by Dianne Hales | Mar 9, 2019 | art, Books, culture, Education, Fashion, Film, Florence, Food and Drink, history, Italy, Language, Music, Religion, Romance, Rome, Travel, Venice, Web/Tech, Weblogs, wine
“Imagine a world without Italy: Painting without Leonardo. Sculpture without Michelangelo. Literature without Dante. No Verdi choruses or Puccini arias. No Fellini films or Ferrari roar. Heavens uncharted, vines unplanted, tables bereft of pasta, pizza, and a Sicilian...
by DHales | Feb 21, 2019 | Books, Education, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Lately I’ve been spending time with a man other than my husband — everywhere from the kitchen when I’m cooking to the car when I’m driving. His name is Manu (Emanuele) Venditti, a native Italian who lives in Australia and teaches Italian, mainly on his youtube...
by DHales | Nov 19, 2018 | Books, culture, Education, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Thank you Italians don’t observe the all-American holiday of thanksgiving (la festa del ringraziamento). There are Italian words, but no cultural equivalents for the Pilgrim fathers (padri pellegrini) and the American Indians (Amerindi) who came together to celebrate...
by DHales | Oct 29, 2018 | Books, culture, Education, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Celebrating Ten Years of La Bella Lingua A book that keeps selling long after publication is said to “have legs." LA BELLA LINGUA, published in 2009, sprouted wings that carried it to readers around the world. Now I am delighted to announce a new updated and...
by DHales | Oct 22, 2018 | Books, culture, Education, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Ten Reasons Why I Still Love Italian Almost a decade ago, in the first chapter of La Bella Lingua, I confessed to being an inammorata,“enchanted by Italian, fascinated by its story and its stories, tantalized by its adventures, addicted to its sound, and...
by DHales | Oct 14, 2018 | Books, culture, Education, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
The Week of the Italian Language in the World This week marks the eighteenth annual settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo, a global celebration of la bella lingua. Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Accademia della...
