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lomatic Adviser of the Under Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in 2010. From
2006 to 2010, he was the First Secretary of Political Affairs and Relations with the United States Congress at the
Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C. From 2002 to 2006, he was the Chief of the Economic and Commercial
Office at the Embassy of Italy in Ankara. His international decorations include: Knight of the Order of Merit
of the Italian Republic; Knight of Magisterial Grace; Order of Malta (Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of
Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta – SMOM); and the EUFOR Libya CSDP Service Medal for Plan-
ning and Support, awarded by the European Union.
He is co-editor of the book
The Italian Legacy in Washington D.C.: Architecture, Design, Art, and Culture
, published
by Skira in 2008. He is also co-editor of the book
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People,
and Ideas,
Temple University Press, 2021, and editor of the volume
El legado italiano en República Dominicana:
Historia, Architectura, Economía y Sociedad
, Italian and Spanish editions, Umberto Allemandi, 2021, and North
American edition, Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2021.
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Roberto Cassá
Cassá was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1948. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History
from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the
National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a doctorate in History from the University of Seville. He is a
professor at the Faculty of History at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, where he was awarded
the title of Professor Emeritus. He has been a professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo and other
higher education centers. He is a fellow at the Dominican Academy of History and the Academy of Scienc-
es of the Dominican Republic. He currently serves as the director of the Dominican National Archives and
a researcher at the School of Humanities at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. His published
books include:
Historia social y económica de la república dominicana,
2 volumes, Santo Domingo, 1976 and 1978;
Capitalismo y dictadura
, Santo Domingo, 1982,
Rebelión de los Capitanes. Viva el rey y muera el mal gobierno,
Santo
Domingo, 2012; and
Antes y después del 27 de Febrero
, Santo Domingo, 2016.
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Jesús D’Alessandro
MEXT Scholar, Ph.D.
D’Alessandro is an architect, planner, and university professor. He is currently the head of the Office of Stra-
tegic Planning for the City of Santo Domingo and the Director of the School of Architecture of Universidad
Iberoamericana, positions he has held since 2016 and 2018, respectively. In addition, he served as the Director
of Transit and Urban Mobility for the City of Santo Domingo. In 2019, he received an award from the Na-
tional Academy of Architecture of Mexico for his professional and academic work. In 2018, he was selected
by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the World Health Organization as the regional leader for the World Urban
Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur. D’Alessandro was born in Santo Domingo in 1978. In 2000, as an architecture stu-
dent, he graduated
summa cum laude
from Universidad Iberoamericana in Santo Domingo, and was awarded
the MEXT scholarship from Japan. From 2001 to 2005, he lived in Japan as a graduate student and received a
master’s degree in Architecture and Planning fromMie University. In 2020, he completed his doctoral studies at
Western Michigan University. He has published scientific articles on logic and architecture in journals of the Ar-
chitectural Institute of Japan, and on collective memory in journals of Western Michigan University. His work
on sustainable architecture, titled
150,000 PET Bottles, A Book on PET Bottles in Architecture,
has been reviewed in
the English magazine
World Architecture News
and in the publication of the Czech Technical University.
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Edoardo D’Angelo
D’Angelo is a full professor of Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Naples. He has written more
than twenty monographs and approximately 120 scientific magazine articles. He has recently published essays
on Antonio Geraldini, an Italian intellectual in the Court of Aragón, while most of his work has centered on