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March News from Dianne

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...

Singing in the Italian Language

by DHales | Nov 3, 2016 | Books, culture, Italy, Language, Music, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

  Canzone della Passione Songs of Passion  Lua Hadar, an international vocalist, speaks four languages and sings in seven, including Malagasy, the native tongue of Madagascar. But Italian brings out something special in her: “my passion.” “I wasn’t born...

The Week of the Italian Language in the World

by DHales | Oct 17, 2016 | Books, culture, Education, history, Italy, Language, Music, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

  Italian Language Week The third week of October marks the sixteenth Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo (week of the Italian language in the world). The annual evento culturale internazionale (international cultural event) promotes Italian as una grande...

Music in the Italian Language

by DHales | Oct 20, 2015 | Books, culture, Florence, history, Italy, Language, Music, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

L'italiano della musica, la musica dell'italiano The Italian of Music, the Music of Italian Music, the theme of this year’s Settimana della Lingua Italiana (Italian language week), has echoed through Italy since the time of the Etruscans, whose flautists lured...

The Year of Italian Culture and Language: Puccini and His Tower

by DHales | Aug 22, 2013 | culture, history, Italy, Language, Music, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

  Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924  On our last visit to Italy, we stayed on the Tuscan coast near a fifteenth-century tower (una torre cinquecentesca). Once called Torre Tagliata, for the name of the beach below, it became known as Torre Puccini in honor...
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