Let’s introduce our ten types of Italian men speaking a bit about cinema: A few years ago, Italian cinema developed a trend: that of representing on screen stereotypical figures, characteristic of our country: the average Italian, with all his idiosyncrasies and peculiarities, comes in several forms and the silver screen exploited this creative line […]
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Did you know? The Italian artist Canova was supposed to create a model of George Washington. The catch? The President was naked. How it happened Thomas Jefferson commissioned the study to Canova at the end of 1812. The Italian artist was supposed to make a plaster model of George Washington, […]
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Festival di Sanremo’s winner: Diodato’s “Fai Rumore”
This year’s Festival di Sanremo’s winner is songwriter Diodato, with his Fai Rumore, a song dedicated to a couple’s communication problems. Contrarily to last year’s winning song, Mahmood’s rap tune Soldi, Fai Rumore fits well into the more traditional verse-chorus-verse, love-centered trend typical of the Festival di Sanremo. Antonio Diodato […]
Venice in less than four minutes: is it possible?
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