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# 60 • MAY 17 , 2015
# 60 • MAY 17 , 2015
EDITORIAL #60:
What’s up with WTI
By Umberto Mucci
Ciao from Rome! Next Friday May 22nd We the
Italians will be in Salerno, talking about the Italian emigration to the US, presenting our good
friend Luca Guardabascio’s new book, “Pietre
sull’oceano” – The story of Giovanni Esposito and Joe Petrosino. Luca is an Italian writer,
filmmaker and visiting scholar at the Robert
Morris University in Pennsylvania who promotes and teaches Italian history in Italy and the
U.S. relying on the best Italian cinematic tradition. His book is the Story of Giovanni Esposito
and his best friend, the famous Joe Petrosino:
a story of misery, darkness, sorrow and hope lived by many people who embarked in the journey to America.
Then, on Monday May 25, as every Memorial
Day We the Italians will be honoring the 7861
American soldiers buried in the Sicily Rome
American Cemetery and Memorial in Nettuno,
and to the 3.000 missing in action though remembered there. They lost their lives to free
Italy, and many Italian Americans were among
them: they decided to fight on behalf of their
new Country to free their old one. I personally
and the whole We the Italians family will always
be grateful about what America did for Italy: we
owe our life and our freedom to the United Sta- d’Italia”. After learning more about pizza and
why the Italian lifestyle couldn’t do without it,
tes of America.
in this magazine we will start telling you about
As always, also in our 60th issue of this maga- the culture and history of Mantua, the beautiful
zine we will drive you on an interesting “Giro city of Lombardy which will also be protagonist
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of our Italian art article. We will then move to
Gubbio, Umbria, for the traditional Race of the
Candles; a little bit east to Marche, for the beautiful land and nature of the Conero Riviera, and
then south to the extraordinary beauty of the
garden of Villa Cimbrone in Ravello, Campania.
We’ll head north to Vinci, in Tuscany, where the
genius of our Great Italian of the past, Leonardo, was born; and then a bit further to the north
to Emilia Romagna, home of the flavor of the
fantastic San Daniele ham. Back in the center of
Italy for the handcrafted wrought iron of Campobasso, Molise, and then we’ll go to Puglia
visiting Vico del Gargano, the Italian little Italy
of this issue. Then up again to another beautiful
Italian region, Marche, for one of its gorgeous
wine. The geographical references stop here,
but as always we will also tell you about Italian
cuisine, lifestyle, art, cinema and much more:
that’s just a tiny preview of all you will find in
this issue of We the Italians magazine!
Before to say goodbye, let me remind you the
awesome opportunity given by the partnership
between John Cabot University and We The Italian: two brand new Italian-American Heritage
Scholarship. You can find the specifics in this
previous editorial, or you can contact [email protected] for more information.
That’s all for now. So stay tuned, fasten your
seat belt and enjoy the ride. The future’s so bright, we gotta wear shades!
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