Crisis, what crisis?
Rodolfo de Angelis’ great 1930s hit explains how to get ourselves out of the mess we’ve got ourselves into.
Tag: italian language
Help with Milanese?
I’m troubled by a scatological sonnet.
The storks of war
A fragment from Italo Calvino’s quasi-17th century folk romance, Il visconte dimezzato/The cloven viscount, uses storks as a portent of battle. Several unconnected 2nd century Greek accounts might appear to do the same, perhaps particularly if one’s a lazy sod and doesn’t read anything but scraps of stuff on Google Books.
Pig / lion / monkey / child wine
A Portuguese menagerie of sozzledness.
Why I’m called Trevor
Or, rather, how my grandfather seems to have been named after a minor railway station.
Pan di Spagna?
A Sicilian says it ain’t.
Spidy Wasch
A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.
Specs on the beach
I do hate to be beside the seaside, unless it’s raining.
A league and a turd/Legua y mierda
Minsheu’s Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues: where did he get all that horseshit?
Two views of progress
Italy vs England.