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Primo Piano - 14 Ottobre 2019

Solo colpa di Colombo? Come furono cacciati i nativi americani nel Nord America

Terzo e ultimo articolo di una serie

columbus-day

New York - 6 Ottobre 2018

Celebrating Columbus Day: A Peculiar Thing for an Italian in New York

The controversy exists in a strange space where incredibly divergent concepts of Columbus exist at the extremes. The two cannot come together because they employ entirely different embodiments of Columbus’ significance. So where do you stand if you condemn the slaughter he represents on one side, but appreciate his cultural relevance to a specific group on the other?

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New York - 9 Ottobre 2017

Columbus, Our Lady of Loreto and the Ironies of Italian American History

Ironically Columbus Day began as an attempt to reconcile the new immigrants with Americans and even Native Americans. A final irony: as the Italian American community gathers to celebrate and march past Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave, the beautiful neo-Renaissance Our Lady of Loreto church in Brooklyn, built by Italian emigrants in 1906 in their “spare” time, is being torn down.

Disproving Renaissance blasphemous fake news

Arts - 19 Luglio 2017

Disapproving Renaissance Blasphemous Fake News

The exhibition is on in Rome's Capitoline Museums until September 10th and it shows the story of the painter Bernardino di Betto, nicknamed “Pinturicchio.” Between 1492 and 1494, he decorated a suite of rooms in the Apostolic Palace for the apartments of the controversial Pope Alexander VI.

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