by DHales | Jan 7, 2014 | Current Affairs, Finance, history, Italy, Language, Politics, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
crisi crisis While “selfie” was hailed as the word of the year in the United States, Italians chose a far darker term. In a poll by La Repubblica, la parola più rappresentativa (the word most representative) of 2013 was crisi (crisis)–a reflection, the editors...
by DHales | Oct 31, 2013 | Books, culture, history, Italy, Language, Politics, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Il Principe Italy is commemorating the 500th anniversary of the writing of a classic work: Niccolò Machiavelli's Il Principe (The Prince). Although completed in 1513, the treatise by the man who "put the science into political...
by DHales | Nov 8, 2012 | Current Affairs, Italy, Language, Politics, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
“Altri quattro anni!” “Four More Years!” “L’America ha scelto Obama,” the Italian press reported. The first words of the triumphant President came via twitter, un cinguettio che i democratici non dimenticheranno (a tweet that the Democrats will not forget): “Four more...
by DHales | Nov 2, 2012 | Current Affairs, Italy, Language, Politics, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Un presidente da votare in garage Voting (for President) in a Garage One of the most charming accounts I’ve read on the American way of voting was written by the distinguished journalist Federico Rampini in his book San Francisco-Milano: One Tuesday morning (martedì...
by DHales | Oct 29, 2012 | Current Affairs, Italy, Language, Politics, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
La corsa presidenziale The Presidential Race "Questa corsa è testa a testa” (This race is head to head—or, as Americans are more likely to say, neck-to-neck), La Repubblica reports. “Tutto si decide nelle prossime settimane.” (Everything will be decided in the...
by DHales | Oct 10, 2012 | Current Affairs, Italy, Language, Politics, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Le donne del Presidente The President’s Women The enthusiastic support (il forte sostegno) of American women for President Barack Obama fascinates the Italian press. The president certainly isn’t the first politician who warms women’s hearts (il primo politico...
