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Every year the Italian American community of Providence, Rhode Island, celebrates the Madonna di Prata.

Hundreds of Zucchero fans braved wind, hale, rain and snow to see their favorite artist live at Berklee Performance Center on Saturday.

Giuseppe Taibi is an Italian-born software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In this video (in Italian) he talks about his work.

On Monday, October 17, 2011, Boston Public Library held an event showcasing "Giovanni Pascoli. Last Voyage: Selected Poems," a collection of poems translated by Deborah Brown, Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas.

On October 18, 2011, the extraordinary trio of tenors IL VOLO performed a live show at Boston's Orpheum.

The Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts in Cambridge celebrated Italian songs on Sunday, october 16, 2011, with performances by soprano Karen Fanale, composer Ferdinando Argenti, pianist Bradley Pennington and baritone Paul Soper.

RAI International held a live call via Skype with Boston correspondent Stefano Salimbeni on Tuesday, October 11.

An inspiring and sometimes provocative Oliviero Toscani visited MIT on Thursday, October 6, 2011, to talk about his work as a photographer and answer questions on art, beauty, freedom and many other topics. In the opening video, Toscani explains his vision of personal freedom. “To be free is to free yourself of your human complexes,” he says. “If you do that, you don’t want to give up. That’s why some people get so excited.” The first half of Toscani’s talk, titled “The Message Against the Medium,” was dedicated to a long visual presentation of some of his most famous works, ...

This past summer a group of students from Arlington High School Band spent two weeks in Italy, visiting cities like Rome, Naples, Pompeii and Paestum. Guided by Pino “Mr. D” D’Agostino, who teaches at Arlington High, the band played four live shows while in Italy.

Report for RAI International Television about the Feast of Three Saints in Lawrence and the strengthening ties between the northern Massachusetts city and the town of Nicolosi, in Sicily, from where many immigrants to Lawrence originally moved to. Nicolosi and Sicilian dignitaries were brought to Lawrence for the occasion thanks to the work of Francesco Daniele and Giovanni Bonomo (Federazione Siciliana del Massachusetts), Giuseppe Mazzaglia (Assessore for the Nicolositi nel Mondo) and the city of Nicolosi.

On Sunday, October 2, 2011, the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts kicked off its Italian Heritage Month celebrations with an evening dedicated to the "Divine Poet" Dante Alighieri.

On September 24, Italian American author and historian Vincenza Scarpaci presented her book, Journey of the Italians in America, at the North End branch of the Boston Public Library.