival NY The participating Italian artists are Various venues 108, Agostino Iacurci, Aris, BR1, Ciop ◗ inscenany.com & Kaf, Dem, Erica il cane, Hitnes, Run, ● Kairos Italy Theater, the preemi- Sten e Lex, Tellas and Ufo5. nent Italian theater company in N YC, presents the second annual In Scena! CATTLEYA E RAI CINEMA present in collaboration Italian Theater Festival NY. The Jun 29 - Jul 1 with FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA FILM COMMISSION event will feature six full produc- tions and four readings. (For more Summer Fancy detail see pgs. 21-22) Food Show 2014 Jacob Javits Center 655 W 34th Street Jun 16 - Jul 19 ◗ javitscenter.com DORMANT ● 2012 VENICE Are you ready to taste delicious INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Quality Of Life from all over the world? Since Award for Best New Talent Bosi Contemporary 1955, the Fancy Food Show has been

48 Orchard Street Nor th Amer ica’s largest specialt y food TORONTO ◗ bosicontemporary.com INTERNATIONAL and beverage marketplace. The Sum- BEAUTY FILM FESTIVAL ● Bosi Contemporary is pleased to mer Fancy Food Show will host 2,400 (BELLA ADDORMENTATA) present Quality of Life, a group ex- exhibitors, putting products in front of hibition featuring artists selected by over 24,000 quality buyers. The Italian A MARCO BELLOCCHIO FILM Allison Galgiani, director of the Rema side will be there with more than 40 TONI SERVILLO ISABELLE HUPPERT ALBA ROHRWACHER MICHELE RIONDINO MAYA SANSA PIER GIORGIO BELLOCCHIO GIAN MARCO TOGNAZZI FABRIZIO FALCO BRENNO PLACIDO Hort Mann Foundation. Each of the booths, from pasta to torrone to olive and with the participation of ROBERTO HERLITZKA artists, all former recipients of the oil to truffles… See you there!For more story MARCO BELLOCCHIO screenplay MARCO BELLOCCHIO VERONICA RAIMO STEFANO RULLI line producer ANTONELLA IOVINO

casting director STEFANIA DE SANTIS editing FRANCESCA CALVELLI music CARLO CRIVELLI sound GAETANO CARITO director of photography DANIELE Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant, detail see our interview with Pier Paolo CIPRÌ production designer MARCO DENTICI costumes SERGIO BALLO camera operator MATTEO CARLESIMO production delegate ARIANNA DE CHIARA

grapple with existential questions in Celeste, New York Trade Commissioner assistant director LUCILLA CRISTALDI production manager SIMONA BATISTELLI produced by CATTLEYA with RAI CINEMA an Italy-France co-production with BABE FILMS in association with LA SOFICA LA BANQUE POSTALE IMAGE 5 and LA SOFICA MANON 2 co-producer FABIO CONVERSI line producer for Cattleya MATTEO DE LAURENTIIS executive producer FRANCESCA LONGARDI produced by RICCARDO TOZZI GIOVANNI STABILINI MARCO CHIMENZ their practice; they address universal and Executive Director for the USA, pgs. directed by MARCO BELLOCCHIO tropes of how to measure a life well- 33-34). LINCOLN PLAZA CINEMAS lived, what it means to be human, STARTS FRI. 1886 BROADWAY BETWEEN 62ND & 63RD STREETS TH For Info & Advance Tickets CALL (212) 757-2280 and how seemingly indiscriminate JUNE 6 or visit www.lincolnplazacinema.com actions can be full of meaning. A por- Download the tion of each sale will be donated to i-Italy App CinemaMadeInItaly.com the Foundation’s two grant programs that support emerging artists, as well www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 27 Events ➜ Ongoing

● ● JUNE 12 - JULY 13: THE WORLD CUP 2014 The Cup and Collina Italiana ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL CENTER ‘Sportmanship’

The World Cup of soccer to be in their minds as they are going MINI CAMP played in is kicking off to be single-mindedly focused on SESSION #1: the World Cup. Like an enormous in a short few weeks. I wish June 9-July 11 chunk of the world population, SESSION #2: to use this opportunity to start our children will be lifted to high August 18-29 a reflection on sports and emotions watching the sparkling children. The Italian National dancing of young players on the green grass of 12 Brazilian fields Olympic Committee (CONI) of dreams. Few of the 32 countries believes sport activities must that are taking part in the finals be part of a healthy lifestyle of the World Cup have already set their eyes on the players who to be taughts to our children will travel to Brazil. Germany for Girotondo (circle of fun) Ages 2-5 so that they grow up good instance, whose national team athletes and good members coach is Joachim Löw, and the host country of Brazil, where An Italian language program which improves of society. their national “mister” Luiz Felipe fluency through songs, stories, games and arts Scolari has already selected its & crafts final team roster of 23 players. by Mico Delianova Licastro In Italy’s case, our national team “mister” Cesare Prandelli, Il Giardino Dei Bambini Ages 2-5 Plenty is taught to our children on announced that for sure Giuseppe techniques and smarts of the Rossi, who has been injured A drop-off playgroup. Children may join in on various sports disciplines and is not playing right now, the fun every Tues. & Thurs. from 9-12 on an as they engage in—from will be in Brazil with the team, soccer to basketball, from and might be called up even needed basis. baseball to cycling or at the last minute if the swimming—but they doctors give the OK. After Create, Act, Draw Ages 3-5 & 7-12 are not instructed the recent one-zip loss to well enough on Spain (the 13th loss out what we call of 14 “friendly” games “sportsmanship.” played) we can expect Tutoring Services This concept, “mister” Prandelli to which is at the give us some surprises core of the Olympic for his magnificent Movement, holds eleven-plus list. This Inquire About Adult Classes that sport and World Cup could be physical activities can the last one for him, play a crucial role in so he will do all he can to give giving our children self Italy The Cup! I’m sure all our Registration and prep course for esteem, gratification, kids, by age or by mind-set, CELI -Certificate of Knowledge of and in teaching them are with him on this one. Last

to interact with other Rossi Giuseppe but not least, Rossi was born in Italian Language children in a jovial Teaneck, NJ, which makes all environment. Teaching Italian Americans proud and may sportmanship to children contribute to consolidate soccer in also involves explaining the States. how a proper diet, with Let’s use the World Cup and all 1556 Third Avenue healthy food and products the interset it will rise as a great appropriate for their age will opportunity to introduce our @ 87th, Suite 603 make them grow into adulthood children to sportmanship. This is 212.427.7770 as free as possible of medical the right moment to do so. complications, emergency visits to www.collinaitaliana.com the hospitals, lost days at school. * Cav. Mico Delianova Licastro is the US [email protected] Right now, regardless of the sport Representative of the Italian National they love most they have soccer Olympic Committee (Coni).

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Taking Excellent Pasta to America

●● De Cecco is known to 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. But De Cecco is also an innovator. In inheriting the -production business from his father Nicola at the end of the XIX century, Filippo De Cecco resisted the temptation of emigrating to seek fortune in far-off America and began a new chapter of the family history by starting the production of food pasta. Filippo, however, always kept a special interest in America and feeding excellent TIP # 1 Use real Italian pasta. Pasta is serious business. Pasta pasta to millions of Italians immigrants is love. And pasta-making is love-making. Every single step, was at the core of his interests. It is from threshing the wheat to setting the table, is the product of with this goal in mind that in 1889 he created the first low temperature loving, meticulous attention to detail. Did you know that at De Cecco desiccation equipment, combining they clean the grains one by one? They just keep the heart. They antique craftsman’s experience and engineering insight. Previously, pasta blend it with cool spring water. Then pasta is bronze drawn and slow was dried in the sun, but this system dried at low temperatures to preserve the natural taste and color of had severe limitations. The pasta was semolina. The pasta is rough to the touch and porous, allowing the actually at risk of being ruined during transportation; shipments to America, to cling to it. were in jeopardy of being damaged in transit. Thanks to its innovative drying method, De Cecco was finally able to globally export products that kept their flavor and original quality intact. In 1893 in Chicago, the World’s Columbian Commission awarded the gold medal and the diploma of merit for quality to the De Cecco “ vermicelli.” This excellence standard is still key to the De Cecco story in the US today. The low temperature and slow drying process preserves the natural taste and color of semolina, helps avoid pasta breakage, and keeps all the pasta’s nutritional goodness. Besides, the usage of bronze dies enables pasta to retain a slightly rough surface that sauce clings to enhancing your eating experience. So why eat ordinary pasta when for a few cents more you can enjoy extraordinary pasta? ●● www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 20142013 | i-Italy ny | 29 Pasta Mania ➜ Special Fancy Food Show, NYC 2014

● ● FETTUCCINE AL RAGù

l Serves 4 24 oz De Cecco egg fettuccine n 1 stalk of celery n 1 n 1 carrot n A sprig of parsley n 30 oz tomato puree n 10 oz ground (pork and ) n 10 oz ground meat (pork and veal) n 4 fl. oz red wine n 4 oz. grated Parmigiano n 4 tablespoons De Cecco extra virgin olive oil n

