In a country where few speak your languageeveryone speaks louder than youeveryone is more visible, more protectedhidden by numerousnesson the way to the tea shop you feel much too noticeableThe movements of your knees reflect your lack of friendsYour gait is stiff, too strictand although everyone is
Part 2 Never had it befallen him to pasture his sheep under armed guard, nor had he ever heard tell of such a thing; and the two Styrian soldiers charged with this duty were happy as city lads as they followed him and his flock along routes hidden from Italian artillery fire; but after three [&helli
I came across the work of Mario Rigoni Stern completely by chance, picking up one of his books in an idle moment at a railway station some forty years ago. But it was only many years later that I finally got around to reading it, and I enjoyed the book so much that I felt […]
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‘Your dog is always so grumpy!’ I wanted to joke. Since I got a puppy, most of my conversations in Italian are about the dog. So far, I can tell people that her name is Lilou, she’s 6 months old, and that a princess gave her to me. I begin to explain, ‘una principessa’, but […]
A quick note on this month’s Italianist: some readers may find one or both of the main topics disturbing, as the book deals with the themes of loss of a parent and the BDSM world. She loved diving when she was younger. She’d put on her goggles and fins and wouldn’t leave the water until [&hell
