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Festina lente. Make haste slowly.
Che bella donna! Dove vai?" Beautiful woman, where are you going?
Ambrosio, learn to know me better. I love you for your virtues: Lose them, and with them you lose my affections. I look upon you as a Saint; Prove to me that you are no more than Man, and I quit you with disgust.
Seance to renaissance. So it begins
Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.
Pro medicina est dolor, dolorem qui necat."
"The pain that kills pain acts as medicine," Win translated.
"That would make sense only to a Roma," Amelia said, and Cam grinned.
I know Verona as I do my own body.
Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!
Roberta Marieschi
I'm spending a lot of time in the Palazzo and in the museums. I'm printing [pictures that I take] and making a binder with a mix of internet research and palazzo research that I'm planning to use for the upcoming works.
My name actually is Francesco Castaluccio.
For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.
By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.
as those old engravings of the 'Cenacolo,' or that painting by Gentile Bellini, in which one sees, in a state in which they no longer exist, the masterpiece of Leonardo and the portico of Saint Mark's. We
I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.
Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.
I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino,
You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.
The pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.
The true artist can only labor con amore.
Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.
The beauty of Florence made up for many ugly things he saw in his work. (Commissario Garini's view of Florence,Italy.)
BRABANTIO Humbly I thank your grace. Here is the man, this Moor; whom now, it seems, Your special mandate for the state affairs Hath hither brought. DUKE and SENATORS We
He is not Enzo, I remind myself. But I don't want him to be. With Enzo, my energy yearned for his power and ambition, all too happy to let him take me into the darkness. But with Magiano ... I am able to smile, even to laugh. I am able to sit here and lean back and point out the constellations.
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
Mantovani was a great influence on me.
Marsilius of Padua, whose Defensor Pacis in 1324 was a forthright assertion of the supremacy of the state.
In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.
I live the life of the last Renaissance man.
alfresco
the sommelier decants
a red sunset
A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
Venice once was dear,
The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
declared Mr Marrable magniloquently;
He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you. Your family gathers around you and shores you up while the beauty uplifts you.
In hoc signo vinces
Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.
This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler.
[Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est,
Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]
Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.
The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.
I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.
I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini].
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza ...
He was the antithesis of the gaudy mafiosi
RODERIGO What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!
Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh.
Dei sub numine viget, Under God's power she flourishes
Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets."
Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.
I need only you, Milano, not your money.
I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.
Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet ... he is very easy to work for.
Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.
Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.
Whenever I can, in my study, on the subway, in bed before going to sleep, I immerse myself in Italian. I enter another land, unexplored, murky. A
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people.
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.
I have a very haute couture way of working.
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
This isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini]
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa
Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.
Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
He had come abroad to enjoy the Flemish painters and all others; but what fair-tressed saint of Van Eyck or Memling was so interesting a figure as Madame de Mauves?
Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.
Naples was the great European metropolis where faith in technology, in science, in economic development, in the kindness of nature, in history that leads of necessity to improvement, in democracy, was revealed, most clearly and far in advance, to be completely without foundation.
It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
Italian drivers: "...he drove as if he were at the wheel of a Ferrari at Monza. Like all drivers, he insisted on showing off his skills.
amanuensis. A rapt
The nightingale is sovereign of song.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
I like fish; no fish business for me.
Tuball's say. Enzo's Lemorine pet.
I am Massimo Bottura. I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it's about culture, it's about love, it's about memory.
Ser mal profesor sale barato
Whiz Galliano whip whip the Armani In the drip drip lick lick like a lolly
We are a family of professionals, especially doctors. Thanks to my father, I got exposed to a whole lot of things. I call him a Renaissance man.
He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.
Florence exists to educate our memory.
His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman.
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
The wine is drawn, M. le Marquis...we must drink it.'
I'll go to Venice and drown my sorrows.
The renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and by a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a jeweled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain. Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book.
Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer
I've known Don Mancini for 22 years. We're dear friends. I know his humor, I know his mind.
As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.
Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.
That without hope we live in desire.
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.
...Traduttore, traditore.
For when last need to desperation driveth,
Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth.
[It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli
Son piu audaci gli ottimi consigli.]
My father says the family motto is, 'What would the Borgias do?' That explains a lot, actually.