ettuccine literally means “little TIP # 2 Check to ribbons” and refers to the shape make sure the Fof the pasta. It’s a flat, thick egg noodle popular in central Italy, and it is pasta you use is made often eaten with ragù—a special, slow- in Italy with durum cooked meat sauce. There are several regional variations of ragù in Italy, the wheat semolina. The most famous being Neapolitan and best Italian pasta stays Bolognese. The one presented here is firm after cooking and Bolognese, from Emilia-Romagna. has a rough porous ● Finely dice the celery, onion, and texture that the sauce carrot. ● Cook the diced sticks to better. You’ll in a large pan with extra virgin olive oil for five minutes until the onion recognize it by the is golden. ● Add white wine and touch cook for another five minutes, until the wine evaporates. ● Add ground meat. You should use both pork ● ● ZUCCHINE E GAMBERETTI and veal. Pork is sweeter and fatter than veal and gives the sauce flavor l Serves 4 and a smooth texture. ● Add salt 24 oz De Cecco penne n 2 and pepper. ● Cook for about ten medium sized zucchini n 1 minutes, until the meat is brown. ● pound shrimp, cleaned n 4 Add tomato sauce and reduce heat tablespoons De Cecco extra ● to low. Let it cook for at least an virgin olive oil n ½ cup white ● hour and a half. When the water wine n 1 clove garlic n Freshly comes to a boil, add coarse salt. ● chopped parsley, as desired n Toss in the pasta, stirring occasion- Salt and pepper to taste n ally so it doesn’t stick. ● Cook the fettuccine for 3 minutes.If you cook it longer, Italians won’t like it! Pasta must be “al dente”—or firm to the bite. ● When the fettuccine is done, n Italy “Gamberetti e zucchine” cooki for about 10 minutes ● Add don’t drain it with a colander—just is one of the best known “mari e shrimp and cook for another 5 remove it from the pot using a large Imonti” dishes (Italian for “surf minutes ● Add half a cup of white slotted spoon. ● Add the fettuccine and turf”). Gamberetti cover the sea wine and let it cook at low heat to the saucepan. Turn off the heat and zucchini come from the soil. for about five minutes, until wine and stir carefully. ● Sprinkle with This southern-Italian dish is very evaporates ● Add a bit of chopped gamberetti should be paired with parmigiano and a little extra virgin popular in the area stretching from parsley ● When the water comes a dry white wine (not too strong). olive oil, and stir. ● Fettuccine al Naples to the coasts of Sorrento and to a boil, add coarse salt and toss We recommend ‘Greco di Tufo’, ragù bolognese should be paired Amalfi, a very rocky coastline with in the penne, stirring occasion- from Avellino, near Naples. ‘Gre- with still, medium-bodied red mountains overlooking the sea. ally, and cook for 9 minutes—not co,’ or Greek, refers to the wine, especially a wine produced in longer: remember that pasta who introduced the wine to the Emilia Romagna. We recommend ● Cut zucchini lengthwise and must be “al dente” ● When penne region of Campania roughly 2,500 San Giovese. discard white center, then cut is ready, drain well but without years ago. into julienne strips ● Add extra rinsing ● Pour penne into the pan virgin olive oil to a pan and cook and stir over a high flame for an- This video- This video- at medium heat for about a other minute ● Just before serv- recipe on your minute ● Then add garlic and ing, add pepper, a bit of chopped recipe on your smartphone remove it when it’s golden ● Add parsley and a few drops of extra smartphone your zucchini strips and stir, virgin olive oil ● Penne zucchine e

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● ● ALLA PUTTANESCA ● Coarsely chop some anchovies so that they release flavor more rapidly ● Add capers ● Add pep- l Serves 4 per and salt to taste—but don’t 24 oz De Cecco spaghetti n 8 oz overdo it: capers and anchovies diced tomatoes n 6 tablespoons are already pretty salty ● Add De Cecco extra virgin olive oil diced tomatoes and let the sauce n 1/3 pound of black olives n ● 6 anchovy filets n 1 clove of cook for about 15 minutes garlic n 1 tablespoon of capers When the water comes to a boil, n A sprig of parsley n Salt and add coarse salt and toss in the pepper to taste n pasta, stirring occasionally so it doesn’t stick ● Cook for 12 minutes until “al dente.” ● When ready, strain the spaghetti with a colander—but do not rinse ● Pour his celebrated Southern dish is ● Pour extra virgin olive oil into the spaghetti into the saucepan, comparatively young for Ital- a deep pan and add a clove of sprinkle with fresh chopped Tian standards; its popularity garlic, stirring to give flavor to parsely and mix thoroughly with spiked in the 1960s. It gets its name the oil ● Meanwhile, cut the the sauce ● Spaghetti alla put- from the word “puttana”, meaning tomatoes, discard the center, and tanesca should be paired with (pardon our Italian) “whore.” Nobody then finey dice the remaining to- a young, well-bodied red wine. really knows where this name comes matoes ● Add the anchovy filets A good choice would be Ischia from, but some argue that it’s a refer- to the pan and stir thoroughly Rosso, from the famous island ence to the sauce’s hot, spicy flavor. It’s ● Add black olives and continue just in front of Naples. But you also a quick, cheap --not politi- stirring (if possible, buy fresh may stick to more popular wines cally correct, but definitely tantalizing. untreated and pit them yourself) from such as Nero d’Avola. TIP #3 Never rinse pasta unless you are preparing a cold dish such as pasta salad. This video- Rinsing would eliminate the starch in the water, recipe on your smartphone a necessary element that helps the sauce stick better. Besides, rinsing would cool the pasta and prevent it from absorbing the sauce. A difference you can tell. De Cecco’s low temperature and slow drying process ● ● RIGATONI ZUCCA E SALSICCIA evokes the traditional sun-dried method for drying pasta, l Serves 4 which preserves 24 oz De Cecco rigatoni n 2 the natural color of n Italian 16 oz squash semolina (so it does n 1 carrot n 1 scallion n 4 fl. oz not dry to a darker white wine n 4 tablespoons De yellow-brown color) Cecco extravirgin olive oil n 4 and helps avoid tablespoons grated Pamigiano n pasta breakage.

is ready, don’t strain the rigatoni— just remove it from the pot using a large slotted spoon and add it to the saucepan. The starch in the ucca”, or squash, was from skins and add them to the water will help the sauce stick imported from America saucepan, stirring and mincing to the pasta ● Cook over a high “Zto Europe, thanks to the meat with a fork. Let the meat flame for a minute or so, stirring Christopher Columbus. For a long cook for about 5 minutes until thoroughly ● Before serving add time it hasn’t really been appreci- brown ● Cube squash and add some extra virgin olive oil and ated in Italy; it was used mainly by it to the pan, stirring in with the sprinkle with grated parmesan southern peasants and was consid- meat for a few minutes ● Add ● Rigatoni zucca e salsiccia ered “poor people’s food.” Over time, white wine and cook for another may be paired with a red wine, not however, it became a very popular 5 minutes until it evaporates ● too dry, such as Lambrusco, from Above: ‘Farfalle’ getting ready at the ingredient for pasta dishes and this Lower the flame, cover and let it central-northern Italy. De Cecco production plant in Fara variation, pairing squash with Ital- cook for 10 minutes ● Meanwhile, San Martino. Below, left: The bronze ian , is really a must. when the water comes to a boil, dies used at De Cecco to draw pasta This video- add coarse salt and toss in the shapes. To its right: The The image of recipe on your a peasant woman carrying sheaves ● Chop scallion and brown in a rigatoni, stirring occasionally so it of harvested wheat has adorned De deep thick pan with extra virgin doesn’t stick. Cook rigatoni for 14 smartphone Cecco packages for over a century. olive oil ● Remove sausages minutes until “al dente” ● When it www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 31

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● ● TALKING WITH THE ITALIAN TRADE COMMISSIONER The Italian Trade Promotion Agency is a government organization that promotes the internationalization of Italian Summer Fancy Food businesses, in accordance with the Ministry for Economic Development. The Agency provides information, support Show: A Taste of Italy and advice to Italian and foreign companies. For example, the agency deals with “Italian- sounding products,” counterfeit “Italian” food products sold Away from Italy with Italian-like names – like “Parmesao” from Brazil - which, rather than reflecting a general food category, mask a lower-quality product that undermines many Italian companies’ reputation for producing high quality food.

Italy will again dominate associations and chambers of this year’s Summer Fancy commerce, will offer the best of the Made in Italy label. The Food Show at the Jacob Italian Trade Commission has Javits Convention Center. grouped them together in the Area ITALIA, which features 305 exhibitors on two floors, by Natasha Lardera with 224 producers on level 3 and 81 on level 1. ●● Good news for Italy: To know more about all this Americans haven’t had their fill we visited the Italian Trade Italian Trade of . In fact, their Agency ion New York and Commissioner appetite for Italian products – met met Pier Paolo Celeste, Pier Paolo Celeste especially the healthy, authentic, Trade Commissioner and and Natalia Quintavalle, quality variety – is still on Executive Director for the USA. Consul General of the rise. And Italy will again In Mr. Celeste’s office, under a Italy in New York, visit dominate this year’s Summer stunning De Chirico painting the Italian Pavillon Fancy Food Show at New York’s and over a classic Italian coffee, at Summer Fancy Jacob K. Javits Convention we took stock of the large Food 2013. Above: The Center. Over 300 companies, Italian presence at Fancy Food. entrance to the Italian Pavillon (Photo by including individual producers, “As with every year, we are Riccardo Chioni). cooperatives, consortia, excited to bring exceptional www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 33 Dining In ➜ Taking Italy to Your Family Table authentic Italian food products to the American table,” said Mr. Celeste. “Italy is a nation steeped in tradition, culture, beauty and good taste. What better way to convey all its richness than a massive sprawl of the best there is in Italian ? As you walk through our area you’ll find yourself on a gustatory trip from the cool Italian North to the sunny, Mediterranean- washed South.”

Fancy Food is clearly a fair for professionals, well known to those in the industry. To us, however, it seems like an excellent occasion for all. “Yes, definitely, you can find the biggest players in the Italian agribusiness representing their products. But it’s a real ‘Made in Italy’ We often ear that the fair, an enjoyable excursion for Italian Trade Agency has an everyone.” educational function too. What does this mean? The quality standard of “We advise Italian producers Italian products is directly on how to invest in the linked to the region from American market and, most which they come. Each importantly, to educate product gains its unique consumers. That is our mission flavor because it comes from a too. Education is important and As for the classic Italian certain area whose conditions it’s achieved through tastings. delicacy – cured , to be legalized in the US, and cannot be replicated At the Fancy Food Show or – last year at progress is being made.” elsewhere. people will have the chance to Fancy Food the Italian “The Italian government is taste the high quality of our Salumi Promotion Institute Meanwhile how are food and getting serious about defending products. They will be able announced that a 40-year ban wine exports to the US going food made in Italy and the to tell the difference between on the importation of Italian in general? Italian Trade Agency is helping lower quality products.” Salumi had been lifted, and “It’s going great. At the end of out in many different ways. taught the American food 2013, Italy ranked 8th among We advise Italian producers All foods and beverages will trade all about meat products nations exporting food and to draw attention to the be displayed and offered for such as salami, , beverages to the US, with an specific quality indications, sampling, from olive oil (the coppa and other cured meats increase of 7.20%, but came such as the PDO (Protected most widely-represented that had been aged under 400 in a secure first place in the Designation of Origin), which group) and balsamic vinegar days. Are things progressing most important categories, identifies the designation of to preserved vegetables, from in this realm? such as olive oil, cheese, pasta a product that is produced, fresh pasta to baked goods, “Yes, there are new salumi and wine. In 2013, Italian food processed and prepared in a from ready-to-eat to like Toscano, exports to the U.S. rose to $4 specific geographic area; and organic cheeses and meats. which got its PDO in July 1996. billion, $1.6 billion of which is the PGI (Protected Geographical Coffee, soft drinks, wines and Tuscan salt-cured ham has in the wine sector alone. Indication), which certifies liqueurs will also be displayed. been made in Tuscany since at least one of the phases Anything special this year? the 15th century. It is aged for What explains this success? (production, processing, “Well, there will be more gluten- at least one year and cured “This increase in Italian food preparation) takes place in free and organic products than with a blend of natural exports is due to the fact that a specific geographic area. before. And we’ll have Chinotto, commonly used in traditional Americans have become more There is also TSG (Traditional a soft drink that Americans are Tuscan cuisine, such as pepper, health conscious and have Specialty Guaranteed), which not so familiar with. Chinotto garlic, rosemary and juniper. realized that Italian products guarantees that a food has is produced from the juice of This results in a more intense not only taste good, they’re been traditionally produced, the fruit of the myrtle-leaved and spicy flavor compared also good for your health. processed or made with orange tree and its appearance with Prosciutto di Parma Authenticity, quality and good traditional raw materials, but is similar to that of cola. It’s not and Prosciutto San Daniele. nutrition all come together in that does not certify that the as sweet but it’s rather bitter. Prosciutto Toscano has been the Mediterranean diet. Try it protected food product has Chinotto soda dates back to the available in the US since 2013. yourself at the Summer Fancy a link to a specific place of 1950s and is produced in Italy by But there are more cured Food Show, where you can taste origin.” different companies.” meats that are still waiting Italy away from Italy.” ●●

