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Book Presentation in Greve in Chianti: A Bridge for Giovanni da Verrazzano On December 16, 2025, the Municipal Library “Carlo e Massimo Baldini” in Greve in Chianti hosted the presentation of A Bridge for Giovanni da Verrazzano. Stories of Cultural Diplomacy from Greve in Chianti…

Announcing the Recipient of the 2025 Sorbello Fellowship Grant The Sorbello Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Emanuele Nidi has been awarded the 2025 Sorbello Fellowship Grant. Dr. Nidi is Adjunct Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Naples “Federico II.” Dr. Nidi’s funded research…

Successful Study Day on Cultural Exchange, Diplomacy, and Literature Between Italy and the United States The Sorbello Foundation is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the Study Day “Cultural Circulation, Diplomacy, and Literature between Italy and the USA in the Twentieth Century,” held on…

Nicola Chiaromonte and the New York Intellectuals, 1947. Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello at Yale, 1936. Biennial Sorbello Conference The Sorbello Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025 edition of the Biennial Sorbello Conference - Cultural Exchanges Between Italy and the United States, which will take…

Dr. Antonella Valoroso Named “Alberto Visiting Fellow” at Seton Hall University. We are delighted to announce that Antonella Valoroso, Senior Researcher and Sorbello Fellowship Coordinator at the Sorbello Foundation, has been awarded the prestigious Charles and Joan Alberto Visiting Fellowship at Seton Hall University for…

Announcing the Recipient of the 2024 Sorbello Fellowship Grant The Sorbello Foundation is delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2024 Sorbello Fellowship Grant is Dr. Alice Ciulla, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Roma Tre University and an Adjunct Professor at the American University…

June 4, 2024 The Liberation of Rome Conference The definitive event about the liberation of Italy’s capital and the end of the siege of Vatican City in June 1944 On June 4, 1944, the Eternal City of Rome was liberated from Nazi occupation. To discuss…

March 12, 2024 New Partnership with the Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook UniversityIn the first week of March 2024, the Sorbello Foundation and the Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University signed a memorandum of understanding, formalizing a partnership between the two…

Announcing the Recipient of the 2023 Sorbello Fellowship Grant The 2023 Sorbello Fellowship Grant has been awarded to Giorgio Bertellini from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. The funded research project is titled The Poverty of Others: New Deal Photojournalism to Italian Neorealism (and Back). Bertellini’s research will explore…

October 18, 2023 Dr. Antonella Valoroso, senior researcher at the Sorbello Foundation, has been invited to speak at the Inauguration of the 23rd “International Week of the Italian Language” held at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York City. The ceremony was held at the…