A preview of Luca Cottini's new book "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (University of Toronto Press, 2025) Full book presentation https://youtu.be/kFHju-mhgPo This book offers an opportunity to provide an external view and perhaps stir a debate on words that we commonly use, like America, Americanism, or Americanization, which require historical contextualization and more thorough reflection. So, the book offers an Italian alternative to the predominant narration of America which, from the Enlightenment to the 20th century, is mainly conveyed through French sources. The book also traces direct contacts between Italian and American cultures through the sources related to artists, journalists, travelers, missionaries, both from Italy to the United States and from the United States to Italy, and the book aims at exploring the political context where Italians end up in the United States and the political context where Americans operate in Italy during the period of the turn of the 20th century. #america #americanism #antiamericanism #americanization #universityoftoronto #emigration #italianemigration #italianinnovators Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © Italian Innovators 2025. All rights reserved. While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

A presentation of the new book by Luca Cottini, PhD. * An Italian vision of Americanism. Italian travelers to the US. American travelers to Italy (1888-1919). * From the first emigration law (1888) to the crisis of New Orleans (1891) * From the Columbian expositions (Genoa & Chicago, 1892-93) to the Spanish American war (1898) * The soft power of American industry. Americanism as an export ideology * Americans in Italy from the end of the 19th century to WWI. Henry James, John Sargent, Willian Cody (Buffalo Bill), Wilbur Wright, Theodore Roosevelt, JP Morgan, Fiorello La Guardia, Woodrow Wilson, Ernest Hemingway * What does an Italian perspective reveal about the global rise of the United States? * What makes the concept of "Americanism" so relevant (in an age of "anti-Americanism)? #america #americanism #antiamericanism #americanization #universityoftoronto #emigration #italianemigration #italianinnovators Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © Italian Innovators 2025. All rights reserved. While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

A preview of Luca Cottini's new book "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (University of Toronto Press, 2025) Full book presentation https://youtu.be/kFHju-mhgPo The book aims to predate the Americanization of Italy from the years after World War II to the turn of the 20th century. The book also aims to explore the soft power of American industry and to see Italy as the privileged site for a U.S. penetration in the European market. So, Italy, thanks to its migrant community, creates a fertile soil for Americans to develop an economic presence. And the book also aspires to reconstruct the meaning of Americanism in an age like ours, so the age post-1945 that has instead embraced the concept of anti-Americanism. The book tries to offer the reconstruction of the social debate on Americanism that takes place in the United States as an internal debate on citizenship, but also tries to argue that this concept, this debate, becomes an export ideology then in Europe and acquires different meanings over time. #america #americanism #antiamericanism #americanization #universityoftoronto #emigration #italianemigration #italianinnovators Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © Italian Innovators 2025. All rights reserved. While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Una giovane ragazza italiana, nata a Torino e cresciuta a Genova, dove ha studiato design e costumi, si trasferisce in Inghilterra, dove cerca di guadagnarsi da vivere a Londra lavorando nella boutique di un'amica. Innamorata del teatro e del cinema, che, ammise poi, continuava a chiamarla, la giovane apprendista iniziò a lavorare sui costumi grazie a un incontro casuale con il regista americano. Nel 1968 si ritrova sul set del capolavoro di 2001: Odissea nello spazio. La sua storia inizia qui, nell'incontro con Kubrik, e nella proficua collaborazione che lì è iniziata. Canonero sarà la mano dietro suoi capolavori come Arancia meccanica nel 1971, Barry Lyndon nel 1975 e Shining nel 1980. L'Oscar per i suoi costumi storici in Barry Lyndon le valse una tale reputazione che George Lucas le chiese di disegnare i costumi per Star wars. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs * Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s * Elsa Peretti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUkVNyfbaw * Giorgio Armani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xhDAAf--Y&t=1s --- Women playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsWomen * Fabiola Gianotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RudD7fWZqtY&feature=youtu.be * Laura Biagiotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzfe2IYZsHw * Margherita Guarducci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VghXAnQW1sY * Maria Montessori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EelxAZzabE * Samantha Cristoforetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-tqTcXmcs --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

In the Co-Cathedral of Taranto, which he planned in the Apulian city in 1970 and which was dedicated to the “Great Mother of God”, Ponti envisioned a sublime synthesis, staging the continuity of temporal and atemporality in the idea of a sail (the façade), dialoguing with the sea (as mirrored in the water pools) and the sky, as implied in the lightness and light of its structure. The building’s mix of stone and wind, of depth and grace, is a marvelous example of Italian and contemporary religious architecture. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Design playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsDesign * Alfonso Bialetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBv8NoIZihw * Gio Ponti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amDWoP_2gc * Silvio Gazzaniga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ-XBUZ7tc * Carlo Bugatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuR_53Q2OQ * Battista and Sergio Pininfarina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKWDQgwZ-Q * Gae Aulenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1r5khAmipU * Giorgetto Giugiaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoEzv2uqgI&t=336s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

