E anche quest’anno siamo giunti all’appuntamento col carnevale. Carnevale è una delle feste più antiche della storia e del folclore italiano. L’etimologia del termine ‘carnevale’…
Leon Battista Alberti was born 610 years ago – on 14 February 1404 and died on 20 April 1472 in Florence. A typical ‘Renaissance man’,…
Salvatore Quasimodo was born in Sicily in 1901 and died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Naples in 1968. For the latter half of his life…
A tricky word to translate in Italian is also. When it appears at the start of a sentence eg Also, we played tennis after lunch it…
Giovanni Pascoli was born in Romagna on 31 December 1855 and died on 6 April 1912. He is a much-loved Italian poet with an “ear…
