Italian Villas in The English Patient and other Canadian Literary Works
When I was in grade eleven at St Michaels College School in Toronto, one of our…
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Love and War in Genni Gunn’s The Cipher
With The Cipher (Signature Editions 2024, 239 p.), Genni Gunn has written a masterful…
The Legacy of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Poet and priest Pier Giorgio Di Cicco passed away on December 22, 2019. As a poet and…
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…
The Music of Immigration
Italian popular music of the 1950s was dominated by the themes of departure,…
The Diversity of Italian Music
For many people, Italian culture is synonymous with music. Most agree that the Italian…
Finding Rosa by Caterina Edwards, reviewed by Joseph Pivato
Caterina Edwards’ latest book, Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer’s, a…
Re-Thinking Italy – The Italian Brain Drain
Italians in the New Europe are being forced to rediscover who they are. Italy has a…