Also in architecture, contrast, or rather “balance” of opposites is the key force behind Gio Ponti’s style. Ponti identified the ongoing synthesis of opposites with the word “continuity”. We see this “continuity” in the Pirelli skyscraper that he designed in Milan with Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso. The tapered shape of the tower, which you might associate with the monolith symbol of Kubrik’s 2001. A Space Odyssey is dynamically set in motion by a stylized tire tread rising vertically on the sides of the building. The skyscraper known as “il Pirellone” which became a symbol of Italy’s economic miracle and for years was the tallest building in Europe, was in fact the headquarters of the tire company Pirelli and stood on the site of its previous factory prior to its bombing in 1943. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Design playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsDesign * Alfonso Bialetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBv8NoIZihw * Gio Ponti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amDWoP_2gc * Silvio Gazzaniga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ-XBUZ7tc * Carlo Bugatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuR_53Q2OQ * Battista and Sergio Pininfarina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKWDQgwZ-Q * Gae Aulenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1r5khAmipU * Giorgetto Giugiaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoEzv2uqgI&t=336s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

Ponti’s minimalist approach to simple beauty, as it appears in common objects like conic door handles, found its most celebrated expression in his Superleggera chair, which he designed for Cassina in 1957. As Italian writer Italo Calvino theorized, nothing is more complex than simplicity, and perfection is the ultimate outcome of subtraction. This is even more valid for a chair. Ponti’s Superleggera reaches this perfection with artisanal elegance and cutting-edge research through a marvelous synthesis of light weight, strength, durability, and comfort. So, lightness and light, dynamism and solidity, comfort and legacy. Also in architecture, contrast, or rather “balance” of opposites is the key force behind Gio Ponti’s style. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Design playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsDesign * Alfonso Bialetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBv8NoIZihw * Gio Ponti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amDWoP_2gc * Silvio Gazzaniga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ-XBUZ7tc * Carlo Bugatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cuR_53Q2OQ * Battista and Sergio Pininfarina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKWDQgwZ-Q * Gae Aulenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1r5khAmipU * Giorgetto Giugiaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIoEzv2uqgI&t=336s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

The second defining event of Gucci’s success relates to the postwar years and the release of the famous Bamboo bag in 1947. The bag, an all-time favorite of celebrities and royalty and still a hallmark of the brand, came out of necessity, as the company was still dealing with the lack of foreign supplies, and out of its reappropriated equestrian vocation, as a saddle’s shape gave Gucci the inspiration to turn bamboo into an original handle. A traditional saddle girth would also be the inspiration for the green-red-green stripe which de facto became the trademark design of the company over the following years. So experimental sourcing and memory reinvented. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs * Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s * Elsa Peretti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUkVNyfbaw * Giorgio Armani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xhDAAf--Y&t=1s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

The blockage of leather similarly forced Gucci to ration production and test new solutions, as he branched out into shoes, wallets, and belts, and began to experiment with alternative bags, woven with a special hemp from Naples and printed with a series of small, interconnecting diamonds in dark brown on a tan background. These lightweight bags, which were printed with the repeating double-G initials that Guccio’s son Aldo had first designed in 1933, would become the company’s signature product. So, limit as a condition of resourcefulness and a stimulus for innovation. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs * Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s * Elsa Peretti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUkVNyfbaw * Giorgio Armani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xhDAAf--Y&t=1s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

It is fair to say that Guccio’s time in London was truly an experience of illumination. The young man worked in the hotel as dish washer, waiter, and concierge, but his most instructive assignment was that of elevator attendant. As he gave elevator rides to elegant upper-class hotel guests, he observed their luggage with curiosity, and in his brief interactions with celebrities and politicians he quickly learned their style, clothing, accessories, jewelry, and manners. That’s the power of small talk! It is here that Guccio first realized the coded language of leather bags. It is here that he first grasped the needs and wants of celebrities. It is here that we can trace the early intuition of his later company. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Fashion playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFashion * Salvatore Ferragamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabiLQTSBNs * Guccio Gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNU02huyZk * Emilio Pucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQhd0eEVCQ * Elsa Schiaparelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmKPpKDrBc&t=10s * Ermenegildo Zegna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mUfTzEZMY&t=1s * Elsa Peretti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUkVNyfbaw * Giorgio Armani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3xhDAAf--Y&t=1s --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

In the early 1950s Taglioni had made a name for himself working for the motorcycle producer Mondial, leading the company to win the Motogiro of Italy in 1954. By mistake, however, the team did not invite him to the celebration dinner after the victory, and after that, Taglioni would never show up again. After he quit Mondial, Ford and Ferrari soon approached him with lucrative proposals, but he turned them down, intrigued by Ducati, which instead offered him an uncompensated month-long trial, but with carte blanche for all his projects. As his wife Narina put it, Taglioni accepted Ducati’s bid and worked tirelessly for 40 days, designing, testing every component, and in the end, authoring the Gran Sport 100, the motorbike which would triumph at the Motogiro of 1955 and which would become known as “La Marianna”. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Cars and transportation playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsAutomobile * Carlo Riva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jDD6vXvL4 * Nicola Romeo (Alfa Romeo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SOP5nq45g * Alfieri Maserati https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktXIi39y_E * Enzo Ferrari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rx-bd0s2A * Ferruccio Lamborghini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E04gKmv-Ew --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

