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Hey, I just thought of something."
"What?"
"When we're together, we make one whole Italian.
The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth ...
Veni, vidi, flevi.
I came. I saw. I cried.
Illegitimis nil carborundum.
I love being Italian.
In the months before coming to Italy, I was looking for another direction for my writing. I wanted a new approach. I didn't know that the language I had studied slowly for many years in America would, finally, give me the direction.
To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.
My name actually is Francesco Castaluccio.
I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.
che c'entra questo con le stelle? What has this to do with the stars?
For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained.
[It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]
The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs.
I love Italy.
Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)
Is it Rilla-my-Rilla?
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.
Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.
Venice once was dear,
The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.
Le spine della rosa sono nacoste dal fiore: the thorns of the rose are hidden by the bloom.
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.
Ignazio Michele Vitale," I say playfully, intentionally flubbing the middle name, just to get more of a rise out of him. "I can't believe you were singing a song from the eighties."
"You were seeing things.
an Italian can never be ignored, least of all when he has a grievance.
There is, probably, not a famous Picture or Statue in all Italy, but could be easily buried under a mountain of printed paper devoted to dissertations on it. I do not, therefore, though an earnest admirer of Painting and Sculpture, expatiate at any length on famous Pictures and Statues.
My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.
There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour .
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.
The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.
Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. I need to make my bones.
The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.
Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)
Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
More and more, I am beginning to understand why every one who has ever accomplished anything really great and truly beautiful in the past has come to Italy - have lived here and stayed here until some of its imprint has enriched their souls.
This is where the privileged send their screwed-up progeny; no gluing macaroni to construction paper for us." He paused meaningfully. "They only let us CREATE with RICCIOLINI here."
"I don't even know what that is."
"It's very fancy, I assure you
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.
What's a true Italian?" "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.
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again.
I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.
Paola Calvetti takes readers on a delicious trip through Italy, books, letters and love, reminding us all of the joys of a completely compelling read."
Cathie Beck, author of Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
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.
Mafia landmarks are found everywhere in beautiful Sicily, an unfortunate byproduct of the island's tragic history. By mapping theses strange sites and telling the amazing stories behind them, I hope to remind readers that the Mafia is not a romantic relic of the past.
Uri...vinciri...verberari...ferroque necari.
I will endure to be burned... to be bound... to be beaten... and to be killed by the sword.
To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.
For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.
[It., Perche non i titoli illustrano gli uomini, ma gli uomini i titoli.]
Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.
impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman").
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
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.
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
The secret is that I am Italian.
Will not the Senorita trust me?"
Ramona smiled faintly through her tears. "Yes," she said. "I will trust you. You are Alessandro, are you not?"
"Yes, Senorita," he answered, greatly surprised, "I am Alessandro.
We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.
Un momento con una donna capricciosa vale undici anni di vita noiosa.
A single moment with a fiery female is worth eleven years of a boring life.
This book is intended to help beginning and intermediate students of Italian to achieve proficiency in
Smooth words in place of gifts.
[Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.
(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)
Illegitimi non carborundum --don't let the bastards grind you down
I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio
Retire me to my Milan, where
Every third thought shall be my grave.
Go to hell, Giovanni."
"Tesoro, take a good look at me. You've already put me there.
Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husband. These are places she goes to renew her virginity.
This is a unique scandal in Italian football history - with Juventus as the victims of an injustice.
Italy has been made; now it remains to make Italians
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!
Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!
Risotto is one of those dishes you just have to try a few times yourself, to teach yourself the moves and sounds and smells and textures. This is a guide map, but kind of a rough and tattered one.
In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.
The melodious language wrapped itself around her heart and touched her soul in a way that felt like...home. [Italian works its magic]
Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh.
Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.
Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
there's nothing scarier than silent Italians; it's unnatural
Going After Cacciato
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity.
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
Giovanni always had music running through his head. Moments he experienced in life recalled for him scenes from operas. [Giovanni Tempesta]
I have the greatest respect for Tony Iommi.
Fidarsi e bene, non fidarsi e meglio. [To trust is good, not to trust is better.]
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...
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.)
Tell me the truth, Italian. You don't like it because it's strong. You like it because it's illegal.
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 need only you, Milano, not your money.
Large and excellent joints, the delicacies and cleanliness customary in Italy were wanting
I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini].
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy ...
Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.
Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
Asino tu nascesti, ad asino morrai. [An ass you were born; an ass you will die.]
Cagliari central defender Comunardo Niccolai became celebrated for his ability to score bizarre own goals in the 1960s, so much that self inflicted problems in general are often referred to as 'Niccolai-like'.