Better reading Italian: a reader and guide to improving your understanding written Italian

289 Pages·2003·1.57 MB·English

by  Daniela Gobetti

Better Reading
ITALIAN
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Better Reading
ITALIAN
A Reader and Guide to Improving Your
Understanding of Written Italian
Daniela Gobetti, Ph.D.
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Contents
Preface ix
How to use this book xi
Il bel paese
Torino A children’s poem devoted to Turin 3
Il Touring Club Italiano Advertising a tour of Sicily 7
Trieste (I) An early-twentieth-century poem about Trieste 16
Trieste (II) An excerpt from a recent best-seller 19
L’agriturismo
Vacationing at an agrotourism inn in Tuscany 25
Slow food
L’Arcigola Manifesto of the Slow Food Movement 31
Il mangiarbene
A culinary report on a restaurant in Piedmont 38
Il buon vino fa buon sangue Italian wine profiles 43
I vini di origine controllata
D.O.C. wine nomenclature 48
La scienza in cocina e l’arte di mangiar bene
Recipes from the 1891 classic by Pellegrino Artusi 52
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La moda e il design
Kartell Web site of a furniture manufacturer 63
Tensione e compressione
The famous designer Bruno Munari 70
Io speriamo che me la cavo
A Neapolitan student’s essay on home life 77
Ville, villette, villone
An excerpt from a novel by Carlo Emilio Gadda 83
La moda italiana
A news report on Italian fashion at the Paris shows 90
Costume e società
Il male di vivere
A feature article on anorexia in laRepubblica 99
La moda maschile
A tongue-in-cheek article on male fashion 105
Il problema demografico Demographic trends in Italy 111
Il calcio The soccer scene in Italy 117
La beatificazione
The recent canonization of a Capuchin monk 127
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La scuola
Cuore The classic children’s book from 1886 137
La maturità
The nationwide test for Italy’s nineteen-year-olds 143
La matematica in rima
Poems to help children learn math and the seasons 148
La gatta A story written by elementary school children 157
Lessico famigliare
Una città famigliare
A poem treating Turin as extended family 167
Lessico famigliare
Growing up in a Jewish family between the wars 172
Famiglia cristiana
Personal advice from a Christian magazine 180
Va’ dove ti porta il cuore
An old love affair revealed to a granddaughter 187
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Sebben che siamo donne...
La Lega
A solidarity song of women workers in the Po Valley 199
Mamma
A popular 1940 song on the mother-son relationship 204
Donna in guerra
The feminist awakening of a young married woman 208
Le donne e la politica
An article on women’s representation in Parliament 217
Il femminismo
Italian feminist declarations from the 1970s 225
Lamerica
Americano sono
The return of a novel’s protagonist to Sicily 233
Gagliano An excerpt from Christ stopped at Eboli 239
La luna e i falò Comparing Piedmont with California 246
Il Dio d’America
A view of the political role of religion in the United States 253
Cincinnati, Ohio
An excerpt from Hymn to a wandering Italy 259
Suggestions for further reading 265
Answer key 267