34 | i-Italy ny | June-July 2014 | www.i-ItalyNY.com www.i-Italy.org Dining In ➜ Taking Italy to Your Family Table ● ● THE ART OF BREADMAKING Industrial or artisanal bread? Most people today eat On Bread Alone... industrial bread that is treated with additives and preservatives to withstand the processes of freezing and packaging for large- scale distribution. Fresh artisanal bread is mainly made with local flour without additives. Considering the time and work that goes into making artisanal bread, it’s clearly more expensive than industrial bread. But artisanal bread is more natural and better quality. For example, it’s more easily digested and smells better. In fact, According to the Italian Federation of Bakers, or FIPPA, 75% of bread consumed in Italy is artisanal bread. FIPPA has created a set of regulations for labeling real artisanal bread. The quality seal called “Bollino Bianco” guarantees that a particular A few things to keep in mind kind of bread has been “made made with farro, a coarse cooked their bread in public in a continuous process if you want to make real grain. Near Porta Maggiore ovens as well as private ones, without interruptions to “Italian” bread at home. in Rome, there still stands like those found in the houses freeze, deep-freeze or prolong an ancient monument built of Pompeii, and the first bakery the shelf-life of primary to commemorate bakers, was opened in Rome in 15 ingredients for baked goods.” by Dino Borri with a tower of three large BC.But it was in medieval cylinders where people used times that bread took on a Do it yourself, but... ●● The art of breadmaking to leave their bread to rise. The prominent status due to its You can certainly try baking may have been born in Egypt cylinders are stacked vertically central role in the Christian your own bread at home, and later reached Greece and and horizontally on top of sacrament. Since then it has given the basic ingredients Rome, where people depended one another, and above them been a staple on every table in involved (flour, yeast, water on the cultivation of grains a fresco depicts the various Italy. But what kinds of bread and salt), but there are a few for nourishment. The Roman treatments a grain undergoes do we eat and how do we go things to keep in mind if you was polenta to become bread. The Romans about making them? want to make real “Italian” bread. The main ingredient in bread is flour. Flour is made with kernels of wheat or ground grain. The most widely available grain, flour is mostly cultivated in the central and northern regions of Italy, where it is categorized according to how finely the flour has been ground. “00” flour is the finest ground white flour (similar to all- purpose or pastry flour in America) with no bran. “1” flour and “2” flour contain increasing amounts of bran. Remember, however, that the lack or near-lack of impurities in flour means that the grain is depleted of main nutrients. It might seem strange, but the most important ingredient www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 35 Dining In ➜ Taking Italy to your family table for making artisanal bread is commodity, and bakers would serious about breadmaking Where to find IT yeast. In particular, “starter set aside a part of each day’s you should never forget water yeast,” considered the soul of , which they would and salt. You can distinguish Eataly bread. “Starter yeast” gives refresh by removing the outer all kinds of Italian bread by 200 5th Avenue bread its shape and taste, layer of crust and re-kneading these two ingredients! Water ◗ www.eatalny.com whether it’s made with a it with water and flour. This is essential. Good bread is one leftover bit of dough or dough kind of yeast goes by many hundred parts flour to forty made with flour, water and names in Italy: pastella acida, or fifty parts water. Salt is sugar that have been mixed pasta (or lievito) madre and, also indispensable. However, together and fermented around Cuneo in Piedmont, some kinds of bread are spontaneously. Once upon Alvà, which is conserved and traditionally made without a time, natural yeast was used to this day. salt, like Tuscan bread or considered a precious Last but not least, if you are Umbrian bread from Terni. ●● DiPalo’s 200 Grand St. (at Mott St.) ◗ www.dipaloselects.com

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A favorite dish...... And the right wine for it by Michele Scicolone by Charles Scicolone Cooking with Wine: From Tuscany: Rollatini di pollo al Vino Rosso Chianti

● White wine with fish and l find it in NYC red wine with meat is an easy In Vino Veritas 1375 First Avenue, Follow Michele Follow Charles rule to follow when it comes to (212) 288-0100 n Morrell One cooking with wine. But what at i-Italy.org Rockefeller Plaza, 212-688-9370 n at i-Italy.org kind of wine do Italian cooks choose when cooking chicken? In Tuscany, the answer is often red. In this favorite recipe I first and salt and pepper to taste. ate in , thin chicken Place a slice of prosciutto on cutlets are wrapped around top. Roll up the cutlets length- a filling of fresh wise and tie herbs and pro- l Serves 4 them with sciutto. The rolls 1 tablespoon chopped fresh kitchen string. are browned in rosemary n 1 tablespoon In a large olive oil, then sim- chopped fresh sage n 1 garlic skillet, heat mered in red wine, clove, very finely chopped n the oil over preferably Chianti. 8 thin-sliced chicken cutlets medium heat. The wine stains n Salt and freshly ground Add the chicken the chicken a deep pepper n 8 slices prosciutto and cook, turn- reddish brown and n 2 tablespoons olive oil n ing the pieces the winey juices 1 cup dry red wine, such as frequently with form a delicious Chianti n tongs, until sauce to serve browned on all A recent campaign for the Chianti Wine over the chicken. It is a simple sides, about 10 minutes. Consortium developed by the renowned Italian advertising agency Armando Testa. recipe that takes no more than Add the wine and cook, turning 30 minutes to prepare and is the pieces occasionally, until perfect for either company or the chicken is cooked through ● There are many great grape extends to the provinces of Pisa, family meals. and the juices run clear when varieties in Italy, but if I had Prato and Siena. Chianti wines I like to serve these rollatini cut in the thickest part, about 15 to choose just one, it would fall under seven subdivisions: with asparagus baked with minutes. Transfer the chicken be Sangiovese. Wines made Colli Aretini, Colli Fiorentini, Parmigiano-Reggiano, and to rolls to a serving platter. Pour from Sangiovese grapes are the Colli Senesi, Colline Pisane, drink, some Chianti, of course. the sauce over them and serve perfect accompaniment to a Montalbano, Rufina and In a small bowl, combine the immediately. meal. They have strong fruity Montespertoli. The latter was rosemary, sage, and garlic. Lay flavors, a hint of violet and good the last to be added in 1997. the cutlets out on a flat surface. Adapted from 1,000 Italian Recipes, acidity. The trademark wine In addition there’s Chianti Sprinkle with the herb mixture Wiley Publishing, by Michele Scicolone. made from Sangiovese grapes is Superiore, which can come from Chianti. Chianti must be made anywhere in Chianti except for with at least 70% Sangiovese the area where Chianti Classico grapes, and, by law, a maximum is made, between Florence and of 10% international grapes such Siena. The label for Chianti as . Chianti blends can Superiore does not indicate a include up to 30% traditional specific area of production. The Tuscan grapes like Canaiolo, as Colli dell’ Etruria Centrale is well as white grape varieties like another DOC viticultural area Trebbiano and Malvasia. that allows for the production The Consorzio Vino Chianti was of wines other than Chianti, established in 1927 by a group including reds, whites, roses, of wine producers in the Tuscan novellos and Vin Santo. Chianti provinces of Pistoia, Siena, goes well with grilled steak, Arezzo and Florence. Later the roast pork or hearty chicken Consorzio expanded to cover dishes like rollatini di pollo al the entire area of production vino rosso. under the DOCG. Now the For more about wine, go to area of production for Chianti charlesscicolone.wordpress.com For more information about cooking, go to http://www.MicheleScicolone.com

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●● EATING ITALIAN NEIGHBORHOOD BY NEIGHBORHOOD Located on Macy’s 6th floor, Stella 34 A Shining ‘Stella’ at Macy’s Trattoria offers something for every palate —from

JarettJarett AppellAppell aperitivo to gelato, Chef at Stella 34 151 W 34th Street from panini to Tel. (212) 967-9251 patinagroup.com sophisticated dishes and a vast selection of wines. And, of course, great .

Appell proves his best talent with such dishes as Paccheri Napoletana (large hollow tube- shaped pasta with braised beef ragu, caramelized , and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese) and Strozzapreti con Seppia (twisted cuttlefish-ink pasta with cuttlefish in spicy pepper sauce topped with bread crumbs). But he also makes delicious pizzas. In a recent exclusive appearance on our i-ItalyNY TV show, he A badly needed oasis in the is as stunning as it is unusual, corner of the bar: it belongs to taught the audience how to chaotic shopping world of taking up 11,500 square feet on third-generation gelato maker prepare a Pizza Scafata (with Macy’s Herald Square, this Macy’s sixth floor. Silvana Vivoli from Florence, peas, favas, asparagus, spring restaurant is becoming a The first thing to strike you who’s brought her famous treats onions, smoked mozzaralla and walking into Stella 34 is the outside of their home city for bacon, garnished with pecorino destination for Italian- glow of its dining room. As the first time. cheese and mint). leaning foodies and a favorite bright light enters through For those on the go the take- Stella 34 proudly proposes over in the garment district. the oversized bay windows out counter will prepare classic 200 Italian wines to compliment boasting views of the Empire panini and Neapolitan-style the chef’s creations and has State Building and Herald Square pizzas; both meat lovers and been granted the Ospitalità by Iwona Adamczyk below, it creates a welcoming vegetarians alike will find Italiana seal by the Italy-America and warm atmosphere. This something satisfying on the Chamber of Commerce—an ●● The new addition to one of is further emphasized by the menu. official recognition of its high the busiest stores in New York carefully selected colors and But if you’re looking for a more quality approach to Italian City, Macy’s Herald Square the playfulness of the decor, sophisticated dining experience, cuisine. No wonder that since is proving to be a true star including walls filled with get comfortable in the radiant its inception in late 2013 it (or “stella” in Italian). Stella caricatures of food celebrities, dining room, with its open has become a destination for 34, a modern trattoria-style bold turquoise vases filled with kitchen and three wood-burning many Italian-leaning foodies restaurant, is quickly becoming a yellow flowers or lemons, and ovens. Executive chef Jarett in the City, including crowds destination not just for shoppers, more turquoise glasses on the Appell, an American master of of Italian tourists who literally including many Italians dining tables that echo the attire Italian cuisine, will wow even the shout for joy when they discover overwhelmed by the scale of the of the waitstaff. most demanding palates. Having this familiar oasis during their nine-floor department store, but An inviting bar introduces worked for over two years in unforgettable Macy’s shopping also for many New York foodies guests to the Italian tradition distinguished restaurants in tour — Forget hot-dogs for today, in search of Italian treasures. of the late afternoon aperitivo, Rome, Naples, Parma, and you’ve found a Stella! ●● A little over a year ago, Mascy’s serving specially priced Italian Verona he has developed a flagship store partnered with wines, , and cocktails deep passion for traditional Patina Restaurant Group to offer accompanied by complimentary Italian cuisine and food culture, Stella 34 an unusual space for an upscale seasonal savory bites. And based on fresh ingredients and on i-Italy|TV restaurant within the 111 year- don’t forget the heavenly seasonality, and complemented old landmark store. The space Vivoli Gelateria located at one with masterful creativity.