The best part of a book for an author is what happens after publication. Before that, it’s a story that we can control. After that, it becomes something else. It’s the same for any product and brand. In the same way, in fact, the legend of Ducati starts from this break, from the unforeseeable life that the product generated in dialogue with its users. The mastermind of this new story is the visionary engineer Fabio Taglioni. His hiring, in 1954, is what twisted the plot of Ducati forever, making it over the following decades one of the most recognizable brands in the world. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Cars and transportation playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsAutomobile * Carlo Riva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jDD6vXvL4 * Nicola Romeo (Alfa Romeo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SOP5nq45g * Alfieri Maserati https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktXIi39y_E * Enzo Ferrari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rx-bd0s2A * Ferruccio Lamborghini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E04gKmv-Ew --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

On October 12, 1944, a cohort of allied bombers took off from Southern Italy directed toward Bologna. Their mission was to destroy the Ducati factory, which the Germans had reconverted into their own productive site during the military occupation of the peninsula. Over the previous decade, since the opening of the Borgo Panigale plant in 1935, Ducati had become the largest employer in Bologna and Italy’s leading electrical company, manufacturing radio parts and receivers, video projectors and portable-sized cameras, in collaboration with the optical institute of Florence, and even electric shavers, especially after the success of the first made-in-Italy model Raselet. --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Cars and transportation playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsAutomobile * Carlo Riva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jDD6vXvL4 * Nicola Romeo (Alfa Romeo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SOP5nq45g * Alfieri Maserati https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktXIi39y_E * Enzo Ferrari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rx-bd0s2A * Ferruccio Lamborghini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E04gKmv-Ew --- Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYkesc9M87SERwaocbN-xQ/join Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2025

Fu nel 1858 che Luigi decise di emigrare negli Stati Uniti, sulla scia del fratello diplomatico Alessandro. A New York si era fatto strada insegnando italiano e francese alla gioventù locale, e tre anni più tardi, nel 1861, aveva sposato l’americana Isabel Reid. Lo stesso anno dell’unificazione italiana e dell’inizio della guerra civile americana. Passó poco tempo che, mosso dagli stessi ideali di libertà della sua adolescenza, Louis di Cesnola si arruolò nel quarto reggimento di cavalleria di New York. Negli anni della guerra civile, verrà accusato di tradimento, ferito, preso prigioniero, liberato e onorato, ma non perderà mai di vista l’ardore per la libertà che l’aveva mosso da giovane. Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Dal Piemonte a New York, dalla guerra civile americana al consolato di Cipro, dalle rovine di Kourion al Metropolitan Museum of Art. La storia di Luigi Palma di Cesnola parte dai campi di battaglia della prima guerra d'indipendenza e si snoda dalla guerra di Crimea all'apprendistato come tutor d'italiano a New York. Dopo l'incontro con Isabel Reid, la donna che diventerà sua moglie, Louis farà parte del reggimento cavalleria di New York, combatterà per la libertà e diventerà console americano a Cipro. Fu proprio lì che inizio la sua collezione di reperti archeologici, che donerà poi al museo di New York, e fu grazie a questa esperienza che acquisì le competenza per fondare e dirigere per primo una delle istituzioni più prestigiose della città, il Metropolitan Museum of Art, quello che conosciamo oggi solo come il Met. #metropolitanmuseumofart #metropolitanmuseum #art #archaeology #newyork Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Giunto a Milano la mattina del 29 giugno 1900, si fece la barba e mangiò con uno sconosciuto, assicurandogli che presto avrebbe rivisto il suo volto. Quella sera, nella vicina città di Monza, s’intrufolò tra la folla radunata per una competizione di ginnastica e al passaggio del Re, sparò 4 colpi. Non al Re Umberto, disse poi, ma al Re, come principio. Processato e condannato all’ergastolo, fu imprigionato prima all’Elba, in una cella sotto il mare, e poi sull’isola di Santo Stefano, dove fu trovato impiccato in circostanze sospette un anno dopo, il 22 maggio del 1901. La sua tomba si trova ancora sull’isola. #italianinnovators #anarchici #anarchia #bresci Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

