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The Consulate General of Italy’s third annual “Achievement Awards” ceremony took place at the Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday, May 2. Bostoniano founder Nicola Orichuia received the “Giovane Promessa” (Promising Youth) award for his work on Bostoniano.info (launched in January 2011) and Bostoniano magazine (launched in January 2013). Several other awards were given out at the ceremony that took place in the exhibit space currently hosting masterpiece drawings from Michelangelo Buonarroti. The “Solidarity Award” was given to Catherine D’Amato, President and CEO of the The Greater Boston Food Bank, which under her leadership has become a nearly $60 million ...

After last year's successful inaugural event, italianissimo! 2013 will be held at the Boston Public Library on June 7.

When: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 — 5 to 7 p.m. Where: MIT Faculty Club – E52 6th Floor — 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA [map] MIT Sloan is pleased to host an event honoring the life and career of Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani as part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States and Pioneer Investments’ US Colloquia Series. Franco Modigliani was known for his work on corporate finance, capital markets, macroeconomics and econometrics. In 1985, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on household savings and the dynamics of financial markets. He held ...

Six months after hosting its first successful fundraising event “italianissimo!,” the Public Charity “Friends of the Italian Cultural Center of Boston/FICCB” was launched in December 2012 with the aim of creating a Center of Italian Culture in Boston and to ensure its management and operation once it opens. The launch was paired with the unveiling of the charity’s new website. “FICCB’s immediate mission is to establish a sustainable Italian Cultural Center of Boston (ICCB),” reads the charity’s mission statement. “To achieve this it will continue to work very closely with the Consulate General of Italy in Boston, with the Italian ...

Exercising your option right to vote in Italy.

The North End was all wrapped up in the holiday spirit on Dec. 4, as the first annual Christmas concert, featuring Italian songs and arias, took place at Sacred Heart Church.

When: Thursday, October 11, 2012 — 5:45 to 7:30 p.m. Where: Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School — 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston MA [map] PIB “Professionisti Italiani a Boston” and the Consulate General of Italy in Boston cordially invite you to: a Memorial Lecture for Salvador Luria, M.D. (1912-1991) titled “Four Decades of Cancer Research: from Discovery to Therapy.” Speakers for this event will be Carlo Croce, M.D. “Causes and Consequences of microRNA Dysregulation in Cancer,” Phillip Sharp, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate “From Luria to Convergence of Cancer Research and Engineering at MIT,” and Robert Weinberg, Ph.D, ...

On October 18, the Consulate General of Italy in Boston, along with MIT Italy and The Boston Conservatory, will present "Behind the Landscape — An Evening of Italian Poetry with music and voice improvisations."

Upon his centennial celebration, the Harvard Film Archive will present an extensive retrospective of the feature-length and short masterworks of the incomparable Michelangelo Antonioni.

Former Senior Executive Vice President of Strategies at ENI, Leonardo Maugeri will center the discussion on a revolutionary oil production method, which is expected to have a great impact on the energy economics.

On June 4, 2012, the Italian Consulate in Boston celebrated Festa della Repubblica with a cocktail reception at the Consular offices.

On Friday, June 1, the Italian Consulate launched its first fundraising event to open an Italian Cultural Center in the city.