Reference site for Italian towns & cities? Italian practice: Great Writers on Italy ?Fiorucci’s funky web games ? Alexia: pop star finally sings in Italian Reference site for Italian towns & cities Trying to figure out if granddad’s home town has a website? Wondering if you can make a request on line for records or [...]
Weddings, births, graduations, deaths: for important occasions, Italians send telegrams. Fortunately, the much-maligned national postal service has finally got its act together with a new Internet service that makes sending a telegram to the Italians in your life that much easier. You can send up to eight at a time, 24 hours a day, write [...]
“Is it safe to visit Italy now?” “I’ve already planned my trip–how can I keep from looking like an American tourist?” “What about the official warnings?” Our editor answers with personal views & the government line….Many readers have asked us about safety concerns for visiting Italy, the current safety warning issued by the US Government [...]
Chalk up another one for Italian ingenuity: the pizza vending machine. Entrepreneur Giovanni Demaggio, 35, has created a machine which serves a four-slice pizza in 90 seconds, for about $3. Remains to be seen whether Wonder Pizza be a hit with foreign consumers, since two out of three pizzas offered probably aren’t the most popular [...]
50% Italians hit by "nervous exhaustion" in Spring 50% Italian men "exhausted" when soccer team loses 51% Italian women "exhausted’ from unsatisfactory sex life When Spring hits, half of Italians feel a general malaise often treated with special vitamin supplements — likely to do little if this poll from a psychology magazine is on target. [...]
Practicing Catholics should abstain from sending text messages by cell phone on Good Friday, according to the Archbishop of Salerno Gerardo Pierro. “By abstaining from SMS messages, a preferred way of communication for young people, it’s a chance to put face-to-face contact first,” said the prelate, who advised not sending or receiving messages on March [...]
Pirelli Calendar Girl Contest • Leopardi’s "Silvia" poem gets new English translation • Giotto’s Capella Scrovegni Restored • Send e-greetings for Easter Giacomo Leopardi’s poem "To Silvia" Take in part of the new English translation with side-by-side Italian text of one of Leopardi’s most famous poems: http://valeoggi.tiscali.it/news/200203/12/3c8d08ab02319 Giotto’s Capella Scrovegni Restored Take a look [...]
Italian Invents Moisturizing Bra • Father’s Day Greetings • Play the Mille Miglia Racing Game • Italian Practice: How to Become a Useless Writer Father’s Day Greetings Send e-greetings for March 19, feast day of St. Joseph & Father’s day… it.greetings.yahoo.com/browse/Feste_e_ricorrenze/Festa_del_papa Italian Invents Moisturizing Bra Right, so we wouldn’t put it up there with any [...]
92.3% speak Italian + local dialect 44.1% speak Italian at home 72% speak Italian to strangers/acquaintancesMore Italians than ever before use standard Italian to communicate, but local dialects remain the favored means for swearing and talking to family. According to ISTAT data for some twenty thousand Italian families, elderly remain the stronghold for dialect use: [...]
An international group of scientists has proved that the body preserved in the Basilica of Santa Giustina in Padua is that of St. Luke the Evangelist, clearing up a millennium of doubt. Like many sacred remains, the corpse made an adventurous series of moves. St. Luke was buried in Thebes in 150 a.d., then was [...]
