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The Italian spirit of discovery: to
the New World and beyond
An exhibition dedicated to the father of
the Italian coffee machine, la Moka
GIuLIA LOuISE STEIGERwALT
Italy is a land of saints, poets,
and sailors. This was as true in
the 15
th
century, when
What would Italy be without
" il caffé"?
Coffee wasn't invented in
Italy, but certainly Italy has cre-
ated such a unique and powerful
coffee culture that it would be
easy to think otherwise.
Imagine waking up in an
Italian house in the morning and
not drinking an espresso or a
cappuccino. It sounds like a hor-
ror/sci-fi movie where suddenly
the world is upside-down. Yet
we must accept that it was not
always so.
The earliest credible evidence
of either coffee drinking or
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One of the most iconic images of coffee in Italy is the Moka Express cof-
feemaker produced by engineer Bialetti in 1933
Christopher Columbus sailed off,
as it is today. Creativity and
curiosity have always been dis-
tinguishing features of the Italian
spirit and inspired countless
works of art as well as adventur-
ous journeys of discovery.
Starting with the ancient
Roman Empire, our ancestors
traveled not only within Europe
and the Mediterranean but also
SILVIA SIMONETTI
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BARBARA MINAFRA
Dopo l'Unità d'Italia del
1861, c'è stata una grande
ondata migratoria che ha mas-
sicciamente interessato il conti-
nente americano. Il fenomeno
ha avuto inizio nelle regioni
settentrionali e si è poi esteso a
quelle del Mezzogiorno, da cui
si partiva costretti da condizioni
economiche assai precarie.
La Grande Emigrazione, tra
il 1880 e il 1924, ha portato
circa 5 milioni di italiani a
lasciare il loro paese, a sbarcare
a Ellis Island, nel porto della
città di New York, e a iniziare
un'avventura nel Nuovo Mondo
che per moltissimi si trattò di
una parentesi, spesso sfortuna-
ta, che si concluse con il ritorno
in patria. Questo grande flusso
si ridurrà a partire dagli anni
'20 del Novecento fino ad esau-
rirsi con la II Guerra Mondiale
Nel duro lavoro il
successo degli
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