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Amalfi, with capicolla, provolone and sun-dried tomatoes, and the Salerno, DiningDining OutOut SpecialSpecial with ham, fried eggplant and smoked The Best Italian Salads in New York City . They also serve classic salads like insalata di rucola and in- salata di spinaci, as well as the unique Who said Italian cuisine has no vegetarian options? You can find vegetarian dishes just gem, salad. Served with aru- about anywhere in the boot. And a lot of raw options too. While it’s true that a gula, the octopus is charred to perfec- “classical” Italian salad is made, like the country’s flag, of three colors—lettuce (green), tion and lightly seasoned so as not to tomatoes (red) and onions (white)—it doesn’t have to be just that. There are thousands overpower its flavor. of possible combinations. You could have a different salad every day for years! Here is a list of Italian restaurants in NYC that specialize in creating delicious salads packed East Village with the most assorted—but always healthy—ingredients. Gnocco 337 E 10th Street %(212) 677-1913 ◗ www.gnocco.com

cuisine authentic atmosphere rustic price $$

● Gnocco gets its name from an Emilian dish called gnocco fritto, deep fried dough served with a selection of typical northern Italian cold cuts. This cozy, East Village gem featuring a heated outdoor garden includes sev- eral traditional dishes from northern Italy on the menu, including a vari- ety of salads. Insalata belga consists of endive served with caramelized grapes, croutons and melted DOP cheese dressing. Insalata di rughetta emiliana is an arugula salad with crunchy pancetta and 25-year aged balsamic vinegar from Modena. Arugula is not just good, it is packed with nutrition: it is a cruciferous veg- A mercato ortofrutticolo (fruit and vegetable market) in Naples. Photo by Luigi (myfootprintsintheworld.wordpress.com) etable known to reduce the risk of cancer and it is rich with valuable tures Baraonda’s own chopped salad warm, sauteed calamari served with antioxidants. Upper with lettuce, hearts of palm, avocado, seasonal vegetables in a sun-dried to- roasted peppers, radish and celery. mato vinaigrette. The delizia di mare Via Della Pace East Side is a seafood extravaganza of scal- 48 E 7th Street Caravaggio Restaurant lops, lobster, crabmeat, octopus, and % (212) 253-5803 Baraonda ◗ www.viadellapacenyc.com 1439 2nd Avenue 23 E 74th Street shrimp served with sauteed endive, (212) 288-1004 (212) 288-8555 % shaved fennel, and topped with an cuisine roman % ◗ www.caravaggioristorante.com ◗ www.baraondany.com oven-dried tomato vinaigrette. atmosphere casual price $$ cuisine classic cuisine authentic atmosphere elegant atmosphere fun price $$$ price $$$ Yorkville ● Named after one of Rome’s main Il Salumaio drags, just a few steps from Piazza ● Known for transforming into a ● Owned by the Fratelli Bruno, origi- Navona, Via Della Pace serves au- 1731 2nd Avenue dance madhouse on Sunday nights, nally from Salerno, Caravaggio serves %(646) 852-6876 thentic Roman food made with family Baraonda (the word means chaos) is a elegant, sophisticated Italian cuisine ◗ www.ilsalumaiony.com recipes that have been passed along colorful, quietly chic locale that serves with a modern twist. The restaurant from generation to generation. The authentic Italian food to international is a favorite destination of locals and cuisine specialty sandwiches restaurant is known for its tasty and atmosphere casual jetsetters looking for a good time. tourists alike, especially art-enthu- reasonably priced dishes, fun atmo- price $$ There are quite a few salads to choose siasts who come to see a one-of-a- sphere and friendly staff. All of their from. A must is toscana, with kind art collection that even features ● The Casella brothers, Fabio and salads have been named after Roman tomatoes, cucumbers, black olives, works by Henri Matisse. Caravaggio Ciro, opened this authentic Italian streets and squares. Named after the croutons and aged ricotta. Pan- is only a few steps away from the delicatessen with the idea of mak- massive square in front of St. Peter’s zanella is a Tuscan salad made with Metropolitan Museum of Art and the ing only unbelievable sandwiches Cathedral, the Piazza San Pietro salad stale bread and tomatoes popular in Asia Society, so it is the perfect des- and some pasta to order. But the food features mixed greens, grilled zuc- the summer and representative of tination for a day dedicated to fine was so amazing that they had to turn chini, roasted peppers, asparagus & cucina povera. The classica insalata tritata art. And the salads are artistic too, their deli into a restaurant. Their smoked mozzarella. If you like truf- di Baraonda is also noteworthy and fea- like the insalata tiepida di calamaretti, monumental sandwiches include the fles, try the Pantheon. For salmon, go www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 39 Dining Out ➜ Restaurants+Pizzerias+Wine Bars

● Emilia-Romagna is a region in con and goat cheese in a shallot vin- East Village Greenwich Italy best-known for its excellent aigrette; and golden and red beets Paprika Village food, from prosciutto and Parmi- served with sheep’s-milk feta and 110 St Marks Place giano-Reggiano to a vast variety of greens in a citrus vinaigrette. The ben- % (212) 677-6563 Lupa Osteria Romana freshly made pasta (from efits of spinach are many: they are low ◗ www.paprikanyc.com 170 Thompson Street to tortelli). The menu at Via Emilia in calories yet very high in vitamins, %(212) 982-5089 features local specialties made with minerals and other phytonutrients. cuisine northern italian ◗ www.luparestaurant.com atmosphere cozy great care according to family reci- price $$ cuisine roman pes by chef and owner William Mat- DelPosto atmosphere casual tiello. The salad menu features a 85 10th Avenue ● Small and incredibly cozy, Pa- price $$$ delicious insalata di anatra con mele %(212) 497-8090 ◗ prika features the perfect fusion of verdi, smoked duck breast on a bed www.delposto.com Northern Italian and ● This casual and fun West Village of baby spinach served with sliced cuisine classic that fetches an affordable price. The trattoria, conceived by Mario Batali, green apples and walnuts. Apples atmosphere sophisticated owner, Savr Zaraev, serves only the Joseph Bastianich, Mark Ladner and are packed with rich phytonutrients price $$$$ highest quality food, from organic Jason Denton, serves up Roman fare that are indispensable for optimal ingredients to traditional recipes, with a New York twist. The high qual- health. The antioxidants in apples ● At Del Posto, food, service and at- and makes each dining experi- ity food is pretty moderately priced. have many health and disease pre- mosphere are second to none. The ence unique. 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Teresa Cinque and some of her works on show at the Italian Consulate General in New York

The idea is to make outlines or take silhouettes of everyday things that captivate me and translate what I see into flatness

spontaneously. “The process… her eyes light up immediately. She worked contrary to what you’d has been here a long time. After expect: I started with apparel graduating from school, she joined then drew the soul [of the project] the collective Prince Street Artists from that. I stripped the apparel and was thunderstruck. From of its function in order to capture that moment on, she has never Fabrics and wallpaper, cuts of certain situations. Finding a sense of its allure. I painted turned her back on the city. She and stitches. Welcome to myself toiling with fabrics again wrapping paper with oil pastels… recently participated in an exhibit the enchanting world that was nearly only natural, as if and then hung them upon hangers in Dumbo, Brooklyn—the new art this intimacy with the world on a ten-foot clothes rack.” mecca of NYC. “In New York I can Tuscan artist Teresa Cinque of textiles were something in a Another thread in her ball of practice my art better. For example, has now conjured in New woman’s genes.” But whence does yarn is Fake Furniture, a project for Italian National Day on June York. Her unusual art this desire come? Perhaps she is involving a DIY interior design 2nd my “City Specific” project, reacting to her birthplace. Teresa kit. “I made shapes out of cloth Velvet Park, will be presented at the is to transform fashion was born in Pietrasanta, the that look like home furnishings, Italian consulate. Consul Natalia and furniture objects into famous hub of marble and bronze which you can hang on the wall. Quintavalle will introduce the wall decorations. craftsmanship. Yet sculpture A bit like the inverse of Ikea, I work that I’m preparing alongside never held sway over Cinque. “I create a unique piece, a work of the artistic curator Silvia Ferrai literally grew up inside marble,” art that you can take home. But, Lilienau. The moment I saw the by Mila Tenaglia she says. “My father had a studio. like Ikea, inside the kit you can room for my show I thought But it doesn’t interest me. It’s a find instructions with drawings to immediately of trees. It was very ●● Dresses, shoes, purses, bedside cold, hard material. I have always figure out how to put it together.” spontaneous. The large cornices lamps—Teresa Cinque turns them been interested in working with Well, you can’t say it’s not an made me think of windows, so all into silhouettes made of soft cloths and fabrics, which, on original idea. But there’s a method I wanted to create a triptych fabric. By altering their character, the contrary, are soft, warm and to her magic. “If we were in the of different types of trees with she transforms these velvety pleasing to the touch.” fashion world,” says Cinque, “we branches stretching up to the fabrics and sticks them on the might call it the pret-a-porter ceiling.” wall. “I think producing images of Soft Cloth Projects version of large installation Teresa tells us she would like to the world in fabric comes from the Teresa likes to dabble in fashion work...” open a studio soon. We eagerly need to give a softer meaning and and (re)design the clothes await the day! Until then, we’ll feeling to our surroundings,” says she loves to wear. One of her In love with New York have to content ourselves with the artist, “a sort of compensation installation projects, Garderobe Teresa is passionate about New Velvet Park, which opens at 690 or consolation for the harshness (Wardrobe), came about York. Mention of the city makes Park Avenue on June 2. ●● www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 43 Ideas ➜ Style

Personal Shopper Playing Diva at the Beach

by R. H. Whether you’re in the market for dresses, bathing suits or accessories, here are some tips on how to shine on the beach this summer. Sure, we hope you can make it to the Amalfi Coast or Costa Smeralda, perhaps the or Gargano in Apulia—but the list of great beaches is endless, and our job is merely to let you in on a couple of secrets about what to wear on whatever beach you’ll be lying on. We have recommendations from major Italian brand names, but we also present proposals from smaller Italian retailers. Although less known to the large public, the products of small and medium companies have enriched Italian fashion more than you think. So here you find some tips from Mariana Antinori’s New York boutique. Italian women love combing through small fashion shops such as these. You should too.

