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If you really wanna get to the meat a potatoz of the story, you want to understand and experience what it's like to be married to big powerful man? With more leaf letter and marijuana dollars then you could ever imagine? Well your in luck! Herez the knows and the hows, a man mobbed up, lotta money, lotta cars, cigars and knows bars. He is the guy, you will feel and live each moment at a time but no skipping, you're gonna wanna be patient, this book...
2) Canti: Poems
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Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. Though he died young, his influence was enormous, and it is no exaggeration to say that all modern poetry, not only in Italian, derives in some way from his work.
Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult...
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Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the...
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English Italian Bilingual children's book. Perfect for children learning English or Italian as their second language.
Everybody loves their Mom, no matter what their age. In this bedtime story, the little bunny Jimmy and his older brothers try to find a perfect present for Mom's birthday. They want to show how much they love her.
Tutti amano la propria mamma, a qualsiasi età. In questo racconto della buonanotte, il piccolo coniglietto Jimmy e i...
5) Italian 3
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Meet Anna and Ben, the main characters of BILINGY, encounter their friends and follow them through their life, their careers and their little arguments, sometimes quirky, sometimes lazy and sometimes controversial, just like all of us. BILINGY always has texts side by side in both languages, so you never have to puzzle about the meaning of a sentence, it's right there. New words are highlighted so you can identify them quickly and they are built up...
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Giacomo Leopardi was born on June 29, 1798, in Recanati, Italy. From a young age, he displayed an exceptional intellect and a voracious appetite for knowledge. However, his early years were marked by physical ailments, including chronic illnesses and frailty. These health challenges often kept him confined to his bedroom, creating an environment conducive to introspection and intellectual growth. Despite his ailments, Leopardi's thirst for knowledge...
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Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Italy, attracting increasing attention in the English-speaking world not least for her powerful Holocaust testimony, which is often compared with the work of her contemporaries Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani. Born in Hungary in 1932, she was deported with her family to the concentration camps of Auschwitz,...
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is a masterpiece that continues to leave an everlasting influence on Italian literature and the niches of Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy. Its universal themes, vivid imagery, and lasting impact on language and culture make it a work of unparalleled significance. The Divine Comedy stands as a testament to the power of imagination, and its legacy will continue to inspire generations of readers and creators alike.
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The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition
This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante's terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom....
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Cristina's Restaurant is a charming European-style bistro nestled in the mountains of Sun Valley. A favorite of locals and tourists alike, Cristina's serves up its exquisite fare to celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and cosmopolitan travelers who have made Sun Valley their personal retreat. Influenced by rural Tuscany where Cristina grew up, the food is elegant, unpretentious, impeccably presented, and seasonally fresh.
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In the Danza family, the men did most of the cooking -- great Italian-American food that has remained the favorite cuisine in American households for more than a century.
Now, actor, television personality, and exuberant cook Tony Danza and his son, Marc (and grandson, Nicholas!), invite you into the kitchen with their huge, at times hilarious, Italian-American clan for 50 top-secret family recipes (the sauce and the lasagna) and never-before-shared...
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Indulge in the ultimate comfort food with "The Lasagna Cookbook - Mastering the Classic Italian Recipes For Pasta Lovers." This cookbook celebrates one of Italy's most beloved dishes, featuring a curated collection of traditional and inventive lasagna recipes that will delight both novice and seasoned chefs.Discover the secrets behind perfecting each layer of lasagna, from homemade pasta to rich, velvety sauces. With detailed step-by-step instructions...
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Nuovo Vesuvio. The "family" restaurant, redefined. Home to the finest in Napolitan' cuisine and Essex County's best kept secret. Now Artie Bucco, la cucina's master chef and your personal host, invites you to a special feast...with a little help from his friends. From arancini to zabaglione, from baccala to Quail Sinatra-style, Artie Bucco and his guests, the Sopranos and their associates, offer food lovers one hundred Avellinese-style recipes and...
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Bring the bold and beloved flavors of Italy into your kitchen with this enticing collection of authentic dishes made modern.
Domenica Marchetti is back with her stellar Italian cooking and more great recipes in Rustic Italian. With over 80 recipes for simple, seasonal Italian fare, exquisite hand-painted illustrations, and gorgeous full-color photography, this book celebrates an irresistible cuisine and will inspire home cooks everywhere.
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Fabio Pusterla is a prolific poet, essayist, and translator, most notably of the work of Philippe Jaccottet. His honors include the Swiss Schiller Prize, the Gottfried Keller-Preis, and the Premio Napoli for lifetime achievement. Will Schutt is the author of Westerly, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and translator of My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti, among other works from Italian. For his translations...
16) Tamara: A Play
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Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc's internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.
In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d'Annunzio waits in his opulent villa - a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence - for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint...
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In The Mafia Cookbook, Joe Dogs took the quintessential Mob formula -- murder, betrayal, food -- and turned it into a bestseller, not surprisingly, since Joe Dogs's mixture of authentic Italian recipes and colorful Mafia anecdotes is as much fun to read as it is to cook from.
Now The Mafia Cookbook is reprinted with Cooking on the Lam -- adding thirty-seven original new recipes and a thrilling account of Dogs's recent years since he testified against...
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"Shortlisted for the John Florio Prize, The Society of Authors" Taije Silverman teaches poetry and literary translation at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of the poetry collection Houses Are Fields. Marina Della Putta Johnston is a lecturer in Italian at the University of Pennsylvania.
The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetry
Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912)-the founder of modern Italian...
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Make dinner the Carrabba's way tonight, with these delicious family recipes For twenty-five years, Carrabba's Italian Grill has offered its amici (Italian for "friends") an extraordinary dining experience. Serving hand-prepared, contemporary renditions of traditional family recipes, Carrabba's makes everyone who walks through the door feel right at home. Each meal is served in the time-honored tradition of warm Italian hospitality and authentically...
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Eat Spaghetti and Still Fit Into Your Skinny Jeans.
To many of us, "diet" is a four-letter word. And rightfully so. Starving yourself thin or keeping track of each bite like pennies in your checkbook is no way to live. So what's a girl with skinny jean dreams supposed to do?
Teresa Giudice has the answer. In fact, she was born with it. The first-generation Italian-American mom of four and svelte star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey credits...
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