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It's leviOsa, not levioSA!
Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes,
Callipygian. Having shapely buttocks. Nice one, Bridge.
A pox on both his testicles! (Esperetta)
It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.
Illegitimis nil carborundum.
Pierrot knew that everything in the world was alive. Everything was composed of molecules that shook and vibrated and hummed. There was no such thing as permanence. Even the most stalwart object - such as a statue in the park - was struggling to keep itself together.
Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel.
Food of Acheron. (Grave.)
[Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]
In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.)
passacaglia by the old master Buxtehude.
Ad astra per alia porci (to the stars on the wings of a pig)
Gervasio Lonquimay
primicerius? He was young, it was
Everything unknown is magnified.
[Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.
...Traduttore, traditore.
Daniello, you do not like the bread? Eat! ...per favore, have some pasticcio di gnocchi alla boscaiola!"
"As long as you don't ask me to repeat the name," Dan replied.
Luna Amato chuckled. "Charming boy."
"Handsome, too," Dan said.
I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio
The ninos santos (Psilocybe mexicana) heal. They lower fevers, cure colds, and give freedom from toothaches. They pull the evil spirits out of the body or free the spirit of the sick.
the splendid manhood and womanhood of Italy
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza ...
My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.
To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
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.
The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.
lagophthalmos - a
Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
Lorenzo Gambini, I presume? Or would you prefer to be called - "
"Sir," I cut in before he can say Scar. "You can call me sir, if it gives you the tingles. Otherwise, let's just stick with Gambini.
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Cathie Beck, author of Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship
Splendiferous. That's your word. It's yellow with six legs and it's crawling up your arm.
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.
The Big Dipper. Cassiopeia.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn.
[Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
wrong: Penthesilea is
Peppier n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want ground pepper.
My name actually is Francesco Castaluccio.
He called it a ptero-dactyle, meaning 'wing-fingered.
I assume he is the one unfortunate enough to be called Ptolemus.
They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
[Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte.
Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]
Don Basilio was a severe, forbidden-looking man who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or of someone with a vitamin deficiency.
I guess I had a hamartia after all.
The universal logo for a pizzahut is eight slices painted cross a disc of yellow plywood mounted in the mouth of a taxidermic hippopotapus.
Festina lente. You know what that means?"
Hurry slowly."
Bene." He smiled.
-A Good & Happy Child
Cruor pectoris mei, tutela tua est!
Blood of my heart, protection is thine!
Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.
Giannine
What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?
A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.
His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman.
Pompous worm-faced snob-head camel turd.
I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey.
Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.
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.]
anglepoise lamp.
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
I want to be inside Nic Pizzolatto's brain.
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").
Albacete (AL-ba-seet) n. A single surprisingly long hair growing in the middle of nowhere.
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
[Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]
That would be the gentleman lobster,
You cannot resist the encanto!
Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills
I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.
Carpe Diam forever after.
Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces
Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,
Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)
Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!
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
My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.
His own cabinat of cuoriositie
Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.
Tomorrow night, I'll be in Giovanni Schiaparelli's favorite hole!
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth
the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".
He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
[It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora
Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]
Left behind as a memory for us.
[Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]
Marsilius of Padua, whose Defensor Pacis in 1324 was a forthright assertion of the supremacy of the state.
It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
waistcoat-pocket,
Landowner of those parts. An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine - Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story stone houses with red-tile roofs. For centuries, the paesani of Roseto
Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.
Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.
[Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently.
[Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt ...
Braccas meas vescimini!
I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!'
-Percy Jackson
Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)
a poker-rectumed pillar of the establishment [Marcus Corvinus on a Roman Senator]
Wingardium Leviosa!" he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill.
"You're saying it wrong," Harry heard Hermione snap. "It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice and long."
"You do it, then, if you're so clever," Ron snarled.
usually sees only at Christmas. At last he reached in and tenderly removed his gift of glass from the carton. "A geranium! I cannot believe it. A pelargonium
The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]