Sardinia, or Sardegna, is the second largest island in the Mediterranean. From the Emerald Coast in the north to sandy beaches in the south, Sardinia's beautiful coastline offers great opportunities...
I have been meeting too many quaquaraquà lately (especially the ones gravitating around public money) and I am tired of them to put it mildly. Here is how Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia in a famous passage of his novel The Day of the Owl
defines these parasites…
Mankind, and we fill our mouth saying that beautiful word made by the wind, I divide it into five categories: men, half men, wimps, and (with respect) buggers and then the quaquaraquà….very few men, few half men, and I would happily stop here as far as mankind is about… But no, you go deeper down, to the wimps, which are like toddlers believing they are grownups, monkeys imitating the adults… and even deeper down: the buggers, who are becoming an army….and at the end of it all the quaquaraquà: they should live like ducks in a puddle, since their life has no more meaning and expressivity of that one of ducks…
L’umanità, e ci riempiamo la bocca a dire umanità, bella parola piena di vento, la divido in cinque categorie: gli uomini, i mezz’uomini, gli ominicchi, i (con rispetto parlando) pigliainculo e i quaquaraquà. Pochissimi gli uomini; i mezz’uomini pochi, che mi contenterei l’umanità si fermasse ai mezz’uomini. E invece no, scende ancora più giù, agli ominicchi: che sono come i bambini che si credono grandi, scimmie che fanno le stesse mosse dei grandi. E ancora più in giù: i pigliainculo, che vanno diventando un esercito. E infine i quaquaraquà: che dovrebbero vivere con le anatre nelle pozzanghere, ché la loro vita non ha più senso e più espressione di quella delle anatre.
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Gas prices in Italy have decreased to the lowest in the past three years according to this Yahoo notice (in Italian). It's possible to find gas as low as 1.17...
A friend sent me an article about this video and I googled it… Here is the video. The band is from Palermo and is called Combostamastas. They just won a special prize for their message against the Mafia. The video is in Sicilian dialect (with subtitles in Italian). Bravi ragazzi!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb_0DcqcQ1c
Via San Gregorio Armeno in Naples, often called the street of nativity workshops, is lined with artisan nativity workshops and tiny store fronts selling nativity scenes, terracotta figurines, and...