❝1❞ Lycra, this sexy, explosive, orange- Rock Out Like Lady Gaga red suit has laser-cut graphic inserts Dunes in tulle, and is part of the beachwear La Perla collection by La Perla, an unrivaled 803 Madison Avenue brand whose name has been synony- ◗ www.laperla.com mous with haute couture in Italy for a long time. ● Why not rock the same bathing suit Lady Gaga sports in her video for her ❝2❞ hit song “G.U.Y”? In our opinion, it’s a A Little Star of the Beach great look for any woman. The name Black & White of the bathing suit is Dunes. Made of Monna Lisa 1088 Madison Avenue ◗ www.monnalisany.com 1 ● Sporty swimwear for your little diva. Whether your kids are made of sugar and or snips and snails, Monna Lisa will make them look like 3 big stars. The cutting-edge fashion house is constantly evolving, creating 2 a classy line of clothes with exciting details and original fabrics suitable for young boys and girls ❝3❞ Evening Promenade Sportmax 450 W Broadway ◗ www.sportmax.com ● It’s always a good idea to have a dress for strolling along the board- walk. For us, a long, discrete dress is always eye-catching. You won’t go unnoticed in this asymmetric black- and-white viscose crepe dress by Sportmax. The dress suits all women of all ages. If you’re still young and have to keep an eye on your budget, take a tip from us: Get your mom to buy it. She can wear it out in the eve- ning and you can borrow it once in a while for romantic nights out with your boyfriend.

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● For when the weather takes a turn for the worse or those windswept Amedeo ● Neapolitan stylist Amedeo summer days, for those of you lucky 958 Lexington Avenue Scognamiglio won the hearts enough to be on a cruise or crazy ◗ www.amedeonyc.com of celebrities with his line of enough to face the wind on the cameos. Continuing a very old bridge in the middle of the night, manufacturing tradition, the try this reversible trench coat made ancient art of inlaid cameos, Scognamiglio learned his trade of polyester satin, silk, linen and from his hometown, Torre del Greco. But his cameos have noth - waterproof high-tech fabric with a ing to do with grandma’s jewels, decorated with busts and drawstring hood. It’s a jewel for the profiles of belle époque babes or heavenly gods. His cameos nonchalant chic. are modern, witty, provocative, inlaid with humorous skulls and famous little monkeys. And who could forget his first ❝5❞ client? We remember well the Clutches, an Essential first time the girls of Sex and Mariana Antinori the City sported his cameos; 1242 Madison Avenue they may as well have had the ◗ www.marianaantinori.com whole of Campania dangling from their necks. Given their ● This is a typical little gem you find unique color, shape and de- in Mariana Antinori’s boutique. It sign, these handmade objects looks casual, but it’s not. It comes are some of the most sought- in a variety of colors and is perfect after jewels among stars like for evening wear or any social ob- Lady Gaga and Madonna. ligation. We love its simplicity and cheerfulness. If we had to compare it to a flower, we would compare it to a daisy: clean, simple, perfect, timeless.

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Flavio Manzoni designing the Leucos lamp for his Madreterra project. Below: our interview at CIMA.

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● ● CONVERSATION WITH FLAVIO MANZONI – THE MIND BEHIND TODAY’S FERRARI DESIGN Madreterra: A lamp for Sardinia

An amazing lamp is the star me back to my roots, almost abstractly, as a sort of cosmogram here, having worked in New of an evening at CIMA (the fiercely. I really wanted to give a in which each figure has its own York for many years. Like me, his substantial personal contribution meaning; and allegorically, as a bond with his motherland was Center for Italian Modern Art to help rebuild one of the worst figurative work in which each bolstered while living elsewhere. in New York). The aim is hit areas of Sardinia. I wanted to figure evokes Manzoni’s personal Sometimes distance helps you to raise funds to rebuild have a very concrete target. So bond with his land. “For example, recover that sense of belonging for a few days after the disaster there is an image that reminds me and reconcile yourself with your a school severely damaged I let my thoughts flow. The of my father, who passed away roots.” by a flood in Flavio considerations and memories a short time before this disaster. Manzoni’s native land, the that emerged led me to compose I wanted him to be there. But The lamp is now in New York, this work.” there’s also my son, because when but it has already been in several marvelous Italian island of something like this happens, you other places. What’s its itinerary? Sardinia. In this interview Today, the mind behind Ferrari’s start thinking of those who will “It went to first, then to Manzoni tells us about his masterpieces – not to mention come after us.” the Art Fair, the Milan project, carried out in designs for Lancia, Volkswagen, Furniture Fair and is now here in and SEAT – doesn’t want to talk A sense of new life after New York. The aim is to show it conjunction with Leucos, a about cars. He wants to talk about something has been shattered, around and allow it to be seen and leading company of Italian- the damage done to his native a positive piece of art… known before the auction.” made lighting solutions. land. Sardinia is the reason he “That’s exactly right. The lamp undertook a two-day trip to New symbolizes light in every way, Inside the lamp is an inscription. York, with only his daughter and a even with its colors and markings, Can you tell us more about that? by Letizia Airos lamp in tow. which are mainly red. They “The inscription is a metaphor that sums up the meaning of ●● We find Flavio Manzoni in I haven’t lived in Sardinia for the novel Canne al Vento (Reeds the company of a select number in the Wind) by Grazia Deledda, of architects, designers and a very long time. I left to follow a distinguished Sardinian writer journalists, in an important a dream, to become an architect and who won the Nobel Prize for center – the brainchild of the designer. But sometimes distance helps Literature in 1926. Reeds in the Wind brilliant director Laura Mattioli – is a metaphor for human fragility. established in New York in 2013 you recover that sense of belonging and What I inscribed in the lamp goes for the promotion of modern and reconcile yourself with your roots. like this: “‘Canne al vento, canne gli contemporary Italian art. What uomini, vento la sorte che le piega, le brings Ferrari’s chief of design to schianta o le curva perché si rialzino the Center for Italian Modern Art How did the idea to raise funds almost look like scratches, like più salde” (Reeds in the wind, men in New York this May? Sardinian- by designing and auctioning a wounds representing the Earth like reeds, and wind the lot that born Manzoni is here to present lamp come about? “It comes torn up by men, but at the same bends them, breaks them, twists his charity project, Madreterra, from a previous job I did with time they symbolize human them, so when they rise again (Mother Earth) a gigantic lamp Gabriele Costa and Leucos, a sacrifice, the huge price paid by they’ll be stronger). It’s a message that will go on auction at the end charitable initiative to benefit the Sardinians.” of hope, an invitation to reflect on of July. The funds raised will be City of Hope [a Pediatric Research what happened and rebuild one’s used to rebuild the Maria Rocca Institute in Padua]. We created After living away from your foundations.” School in Olbia, Sardinia, which a lamp there, too, precisely for homeland and then suddenly was completely destroyed by the its symbolic value. It represents rediscovering it through this Hope for the young … what did tremendous flood that hit the light itself. It’s something that tragedy – can you describe your daughter say while you island on November 18, 2013. inherently brings you to focus how that made you feel? “The were working on this project? At the far end of the exhibition on something, to meditate, and feeling is that the life we lead – “She followed the whole creative room, surrounded by somehow also generates hope.” frenetic, always overworked – is process, because I talked about masterpieces by Italian Futurist a life that takes you away from it often. She is very affectionate Fortunato Depero, stands The lamp is rich with details and your intimate and symbiotic and close to me, so she has a Manzoni’s massive Leucos lamp. figurative elements that have relationship with your land. What special interest in what I do. She It almost looks alive, like a giant an important symbolic value happened to me also happened has the same kind of relationship looking down upon us. It’s here, for Manzoni. “It describes, in a to Costantino Nivola, the greatest with Sardinia, which she knows seated underneath his lamp, that somewhat elaborate way, some Sardinian artist of last century from distance.” It’s not easy to our conversation takes place. sort of stream of consciousness – author of, among many other describe the great designer’s gaze that stirred inside me when the works of art, the famous sculpture as he talks about his daughter. “I haven’t lived in Sardinia for a disaster happened. Thoughts and “Grande Madre”. He is alluded to Maybe, without realizing it, he very long time, since I was 18. I memories began to flow during in the lamp by this Mediterranean has dedicated the lamp to her. left to follow a dream, to become the event that led me to make this motherly figure, which for us It’s a sign of hope for the future an architect and designer. work.” There are, so to speak, two Sardinians symbolizes the earth. of the extraordinary place that is But this tragic flood brought ways of interpreting the object: Nivola is also very well known Sardinia. ●● www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 47 ITALIAN CULTURE AT HOME IN NEW YORK LA CULTURA ITALIANA A NEW YORK

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● ● THE AMERICAN SOCIETY SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF ITALIAN-SPEAKING IMMIGRANTS Italoamericana: Writing for a Cause

At a time when Italy has Francesco Durante and Robert Viscusi read passages transformed itself into a from Italoamericana during country of arrival, dealing a special celebration at Nanni Restaurant in Manhattan on with the issues of social May 7, 2014. Right: Francesco misunderstanding and Durante with James Periconi. bigotry that accompany immigration, this anthology reminds Italians of their own citizens who left the country well over a century ago facing innumerable trials and tribulations in their new locales.

