Rick Zullo

I'm a proud Italian-American with one foot in each country. I lived in Italy for several years, which taught me the difference between Italian culture and Italian-American culture, and how to love and respect each one as different but connected. Drop me a note about your Italian-American experience!

Christopher Columbus Discovers A New World

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Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo in Italian; Christoffa in Ligurian dialect) was born in Genoa in 1451. He had little education as a boy, and only learned to read and write as an adult. So he went to sea, as did many Genovese boys, and voyaged in the Mediterranean.  In 1476 he was shipwrecked off Portugal, … Read more