La storia dell'anarchico che uccise il re Umberto I. Da Prato al penitenziario di Lampedusa. Da Paterson, NJ a Monza, da Ventotene a Buffalo. Il viaggio di un emigrante inquieto, che darà forma ed espressione concreta a un duraturo pregiudizio americano verso gli anarchici italiani: dalla morte del presidente McKinley (1901) al caso internazionale di Sacco e Vanzetti (1927). La vicenda dell'uomo che ha sfidato la monarchia, la cui leggenda ha superato la sua giovane (e sospetta) morte e ha attraversato come un presagio nascosto tutto il XX secolo, sia in Italia che negli Stati Uniti. #italianinnovators #gaetanobresci #bresci #paterson #anarchia #anarchici #anarchismo Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Suo fratello Pietro era partito per l’Argentina quando era piccolo e a Buenos Aires era diventato educatore, naturalista e padre di quello che diventerà poi lo scrittore e saggista argentino Raùl Scalabrini Ortiz. Quando si imbarcò per la prima volta per andare oltreoceano nel 1901, Giovanni Battista decise di allungare il suo viaggio dal Nord al Sud America per rivederlo, dopo aver visitato negli Stati Uniti visitare il presidente McKinley, il vescovo di Baltimora James Gibbons (la mano dietro la Rerum Novarum, la prima enciclica sociale di Papa Leone XIII), e la suora missionaria Francesca Cabrini che un tempo aveva inviato dalla sua diocesi a New York. Fu un viaggio lungo ed estenuante che segnò profondamente la salute di monsignor Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, vescovo di Piacenza, che morirà 4 anni più tardi, ma fu un viaggio che coronò una vita al servizio degli emigranti e una missione personale di rimarginare distanze e conciliare posizioni lontane. #italianinnovators #storieamericane #scalabrini Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Il vescovo che mise d'accordo lo Stato e la Chiesa. Da Piacenza agli Stati Uniti, dagli Stati Uniti all'Argentina, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini fu il missionario dei migranti italiani, capaci di riconnetterli alla loro tradizione religiosa e culturale. Il suo apostolato per gli emigranti lo renderà esempio per cattolici e laici del suo tempo, e il suo contributo di evangelizzazione e civilizzazione è ancora un segno molto profondo nelle Americhe. #italianinnovators #scalabrini #scalabriniani Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Grazie alla sua popolarità fu eletto al Congresso nel 1916 – il primo italo americano di sempre. L’inizio del suo servizio però coincise con un momento chiave della guerra, quando Wilson, abbandonata la neutralità, aveva deciso di entrare nel conflitto europeo nell’aprile del 1917. Nell’estate di quell’anno, La Guardia prese la situazione di polso e, congedatosi dal Congresso, si arruolò nell’aviazione americana. Fu lui, il 16 ottobre 1917 (due settimane prima della disfatta di Caporetto) ad allestire il primo campo americano in Italia, non a caso a Foggia, la città natale di suo padre. La sua divisione a Camp Foggia - la Foggiana – diventerà un punto di riferimento fondamentale dell’azione militare, diplomatica e culturale americana in Italia durante l’anno finale della guerra. #italianinnovators #storieamericane #laguardia #foggia Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Da Foggia a Foggia. Dalla città natale di suo padre Achille, compositore giramondo, a Camp Foggia, dove per primo, nell'ottobre del 1917, il figlio Fiorello stabilì la prima divisione aerea americana, la cosiddetta Foggiana, che molto impatto avrà sul morale degli italiani nei mesi successivi a Caporetto. Traduttore, diplomatico, eroe di guerra, riformatore. Fiorello La Guardia fu un uomo di molti mondi, capace di dare rappresentanza politica agli Italian Americans e di influenzare l'opinione pubblica italiana durante la guerra. Al suo ritorno in patria nel 1918, fu eletto di nuovo al Congresso e tra il 1934 e il 1945 diventerà sindaco di New York, uno dei piú amati. La città gli dedicherà uno dei suoi aeroporti. #italianinnovators #laguardia #laguardiaairport #wwi #primaguerramondiale #nyc #newyork Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Dopo aver praticato medicina a Firenze e in Medio Oriente, il toscano Mazzei aveva deciso di tentare la fortuna a Londra nel 1755. Mentre lavorava lì come insegnante di italiano, gli capitó d’imbattersi in città in due giovani provenienti dalle colonie americane, tal Benjamin Franklin di Philadelphia e Thomas Jefferson dalla Virginia. Furono loro a convincerlo a trasferirsi nel Nuovo Mondo e iniziare un business di export di vino e olive toscane. Quando s’imbarcò da Livorno nel 1773 con destinazione Virginia non sapeva certo cosa sarebbe nato da quella sua avventura. Si portò con sé piante, semi e 10 contadini, e inizió a lavorare nella tenuta dell’amico Jefferson, dove piantò una vigna e un frutteto di ciliegie e albicocche. Ben presto, con la dichiarazione d’indipendenza del 1776 e lo scoppio della guerra, Jefferson gli affidò però un’altra missione: quella di acquistare armi dall'Europa e spedirle segretamente in Virginia. #italianinnovators #storieamericane #costituzione #constitution Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Perché Jefferson conosceva l’italiano? Dove nasce la sua frase “tutti gli uomini sono creati uguali”? E come mai JFK decise di riconoscere ufficialmente il suo vero autore nel 1961? Vi racconto qui l'amicizia tra il mercante livornese Filippo Mazzei e il filosofo e presidente americano Thomas Jefferson, che nacque da un incontro casuale a Londra, a cui seguì un viaggio in Virginia, dove Mazzei si dedicò alla cura del frutteto di Monticello e iniziò un business di export agricolo. Con l'inizio della guerra rivoluzionaria americana, Mazzei iniziò a importare armi nelle colonie, facendo la spola attraverso l'Atlantico, e diventò spia e confidente di Jefferson, che parlava italiano (e visiterà poi il Nord Italia nel 1787, proprio mentre redigeva il testo della Costituzione americana). Fu dalla loro corrispondenza che Jefferson mutuò la frase "all men are created equal" che diventerà poi uno dei cardini della Costituzione americana. #italianinnovators #constitution #mazzei #jefferson Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

