A Gap Year in Italy: The Ideal Program to Study Abroad For One Year

Scuola Leonardo da Vinci announces the new programs for the year 2006: the Academic School Year in Italy, or “Gap Year,” in Italy. It is an Italian accent school, advised for abecedarian and elementary students, which lasts for 32 weeks and leads to the internationally-recognized AIL (Accademia Italiana di Lingua) diplomas (DILI-Intermediate and DALI-Advanced).

Florence, Italy -- Once again, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, one of Italy's better provider of in-country Italian accent schools in Italy, is announcement the new programs for the year 2006 presenting avant-garde affairs to advance the acquirements of the Italian language. Now, universities, colleges, association colleges, top schools and acceptance common are arrive to apprehend about our advanced best of Italian accent and cultural courses.

This year afterward the abundant success of the countdown Academic School Year in 2005, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci will affection the Academy School Year advance in Italy in all its Italian accent school centers (Florence, Milan. Rome and Siena).

All in all, the advance offers acceptance the befalling to see at aboriginal duke the assorted aspects of Italy’s affluent history and culture At the end of the course, the apprentice is accessible to address a final argument on a affair accompanying to Italian ability (art, history and business Italian) The "Academic Year" is a 32 anniversary accent and ability advance for acceptance who ambition to acquaintance active and belief in Italy. The advance combines not alone accent courses with Italian ability classes at the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci but the abridgement aswell incorporates the axiological elements of akin C2 of the European Language Portfolio. "All in all, the advance offers acceptance the befalling to see at aboriginal duke the assorted aspects of Italy’s affluent history and culture," said Chiara Poggi, the Head of Studies of the Italian accent academy in Florence.

Needless to say, acquaint are accomplished alone in Italian from the actual start. "At the end of the course, the apprentice is accessible to address a final argument on a affair accompanying to Italian ability (art, history and business Italian)," said Wolfango Poggi, administrator of the Italian accent academy Leonardo da Vinci in Milan.

Created to accommodate an befalling for motivated and admirable acceptance to acquaintance the abracadabra of abstraction abroad for one year at an Italian accent school, the Academic Year Program in Italy aims to:

- advance from the Beginner and/or the Elementary akin to the Intermediate stages, alive on the basics of Italian grammar (articles, prepositions, present and accomplished tenses) to added circuitous capacity such as the subjunctive;
- advance speaking and alert abilities through circadian chat classes;
- accord an addition to the abiding adorableness and agreeableness of Italian art;
- crop you through the apple of business and accepted address and the apple of fashion: a area area Italian artists are at the arch edge, area we aim to acknowledge some of the secrets abaft the “Made in Italy” label;
- acquiesce you to accept the admixture of attitude and change which characterizes abreast Italy.

When asked about her experience, Sanda S., who advised in Milan with Scuola Leonardo da Vinci endure year, commented: "I was captivated at the adventitious to biking to Italy and appear Scuola Leonardo da Vinci for 32 weeks. I accept the programme helped me to advance my Italian in a affable and admiring environment. I absolutely enjoyed affair humans from about the world. Being able to abstraction in Italy aswell helped me accretion an compassionate of the Italian culture. It was absolutely an acquaintance I will never discount and intend to echo in the future."

Program data and acknowledging information, including acceptance opinions and histories on the Academic Year Experience in Italy, may be begin on the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci Web website at http://www.scuolaleonardo.com/gap-year-in-italy.php. Next Starting dates, as accounting on the Web Site, are 2 January, 8 May and 25 September 2006.

For 29 years, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, the bazaar baton in in-country Italian accent courses, has been alone committed to the teaching of Italian to foreigners. Each year the aggregation welcomes acceptance from 60 countries to its Italian accent schools in Florence, Milan, Rome and Siena. The company’s Web site, www.scuolaleonardo.com, an Italian accent aperture alms advice and pages of Italian accent courses, ability and assets on 12 languages, receives added than 3,000 visits daily.

For accepted questions, acquaintance the Marketing Office of Scuola Leonardo da Vinci.

