by DHales | Jan 20, 2017 | Books, Health, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Un invito alla salute An Invitation to Health Through much of my career as a journalist and author, I've written about health (la salute). (Here's the latest edition of my college health textbook, An Invitation to Health.) Along the...
by DHales | Feb 24, 2011 | Italy, Language, Romance, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
L'Italiano Italian won me over at first "Ciao!" Over the last quarter-century, I have devoted countless hours and effort—enough, if applied to more practical pursuits, for the down payment on a villa in Umbria—to the wiliest of...
by DHales | Jun 3, 2010 | Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
furbocunning or crafty personOnly after years of visiting Italy did I realize that Italians admire rather than disdain a furbo, someone who can pull off a clever deception. “Che furbetto!” a young mother exclaimed rather proudly when her son shifted the blame for a...
by DHales | Apr 8, 2010 | Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Una Studentessa Matta A Crazy Student Today’s guest blog is by Melissa Muldoon (above), a graphic designer in San Francisco and mother to three boys and a beagle. Like me, Melissa, although senza una goccia di...
by DHales | Nov 6, 2009 | Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Le dieci parole italiane più importanti della lingua italiana What would be your nominee for the most important Italian word (historically and culturally) that has entered your language? In a recent poll, the Società Dante Alighieri asked this question of non-Italians...
