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Columbus Citizen Foundation. A Ceremony for L'Aquila and Abruzzo

A ceremony will take place in L'Aquila on January 20th. A scholarship will be announced to help the students of the city and the unveiling of a statue that commemorates heroes and...

Talking about… l’Aquila nel mondo. Palmerini at NYU's Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò

Marcello De Marco

Goffredo Palmerini’s book L’aquila nel mondo (L’aquila around the world) was presented at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò of NYU.

Breaking Bread in L’Aquila – An Italian Cookbook that Gives

Sam Dunham

Breaking Bread in L’Aquila: 49 fresh & zingy recipes to impress guests with tasty & visually delightful dishes, but don’t be tied to a stove and left feeling...

The Earthquake One Year Later. 3.32: The Numbers to Remember

Generoso D'Agnese

Easter. One year after L'Aquila Earthquake, a journalist from Abruzzo looks with sorrow and bitterness at the city in ruin.

L'Aquila. A Witness of No Rebuilding Efforts

by Anna Di Lellio

"I am in L’Aquila from New York to visit my parents, who now live 6 miles from the historic center, where they used to own a beautiful old apartment. The apartment is still...

No Laughing Matter

Judith Harris

SNAP/SHOTS ITALY. A leaked wiretap from investigations into suspected irregularities in the post-quake reconstruction in Abruzzo, shows a cynical dialogue among two eminent...

A Jaunt in the Abruzzi Among its Mountains, Lakes, Hills, and Sea

Letizia Airos

The Abruzzi has made headlines in recent months because of the tragic earthquake that struck on April 6. This time, though, we’ll talk about its natural beauty, and its...

"Bitter Spring": Understanding Ignazio Silone

Simona Zecchi

An interview with Stanislao G. Pugliese, Professor of History at Hofstra College and author of “Bitter Spring: A life of Ignazio Silone.” The controversial Italian...

L’Aquila: Riccardo Muti and Music for Hope and Brotherhood

Judith Harris

Riccardo Muti led a free concert in L'Aquila for survivors of the earthquake. The conductor, between engagements in Salzburg and Chicago, directed an all-Abruzzese scratch...

Abruzzo, the Earthquake, Hundreds of Victims...But What About the Animals?

Maria Rita Latto

More than 8,000 cats and dogs have been left homeless or are missing. A huge number of pets and farm animals are believed to have died in houses and barns that collapsed during...

Shattered

Simona Zecchi

As I slept soundly in my bed, I could not understand what that noise was: tinkling, shaking, bumping. I thought my dreams were overwhelming reality. The shake went far beyond...

"A Far Greater Calamity than the Natural Cataclysm..."

Ignazio Silone

Half a century ago, famous Italian novelist Ignazio Silone wrote about the 1915 earthquake in Abruzzo. He commented that what happened afterwards -- the reconstruction -- because...

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