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Italy in America Travel Articles
Did you know that one in ten Americans has at least one Italian
ancestor? Italian-Americans are the fifth largest ethnic group in the
United States. Italian immigrants played a significant role in the
history of the United States, some two million Italians, mostly from
southern Italy, emigrated to the U.S. between 1900 and 1914. They
brought with them the distinct culture, traditions and foods of their
home regions in Italy and these influences can be found in Italian restaurants, cultural museums
and Italian-American festivals held across the United States. If you can't
get to Italy right now, or want to continue to learn about Italian
culture from home, read on... Photo credit: Mike Willis, flickr.com
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Italy in America:
Fra Carnevale,
Mysterious
Renaissance Master (March 2005)
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Italy in America", bringing together nearly 50 major Renaissance works from 33 museums in Europe and the United States by such artists as Filippo Lippi, Domenico Veneziano, Luca della Robbia, Donatello and Piero della Francesca, as well as all the paintings that can now be attributed to Fra Carnevale. . . . read more
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