Italoamericana: The Literature many naturalization cards they of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 by Anthony Julian Tamburri Edited by Francesco Durante. acquire or how many oaths General Editor of the American Edition: Robert Viscusi they take. They can, however, ●● With his anthology of Italian Translations Editor: Anthony Julian Tamburri be equally obedient, devoted, writing produced in the United Bibliographic Editor: James J. Periconi and productive citizens of the Fordham University Press States from 1885 to 1942 circa, United States…” (72). ➤ pages 1032 ➤ $ 40.00 (paperback) Italoamericana (Mondadori, 2005), Francesco Durante Indissoluble bonds of introduced Italy to a literary A true literary tradition community at that time: affection tradition — a canon — that was Yet, Italoamericana is more. analogous, indeed, to those that Italian writing in the United totally unknown to the Italian It is proof positive that the now plague the new immigrants States continues. One need literary establishment. immigrants who came to the in Italy. Gino Speranza’s essay only think of Peter Carravetta, United States was not the (“How It Feels to Represent Alfredo de Palchi, Rita Dinale, A wake-up call for Italians illiterate bunch that many a Problem ”) discussed “how Luigi Fontanella, Irene Like Gian Antonio Stella’s L’orda, would want us to believe. From few Americans ever consider Marchegiani, Elda Tasso, Joseph quando gli albanesi eravamo fiction to poetry and to theater, how very unpleasant, to say Tusiani, Paolo Valesio et alii. noi (Rizzoli 2002), Durante’s we find a literary tradition the least, it must be to the These are some of the writers anthology put Italy on notice. that was vastly productive foreigners living in their midst today who have lived here for At a time when Italy had and, for the most part, to be constantly looked upon numerous decades and have already transformed itself into a aesthetically successful. The either as a national problem or negotiated, each in his or her country of arrival, dealing with creative writers were serious a national peril” (52). Alberto own way, themes analogous the coincidental issues of social in intent — at times comical Pecorini (“The Children of to our earlier authors; writers misunderstanding and bigotry and sarcastic, other times sober Immigrants”) examined the today, as Tarchiani said of his that accompany immigration, and prescriptive — in dealing conflict between immigrant time, who “cannot dissolve Italoamericana reminds Italians with their local surroundings parents and their children, their bonds of affection for their that their own citizens had as theme. What we thus find is where education and personal homeland regardless of how left their country well over a the birth of a literary canon in growth were strange concepts many naturalization cards they century earlier and, in their Italian outside Italy. As far back to the former. Alfredo Tarchiani acquire or how many oaths they new locales, faced innumerable as 1885, people here have been (“Neither Foreigners nor take.” trials and tribulations brought producing literature in Italian, Americans”), similarly, spoke on by the citizenry of their host that was also published locally, to identity: “The Italians of countries. It is, , a wake- as there were numerous local America are Italian-Americans de facto More about up call for Italy; how it now Italian-language publishers. and so shall they remain. Italoamericana behaves — or does not — vis- The essayists and journalists, They cannot dissolve their à-vis its current immigration in turn, spoke to a variety of bonds of affection for their on i-Italy|TV phenomena. issues that plagued the Italian homeland regardless of how www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 49 Ideas ➜ Bookshelf

● ● A CONVERSATION WITH MAURO PAGANI Crêuza de mä. A Mediterranean Experiment 30 Years Later

Maestro Mauro Pagani talks about the seminal work composed in collaboration with the late legendary singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André. Thirty years later, a newly remixed version of the iconic album is set to be released. by Tiziana Rinaldi Castro

●● Crêuza de mä (Muletrack by the sea) came into the world three Mauro Pagani performing decades ago. Tell me about it, how Fabrizio De André Creuza de Mä in Barcelona in 2013 was it born? Crêuza de mä 2014 (photos by Matteo Manfredi). Mauro Pagani Thirty years! They flew by…I would have sworn no more than ➤ € 35.63 twenty had passed… even fewer, perhaps! Crêuza de mä was, first and foremost, a courageous work, It was un- the offspring of a very fruitful collaboration between Fabrizio thinkable to De André and I. Fabrizio was sing Mediterranean known for his uncanny ability materials in Italian. to write perfect, elegant verses in Italian, and there we were, At first we thought recording songs in a Genoese about ‘inventing’ a dialect that wasn’t understood language that could well even in that city! At the time I had been working with Fabrizio have been that of a for about three years, since 1981, sailor who speaks on the record Indiano while also Portuguese, French, compulsively working for years on a lot of Mediterranean material Indian and Arabic, on my own, researching the roots until Fabrizio came of that music. Once in a while up with the idea to I would have him listen to it to get his feedback. I never thought do it in Genoese we would do something with dialect instead. it together. It was unthinkable to sing the Mediterranean material in Italian. But Fabrizio speaks Portuguese, French, denounced Israel’s ongoing Going back into the recording had just done two ballad-style, Indian, and Arabic, until Fabrizio attacks (1975-1991) on the civilian studio after thirty years has American-inspired records, came up with the idea to do it population, especially on the meant reworking Crêuza de Rimini and Indiano, and was in Genoese instead. That alone many Palestinian refugees. mä both from a stylistic and ready to plunge into something magically fixed everything. He technical standpoint. When we new. So we decided to do this started writing stories about the How is this remix different from recorded it originally we did it record. At first we thought about Genoa Republic and about sailors, the original? Did you change a lot on analog tape, at a time when ‘inventing’ a language that could as well as political songs like of things? Why should one buy the the analog system was at the have been that of a sailor who Sidún (Sidon, Lebanon), which new version? peak of its development. Digital,

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Fabrizio De Andrè (1940-1999) Recorded in 1984 by Fabrizio De André and Mauro Pagani, Crêuza de mä was received tepidly by a record industry convinced that nobody would understand songs in Genoese dialect. But De André and Pagani’s treatment of ethnic sounds and linguistic experimentation made ​Crêuza de mä a hit. Critics voted it Best Italian Album of the 80s, and David Byrne singled it out as one of the ten most important of the decade. It was ranked 4th place in Rolling Stone’s 100 most beautiful Italian records ever. Now 30 years after its debut, Sony Music has released Mauro Pagani’s completely remixed version. The special edition includes two CDs and a 200-page illustrated booklet sponsored by the Fabrizio De André Onlus Foundation and edited by Sandro Veronesi with contributions from Mauro Pagani, Renzo Piano, , Giovanni Soldini and Antonio Marras, as well as beautiful photographs and copies of Fabrizio De André’s working manuscripts.

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on the contrary, was in its What did this record mean to the world where Glam Rock was What has it been like to work on infancy, thus some frequencies music world when it came out? triumphing – Duran Duran, Crêuza de mä again after all these and harmonics in the mix were Spandau Ballet – and it took years? lost and the sound was a bit The album was way ahead a while for it to be noticed. Doing the remake was quite weak. Yet I remembered brilliant of its time; we recorded it in But once it did, the record engaging: listening to the songs and full-bodied sounds from ‘83 and released it in 1984. has never been forgotten. It one by one, finding hidden the original analog recordings, Peter Gabriel’s Real World has been honored with every musical phrases among the so I asked for the analog tape label wasn’t founded until possible award from music scraps of paper and notes to self to be sent to me and, armed leftover from so long ago. It has with the patience of a monk, I The album was way ahead of its time. been a strange journey back in mixed each track as faithfully Italy was very cutting edge in the time…Crêuza de mä is maybe to the original as possible, the most important thing I keeping the same frequencies 1970s. It was really because of our record have done in my career. But I and sound, and respecting the industry’s shortsightedness that Italy failed am naturally inclined to look original artistic choices as well: to take the lead in world music. forward, to the future. The most the entrance of instruments exciting step for me is the one and the order of most of the I am about to take. ●● tracks. In some, however, I have five years later, in 1989. Italy critics. To date it has been reordered the instruments and was very cutting edge in the considered one of the best Mauro Pagani is a musician, a composer, modified the arrangement. 70s, with groups like Nuova 100 albums of all time in the a violinist and one of the founding members But I only used the existing Compagnia di Canto Popolare, history of Italian music. I of the band Premiata elements. I also remixed three Canzoniere del Lazio, Area, think it is ranked number 4. Forneria Marconi in the 1970s. A leading of the tracks, Crêuza de mä, Â Napoli Centrale, and artists At the end of the 80s David voice in the Italian music panorama, he has duménega, and Sinàn Capudàn like . It was really Byrne, along with other directed the Festival of Sanremo in 2013 Pascià, to give them a more because of the Italian record American artists, was and 2014. He has won numerous prizes for modern sensibility. Lastly, I industry’s shortsightedness interviewed by Rolling Stone his movie soundtracks and is also a fiction writer, currently working on his second remembered that there was a that Italy failed to take the and he was asked to name novel. different version of the song lead in world music. the 10 most important world Tiziana Rinaldi Castro lives in Brooklyn. Jamin-a, and I added that to the When we came out with albums of that decade, and She is a novelist, poet, and editorialist from final mix too. So we have both Crêuza de mä in 1984, the he mentioned Crêuza de mä Italy. She teaches Ancient Greek Literature songs on the remix. album was isolated in a among them. at Montclair State University. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 51 Ideas ➜ Bookshelf

One More Day A Soldier on the Southern Fabio Volo Front Mondadori Emilio Lussu ➤ ➤ pages 286 $ 12.03 The State of a Nation Rizzoli Ex Libris Just Before “The Great Beauty” ➤ pages 278 ➤ $ 26.95 BOOK ● Giacomo has the perfect life. BOOK ● Emilio A young man with Everybody’s Right ● First published in Italian in 2010, Lussu (1890-1975) a way with wom- Paolo Sorrentino well before the world-wide success recounts his time en, he has an (in- Europa Editions of La Grande Bellezza, this debut novel as an infantry- herited) apart- ➤ pages 240 ➤ $ 15.00 from one of Italy’s most famous movie man in World ment and a good directors is a brilliant cockeyed state- War I, inviting job. However, he of-the-nation address that captures us to see the war finds life boring. the brand of Italian modernity after the years through the eyes But one day, things change and his of “Berlusconification.” As the Italian dailyla of a Sardinian usual routine is interrupted when a Repubblica commented, “Sorrentino uses this officer fighting fascinating woman asks him out for novel to deal with Italy’s unstoppable descent the Austrian army on the Asiago pla- coffee. From that point on, Giacomo into today’s dazed, corrupted and tragically teau, the alpine front located on the will embark upon a love story and foolish reality.” northeast of Italy. Lussu’s memoir confront the realities of modern rela- In a fast-moving, Raymond Chandler type highlights the futility of war: absurd tionships. plot, Everybody’s Right tells the story of Tony missions, lofty patriotic rhetoric, tragic Pagoda, a talentless Neapolitan crooner, and sometimes grotesque events, and cokehead, and male chauvinist who suc- the perilous incompetency of his own L’Amore Comporta ceeds in gaining the cheap fame of the kind side under enemy fire. Biagio Antonacci promised in the Berlusconi era—including Imports fame, money, and the saucy accessibility Game for Five ➤ $ 39.98 of 18-year-olds (or sometimes younger) Marco Malvaldi aspiring newscasters and dancing girls. Europa Editions ➤ ➤ MUSIC ● The four- At the peak of his glory, Sorrentino’s pages 144 $ 15.00 theenth album in quintessential anti-hero seems to mus- a brilliant 26-year ter the secret of mundane success, when he cynically reflects: BOOK ● Set in a career as singer- “Only those that nobody wants to listen to have careers. It’s more convenient. small town near songwriter, this is That way the people, the public, who haven’t achieved much in their lives, Livorno, the story Biagio Antonacci’s musical tribute can feel better about their own failure by seeing themselves reflected in the is about four old- to love! Written and recorded be- fellow up there on stage, just a few metres higher than them.” Indeed his suc- timers and Mas- tween Los Angeles and Milan, it re- cess stretches over borders and across the seas. But somewhere things begin simo, the barman counts the artist’s version of “love” to go awry, the public’s tastes in music is changing. Tony decides to leave the at Bar Lume, who in a musical interpretation of the music world and start over, making a clean break with the past, traveling get to chatting complicated language of emotions. Brazil and South America in search of a new life for himself. Here, his peculiar about the murder vision of the world, irreversibly shaped by those years in which enjoyed the of a young woman in their town. In Gioia adoration of audiences the world over, is under assault. The world strikes him an attempt to solve the mystery, they Modà as a barren place that is completely at odds with his understanding of it. In argue over possible suspects and tear Ultrasuoni the final chapters, back to his country as the house singer for a Berlusconi the case to pieces, forcing Massimo to ➤ $ 21.65 stand-in, Tony ends up in a life of infinite license, where “everybody’s right.” assume the role of investigator. Yet he remains cursed by his special brand of integrity—or we should better MUSIC ● The Ital- say naivety, as he realizes that, beyond the villas of the superrich, “it’s all just Things No One Knows ian band Modà one huge rape.” Which masterfully brings us back to the conclusion of the Alessandro D’Avenia released this new very first chapter, set in Manhattan where Pagoda meets idol Frank Sinatra, Mondadori ➤ ➤ album in 2013. and ends up first serviced and then robbed by a trio of Times Square whores. pages 216 $ 11.44 With 12 wonder- “Why don’t things like that ever happen to Frank Sinatra? Maybe because he ful tracks, “Gioia” doesn’t go around picking up whores in Times Square.” BOOK ● Margheri- was an enormous hit all over Italy, ta is fourteen years selling more than 200,000 copies in old, ready to face 2013 alone, confirming the public’s her new life as a affection for the band. The band has high school fresh- won several Italian and international man with the cer- music awards including among oth- tainty that she can ers the Venice Music Awards (2010), rely on her loved TRL Awards (2010 nd 2011), and MTV ones. One day she Europe Music Awards (Best Italian receives a voicemail from her father Act, 2011). saying that he is not coming back home. Her world falls apart. When her teacher draws Margherita’s attention Download our to the courage of Telemachus in the iPhone app Odyssey, she sets out on a journey in search of her father that will change everything.

