USA Ambassador in Italy David Thorne with Giulio Tremonti, President of Aspen Institute Italy

USA Ambassador in Italy David Thorne (right) attended on January 30 2012 a Round Table with President of Aspen Institute Italy, Giulio Tremonti, at ISPI Foundation in Milan, confirming the true friendship of Americans and Italians.



USA Ambassador in Italy David Thorne

President of Aspen Institute Italy, Giulio Tremonti

Carolina Kostner Winner on 28-29 Artistic Ice Skating Championships at Sheffield UK

Carolina Kostner ,  Italian Artistic Ice Skating star pictured starring the musical "Winx On Ice", is the winner of the Ice Skating Championship on January 28-29 at Sheffield UK.

Shoah Memorial Foundation at Milan Central Station, January 30 2012

 Liliana Segre, Italian survivor with her memories on 1944 Auschwitz Extermination Camps, near an old cattle carriage in the basement of Milan Central Railway Station the way she was transferred with thousands jewish people of all ages, most to death.

Milan Central Railway Station. Tracks to special elevator to transfer cattle carriages filled of Italian jewish prisoners up to platform 21, and on their final destination to Auschwitz Camps.

 Milan Central Railway Station. Cattle carriages in the Station basement used in 1944 filled of Italian jewish prisoners to their final destination to Auschwitz Camps.

Roberto Jarach, representative of the Jewish Community in Milan, near the cattle carriages in the Station basement that were used in 1944 filled of Italian jewish prisoners to their final destination to Auschwitz Camps.

A marble plate placed at Milan Central Station on January 26 2012 in the Shoah Memorial Foundation by the Jewish Community in Milan, near the cattle carriages in the Station basement that were used in 1944 filled of Italian jewish prisoners to their final destination to Auschwitz Camps.

Important representatives of the City of Milan attending placement of the marble plate  at Milan Central Station on January 26 2012 in the Shoah Memorial Foundation by the Jewish Community in Milan, near the cattle carriages in the Station basement that were used in 1944 filled of Italian jewish prisoners to their final destination to Auschwitz Camps.

Will It Be Forbidden to Cruise Ships The Wonderful Crossing of Saint Mark Basin in Venice ?

Venice residents, echologists , and the Mayor of Venice, are pressing for the decision to stop cruise ships crossing the Saint Mark Basin in and out, and deprive turists cruise passengers (lovers included) of the incomparable sight of  sunrise, or sunset, or moonlight on the City of Venezia.

Cruise Ship MSC Armonia  in Saint Mark Basin .
Venezia, Saint Mark Basin, Italy.

Cruise Ship MSC Armonia  in Saint Mark Basin seen from Via Garibaldi .
Venezia, Saint Mark Basin, Italy

This Photograph : Cruise Ship Legend of The Seas

Moored atVenezia, Riva dei Sette Martiri

Salvatore Parente: Unknown Silent Hero, Italian Soldier Survivor From El Alamein Is Gone at 98

 Salvatore Parente lighting his pipe at 98 y.o. represents one of those silent heroes of the Italian Army who survived the African  battle at El Alamein during Second World War and the unorganized colonization of East Africa by Italy. He lived for years in the African desert as Sargent Major rank, Italian Army Ariete Division, operating on armored cars

 Sargent Major Salvatore Parente, African Uniform

 Sargent Major Salvatore Parente, African Uniform

Sargent Major Salvatore Parente of Italian Army Ariete Division driving a small armored Cars in the desert

 Sargent Major Salvatore Parente of Italian Army Ariete Division writing a letter from the desert to his far away home in Milan

 Sargent Major Salvatore Parente of Italian Army Ariete Division familiarizing with common inhabitants of the desert.



1946 the Second World War is over for glorious winners and losers,  and former
 Sargent Major Salvatore Parente of Italian Army Ariete Division , is back home in Milan, Italy,
transformed into a postman delivering mail door to door.

Transavanguardia Artists Exhibition at Palazzo Reale, in Milan

 This Photograph : Achille Bonito Oliva, Italian art critic and founder of the Transvanguard current of art,

Presentation at Palazzo Reale, in Milan ' Dom Square, of Art Exhibition "La Transavanguardia Italiana"
(The Italian Transvanguard), from November 24 2011 till March 4 2012. Exhibition represents a new current of expression in modern art founded in 1980 by contemporary art critic Achille Bonito Oliva. The exhibition is showing operas of five important Italian contemporary art painters of the "Transvanguard current" as Sandro Chia, Nicola De Maria, Enzo Cucchi, Mimmo Paladino, Francesco Clemente living and operating in New York.      November 23 , 2011
Location: Milan, Palazzo Reale, Dom Square.


This Photograph : Italian artist Sandro Chia, of the Transvanguard current of art,

pictured at Art Exhibition "La Transavanguardia Italiana"  (The Italian Transvanguard),

Opera on of artist Sandro Chia title " Cassa Ossa Fossa 1979 "   ( Coffin Bones Grave 1979 )
Art Exhibition "La Transavanguardia Italiana"   (The Italian Transvanguard),

Italian artist Mimmo Paladino  of the Transvanguard current near his opera.

 Italian artist Enzo Cucchi of the Transvanguard current  near his opera

Opera on  of artist  Enzo Cucchi      title " Quattro braccia e sette mani 2010  " (  Four arms and seven hands 2010 )

Opera on  of artist  Francesco Clemente    title " The Fourteen Stations No. III  "

 Italian artist Nicola De Maria  of the Transvanguard current

Opera  of artist Nicola De Maria title " Mattino del Regno dei Fiori 1981 "

( Morning of The Flowers Kingdom 1981

My Memories in 1963 at Pinewood Film Studios

Polish film actress Pola Negri with British film actress Hayley Mills pictured during a pause on filmset.

while starring on film "The Moonspinners".
November 18, 1963
Location: Pinewood Film Studios, London, U.K.


 This Photograph : Polish film actress Pola Negri pictured during a pause on filmset.

November 18, 1963
Pinewood Film Studios, London, U.K.


This Photograph : British film actress Hayley Mills pictured during a pause on filmset.

 while starring on film "The Moonspinners".
November 18, 1963   Pinewood Film Studios, London, U.K.