While the power of Vibram certainly consists in the quality of its sole, its appeal lies in the cultural construction of rubber as a polyvalent concept. A few words can define its multiple meanings. Certainly grip, duration, and traction, which apply to mountain climbing, outdoor excursions, boating, and cycling. But also safety, authenticity, and performance. The sense of security and control in unknown territory. Unmediated contact with nature, as a learning experience, a journey of self-discovery, and a form of respect. And performance, as self-improvement (the outcome of quality) as well as the embodiment of a confident sense of self (whether on a mountain or on a street). #alpinism #sports #mountaineering #alps #outdoors #trekking #grip Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Vitale Bramani’s unique understanding of the relationship between the human body and natural space finds expression in three key projects that Vibram has developed over the last decades. The first, which I am sure you have seen, is the FiveFingers, a foot glove launched in 2004, which mirrors the vision that Bramani had outlined in a 1935 article for the magazine of Club Alpino Italiano when he expressed his admiration for alpine guides who climbed barefoot. The second project, the Furoshiki wrapping sole (modeled on Japanese square handkerchiefs and awarded the Compasso d’Oro in 2018) transformed the sole into an ergonomic interface, guaranteeing personal fitting and transferring Bramani’s idea of the sole as the only layer “between the Earth and you”, from the natural milieu to urban streetwear. #alpinism #sports #mountaineering #alps #outdoors #fivefingers #furoshiki #urban #mountains Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

In 1947, Bramani converted his store into a company, moved his manufacturing facility to Gallarate, and designed the brand’s new logo, which paid homage to Milan with its octagonal shape, mirroring the central vault of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. I invite you to find Vibram’s yellow logo in all kinds of shoes today! #alpinism #sports #mountaineering #alps #outdoors #outdoor #sneakers Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Bramani’s rubber sole, which he called Carrarmato (tank), was a self-standing object. Rubber offered him not just an insulating element (which he transferred from telegraphic cables or pneumatic tires to human walking), but also a dynamic surface, allowing him to achieve unparalleled grip by way of its functional design, featuring a radial crown (which replaced metal nails) and central cross-shaped nails (which granted robustness and self-cleaning). The sole also had an aesthetic component, both in the crosses, which mirrored the floor decorations of Milan’s Galleria, and in its name – tank – which associated its qualities of stability, durability, and traction to the empowering experience of walking in unchartered lands and crossing the most dangerous slopes. #alpinism #sports #mountaineering #alps #carrarmato #sole #rubbersole Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Un’ora a nord di Philadelphia, davanti a una drogheria di Sunbury, si trova una targa: “qui dal 1805 al 1818 lavorò Lorenzo Da Ponte librettista di Mozart”. Senza che nessuno veramente se ne accorgesse in quel piccolo paesino della Pennsylvania, dietro la porta del mercato si trovava l’autore che aveva dato voce a opere immortali come Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni e Così fan tutte. Ma come ci era finito lì Da Ponte con la compagna e quattro figli? #italianinnovators #storieamericane #daponte #opera #mozart #sunbury Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Until the 19th century, climbing a mountain was an odd intellectual endeavor (like the one that once moved the poet Petrarch to ascend Mount Ventoux in 1336), or a strictly scientific activity (like the one that moved the naturalist De Saussure to commission the first climb of Mont Blanc in 1786). In the mid-19th century, the Alps became the grounds of discovery for experts, adventurers, and photographers, who formed mountaineering clubs (like the Club Alpino Italiano in 1863), organized missions to reach Alpine peaks (like the 1865 conquest of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper), and visually charted its unbeaten sites (like the alpine photographer Vittorio Sella). By the turn of the new century, the Alpine movement had turned mountain climbing from a scientific endeavor aimed at taking measurements of air pressure and temperature, into a recreative “alpinism” as a form of self-challenge, an aesthetic experience, and, later, an international sport. #alpinism #sports #mountaineering #alps Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

