Lampedusa Beach
- Theater
Opening night: In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY 2025
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Topic: Italian Society
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Parole Parole: “Banca”
Today’s word is BANCA, Italian for “bank.”
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Parole Parole: “Simpatico”
Today’s word is SIMPATICO, a difficult word to translate that means a combination of someone’s niceness, sympathy, pleasantness, etc.
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Parole Parole: “Sprezzatura”
Today’s word is SPREZZATURA, indicating the nonchalanche necessary to make something difficult appear easy.
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Parole Parole: “Struggimento”
Today’s word is STRUGGIMENTO, literally and figuratively signifying something that falls apart or melts away.
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Parole Parole: “Campanilismo”
Today’s word is CAMPANILISMO, the Italian tradition of preferring one’s home town (and its belltower) to any other place.
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Parole Parole: “Schifo”
Today’s word is SCHIFO, meaning “disgusting.”
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Parole Parole: “Rivale”
Today’s word is RIVALE, or – in English – “rival.”
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Parole Parole: “Cornuto”
Today’s word is CORNUTO, literally meaning “cuckold,” but colloquially used as an insult more similar to “son of a bitch.”
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Parole Parole: “Bufala”
Today’s word is BUFALA, meaning a female buffalo, but used mostly to describe fake news.
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Parole Parole: “Zabaione”
Today’s word is ZABAIONE, an egg-based dessert, typical for the holiday season.
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Parole Parole: “Anzi”
Today’s word is ANZI, an untranslatable Italian word, somewhere between “on the contrary” and “furthermore.”
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Parole Parole: “Figurati”
Today’s word is FIGURATI, an Italian single-word expression signifying contradiction and disbelief.
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