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Netflix has announced the arrival of a new high-profile Italian original documentary series that will probe into a nearly 40-year-old cold case that shook Italian society and made headlines around the world. The series, called “Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi,” will premiere globally on Netflix on October 20.
The Italian National Ice Hockey Team has named ex-NHL coach, Mike Keenan, as head coach, the Italian Ice Sports Federation announced. Keenan led eight teams in the National Hockey League over 25 years from 1984 through 2009.
Italy is moving forward with the candidacy process to have the Via Appia Antica, one of the earliest and most strategically important roads of the Ancient Roman Republic, added to the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Russell Crowe, who won an Oscar for the role of Maximus Decimus Meridius in Ridley Scott’s wildly successful movie “Gladiator” in 2000, was honored in Rome on October 14. The 58-year-old actor was awarded a plaque and granted the title of “ambassador of Rome in the world” to acknowledge the ties he and the movie share with the Eternal City.
A 35-year-old male musician had a brain tumor removed last week at Rome’s Paideia International Hospital in a long and complicated surgery that lasted nine hours. Not only was the patient awake and fully conscious during the entire procedure, but he also was able to play his saxophone.
Franca Fendi, one of five sisters who helped develop and expand a small Roman leather goods workshop into an internationally recognized luxury brand, died in Rome on October 5 at the age of 87. According to family members, she was struck by a sudden illness.
The northern Italian cities of Bergamo and Brescia, located approximately an hour northeast of Milan, will be the joint Italian Capital of Culture for 2023. The two cities, which were particularly devastated during the first 2020 COVID-19 wave, jointly submitted their candidacy in May 2020 and were awarded the distinction by the Italian Cultural Ministry just a few months after.
Stromboli, a historically active volcano located on the island of Stromboli, just off the northern tip of Sicily, erupted this weekend on Oct. 9. The volcano has been active for at least 2,000 years and has erupted several times this year alone.
Frances Xavier Cabrini, also known as Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American Catholic nun who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a religious institute that supported thousands of Italian immigrants to the United States at the turn of the 19th century.
The MLB playoffs started Friday, October 7th, 2022. With 12 teams in the playoffs, this is one of the largest numbers of Italian Americans to play in the MLB postseason in the modern era.
