Emilio Largo of Ian Fleming’s Thunderball was inspired by Emilio Bianchi
(Angelo Paratico) I was a friend of one torpedo-men, Gino Chiari, who, after the war, moved to...
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Author: Angelo Paratico
An Englishwoman in love with Veneto
(Angelo Paratico) Alethea Jane Lawley Wiel, an English writer who loved Italy, especially Venice...
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Cavour and Churchill
(Angelo Paratico) I confess that I have always thought the Italian statesman most similar to...
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107 years ago the 332d Infantry was in Villafranca and Valeggio.
(AP) For the Allied Powers, battered and exhausted after nearly three years of bloody, indecisive,...
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Italian Cuisine Moves Towards UNESCO Status: A Heritage for the World (and for the 2026 Olympics)
Italian Cuisine Moves Towards UNESCO Status: A Heritage for the World (and for the 2026...
Read More- When a disease is rare: scleroderma
(Ennia Dall’Ora) Scleroderma: open day at the AOUI at the Borgo Roma Polyclinic (E.D. Dall’Ora) On Friday afternoon, in the large ‘Roberto Vecchioni’ lecture theatre… Read more: When a disease is rare: scleroderma
- Indro Montanelli, never let the truth get in the way of a good story
(Angelo Paratico) For many of my generation (we are boomers), Indro Montanelli, with his articles and his view of history, was a source of admiration… Read more: Indro Montanelli, never let the truth get in the way of a good story
- The world’s first car factory was in Padua
Miari & Giusti produced cars designed by Enrico Bernardi of Verona (Angelo Paratico) Convinced of the future of the car and the motorcycle, which he… Read more: The world’s first car factory was in Padua
- Great Italian doctors who fought the Plague
(Angelo Paratico) The concept of ‘asymptomatic carriers’ of a disease is not new. It was first formulated by Ludovico Settala, the Milanese doctor who appears… Read more: Great Italian doctors who fought the Plague
