# 86 DECEmber 19 th 2016 December 5 at Centro Studi Americani was moderated by Lucia Pasqualini , Head of Italian language promotion at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former Deputy Italian Consul General in New York . We had the honour of having several intervierwees with us : Renzo Arbore ( artist , singer and director ); Delfina Licata ( Editor of Rapporto sugli Italiani nel mondo ); Mauro Battocchi ( Former Italian Consul General in San Francisco ); Paolo Messa ( Executive Director of Centro Studi Americani ); Franco Pavoncello ( President of the John Cabot University );
Portia Prebys ( President of the Association of American College and University Programs in Italy ).
On December 8 we presented the book at the Book fair Più Libri Più Liberi . The moderator was the Italian journalist Mariella Valdiserri , and the two in-
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