Italian words can be rather long (and poetic!), but here’s a helpful tip for pronouncing them: most of the time,stress falls on thesecond-to-last syllable.(So “Venezia” is “Ve-NE-zia”; “castello” is “cas-TELL-o”). Vowelsshow up a lot in lyrical Italian. So just remember...
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Otherwise, Leone shifts his elegiac quality with its aura of gnawing loss and tragicomic meditation onto the more immediate spectacle of the war, most obviously in the “Story of a Soldier” scene, which hinges on the way the musicians seem to be yearning for their own lost pasts and offeri...
40 a.m. on October 12. Soon the world would hear of Zewail's award - the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry - and Zewail would hear from the world. Two thousand e-mails would zoom his way within a few days and three phone lines would start ringing with eager requests for interviews from...
had flared. If that left her feeling as bleak and wraithlike as a wisp of smoke, well, she only had herself to blame. She had known there was no such thing as forever, but she’d gone ahead and fallen for him anyway. Her heart had been broken into a thousand pieces for her ...
While Aglianico is the 'celebrity' of the region, the huge range of 'understudy' varieties that for years seldom gained attention are now taking centre stage. This is mainly thanks to the greater flexibility of IGT regulations. There are some very pleasant examples of Moscato, and some superb...
Sant’Agata Feltriain Emilia Romagna is a centuries-old village located just off the main highway that links Perugia and Cesena. I’m afraid I would’ve overlooked this beautiful place, if it wasn’t for the white truffle fair held here every Sunday in October. If you happen to be a ...
Thanks for the massive comment Bill! I think you’ve beaten all records (even mine because sometimes I write a lot as a reply, thanks a lot for your suggestion about the video, maybe… one day I will conquer my fears! I assure you I’m working on it. It’s that I feel more conf...
In our country, they didn’t give them a chance. With your latest single, “Fire,” you worked on commission for the first time. De Gregorio: You don’t know how many versions we have made. … We have more than a thousand files in one folder! For that track we w...