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Stefano Albertini

I was born in Bozzolo (litterally 'cocoon') in the Northern Italian province of Mantova 54 years ago. I obtained my degree from the University of Parma, after which I moved to the other side of the ocean and obtained my Master’s from the University of Virginia and my Ph.D from Stanford. I have been teaching at New York University (NYU) since 1994, and I have been running the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò of NYU, since 1998. At the Casa, we organize more than one hundred events annually, including exhibitions, conferences, concerts and theatrical performances. My personal passion, however, continues to be teaching: I created a course on the cinematographic portrayal of Italian history, and one on Machiavelli in its historical context. I also run the NYU program in Florence every summer. I continue to have a close and visceral relationship with my town of origin, and 2 years ago, I founded the Academy of the Bozzolese Dialect to conserve and promote the local culture.

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With Andy Warhol from A to B and back again… to the Future!

Until March 31, an exhibition on the artistic genius that had an extraordinary influence on our tastes and our ways of relating to one other, an influence that persists more than 30 years after his death. Warhol, who in New York always went around with a voice recorder and a camera (like us today with our smartphones), not only forever revolutionized art, but also had a lasting and rippling effect on our way of communicating for decades to come.

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My Memories of Bernardo Bertolucci, the Director in Search of the Mystery

I saw the director again, this time from closer up, in New York, when he came for the great retrospective dedicated to him by MoMA in 2010. He was already sick and had difficulty moving. He did not want to be seen that way, so he preferred to appear in public already seated. We also had lunch at a friend’s house and the Maestro talked with pleasure and without reticence, always speaking with his Parmesan “r,” which is soft and made his speech unmistakably his.

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In a Country of ‘Mixed’ People, Affordable DNA Testing Reveal Obvious Truths and Hidden Secrets

Only the remaining descendants of Native Americans could proudly say that their history begins on these lands. The “American aristocrats,” who trace their origins back to the pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower, make up an even smaller group of people. Everyone else who lives in this country is, to some degree, mixed, but the exact ingredients of that mixture had been largely unknown. One thing we know for certain is that, originally, all genetic strains come from Africa, even those of racists and white supremacists.

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