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P.O Box Love: A Novel of The Myth of The Letters Superhero Paola Calvetti Marco Arnaudo St. Martin’s Press DC Comics ➤ pages 368 ➤ $ 10.40 ➤ pages 216 ➤ $ 21.61 A Macho Music No More

Book ● In this Book ● A refu- wonderful episto- gee from another lary novel, Paola planet, Superman Calvetti tells the was sent to the US story of former by his father as his high school sweet- father’s final act be- hearts Emma and fore dying. Is his an Federico. Emma is immigrant’s story? a bookshop owner Bruce Wayne, tired in Milan and Federico a successful of the crime-ridden world, seeks to architect in New York. When the make the world a better place by two meet again 30 years later, Emma becoming the morally courageous has dreams of romance, but Federi- Batman. The author analyzes the re- co is married and their relationship lationship between superheroes and seems doomed. religion, between classical epics and DC comics. by Enzo Capua The Master of Knots Massimo Carlotto Time on My Hands ● Jazz was considered macho music for far too long. People believed it Europa Editions Giorgio Vasta could only be understood, appreciated and played by men. Of course ➤ ➤ pages 144 $ 11.78 Faber & Faber there were female singers, but they were considered an ornament, an ➤ pages 320 ➤ $ 12.04 addition – even if in many cases an essential addition– to the great BOOK ● Ashamed tapestry of jazz woven by men. Little did it matter that female singers of telling the po- BOOK ● Rome 1978. were also great musicians, like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah lice that he and A group of eleven- Vaughan. It didn’t even matter if they were extraordinary players and his wife were part year-old boys from composers, like Mary Lou Williams or . Nope, jazz was a of a ring of sexual Palermo follow the “man’s business.” And that attitude had its roots in jazz’s legendary adventurers, the kidnapping of Aldo “brothel and gangster” origins. Too often these legends were used as husband of a miss- Moro with great in- a smokescreen by bars looking to make money off of selling gallons of ing woman decides terest. To emulate booze to male musicians. to turn to “The Al- their heroes (the It is true that women had a place in jazz only when they were singing, ligator” instead, no stranger to the kidnappers), the but the geniuses – and there have been many – shone like diamonds savage and unsavory underworld. boys form a gang and give them- amongst the many mediocre males. Sadly, for far too long the problem Together with his two business part- selves code names: Nimbus, Radius, affected the makeup of jazz audiences, too; few women went to hear ners, Max la Memoria and Beniamino and Flight. But when news spreads the music, and those who did were merely escorting their boyfriends Rossini, he will confront demons of Moro’s death, Nimbus loses heart, or husbands. they thought were long buried. unsure how far he is willing to go. In the end it was only a matter of getting deeper into jazz, understand- ing it, assimilating it. With the passing of time and changing social Mondovisione Senza Paura norms, women ultimately took center stage. You might even say that Ligabue Giorgia many of jazz’s women have been more creative, more influential and Zoo Aperto Michroponica more trailblazing than the men. That’s what I would call “turning the ➤ ➤ $ 35.57 $ 16.86 page” of music history. Take Maria Schneider, for one. I believe, along with a lot of other people, that she is the greatest living composer and music ● In Sep- music ● Giorgia is arranger in the world. Men included, obviously. tember 2005, one of the greatest And in Italy? In the past the situation was much the same. Twenty when the Italian female vocalists in horrible years of fascism deprived men and women the freedom to rocker Ligabue Italy. With Senza follow jazz. Degenerate music, they used to call it. held a concert in Paura, distributed Things have changed radically – and for the better—even for Italians, Reggio Emilia to by Sony Music, the and first-class female jazz musicians now flourish. In New York, we are celebrate his first 15 years of activ- artist fearlessly (as the title would extremely fortunate to have many intelligent, creative Italian female ity, the audience was about 180,000 have it) unveils aspects of herself, jazz composers and interpreters, some of whom I would like to name — thus setting a European audience continuously swaying between pop here. I apologize in advance to those I could not include, but there was record for the one, non-free event and soul. Senza Paura also sees the simply not enough space. Pianists Patrizia Scascitelli, Simona Premazzi for a single artist. Mondovisione, an- collaboration of famous artists like and Daniela Schaechter (a bona fide Sicilian); saxophonist Ada Rovatti; other hit, is the artist’s 10th album, Emanuel Lo, Olly Murs, Ivano Fos- and Grammy-nominated singer Roberta Gamberini, surely our most featuring 14 new tracks. Ligabue has sati and Alicia Keys. internationally-recognized jazz artist. Look ‘em up and give ‘em a listen. translated his clear-eyed vision into You won’t regret it. These talented women are bringing an originality moving music that tells the world and freshness to the language of jazz that we have been waiting for for what it is. This collection is fur- Download our for a long, long time. The lesser species of macho men, fortunately, is ther confirmation that he is one of iPhone app growing extinct. the greatest rock n’ roll artists of all time. www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 53 Look 2014_I_Italy_Dish_22x28.indd 1 15/05/14 14:38 Tourism ❱❱ Langhe Are you going to Italy SOON?

●● OSCAR FARINETTI REVEALS THE SECRETS OF HIS TOWN AND REGION What makes this place so special? The answer is blowin’ in the wind!

The founder of Eataly Langhe. The latter are ‘kissed’ talks about Alba by God because they produce slightly rounded hazelnuts and the Langhe, a thriving considered the best in the world region located in the heart as well as important Italian of Piedmont, between red wines: beside Dolcetto and the sea and the Alps. Barbera, the legendary Nebbiolo grape, which is produced by the conjunction of the Marin (costal) winds coming from the by Letizia Airos The secret of shores of Savona and the fresh air of the maritime Alps that “I was born on September 24, the Langhe lies come down from Monviso. The 1954, in Alba, the ‘capital’ of the in the winds from winds create a distinctively Langhe hills. My father was from the gulf of Genoa and humid microclimate that leaves Barbaresco, my mother from a little morning frost on the Barolo,” says Oscar Farinetti, Savona that reach the Nebbiolo vines that we call, mulling over his homeland. cold air from the Alps, unsurprisingly, “Marin”. Nebbiolo The cities where his parents so you can breathe grapes, aged for three years in come from are also home to two Barbaresco and four in Barolo, famous namesake wines. in the sea air while are used to make Barbaresco and But today we’re standing in front you’re in the hills. Barolo wine.” of Eataly, the megastore on 5th Avenue, and Farinetti’s words Oscar could go on forever talking are a breath of fresh air amid the about wine. But we cut him off. traffic of Manhattan. Fresh air, it We want to know about the turns out, will be the subject of older town of Alba. Then we much of our interview. can get back to its extraordinary natural surroundings and what “Alba is incredibly situated: men made with them. south of Turin, in the plain of the “In ancient Roman times, the Tanaro river, a 34-mile straight town was called Alba Pompeia. shot from the Ligurian seaside It was pretty well known, and city of Savona. To the west are it was close to Pollenzium (now the beautiful hills of Roero, to Pollenzo), the most important the east the beautiful hills of Roman city in Northern Italy, now home to the University of Oscar Farinetti was born in Alba in Gastronomic Sciences. [Farinetti 1954. His father was a socialist who is an affiliate of the school.] There fought in the anti-fascist Resistance was a coliseum that could fit Movement and then became a local 25,000 people. Back then, a city politician and an entrepreneur. Oscar with over 25,000 inhabitants started out with his father’s consumer was like a city with five million electronics supermarket UniEuro, then today. It was the last “gate” before sold it to fund Eataly, a high-end Italian entering . In Julius Caesar’s food mall chain comprising a variety of day, it was the last Roman restaurants, food and beverage stations, bakery, and retail items. outpost. North of Turin was Gaul. Eataly is in Italy, , Japan, Saudi Afterward, the development of Arabia and the US (in New York and Alba underwent several different Chicago). phases.” www.i-Italy.org www.i-ItalyNY.com | June-July 2014 | i-Italy ny | 55 Tourism ➜ Langhe

