Life in the Living Museum
Michele Santoro runs a political chat show on the RAI television channel. The show, Annozero, is often controversial and has rubbed Italy's sensitive politicians the wrong way on more than one occasion.Berlusconi is one of Santoro's regular targets, often aided and abetted by Marco … [Read more...]
The rubbish crisis which appears to have made Naples infamous the world over, has now been joined by a mozzarella crisis. A Buffalo Mozzarella crisis, to be more precise.As you may have seen from stories in the press the world over, this delicious cheese, one of Italy's more prized … [Read more...]
A little while back I was asked to prepare a short two day workshop on how to write a press release in English for the Media Relations master at the business school where I often find myself.After burning copious amounts of that old midnight oil, I came up with such a course.The first time this … [Read more...]
I don't know if others have noticed this, and I imagine they have, but many Italian writers construct some of the longest paragraphs I have ever seen. These paragraphs, which are seemingly never ending walls of text, tend to put me off reading Italian newspapers and books.As I understand from … [Read more...]
Italy is a very image conscious country - just wander down any Italian street and you will see beautiful shops and elegantly dressed passers by. The places and people are examples of 'la bella figura' - which means 'creating the right impression'. The opposite of the 'bella' version is 'la brutta … [Read more...]
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