Volume 17 No. 52

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Molto Italiano featured item:

Italy Panoramic 2019 Wall Calendar

Panoramic photography featuring Italy perfectly in the office cubicle where standard wall calendars are too large. As a bonus you’ll find a travel resource directory with information on parks, gardens, annual events, museums, theatres and historic sites. The calendar is a terrific planning guide, travel memento or gift for anyone who loves all things from Italy.

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NEWSLETTER FEATURES

Panettone
During the Christmas season panettone is a staple that you will find in any Italian home. Some refer to this as an Italian version of fruitcake, but if you were to ask me I would definitely tell you the Italian version is much better than a traditional fruitcake.

12 Days of Christmas for Italians
While we Americans are toiling at the office or wherever it is that we work during the holiday season, Italians are taking it easy. Most of them have off from Christmas Eve until the Epiphany on Jan. 6. Much of Europe celebrates the holiday through the “12 Days of Christmas.” The song isn’t just about some make-believe, fantasy world where the holidays lasts and lasts. With that in mind, I set out to write my own 12 days of Christmas for Italians.

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* Photo of the Week
Presepio

This is a section of the Presepio on display in the Royal Palace during Christmas.

* Proverb
Quattrino risparmiato, due volte guadagnato.

* Recipe
Here is a great recipe for pesce a la padella.

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Volume 17 No. 51

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Molto Italiano featured item:

Children’s Italian: Where is Santa. Dov e Babbo Natale

Children’s English-Italian Picture book (Bilingual Edition) (Parallel text English-Italian). Full length Christmas picture book in Italian for Children Ages 2-6.This is a beautifully illustrated Christmas book in Italian.Read this adorable Santa book with full length color illustrations about a toddler and his pet Reindeer.

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Christmas Eve Dinner
One of the big mysteries surrounding Christmas Eve has to do with dinner and the significance of the number of fish dishes prepared. The tradition was passed down from generation to generation, but somewhere along the way the meaning got left behind.

‘Tis the Season for Tombola
Italy is all fun and games during the holiday season. The country’s decorations are far more subdued and serious than those you might see in the United States. It’s all nativity scenes and gold stars with few trees and lights. But in homes across the country, the people come together to laugh, eat, drink – and gamble. It’s not what you think. Sometimes they’re playing for beans or one or two euro (which are coins in Italy). They are playing Tombola or the Italian version of bingo.

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Via della Conciliazione

The Via della Conciliazione is a street in Rome that leads you to St. Peter’s Basilica.

* Proverb
Chi non risica non rosica.

* Recipe
Here is a great recipe for baccalà.

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Volume 17 No. 50

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Molto Italiano featured item:

It’s A Wonderful Life

This classic film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched, and how different life in his community of Bedford Falls would be if he had never been born.

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NEWSLETTER FEATURES

Santa Lucia
Lucia, which means light, lived during the time where Christians were persecuted for their belief in God. This didn’t prevent her from bringing food to the many Christians who hid in underground tunnels. To find her way she would wear a wreath with candles while carrying a tray of food.

Frank Capra’s Wonderful Film Gave America Hope When We Needed it Most
During the dark decade of the 1930s, Frank Capra’s films brought light where there was darkness and hope where there was despair to a nation in desperate need of an uplifting message. If only for a few minutes, in a darkened theatre, Capra’s films inspired irrepressible optimism in American audiences and when they left the theater, they left feeling better about themselves and the future of their world.

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* Photo of the Week
The Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo

The Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo (The Church of Saint Michael the Archangel) is located in the piazza Roma in Roccaspinalveti. The church was constructed in the 19th century over top of an ancient chapel that was dedicated to St. Michael.

* Proverb
I debit a sù cù i cunij.

* Recipe
Here is a great recipe for stuffed calamari.

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Volume 17 No. 49

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Molto Italiano featured item:

Dirty Italian

Next time you’re in Italy or just chattin’ in Italian with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

• • Cool slang
  • Funny insults
  • Explicit sex terms
  • Raw swear words

Dirty Italian teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Italy:

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Lighting of the Christmas Tree
One of the things I love about Italy is the different and unique traditions they do throughout the year and in particular during various holidays. One tradition that takes place during the Christmas season is the lighting of the Christmas tree in the city of Gubbio, Umbria.

Manarola’s Illuminated Presepe
An enduring tradition that has been a part of the Christmas season in Italy is the beautiful nativity scenes (presepio) that decorate homes and towns throughout Italy. Over the years these scenes have expanded to include more than just the Holy Family and the three Wise Men. They can be elaborate works of art that depict entire villages. Of all the scenes throughout Italy the one in Manarola stands out and can be seen for miles.

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Chiesa Rupestre di San Michele Arcangelo a Caprile

Located in the mountains of Caprile in Roccasecca is the Chiesa Rupestre di San Michele Arcangelo (little chapel dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel).

* Proverb
A tavola non si invecchia.

* Recipe
Here is a great recipe for baccalà salad.

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