A presentation by Luca Cottini (PhD) * The 1912 opening of the Grande Albergo Campo dei Fiori and the birth of Alpine tourism * A brief history of Alpinism: from Petrarch (1336) to De Saussure (1786), from 19th century explorers to the Olympics of Chamonix (1924) * Vitale Bramani's youth in Milan and his mountaineering apprenticeship * From war to fashion and sports. The transformation of Alpinism in the 1930s * The opening of Bramani's shop in Milan (ViBram) and the tragedy of Punta Rasica (1935) * The partnership with Pirelli and the creation of the Carrarmato sole (1937) * The growth of Vibram. From WWII to the K2 expedition, from Milan to Albizzate * The legacy of Vitale Bramani. Vibram's new models (FiveFingers, Furoshiki, Arctic Grip) * Design and functionality. The Vibram philosophy today #italianinnovators #vibram #outdoors #outdoor #mountaineering #alpinism #trekking #fivefingers #sports #fashion #mountains #alps --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Sports playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsSports Walter Bonatti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0V3tJpj8g0 Leone Jacovacci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZOT4ZlDogE Vitale Bramani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Z3VCZluc4 Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © Italian Innovators 2024. All rights reserved. While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Il librettista di Mozart, autore a Vienna di opere immortali come Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, e Cosí fan tutte, fu uno dei primi emigranti italiani negli Stati Uniti e il fondatore degli studi italiani a Columbia University. La sua storia - di prete e libertino, di poeta di corte e tutor privato, di venditore e professore - è degna di un film. La sua eredità intellettuale, che si estende dall'accademia al teatro, lo rende non solo un pioniere dell'opera in America ma anche un grande della letteratura del suo tempo. A partire dalla sua straordinaria autobiografia... Qui ne racconto solo un piccolo assaggio, per altro molto gustoso, solo come invito a conoscere un gigante della cultura italiana e americana. #italianinnovators #italianstudies #opera #mozart #dongiovanni #nozzedifigaro #cosifantutte #columbia Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Il modello di Romeyne Robert, che racconto meglio negli episodi in inglese che ho dedicato a lei e a suo figlio Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello, traduttore, eroe di guerra e mediatore culturale, rappresenta una sintesi creativa di diplomazia culturale, educazione, ed emancipazione femminile. La sua passione per l’innovazione e il suo impegno civile la rendono testimonianza pionieristica non solo di una expat americana che ha saputo reinventarsi in Italia, in condizioni molto diverse, ma anche e soprattutto esempio al femminile di una leader che ha saputo vedere l’impresa come uno spazio di educazione, crescita e libertà, sia personale e sociale. A New York come a Perugia. Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

La storia di un'espatriata americana in Italia che ha saputo costruire a Perugia un'impresa e una scuola di ricamo, che ha dato forma a un modello nuovo di emancipazione e educazione femminile agli inizi del Novecento. La sua influenza si estende anche alla Scuola di Industrie italiane (fondata a New York dall'amica Carolina Amari) e a Maria Montessori (che visitò la scuola del Pischiello di Romeyne Robert mentre scriveva il suo Metodo di pedagogia). Un esempio di virtù imprenditoriale e sociale a cui ho dedicato un episodio lungo in inglese (bit.ly/romeynerobert) e che ancora oggi è di grande ispirazione attraverso l'opera della fondazione Sorbello dedicata a lei e al figlio Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello (bit.ly/sorbelloinnovators) #italianinnovators #sorbello #perugia #educazione #emancipazione Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

With the case of Salvatore Averna – and we move here to the center of the island – we see how a liqueur, or rather an amaro (bitter), subsumed and reinvented the island’s religious tradition. Don Salvatore, a judge in his native town of Caltanissetta, was a well-respected member of the local community and a benefactor of a nearby abbey. In 1859 (the last year of the Kingdom of Sicily), the prior of the abbey entrusted him with the recipe of the convent’s herb elixir, which had been passed on from generation to generation, as token of gratitude for his generosity. Averna first began making the amaro for his guests at his home, combining herbs, roots and natural spices with aromas and fragrances of Sicilian citrus, and then, nine years later, he began to produce it for a broader audience. 1868 marks the beginning not only of his entrepreneurial journey but also of the transition from an inherited tradition to a new product. #italianinnovators #amaroaverna #sicilia #sicily Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024

Grazie al suo mentore Berenson, Isabella divenne un punto di riferimento per moltissimi artisti contemporanei e costruì una collezione di tutto rispetto, da Beato Angelico a Botticelli, da Tiziano a Velazquez, da Rembrandt a Sargent. Fu nel 1903 che decise di collocarla in una casa museo che fece costruire a Boston sul modello del Poldi Pezzoli di Milano. Oggi, l’Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum non è solo lo specchio del suo percorso di uscita dalla depressione e lo scrigno di tutti i suoi viaggi, ma anche la testimonianza viva di una straordinaria collezionista e filantropa che ha saputo creare un progetto culturale e storico di rilevanza immensa. Se vi capita di passare da Back Bay a Boston, passate dalla sua casa museo e lasciatevi incantare ancora dalla sua storia intrepida! #italianinnovators #isabellastewartgardner #storieamericane Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Fu la prima volta che un monarca inglese s’inchinò davanti alla bandiera americana, più di cent’anni dopo la rivoluzione. Siamo a Londra nel 1887 e William Cody per la prima volta porta il suo spettacolo, the Wild West show, oltre l’Atlantico. Il suo amico Mark Twain gli aveva suggerito di provare con l’Europa, come maniera di sanare i debiti che si era procurato con il Whisky. In America lo show aveva appena sbancato al Madison Square Garden nel 1886, ma Cody non sapeva ancora che in Europa lo avrebbe lanciato come il primo prodotto culturale della storia a dimensione di massa #italianinnovators #buffalobill #storieamericane Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.

