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Since 1931, the Italian Tribune, has been one of the country’s largest and most influential Italian American weekly newspapers. Its mission is to retrieve information regarding culture, political, clubs, businesses and in individuals, from the Italian community.
The Italian Tribune
4y ago
He changed his name from Warren Wilhelm Jr. to Bill de Blasio. Although silent as to his reasons, most pundits point to his desire to curry favor with Italian Americans, but he has done nothing but harm to our traditions. He is a mass of contradictions who is supposed to lead American’s number one city, instead, he is led around on a leash by his wife. He is America’s worst mayor.
The New York that survived 9/11 and bounced back stronger than ever is now being brought to its knees. The coronavirus, economic shutdowns, street protests, pillagi ..read more
The Italian Tribune
4y ago
When the City of Newark, New Jersey went to bed on Thursday, June 26th, a secret plot was unfolding. As the clock struck midnight, a group of Newark police officers and city employees in the dark of night descended on the statue of Christopher Columbus at Bloomfield Avenue and North 8th Street. An order had been given directly by the Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka – take down the statue! A work crew arrived from the Bismark Construction Corporation, a company that is awarded most of Newark’s work and had no idea how to remove the monument, nor the heavy equipment to take it down. Their intent was ..read more
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4y ago
With the end of the Civil War, slavery ended in the United States, or did it? It seems unbelievable, if not criminal, that the freedom of Italians and Sicilians was not granted until almost eleven and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.
While slavery ended in one form with Lincoln’s Proclamation, the groundwork for another insidious form was created through the Immigration Act of 1864. Passed to encourage immigration, it created the opportunity for padrones in America and allowed manufacturers to bring in a cheap foreign labo ..read more
The Italian Tribune
4y ago
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. This is perhaps the only element agreed upon these days when applied to the Great Navigator. In these days of historical re-visionaries, facts are discarded when convenient, events are taken out of context and editorials are created as a means of not only furthering an agenda, but also to perpetuate distortions of relevant truths. The purpose of this article to set straight the legacy of Christopher Columbus and why Italians are justifiably proud of his accomplishment that changed the course of human events.
The Dangerous Mr. Zinn
As any historian, lect ..read more
The Italian Tribune
4y ago
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In the province of Cuneo lies the small town of Serralunga d’Alba. Although it has a population of only 500, it is one of the best-known of the towns whose vineyards produce Barolo. The special soil and climate, the terroir, makes the wines unique and highly distinctive the world over. It is on these gentle hills that the Villadoria winery is located. The Lanzavecchia family’s connection with the wine world stretches far back to the dream of Daniele Lanzavecchia Sr. Born in 1887, in Predosa, Italy ..read more
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4y ago
Fake News From the NEA
I am once again appalled at the insistence of the liberal history revisionists to discredit Christopher Columbus. At its 2019 National Convention, the National Education Association (NEA) passed a resolution to have Columbus Day renamed Indigenous Peoples Day, stating, “As an education association, recognizing, observing and celebrating factual history is important to maintaining our academic integrity.”
It seems to me that the job of the NEA is to teach the truth, not just what is politically correct. The distortions of history become magnified when only part of the pic ..read more
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4y ago
Monticello – The Italian Inspired Home of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and one of the founding fathers of the ideals and principles of the United States, was known as a great thinker, archeologist, author, inventor, horticulturist and statesman. A worldly man who traveled often during his lifetime, Jefferson was a gentleman of great taste in classic design and architecture. Monticello, his home in Virginia for over 50 years, stands testament to Jefferson’s love of Italian style and all things Italian.
Jefferson’s design for Monticello was inspire ..read more
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4y ago
The World of Leonardo: Part V
Leonardo’s relationship with his father was always complicated. It is clear from fragments of his writings that he desired a closer relationship, but there was a distance beyond the miles that separated the two. An example is this translated fragment:
‘Dearest father, on the last day of last month I received the letter you wrote to me, which caused me in a brief space of time both pleasure and sadness: pleasure in that I learned from it you are well, for which I thank God and displeasure to hear of your troubles…’
The letter is respectful, if somewhat stiff and wa ..read more
The Italian Tribune
4y ago
Leonardo Part IV – The Mona Lisa
Soon after Leonardo returned to Florence and rejoined the Guild of Saint Luke, he took on another commission, a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a wealthy Florentine silk merchant. Today we call the painting the Mona Lisa.
The work that we know is a small portrait, approximately 30 inches high by 21 inches wide and is the most famous painting in the world. Countless writers have commented on the elusive smile on the woman’s face; its mysterious quality is perhaps due to the subtly shadowed corners of the mouth and eyes. It makes it impossible t ..read more
The Italian Tribune
4y ago
A recent world-wide survey has found that the most popular cuisine in the world is Italian. Although with so much outstanding food in the world, it might initially seem like a daunting task to narrow down one cuisine as the world‘s most popular. The results came as no surprise to us. Even if much of the world only experiences a narrow band of the spectrum of the country’s cuisine, namely pizza and pasta, Italian still came out way ahead of the second place finisher. Additionally, some of the statistics are truly a revelation. In Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and most surprising of all – Fr ..read more