Poet and novelist Umberto Saba was born in 1883 in Trieste when the city was under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in 1957 in nearby…
Here are three idiomatic expressions and a false friend. Prendersela – [composed of the verb prendere in the reflexive form + la meaning for/about it]…
Andrea Mantegna (1431 – 13 September 1506) is one of our foremost painters of the Italian Renaissance. Born near Padua, at the age of eleven…
As foreshadowed, I have relinquished all of my tasks at the Dante Alighieri Society in light of my impending move to Sydney after living in…
About 4 years ago I went with a friend to a concert at the Italian Cultural Centre. There were groups representing different cultures. I was impressed…