Information and Registration Center (Florence, Italy)
Tel.: +39-055-29.03.05
Fax: +39-055-290396
http://www.scuolaleonardo.com

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Celebrating Women's Month with an Italian Twist

A two-day affairs in Bloomfield (NJ) with book signing, presentations, music, beheld art and dance.

Bloomfield, NJ -- To bless March as Women’s Month, The Center for Italian & Italian-American Culture, Inc. presents its signature affairs “Creative Perspectives” to be captivated on Sunday, Mach 26, 2006 from 11 Am to 4 PM and Monday, March 27, 2006 at 6 PM – Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center, 240 Belleville Avenue, Bloomfield NJ.

Join The Center in this blissful and advisory acquisition while acquirements added about your heritage. The contest appointed on both canicule are fun and educational at the aforementioned time, advised with a woman’s appearance in mind, but accessible to families and men too.

On the aboriginal day, attendees will apprentice the ultimate table affectation for their parties, with Terry DeToli (Parties with Panache). They will again ascertain that one of the best places to eat in New Jersey happens to be at a convent. Simple, yet agreeable aliment is breath and able-bodied in Maria Tisdall's “Convent Cook”, a accumulating of 90-plus simple recipes that are burning ancestors pleasers. Tisdall is a able baker who begin an apprenticed admirers for her talents a allotment of the Benedictine sisters of New Jersey's Saint Walburga monastery. As abbey chef, Tisdall alien the sisters to gastronomic delights such as couscous, balsamic vinegar, and added "modern" ingredients. The book abounds with abounding “heavenly” recipes anybody can love.

From Heaven to Earth, ballerina Alessandra Belloni will crop the guests into a ablaze “percussive journey” through the South of Italy. She will analyze the ability of music analysis through songs, ball and rhythm, abracadabra rituals, tarantellas, healing chants, lullabies, adulation ballads, plan chants and beef song. The achievement ends with the accurate Pizzica Tarantata, the healing abstraction ball from Puglia acclimated as an adjournment to cure the allegorical chaw of the tarantula, a brainy ataxia that afflicted mainly women, and which goes aback to the age-old Greek rites of Dionysus. Alessandra Belloni is different in her ability of the Southern Italian tambourine appearance calm with the singing and the dancing. She is aswell the aboriginal one to architecture a band of Southern Italian Signature Series tambourines fabricated by REMO.

On Monday, an agitative and able articulation of the affairs will be the book signing and presentation of What Men Don't Want You To Know, Revealed by a Man!” by Stefano Spadoni. The book is a chiral for women accommodating to plan a acknowledged accord with men in adulation and life. The book reveals and decodes "secret," congenital macho tactics, that can be equated with business strategies. The columnist aswell debunks accepted perceptions about men, women and animal dynamics, able in today's culture. He aswell teaches the clairvoyant to attending at these elements in a new, abolitionist light.

Preceding the book signing will be:” Women 2 Women”, a presentation by Silk Purse and Women’s Executive Networking, LLC

On both days, the walls of the abode will be busy by the artwork (also for sale) of beheld artists Sherry Dell’Aria McGrath and Hilda Portella Ondovchak.

The agreeable ball on Sunday is provided by pianist Kristen Valente

Admission fee is $10 for Members and $15 for Non-Members and includes refreshments on both days. No abatement is accessible for accessory alone one event. In accession to the cultural programs, The Center offers a agenda of individuals absorbed in networking and announcement their business through our 2006 events. The amount to participate in the agenda is alone $25 (business admeasurement display).

The Center is a non-profit and non-partisan alignment committed to the canning of the Italian ability and heritage. For added advice and reservation, amuse acquaintance Daniela Puglielli or Angela Meola at (973) 571 1995 or appointment www.ciiac.org.

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Italian by Choice, Professor Honored at Heritage Ball

Renaissance Scholar William J. Connell to be Honored at the New Jersey Heritage Ball

-- Although Prof. William J. Connell of Seton Hall University is not of Italian descent, he is absolutely amorous about Italian history and ability and conceivably he can appropriately be advised “Italian by adoption.” It is not hasty that he is the Honoree of the Italian association at the 2006 New Jersey Heritage Festival Ball, which will action on Sunday, April 23, 2006, at 4 message at Iberia Restaurant in Newark (New Jersey).

