Like the cool kid she is, it seems like Italy is always being talked about. So we’ve decided, in the spirit of being #current, to let you all in on the news snippets, trends, and scandals that have caught our collective attention over the last few weeks. After many shared links in our Slack chat, […]
“To live in a small town in Italy is to not only slow down, but also to travel back in time, decades back even, to when life was much simpler.”
“…gelati confezionati will continue to mark our Italian summers, no matter if we’re six or 60.”
“Mass hallucinations, hypnosis, and hysteria causing visions of flying witches and sorceresses (known as mahare), ghosts, and men morphing into donkeys is what followed breakfast, lunch, and dinner…The concierge insisted, in what I understood to be a flurry of dissent with a few curses in the mix, that the story is ASSOLUTAMENTE NON VERO.”
“Full-time employees in Italy acquire ample vacation time: at least 20 days a year (when I worked full time, I had 25) plus ten national holidays, with some regional feast days thrown in for good measure.”
“I don’t think you can call it a sport. It’s a brawl, a battle. You have rules, but sometimes those rules aren’t respected.”
Florence is Renaissance art, Medici Palazzos, and the scent of steak and leather wafting through the air. But it’s also crumbling sidewalks, overtourism, and a whole lot of supercazzole. Love it or hate it, this is Florence:
We’re switching up our usual format! This time, who your Florentine icon is, how your zodiac sign eats in Florence, and which piazza fits your vibe.
“In this extravagant slice of Florence, even frivolity was a political act.”
Here, the answers to the crossword at the end of our first-ever QUOTIDIANNO. If you don’t have your physical copy, stop reading and get one here. If you have your copy, give the crossword a try before reading further.
We’re switching up our usual format! This time, how your zodiac sign eats in Sicily, what Sicilian saying is your motto, and which Sicilian satellite island fits your vibe.
“As I walked around documenting the bakers, the dough, the wood and the oven, someone would hand me a piece of focaccia here, another piece of focaccia there.”
“Though the city counts around 70,000 inhabitants, what made this place so magical was the close sense of community I could feel even as a foreigner.”
“Oh the Genovese…..strange men of every habit and full of every flaw. Why are you not scattered throughout this world?” (“Ahi genovesi, uomini diversi d’ogni costume e pien d’ogni magagna. Perché non siete voi del mondo spersi?”)
“Somehow it feels less exhausting to be amid the chaos, the imperfection, of these old, old Italian shops.”
“In front of the questionable taste of many of these endeavors, one wonders if it isn’t just better to demolish them and have no sculptures at all.”
