
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin
Remembering Luciano Pavarotti
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The Dante Project of New York
Watch the video: Epistole, Ecloghe, Questio: Dante’s Epistles and His Latin Works of the Last Years
Book Presentation
Watch the video: Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History
Today’s word is TREMENDO, Italian for terrible, or horrific, and not – as one would imagine – tremendous.
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Today’s word is OMERTÀ, the code of silence enacted by a community in the face of organized crime.
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Today’s word is POLPETTONE, which literally means “meatloaf,” but is also used figuratively.
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Today’s word is PARACULO, applied to those who cleverly look out for themselves.
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La Repubblica
Read more about: Podcast: Antonio Monda on the Exhibition “Fulvio Roiter: High-Rise New York” (open in a new tab)
Today’s word is SCHIZZO, Italian for sketch, splash, and other meanings.
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Eleonora Stoppino (University of Illinois) in conversation with Alice Balestrino (University of Illinois)
Watch the video: Inferno 29: On Contagion
Paola Nasti (Northwestern University) in conversation with Nicolò Maldina (The University of Edinburgh)
Watch the video: Paradiso 11: The Untold Riches of Love
Today’s word is ZONZO, Italian for wandering or roaming.
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