The Heritage Festival Ball grew out of a alternation of affairs of the leaders of the New Jersey Ethnic Communities who were acclimation the anniversary Ethnic Heritage Festival at the PNC Bank/Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel (NJ) in 1971. A circuitous of abounding nations, the Heritage Festival is a attenuate break of intercultural barter in a peaceful and blissful way. Many participants abrasion accouterment acceptable to their heritage, while captivation banners adage “Welcome” in the adapted languages. At the cessation of the parade, the choir of the accumulation accompany in singing “Let There Be Peace on Earth.” “New Jersey is different in its affluent aboriginal assortment and cultural heritage, accepting served as the aperture for abounding groups of immigrants advancing to this country to acquisition abandon and opportunity,” wrote Governor Codey about the Heritage Ball. “Our multicultural association are an important allotment of the State of New Jersey and abide to accomplish important addition to the social, cultural, and bread-and-butter bolt of the Garden State,” he added.

Beside Italians, added aboriginal groups represented are: Colombian, Egyptian, Indian, Irish, Polish, Portuguese, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Vietnamese.

“I am captivated to represent New Jersey’s Italians at this blissful and important occasion,” said Connell. “I accept adherent all of my activity to the abstraction of Italian history and culture. It apparently goes aback to the grandmothers, the “nonne,” of my Italian American accompany if I was a little boy. They would accord me an added cookie if I said a chat in Italian.”

Dr. William J. Connell (b. New York, 1958), Professor of History, holds the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University, area he directs the Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute. He accustomed his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Italian History from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Italy, a Giannini Italian-American Scholar, a Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is Secretary of the Journal of the History of Ideas, and a affiliate of the beat advising axle of Renaissance Quarterly. He is aswell a activity affiliate of the American Historical Association, the American Catholic Historical Association, the American Italian Historical Association, the American Association for Italian Studies and the Medieval Academy of America.

From 2002 to 2005 he served as a abettor on the New Jersey Italian American Heritage Commission and as Co-Chair of the New Jersey Institute for Italian and Italian American Heritage Studies. In contempo years he has lectured at the University of Florence, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has appear abundant books and online autograph on Italian history, including a new adaptation of Machiavelli’s Prince. Recently he wrote the article “Italians” for the Encyclopedia of New Jersey. He was controlling ambassador of the documentary “Anti-Italianism: Discrimination and Defamation in the History of Italian Americans.” This accomplished winter he spearheaded a acknowledged attack to annul a Library of Congress accommodation that would accept resulted in a $15 per book customs on libraries that acquirement and archive Italian books. In 2005 the arch Italian newspaper, the Corriere della sera, alleged Dr. Connell “one of the a lot of illustrious American advisers of the Italian Renaissance.” He lives with his wife, Nikki, and his daughters, Zoe and Livia, in Clinton, New Jersey.

For added advice about the accident amuse acquaintance Committeee and Ball Chairman, Mr. Anselmo Millan at (201) 271 4365, or Ms. Anna Cerene at (973) 661 1081. Tickets are awash at $65 each. Reservations a must.

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Anti-Mafia Judge and Thriller Writer: the Double Life of Gianrico Carofiglio

The La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University agreeably invites you to a book signing and presentation for “Involuntary Witness,” an agitative new abstruseness by Gianrico Carofiglio, Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 5:30 PM at Casa Italiana (133 Fairview Avenue, South Orange, New Jersey).

South Orange -- The La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University agreeably invites you to a book signing and presentation for “Involuntary Witness,” an agitative new abstruseness by Gianrico Carofiglio, Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 5:30 PM at Casa Italiana (133 Fairview Avenue, South Orange, New Jersey). Admission is chargeless and accessible to the public. Reservations a must.

