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# 69 • OCTOBER 5 , 2015
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THE INTERVIEW:
MARIA GLIOZZI
A bridge made of books
between Italy and the US
By Umberto Mucci
In our journey to discover
the thousands of different
angles useful to analyze
the relationship between
Italy and the US, books are
undoubtedly essential. Today we meet Maria Gliozzi,
founder of AIFIC - American
Initiative For Italian Culture
and organizer of the Book
Award The Bridge. We
thank her because we find
very significant what she
does to spread the Italian
culture in America and the
American culture in Italy.
Maria, you are one of the
founders and directors of
AIFIC - American Initiative For Italian Culture. How mote cultural exchanges between Italy and the Unidid it start, and what’s your ted States. As you probably know, there are many
mission?
other foundations and organizations that work binding the two countries to emphasize the strong bilaOur young non-profit or- teral relations in the field of culture. Everybody knows
ganization founded about that the Americans love Italy and its artistic, cultural,
three years ago in Washin- culinary, and historical heritage. There is a great atgton, DC operates with a tention, in particular, to understand how our cultural
very specific goal: to pro- life is growing, how it is changing and influencing the
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