Paula Brancati on Her New Film, Acting, Family, and Coping with a Pandemic
Paula Brancati stars in the film From the Vine (2019), directed by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Sean Cisterna. Brancati co-produced the film which also stars Emmy Award winner Joe Pantoliano, veteran Italian actor Marco Leonardi, and Canadian icon Wendy Crewson. Set in Toronto and Acerenza, Italy, From the Vine is based on the acclaimed novel Finding Marco by Kenneth Canio Cancellara. "At its core," says Paula Brancati, "this film is about family, about returning to your roots when you’re…
“Piazza Navona, Rome” is the…
Dear Mike, Did you know…
The vertical garden, climbing up…
On Meeting Irving Layton
In the early seventies, Irving Layton came to our High School in Montreal-North upon the invitation of our eleventh-grade North…
Cinquecento Love: My Life-Long Obsession with the Fiat 500
Nothing says Italian style like a Fiat 500 (pronounced cheen·kweh·CHEN·toh). My love affair with the 500 began when I was 16.…
Leaving America
The speedboat and ferry trails left furrows of white wake on the deep azure blue of the Tyrrhenian Sea. As…
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In These Distressing Times…
In January 2020, during the early planning of our Special Spring Print Issue, where this editorial also appears, we could…
La Divina Cucina: A Guide to Food after Death
It’s a well known fact that the afterlife is run by Italians. Consequently, the menus of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise…
Piazza Purgatorio: A Love Letter to Italy During the Pandemic
“T’avia sarbàtu du aranci. Mah…” says Zia Carmela. I saved you the last of the oranges. But… She sighs. I…
Calabrese Moon
Some dreams are meant to come true. I am living proof. My teenage years were not the easiest. Nonetheless, I…
Where Angels Come To Earth: An Evocation of the Italian Piazza
Every type of communal life that goes on in the Italian city touches upon the piazza at some point. It…
Centro Arte e Cultura Alberto Di Giovanni in Roccamorice
To honour his hometown of Roccamorice in the mountains of Abruzzo, Alberto Di Giovanni established an exquisite cultural museum in…
But For Now We Stay Home
For our mammas! Francesca LoDico’s radio special, "But For Now We Stay Home,” is about her mamma coping with the…
IN MEMORIAM: The Legacy of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Poet and priest Pier Giorgio Di Cicco passed away on December 22, 2019. As a poet and editor, his contributions…
Aldo Del Col – Meritorious Service Medal Recipient
“The doctor gave me three to five years to live. I thought that wasn’t enough. I decided I would get…
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Italy’s Years of Lead
"If you look at events in Italy from the late 1960s to the late 1980s without any context, it would…
A Rusting Freighter Spurred World Attention to a Refugee Crisis
When Saigon was overrun by Communist forces on April 30, 1975, thousands of Vietnamese began a rush for freedom. One…
Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic
Long before the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of people were constantly moving between the United States and British North America, and Leghorn,…
In Conversation with Nino Ricci
Nino Ricci was the featured guest of the third edition of the Librissimi Toronto Italian Book Festival, held online on…
Silvia Vecchini on Translation and Her Graphic Novel: The Red Zone
In The Red Zone: An Earthquake Story (Amulet Books, 2019), graphic novelist Silvia Vecchini provides a look at how a…
Mary Melfi on her Memoir, In the Backyard: Relearning the Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love
Through her new book, In the Backyard: Relearning the Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love (Guernica 2018), Mary Melfi…
More Precious than Diamonds
Despite my frequent trips to Italy, I consciously decided never to learn the language. With blissful ignorance, I always preferred…
Italian San Francisco
It is impossible to think of San Francisco without its Italian heritage. There are the notables: A.P. Giannini, who founded…
Canadian Problems
It’s a Canadian problem. When you’re overseas, people don’t know what to make of you. You’re not American but you…
The Past Is Not Such a Foreign Country
It was 1811, the year of Napoleon's Comet and the birth of his son. It was a time of a…
Making Sense of a Troubled Life in My Father, Fortune-Tellers & Me by Eufemia Fantetti
Eufemia Fantetti’s most recent book, My Father, Fortune-Tellers & Me: A Memoir (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2019) is a gripping outpouring…
Inside the Noisy Bubble of a Totalitarian State: Possess the Air by Taras Grescoe
Taras Grescoe presents himself as a travel writer who falls for a place and then looks around for a book…
Life, Possibilities, and the Kalahari’s Many Secrets in The Afrikaner by Arianna Dagnino
Arianna Dagnino was born in Genova, Italy. After Moscow, London, and Boston, she worked in South Africa as a foreign…
A Letter to Mike, the Angsty Squirrel I See on My Porch Sometimes
Dear Mike, Did you know that if you lie very still, and very flat, and make sure not to move…
Twin Chef
Emma’s hand shook as she presented her dish to the judges. Her lower lip trembled, as did the lavender-infused pannacotta…
The Pheasant
They had married in September and it was the end of October when Giovanni stood alone at Malpensa airport waiting…
Famous Poet: Please Give Me a Dollar
Sometimes I have to laugh. I’ve got three dollars in my pocket. There’s a blinking phone message from my country…
Translation As Metaphor for Migration
In her Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return. Analysing Cultural Translation in Diasporic Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 436) Michela Baldo maps…
Paola Breda on Land of Triumph and Tragedy
Compiled after decades of research by Marino Toppan, Land of Triumph and Tragedy: Voices of the Italian Fallen Workers is…
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli on La Brigantessa, Her Historical Novel Set in 19th Century Calabria
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli is the author of La Brigantessa (Inanna Publications, 2019), a novel based on true events in the…
With Heart and Love, Emilio Di Giuseppe’s Diary of a Tufarolo
Bruna Di Giuseppe-Bertoni is the editorial author of Diary of a Tufarolo. The text, in Italian, consists of her father’s…
2020 Accenti Contests – Winners Announced
Montreal, May 26, 2020 – Publisher Domenic Cusmano and Editor-in-chief Licia Canton are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020…
Italian-Canadian Writers Gather for Conference in Winnipeg
If you could choose a first conference to attend as a speaker, the Biennial Conference of the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers…
Premio Italia nel Mondo 2018
Life and passionate pursuits deserve celebrating. The Premio all’eccellenza del lavoro e alla cultura Italiana nel Mondo, bestowed upon four…
Accenti Supporters Gather at Gala
Accenti Magazine and its newly-formed Foundation welcomed the vernal equinox with a dazzling dinner and dance gala. On the eve of…