Filantropa, viaggiatrice e collezionista, Isabella Stewart (Gardner da sposata) è una delle donne più affascinanti della Belle Epoque. Capace di superare enormi drammi familiari, seppe creare un percorso artistico entusiasmante grazie alla collaborazione con il critico d'arte Bernard Berenson, e memore di una visita giovanile al Museo Poldi Pezzoli di Milano, seppe ricreare la stessa visione di una casa-museo a Boston, dove costruì a Back Bay il suo Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, oggi una delle collezioni private più importanti d'America (con pezzi da Tiziano a Velazquez, da Botticelli a John Singer Sargent). #isabellastewartgardner #storieamericane #boston #backbay Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Il Wild West show di Buffalo Bill fu il primo spettacolo teatrale a dimensione globale e il primo prodotto della diplomazia culturale in Europa. William Cody, pioniere e showman, creò un formato capace di raccontare non solo la conquista del West (sulle linee dei treni dal Colorado alla California), ma anche e soprattutto uno spettacolo onnicomprensivo - fatto di storia, circo, e acrobazie - capace di impressionare la regina Vittoria e le folle dell'esposizione universale di Parigi e di ispirare tra tanti Leone XIII, Giacomo Puccini, Emilio Salgari e Filippo T. Marinetti. #italianinnovators #buffalobill #storieamericane #wildwest #wildwesthistory Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024 While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

In our contemporary world, Sicily is now recognized as a primary land of Italian winemaking, and its varietals are regularly featured in global wine reviews. What you find in a glass of Sicilian wine or spirit however is not just a distinctive or exclusive set of flavors (which certainly derive from the island’s rich and complex soil), but also, as I outlined today, a layered and polyvalent story: of foreign influence (Marsala), religious heritage (Averna), rediscovered past (Nero d’Avola), aesthetic reinvention (Donnafugata), and environmental sustainability (Amara). What a Sicilian glass reflects is ultimately the Mediterranean soul of the island, as a sophisticated and stratified crossroads of arts, trade, and legacy. #sicilia #vinisiciliani #nerodavola #valdinoto #sicily #marsala #averna Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024

Marquis of Rudinì served as Italy’s prime minister twice, at times of great turmoil: during the crisis of 1891, which led to the one and only rupture of diplomatic ties between Italy and the United States, after the lynching of New Orleans, and during the crisis of 1898, which followed the Spanish American war and led to the military repression of Milan’s riots against the rising price of wheat. In our context, a lesser-known aspect of the Marquis is his work as wine innovator. Di Rudinì’s vision is at the base of the Val di Noto wine business, as his investments in his own estate of Pachino, his financial support for the first refrigerated vinification plant near Marzamemi, and his construction of a direct way to transfer wines from the wineries to ships directed to Genoa and Livorno not only improved the quality of Nero d’Avola, but also legitimized it as an independent product. #sicilia #vinisiciliani #nerodavola #valdinoto #sicily Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024

A presentation by Luca Cottini (PhD) based on an academic lecture delivered at the Università di Palermo on June 13, 2024 * The Mediterranean soul of Sicilian #wines and #spirits. 5 entrepreneurial stories * The history of Marsala. From British businessmen (Woodhouse, Ingham) to Sicilian entrepreneurs (Vincenzo Florio Sr. and the golden age of Palermo) * The convent's bitter. The foundation & success of Amaro Averna (from Caltanissetta to the world) * From blending wine to independent grape. The rediscovery of Nero d'Avola and the success of Val di Noto (from Marchese di Rudinì to the present) * The creation of Sicilian #winemaking. Giacomo Rallo and Donnafugata * Edoardo Strano's Amara liqueur and the contemporary reinvention of the Sicilian amaro * Sicilian #wine as a crossroads of traditions, influences, and tastes #sicily #sicilia #sicilianwine #mediterranean #sicilianentrepreneurship --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Food & Drink playlist: – bit.ly/MyInnovatorsFoodDrink * Davide Campari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQ1t8HdnCs * Filippo De Cecco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXufPgFMJSA * Luigi Lavazza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNCAqPNc0w * Massimo Bottura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuv7syzPLw * Michele Ferrero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If8mT8Gehec * Giulia Falletti di Barolo (Marchesi di Barolo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5GRFEq0XI Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © Italian Innovators 2024. All rights reserved. While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

From Antonio Stradivari to Paolo Fazioli, from the harmonic forests of Val di Fiemme to the concert halls of the world, pianos embody the ultimate sign of Italian ingenuity, as a complex weaving of mechanics and art, a dynamic site of perennial adjustment, and a platform of real innovation, which is never achieved once and for all, but always need to happen again, as in a mind boggling performance. #fazioli #pianos #pianoforte #italianinnovators #grandpiano Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024

In addition to models of different sizes, the company also acquired visibility for its special models: the elegant Walnut Strauss (paying tribute to 19th century design), the Malachite (with its precious intarsia of wood and stones), the Origami Fairmont (commissioned by the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel of Vancouver in honor of origami maestro Joseph Wu), the Ebony Black and White, the gold plated Foglia d’oro, and my absolute favorite – on my ideal wish list of course! – the Marco Polo, a red F308 celebrating the ties of Venice and China, or nearby Sacile and the Chinese origins of the commissioning client, by its reference to the Venetian explorer who opened the silk route, and the reproduction of a Canaletto painting inside the lid. #fazioli #pianos #pianoforte #italianinnovators #grandpiano #f308 #faziolipianos Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024