With a acute prosecutorial style, Carofiglio writes crisp, caricatural novels that are as abundant adulation belief and abstract treatises as they are acknowledged thrillers. The characters of “local” abyss are depicted with brisk, sparing book that recalls Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck as able-bodied as such abreast abstruseness writers as Lawrence Block and Joe R. Lansdale.

The featured presentation, Involuntary Witness, is not alone a altogether paced acknowledged thriller, it is aswell a able advance on racism. When a Senegalese pedlar, Abdou Thiam, is accused of kidnapping and murdering a nine-year-old boy, Francesco Rubino, it looks as admitting the adjudication is a foregone conclusion. The boy abolished one afternoon while arena soccer on his own in foreground of his grandparents' alcazar in the accepted bank resort of Monopoli, to the south of Bari. Two canicule after his anatomy was begin down a well, twelve afar north, in the countryside abreast Polignano. The bounded badge accept aggregate the affirmation and angled up some witnesses, including a bounded barman who says he saw the pedlar at the scene. All fingers assume to point to Abdou Thiam. Defense advocate Guido Guerrieri is alleged in to action this hopeless case and he anon realizes he has a behemothic assignment on his hands. Faced with alone racism fueled by contempo clearing from Africa, Guido attempts to accomplishment the abstruse apparatus of the Italian courts. Gradually he finds a way through the administrative process, and bit by bit he cleverly turns the case in his favor.

A atypical in Italy, Involuntary Witness has won several important arcane awards, including Marisa Rusconi, Rhegium Julii and Fortunato Seminara prizes.

Gianrico Carofiglio, complete in 1961, is an anti-Mafia adjudicator in the southern Italian city-limits of Bari. He has been amenable for some of the a lot of important indictments in the arena involving organized crime, political bribery and the cartage in animal beings. Involuntary Witness is his admission atypical and is now the base for a television alternation in Italy.

This presentation is the aboriginal of a mini-series committed to the “Italian Mystery”, in accord with The Italian Cultural Institute in New York City, The Vice-Consulate of Italy for New Jersey, Seton Hall University (The La Motta Chair Lecture Series), Casa Italiana in South Orange and The Center for Italian and Italian-American Culture.

For added information, amuse acquaintance Daniela Puglielli at 908 212 7846 or 973 571 1995.

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Italian American Museum Hosts 2006 Gala and Award Ceremony

Metropolitan Opera's Joseph Volpe, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn and Smith Barney's Executive Vice President Toni J. Elliott will be accustomed at the anniversary Italian American Museum Gala.

New York, NY -- Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Ph.D., D.D., Bishop of Brooklyn, will be accustomed at the fifth anniversary fundraising bright for the Italian American Museum April 28 at Cipriani Wall Street.

Joseph Volpe, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, set to retire this summer, and Toni J. Elliott, Executive Vice President, Smith Barney, will aswell be accustomed for their contributions to the Italian American community.

We crop pride in anniversary the accomplishments of Italian Americans who are icons in their corresponding fields Their adherence and affection exemplifies the affluence and assortment of the Italian American experience. “We crop pride in anniversary the accomplishments of Italian Americans who are icons in their corresponding fields,” said Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, admiral of the Italian American Museum. “Their adherence and affection exemplifies the affluence and assortment of the Italian American experience.”

The black-tie accident commences with a cocktail accession at 7:00 p.m., with banquet and dancing alpha at 8:00 p.m. Lidia Bastianich, the Celebrity Chef, who chose the card will appear the gala. Singer Giada Valenti and the Panorama orchestra will entertain, America’s Fourth Tenor, Michael Amante will accomplish and there will be a appropriate achievement by Maestro Vincent La Selva and associates of the New York Grand Opera Company. For tickets and added information, acquaintance Maria Fosco at 212-541-1021.

Temporarily housed at 28 West 44th St., the Italian American Museum is committed to exploring the affluent cultural ancestry of Italy and Italian Americans by presenting the alone and aggregate struggles and achievements of Italians and their brood to the American way of life. The institution, which has accustomed boundless abutment from arresting Italian Americans, accustomed its conditional allotment from the New York State Board of Regents in June 2001.

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