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		<title>Learn Italian in Song: Che Bambola!</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2012/02/04/learn-italian-in-song-che-bambola/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fred Buscaglione]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another classic from Fred Buscaglione ( the Italian version of this wikipedia bio is much better) Mi trovavo per la strada circa all&#8217;una e trentatrè, I found myself on the street about 1:33 L&#8217;altra notte mentre uscivo dal mio solito caffè, The other night while exiting from my usual café quando incontro un bel mammifero modello &#8220;centotrè&#8221; When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viva la Mamma? Motherhood, Menopause &amp; Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2012/01/08/viva-la-mamma-motherhood-menopause-culture-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Italian culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a US citizen, but I lived and raised my daughter Rossella (now 22) in Italy for 17 years. I left Italy in 2008 while Ross was at boarding school in India, and subsequently separated from my Italian husband (we were already geographically apart &#8211; he did not follow me to the US). My daughter is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn Italian in Song: Mamma &amp; Papa&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2011/12/23/learn-italian-in-song-mamma-papa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Britti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[written, recorded and copyrighted by Alex Britti Again, it could only happen in Italy: a pop/blues singer pens a love song to his parents. Hey, papà, stammi a sentire, Hey, Dad, listen to me ti ricordi quella volta che siamo andati a pedalare Remember that time we went pedalling con le biciclette stanche, With our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian House Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[living in Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[numbers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[House numbers in Milan and many other cities are usually standard and boring, like this: . But sometimes you find interesting and unusual ones, so I&#8217;ve decided to collect them.    ]]></description>
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		<title>Italian Fountains</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Italy travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fountains]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not every Italian town is famously picturesque, but, even in those that are not, the attentive observer can find a wealth of beautiful detail and decoration. (I&#8217;ve already mentioned the doorknockers.) So here&#8217;s a collection of heads on fountains from all over Italy (not necessarily dull ones). ^ These three are all in Chiavenna ^ Varenna. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Pellegrino: The Remains of the Grand Hotel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A relic of the heyday of San Pellegrino, the Grand Hotel was (quite literally) a watering place for the wealthy, in the early 1900s when health spas with natural mineral springs were all the rage. The hotel is an Art Nouveau treasure, built in 1905, but now sadly going to ruin, its fixtures gradually being auctioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montepulciano</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tuscany]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[coppersmith&#8217;s shop, &#8220;temple&#8221; of San Biagio I don&#8217;t remember when this trip took place, maybe summer of 2004.]]></description>
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		<title>Green Veggie Lasagne</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2011/12/18/green-veggie-lasagne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Italian food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recipes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have made variations on this recipe for years, most recently for my own birthday potluck the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My friend Mary, who knows a thing or two about good food, said she&#8217;d like to know how to make it. This isn&#8217;t a recipe in the strict sense, because I can&#8217;t be bothered to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art School, Castello Sforzesco, Milan</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2011/12/06/art-school-castello-sforzesco-milan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Italy travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the areas inside the castle that Leonardo da Vinci designed for the Duke of Milan houses a school for applied arts, appropriately enough. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>View of Lake Como from Lecco, Evening</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2011/12/05/view-of-lake-como-from-lecco-evening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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