Fazioli was born in 1944 in Forte Bravetta, not far from where Fr. Giuseppe Morosini was killed during the Nazi occupation of Rome (you might recall him from Rossellini’s movie Rome Open City). Paolo, the youngest of six children, lost his mother when he was 10, and, on the advice of his older brother’s wife, started taking piano lessons to overcome his grief. As he played the vertical piano at his teacher’s house, he fell in love with it (despite what he later called its horrible sound), and managed to convince his father to make him one to practice on, by cutting a wood sheet and drawing a keyboard on it. That was his first piano! It was the start of a passion which would lead him to a piano degree from the Conservatory of Pesaro, under the guidance of Sergio Cafaro (another student of Ennio Morricone’s maestro Goffredo Petrassi). #fazioli #pianos #pianoforte #italianinnovators #grandpiano Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024

For many centuries people asked what the secret of Stradivari violins was, and many hypotheses have been proposed to explain how the 17th century master luthier from Cremona achieved his unbeatable sound. If you drive to the Val di Fiemme, in the Dolomite region, you might find the most reliable answer. The hidden quality of his finest instruments lies in their harmonic wood, which was and is still sourced from the spruce trees of Paneveggio, in the so-called violin forest. The story of Paolo Fazioli, the Stradivari of our time, starts here too, as in the early 1980s he relocated to the area from his native Rome to start his new entrepreneurial venture and pursue his dream to manufacture pianos. #stradivarius #italianinnovators #fazioli #pianosolo Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024

Cristofori's pianoforte, as the instrument would come to be called, gradually emerged throughout the 18th century, until Christmas eve of 1781, when a particular event skyrocketed its popularity in European courts, as Austrian Emperor Joseph II challenged the Roman pianist Muzio Clementi and 25-year-old prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a piano contest at his royal palace. The duel officially ended in a draw, even though the emperor sympathized for his local hero, ratifying both the musicians’ fame and the legitimacy of the new instrument. Mozart nobilitated the piano by writing numerous concertos for it. Clementi travelled to London later in life and there began assembling and selling pianos. Clementi’s mix of artistry and mechanics, and his travels from Rome to the North, certainly prefigure Fazioli’s similar journey between music and entrepreneurship. #fazioli #pianos #pianoforte #italianinnovators #grandpiano #mozart #clementi Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2024

A presentation by Luca Cottini (PhD) * The forest of violins. The acoustic wood of Val di Fiemme * The Stradivari of pianos. How Fazioli fell in love with the instrument * A dual degree in #piano & #engineering and the aesthetic/mechanical pursuit of the perfect sound * Fazioli's roman musical heritage. From Clementi to Petrassi, from Morricone to Cafaro * The Italian instrument. How Bartolomeo Cristofori created the first piano in 1709 and how the Mozart-Clementi duel fueled the rise of piano in 19th-century Europe * The Fazioli philosophy. Creating individually crafted models for performance * The debut of the gran coda F308 in Carnegie Hall and the design of unique models: from the Origami Fairmont to the Marco Polo * The perfection of patience in the creation of enchanted instruments #italianinnovators #pianos #fazioli #pianoforte #stradivari #strad #carnegiehall #sound #piano --- Related #italianinnovators videos: Music playlist: bit.ly/MyInnovatorsMusic Arts & Media episodes: * Vittorio Alinari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngqX0R4AO2Q * Giulio Ricordi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J66YSYhYQ5E * Ennio Morricone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTjDBt5Sy0s * Arturo Toscanini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjUtRVNy4wA * Arnoldo Mondadori & Angelo Rizzoli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjkEl-hI74 * Guido Alberti (Liquore Strega) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKEacYcQivg Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. © Italian Innovators 2024. All rights reserved. While I encourage sharing and discussion, any use of this video beyond fair use principles, any unauthorized modification, or any form of content appropriation is strictly prohibited.

Come trasformare quel calore in risorsa fu la sua sfida. O meglio, per lei, una ragione di vita. Durante la guerra, fu lei a inventare il primo desalinizzatore solare, capace di distillare acqua per i soldati americani al fronte, una tecnologia di condensazione che è ancora oggi in uso nelle Virgin Islands. Dopo la guerra, fu lei a guidare il progetto della Dover Sun House, a Dover, Massachussetts, la prima abitazione riscaldata grazie alla trasformazione del calore solare. Il progetto fu celebrato dalla rivista Popular Science nel 1948 come la scoperta più influente del suo tempo, ma l’idea non ebbe immediato riscontro, almeno fino a qualche decennio più tardi, nel 1981, quando, in collaborazione con il Dipartimento americano dell’Energia, presentò la Carlisle House, nell’omonima città del Massachusetts, la prima casa interamente alimentata a energia solare. #mariatelkes #pannellisolari #energiasolare Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project.