Francis Ford Coppola is one of the most famous moviemakers of his time, a man who has been able to keep artistic integrity while creating movies that are also commercially successful.
Heritage
ITALIAN HERITAGE
The Italian Heritage section on Life in Italy is a collection of articles that teach us about the cultural heritage in Italy. Everything from traditions, such as carnivals, food, art, architecture, and music.
Discover the Italian heritage that includes more than 2000 years of history, and everything that’s still reminding us of these past centuries. The famous buildings such as the Colosseum, the Pantheon, or the Teatro di Taormina, through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the New Ages, and the past century. Traditions are very important to Italians, and they pass over their collective and family traditions through the generations.
That’s how history and heritage are treated with respect and are kept alive in Italy.
Mira Sorvino
An actress of Italian origins.
Little Italy
Little Italy: Italian neighborhoods around the World where Italian culture and traditions are kept alive and passed down.
George Clooney’s Piece of Paradise at Lake Como
George Clooney’s villa by Lake Como.
Days of wine and roses
A book about Italian-American culture in movies, novels and music.
The mafia: a criminal organization in Italy
How mafia developed and planted its roots into Italian society
Charles Ponzi
The inventor of the Ponzi Scheme
Italians in Australia
Italians are the third largest ethnic group in Australia, and Italian influence on Australian life is so rooted that it’s difficult to categorize.
Italians and their Italian- American relatives
Many Italians moved to the USA during the high flux of emigration that took place between 1860 and 1985. Italian Emigrants on the deck of a ship bound for the US Ph. wikimedia.org Some of them left to make a fortune and come back to their country, others went to […]
Saint Joseph’s Day
Growing up in an Italian American family, St. Joseph’s Day was always one of my favorite holidays…