A fresh elan of cultural creativity emerged in the Italian Renaissance Its new zest for life and the Fall of 2001 as a celebration of Italian culture
Italy's culture emphasizes the traditions of family owned businesses which continue to be important mainstays of the economic sector today Despite an
This booklet offers only a brief introduction to a rich and varied culture that has evolved over many centuries You will find many oppor- tunities to learn
In many ways Italy looks more like a “community of communities” than a homogeneous culture In this contribution we try to identify some of those social and
The first arrival of Italians in Australia can be traced back to the 1850s during the gold rush • In 1885 a group of Italian migrants from northern Italy
The Cambridge Companion to modern Italian culture / edited by Zygmunt G Baran´ 2 Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day 35
Discovering a multicultural Italy: Università per Stranieri in Perugia the oldest public institution for Italian Culture Field Learning Itinerary Guided
Particularly for those older generation Italians who migrated in the 50s and 60s Italian Australians often strongly identify with the regional culture
Italian Cultural Identity and Migration: Italian Communities Study of Culture and Values provides a special place where the Italian heritage can be visible and
of law which acted as a broadly civilizing force; this enabled peoples to live together throughout the
Mediterranean basin in the pax romana. With the emergence of Christianity these elements provided the Church with structure for its work, and in turn were transformed in a deeply humanizing manner.Augustine, Benedict, Aquinas and others elaborated structures of spirit and of life which transformed
persons from within and reached out to the peoples of Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Thisconstituted the first ecumenical era and the initial weaning of a multi-ethnic tradition within the Holy
nature expressed first by Francis of Assisi, provided new ways to look at the cultural creations of the
ancients. It generated intensive, creative interest in geography and astronomy, political structures
and art. Today we still live out the impetus which this "re-birth" gave to the socio-political and the
cultural life of the West. In all these dimensions of time--ancient and medieval, renaissance and modern--the Italian experience contains essential keys for understanding the progress of humankind. For the emergingnations in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world in search of ways to reconstitute social life in
terms of their distinctive cultural identities, the Italian success in fashioning a nation from many
regions, each with its own rich tradition, provides striking lessons. For the peoples of other regions
of the world who look to the West for models to guide their own development, the Italian genius takes on ever greater importance. of the heritage of humanity and to determine how this can be communicated and lived in the many this volume.Washington as a focal point where persons and institutes intersect for policy decisions which effect
profoundly the shape of international cooperation and the direction of human progress in our times.An Italian presence in this context is not a matter of military or economic power; it is rather that
of providing a source of experience and a legacy of wisdom and creativity for shaping modern culture. More than ever, this cultural endowment needs to be engaged in the process of opening fundamental human aspirations, inspiring social dynamics and generating the creativity through which humankind responds to the challenges of our times. The point of contact with this process of shaping our culture is the university, where literary andartistic criticism is thought through, where social and political structures are modeled and tested in
debate, where new dimensions of human sensibility and insight are evolved and translated into methods of social analysis and response. For this reason, as we proceed into an ever more ominousXXIst century, it is particularly important that the resources of the Italian experience be made visible
and active in Washington through a university structure. The Catholic University of America (CUA) was particularly suited for this task. - Its identity has made it especially attentive to the classical and cultural traditions of Italy, ancient and modern, with its literature, philosophy and the arts. - Its foundation as a graduate school has given CUA a long tradition of advanced scholarshipwith a full range of doctoral programs, not only in the arts and humanities, but also in the social and
natural sciences and in the professions. - Its relation to the Catholic community gives it special access to the Italian heritage and to the experience of the Italian-America community in adapting this cultural heritage to the pluralisticcultural life of this nation--this has become increasingly central as the role of Washington in world
affairs develops exponentially. - It is the home of units deeply involved in issues of culture and change on a national and global basis, viz., a number of Catholic learned societies, The National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs (NCUEA) and The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP). This recently haspublished three volumes of the Edmund D. Pellegrino Lecture Series on the transformations in Italian
life edited by Paolo Janni. These have now joined together in the CUA Center for the Study ofactive in the construction of yet another stage of ecumenical interaction, which at this dawn of a new
world order is now fully global in character.the Fall of 2001 as a celebration of Italian culture. But that plan was swept aside by the events of
Sept. 11. suddenly it became clear that cultural heritages in the global interchange of the new millennia were not unambiguous and could even be supremely dangerous. Was it time to abandon the distinctive cultures as expressive of the unique creativity of each people in order to envisage the passive peace of an homogeneous and undifferentiated humanity? If such a prospective half life