Italian literature

Learn Italian in Song: Sandokan

February 16, 2010

as sung by… Claudio Baglioni??? I noticed that someone had ended up on my site while searching for these lyrics. Sandokan, the Tiger of Malaysia, is an old favorte of mine, so I’m happy to fill this gap.The video above is a montage that gives you an idea what the TV show was like, using [...]

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A Travelling Show of Italian Classic I Promessi Sposi

October 1, 2005

This year’s Corteo Manzoniano featured many of the same actors and costumes as last year, but added a new twist, winding through the streets of Lecco at night, by torchlight. In this video: Renzo and Lucia, lanzechenecchi, Cardinale Federigo Borromeo, i Promessi Sposi, Lecco, torchlight parade, horses Sadly, the longer version planned for the next afternoon [...]

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Corteo Manzoniano: A Travelling Show of Italian Classic I Promessi Sposi

October 1, 2005

This year’s Corteo Manzoniano featured many of the same actors and costumes as last year, but added a new twist, winding through the streets of Lecco at night, by torchlight. In this video: Renzo and Lucia, lanzechenecchi, Cardinale Federigo Borromeo, i Promessi Sposi, Lecco, torchlight parade, horses Sadly, the longer version planned for the next afternoon [...]

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A Travelling Show of Italian Classic I Promessi Sposi

October 11, 2004

The weekend of October 9-10, all of downtown Lecco was the stage for the Corteo Manzoniano, a “travelling” representation of that famous piece of local literature, Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), most of whose action takes place in and around Lecco and Milan. Groups of actors in gorgeous costumes paraded among five or six fixed [...]

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Sandokan – an Italian Children’s Classic

December 22, 2003

We saw Pirates of the Caribbean in Italian, though I felt it lost something in translation. But it was fun, pretty much what you’d expect from a movie developed from an amusement park ride. And it reminded me that I’ve been meaning to write about Sandokan. Sandokan, a character created in 1883 by an imaginative [...]

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