The Middle Ages being one You’re referring to the title of fundamental phase, as it was for Beppe Fenoglio’s book. Fenoglio many Italian cities, especially in was an important writer who Undergund Alba the center and north. came from the Langhe. His home “Right. That marked the beginning in Alba is now a museum and A tour of the origins of the city of castles and municipalities. center for literary studies. There were 100 municipalities “La Malora (Ruin) is an ince the time of Alba Pompeia—as the Romans knew Alba—the in the Langhe, each with an extraordinary novel. It begins: Shistoric center of the city has seen several successive cities average of 1,000 inhabitants. “It was raining all over the erected in the same place, one after another. The medieval city Every hilltop had a castle and Langhe, and up in San Benedetto sits on top of the Roman one. The modern city replaced (yet didn’t surrounding village. You can still my father was getting wet destroy) the medieval one. And so on through the ages, down to see many of them: Grinzane underground for the first time.” So the present city, which was unwittingly shaped by the urban grid Cavour, Barolo, Serralunga d’Alba, it begins with the rain, with the of Alba Pompeia. Govone, Magliano Alfieri, Roddi, soil, with the death of his father. fter 2,000 years of being a city, a lot remains hidden under- Mango and Beneve. Agriculture And it recounts the hunger of Aground, just a few feet below the street, fragments of cities flourished.” those times, the epidemics. The that have preceded the present-day city, which have gone toward population dwindled. Farming creating the great collection in the Museum Eusebio, the Monu- A little way away is Savoy, a dwindled. It didn’t take a turn for mental Archaeo- prominent territory since the the better till after the Second logical Tour, and Middle Ages, now split between World War.” numerous under- France, Italy and Switzerland. ground tours. Savoy is the seat of the Savoy And today we have a new ourists can dynasty, where the future kings marvelous territory… Ttake a fascinat- of Italy came from… “I remember a lesson on change ing guided tour led “The Savoys settled in the area held in Fontanafredda by Alain by a professional and built a castle in Santa Vittoria Elkann. He read the first three archaeologist and for vacations. In the mid 1800s pages of La Malora, which takes discover the roots Carlo Alberto built his court place about sixty years ago, and of the city, including in Pollenzo. He created then two pages from the Michelin the ancient temple, the first prototype guide. What a contrast! In a span the theater, the Ro- of twenty kilometers around man forum, the first Alba there are now 22 baptismal fountain restaurants with Michelin and the vanished stars. And besides Barolo The ancient Alba Pompeia medieval towers. and Barbaresco, there’s another of a farmstead. He saw big secret: white the enormous potential truffles.” What’s the reason for the about the truffles of Asti. It’s in Piedmont’s cuisine and Langhe’s success compared to chance. It depends on the men agriculture. His son, Vittorio other nearby places? Why is born in a certain time in history. Emanuele, the first King of Italy, the Langhe prosperous and rich In the Langhe we owe everything bought Fontanafredda and while, for example, Monferrato, to one person, Giacomo Morra. settled there with his lover, in the province of Asti, is not? He owned the Hotel Savona, the Bela Rosin. That was a thriving first place in Italy to get a Michelin period for the Langhe, too, up “It’s true. When you get off the star. In 1946 he found a truffle until World War One. Then turnpike in Asti, you pass poor weighing two and a half kilograms came “la malora” (‘ruin’)”. Monferrato where they sell and decided to give it as a gift Barbera for next to nothing, to President Truman. It made whereas we sell Barolo headlines around the world! In for 30 Euros a liter. 1947 he gave one to Hitchcock, Langhe is the best place to eat in They have then one to Sophia Loren, Brigitte Italy. We have the richest cuisine and the best wines! A menu with truffles, too, Bardot. Every year he gave one to 18 to 22 appetizers. Five but no one a big star. Around the world, the first courses, various knows white truffle became synonymous second courses, with Alba.” and several varieties of So the truffle is the first cheeses. ambassador of the Langhe? “Yes, it put the Langhe on the map. But we have a phenomenal economy in all sectors. Ferrero produces the world’s supply of Nutella. There’s Miroglio, the second biggest Italian apparel firm. The Pallinis inventedFamiglia Cristiana, the second biggest Italian weekly. Now we have

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dead. The people of Alba have a the Langhe. It’s the best place great talent for telling their story.” to eat in Italy. The quality of life is best. And the hilly panorama And how do you account for is first-rate. It’s on par with that? Montalcino and Chianti. Tuscany “We believe that everything only has one advantage over happens on account of the us – a hundred more days of wind. The answer is always in warm weather! There’s a reason the wind. The moist winds from the wine produced in Langhe is the gulf of Genoa and Savona called Nebbiolo. We’ve got the fog reach the cold air from the (nebbia in Italian). But the Langhe Alps, so you can breathe in the is cooler. And it’s good that fewer sea air while you’re in the hills. people come here. So come, but This biodiversity extends to the don’t come all at once.” vegetables and animals as well as to human beings, to their creative Finally, is there a particular minds… dish and wine you’d recommend? What part of the Langhe do you “We have the richest cuisine love best? in Italy. A menu with 18 to 22 “I live in Novello, in the area of appetizers. Five first courses, Barolo. Novello, Barolo, Morra various second courses. And and Monforte form a rectangle then there’s the cheese, among of beauty, a valley of splendors them Robiola. Gourmands that is the valley of Barolo. Full of consider beef from Piedmont castles. Everything’s special, and to be the best in the world. The the period of the grape harvest is only beef to eat cruda (raw) raw. extraordinary. After that comes I’d recommend eating carne truffle season.” cruda with a glass of Dolcetto. Then try al plin (pasta What about tourism? Is the area stuffed with three roast meats) well known to foreigners? with Barbera Superiore d’Alba. “Tourism grows forty percent After that, brasato al Barolo and every year. It mostly attracts rich a glass of Barolo. For dessert, a tourists. They eat well and sleep light cake, a delicacy in castles… The number of rooms you have to eat with a glass of in agriturismi has tripled.” Moscato d’Asti. Photo: Archivio - Ente Turiasmo Alba Bra Langhe Roero Langhe Bra Alba Turiasmo Ente - Archivio Photo: And how do you spend your time? How’s that for the ultimate “Walking in the countryside, journey? Breathtaking Unieuro Elettrodomestici and “True. But it’s not as though we visiting castles, wine cellars, landscapes, hillsides dotted Eataly…Alba is an insane hotbed did anything out of the ordinary. farms, museums. There’s always with castles, vine-laden slopes, of activity.” We just knew how to tell our something to do.” a whole lot of history and one story. Thanks to major writers culture’s gift for storytelling. Not The Langhe area also has ties like Cesare Pavese and Beppe Do you have any advice for to mention Oscar Farinetti’s gift to the anti-fascist Resistance Fenoglio. Once told, a thing lives American tourists? for keeping this story alive in the Movement. on. If it’s not told, then it’s already “Spend at least three days in world. ● ●

The Worldwide Fair of Alba’s White Truffle culminating in the Palio of Donkeys. From the Middle Ages to New York This year the 84th Alba International White Truffle Fair will be held every The Worldwide Fair of Alba’s White lot of street markets. weekend from October 11 through Truffle is the place to get to know the Every year the fair opens with the November 16. real truffle, to plunge into this storied “Hundred Tower Tournament”, a se- and heavily-scented market. Every ries of events starting with the Inves- ast year, the 2013 edition of the truffle on sale has been examined by titure of the Podesta, an evening of LFair was inaugurated in New a Commission prior to being shown to dressing up in medieval costumes in York with an exclusive event at the the public. the piazza of the Duomo, magically lit Metropolitan Museum of Art by Come for the truffles, stay for the up with bonfires. Lidia Bastianich (in the picture to the entertainment. Check The evening left with Paola Farinetti, head of the out folklore events is just a taste Alba Town Council’s Culture Depart- in the main piazza, of what’s to ment). On that occasion the “Queen exhibits, cultural of- come, a mar- of Italian Cuisine” was nominated ferings, live music, velous his- Ambassador of the Truffle in the sports and a whole toric procession World.

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Now foreigners from around the world come to Alba on the scent of its truffles, wines, hazelnuts. But they, like all of us, are also looking for beauty. by Gianmaria Testa

●● Cities with rivers are never alone. Alba feels the silent slap of the Tanaro on its with a river running by it, that’s market in Alba is a respite for sides. Sometimes, in summer, its job. normal and frenetic swarm of the river’s bare. Other times The day of the week it does the humanity that meets up, as if it’s majestic, swollen with most welcoming is Saturday, for a date. water that has traveled down market day. People come from I still haven’t found my place in Photo: P. Vertamy P. Photo: Gianmaria Testa mountains that face the sea. all over, speaking foreign Alba, one of my favorite places, But the city doesn’t extend tongues and strange dialects. nor do I know whether people beyond the river. The Tanaro is They come down into Alba for will see me as living here, but satisfied. It welcomes guests, a border, and cities that bear a look around. They stroll. They I’m not from here and the city true, but it’s reluctant to admit it. a border inside them are sad. chat. For many, the Saturday seems to be seriously self- Alba deserves the gold medal, Besides, if Alba did over militarily speaking, for being the Tanaro, half of it would be the first city to free itself, in the hills of Langhe and half thanks to the partisans, during in the rest of the world. So the the delirium of the Second city lies entirely on the river’s World War, a story told right shore, its foundations magisterially by Beppe Fenoglio, set deep in the soft rock of the the city’s native son and one of earth it belongs to and which it the great Italian writers of the oversees. latter half of the nineteenth century. His books contain all Built to welcome people the cantankerous humanity of To an outsider, Alba is soothing, these places. He, better than geographically speaking. The anyone, knew his city and its roughness of the hills suddenly people. drops off, as if the immense force driving the land upward Looking for beauty had suddenly remembered Now foreigners from around the to leave room for a place less world come to Alba on the scent difficult to live in, a spit of of its truffles, wines, hazelnuts. earth that requires less sweat They are led here by the nose— and elbow grease, with a river and the palate. Clearly they’re beside it. The people of the not wrong to do so, but once Langhe don’t say “Let’s go to they’ve come here, I see them Alba,” they say “Let’s go into look past the shop windows, Alba.” Coming down from the and down the streets in search surrounding hills that’s exactly of something more than just a the impression you get—you food stand. Like all of us, they’re don’t feel like you’re arriving looking for beauty. somewhere, you feel like you’re And I, who haven’t found my entering inside a place, a kind of real place in Alba yet? I’ve seen welcoming room. that beauty on clear mornings Alba was built to welcome when a wedge of sky between people. To Piazza Savona and the bells of the cathedral Piazza del Duomo. To Via and town hall seems to bless Maestra and Via Cavour. Under whover’s standing here below. the Crocefisso di Sacchetto And I’ve seen it on foggy winter in San Domenico. To its bars, nights, when the cold weather trattorie and ristoranti. Alba Roero Langhe Bra Alba Turiasmo Ente - Archivio Photo: clears streets and Alba seems welcomes people because, as a alone, alone but for the river, strip of flatland below the hills Medieval banners decorate Alba’s Via Maestra as the town prepares for its TruffleFair. that river by its side. ●●

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