• A Letter from the Editor, Truby Chiaviello
• Travel/Hidden Treasures
• Italian Language
• Readers’ Corner
• Reviews
• Wine and Spirits
• Food
  

Second Edition 2025 also includes:

• Columbus Day 2025 - Our photo display of the parades and pageants of Columbus Day in America
• The Crew of Columbus' Voyages - Diversity at work 
• The Torlonia Marbles - The world's greatest private collection Ancient Roman sculpture
• NIAF 50th Anniversary - Five decades of the National Italian American Foundation
• Il Pastaio - LA's hottest new restaurant
• An Italian Season: Delicious recipes

COVER FEATURE - CLAUDIA CARDINALE
Soul of the Mediterranean


- The late Italian actress conveyed the spirit of the Mediterranean. Ours is an eight page article on Claudia Cardinale. We feature her life’s story, from modest beginnings in Tunisia to the heights of stardom in Italy. We pay tribute to Claudia Cardinale’s best film and one of the best Westerns—Sergio Leone’s masterpiece, “Once Upon a Time in the West.” We look at four other films considered in the list of Claudia Cardinale’s best.

FEATURE ARTICLES

COLUMBUS DAY 2025
Italian Americans Celebrate All Over The Country
Our display of photographs showcase the many parades and ceremonies celebrating Columbus Day in America.

THE DIVERSITY OF COLUMBUS' VOYAGES   
Diversity defines the people who sailed with Columbus to discover the New World.
- Italian officers, Portuguese mariners, Scots, Flemings, and Greeks, an African conquistador, Jews, Conversos, and women. - The bulk of the Spanish crew came the different regions and provinces of the Iberian peninsula: Seamen of Andalusia, Master Mariners of Basque, Castile Soldiers, Canary Islanders, Galicians and Northern Sailors, Conversos and Moriscos.

THE TORLONIA MARBLES
The world’s greatest private collection of Ancient Roman sculpture.
“I Marmi Torlonia” was an exhibition for Italians to enter the palace of the Torlonia family to see their incredible inventory of statues, bas reliefs, and busts. The photographs of the many exquisite artworks are too good to pass.

NIAF AT 50
The National Italian American Foundation celebrates five decades of one of America’s most influential Italian American organizations.
We showcase the history and photographs of the past gala events in Washington, D.C.

Il PASTAIO
A Family Night to Remember in Beverly Hills
The author, Alfonso Guerriero, shares a delicious experience dining LA’s hottest restaurant with his family.  The menu featured a wonderful array of entrees including paccheri alla Justin Bieber.

An Italian Season - We feature six wonderful recipes with stunning photographs. 

 

• A Letter from the Editor, Truby Chiaviello: The Promised Land Reversed
  The editor laments the socialist turn of New York, under the new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, in stark contrast to the capitalist opportunity that attracted so many Italians to come to America.
  
• Hidden Treasures - The Devil’s Column
  Two holes left on one side are said to mark the horns of Satan. The landmark is found beside the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan.
  
• Language: A translated excerpt from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel, Zanoni. The story centers around an alchemist who settles in Naples where he falls in love with an opera singer. The plot takes readers to Paris at the time of the French Revolution. The question arises—did Charles Dickens plagiarize Zanoni to create A Tale of Two Cities.
  
• Wine & Spirits: Amaro Baladin—An Italian Beer Becomes a Liqueur
• Readers' Corner: Sundays, At Grandmas by Hank DiPillo
• Readers’ Corner: “It’s the Power of Saint Lucy,” Anne Marie Antenucci

And...Book Reviews in this Edition…

Men Who Walk in Dreams, by Marisa Labozzett— One of the best female writers in the country deliver a fascinating anthology of short stories. - Cobblestones—A New Orleans Tragedy, by S.R. Perricon— A retired police detective delves into the worst mass lynching in America’s history. - The Case of the Deadly Diary, by Anthony Celano— Delivering another story in his series of mystery stories with our beloved protagonist, Seargeant Al Markie. 

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