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The relationship between Uruguay and Italy has its roots in the migratory flows that began around the middle of the 19th century and continued until after the Second World War, resulting in large numbers of immigrants to the small South American country. Montevideo has a lively community of tanos, no longer children but grandchildren or great-grandchildren, many of whom apply for Italian citizenship based on ius sanguinis. Starting from the life stories of some Italo-Uruguayans, the essay deals with some key themes relating to the construction of their identity: the relationship with Italian food and the Italian language, family ties and the rituals of domestic life, the memory of migration, the journeys made to their ancestors' places of origin in the course of which Italy as an ancestral land is configured above all as a territory of the imagination. All these are spaces in which the terms of individual and family group identity are negotiated, identities that are fluid and changing. Finally, the dialogue with descendants reveals the reasons that led them to apply for Italian citizenship, reasons that are emotional, historical, social, political, and related to justice. From a citizenship point of view, the family practices of the descendants of Italians are configured as strategies of legitimation and the memory of migration in this context becomes a resource activated to act concretely in history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to investigate the hybridization dynamics of the Third sector at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. The progressive contamination between the State, market, family and Third sector spheres has long been subject of interest of the scholars. This paper aim at analysing these dynamics through the case study of Fondazione Banco Alimentare (Italian Food Bank Foundation). The case helps in investigating the impact of the pandemic on the role, logics and actors that make up the Third sector (both organizations and people) and its relation with the other subsystems. The empirical analysis shows that the pandemic and its consequences has enhanced the role of Fondazione Banco Alimentare, thanks to its relevance during the food emergency that also increased its visibility in the media. There are more institutional and non-institutional donors, more beneficiaries and help requests that resulted also in an accelerated professionalization and training of volunteers and employers. In conclusion, the Italian Food Bank and its network dealt with processes of digitalization, institutionalization and professionalization. These transformations resulted in a new positioning of the organization in the public sphere and redefined its relationship between local, national and European institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The gastronomic variety offered at the Quirinal Palace (seat of the Italian Presidency of the Republic) from Einaudi's presidency to Cossiga's (1948-1992) offers an opportunity to trace the development of Italian cuisine over the 20th century. Italian foods and customs, always in competition with French-inspired customs deemed more suitable for formal events, became part of official lunch menus, due to transformations accepted and filtered by the Presidency of the Republic. The result is a new model of gastronomy that strikes a balance between a desire for innovation and the need lo preserve official protocol. Its peculiarities help understand persistent features and changes that have shaped contemporary Italian cuisine. On one hand, the official dimension of cuisine reflects the styles of single Presidents, on the other there is an endorsement of simplification which influences cuisine outside of the presidential palace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]