New York The Italians of America mobilize - also using the very popular faces of Andrea Bocelli, of the White House virologist Anthony Fauci and of the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo - to defend the memory of Christopher Columbus: today Columbus Day (the anniversary of the explorer's landing in the New World, October 12, 1492). The anniversary, which for some years has lost the flavor of the great popular festival, in half of the country has even been suppressed and replaced with a celebration of the natives of America.