A sinking heart, that's what I felt when I saw for the first time in the Dolomites.
When I arrived in Trentino, I was about 12 years and, of course, I had heard about it: I grew up in the city yes, but I had already lived through the countryside, the hills and the beautiful Italian sea and beaches but I've never seen anything like it except in television, but seeing there and walk on ... I assure you it is another thing.
The Dolomites are in the northeastern part of the Italian Alps are one of nature's most beautiful and exciting shows that Italy can offer.
Rivers of ink have been spent to describe these places, among others, are among the best organized for tourists from all over the Alps, and for the snow, skiing at the forefront, the summer climbing and camping, I do not know what else to tell you if you do not advise these videos in HD that I have chosen for You, that somehow give an idea of how beautiful the Dolomites: Dolomites in spring:
Lucrezia Borgia lived 39 years, was daughter, wife and daughter of Pope Alexander Borgia, had three husbands (one killed), many lovers, nine children, one illegitimate, had from his father or brother, of which he was secretly in love .
Tradition has it that beautiful, corrupt and perverse, passionate frequenter of orgies in the Vatican palaces... .
Perhaps this is not the whole truth, perhaps Lucrezia Borgia was only an instrument of political interests of his family.
At twelve years the father engaged to a Spanish nobleman Don Gaspar da Procida, but broke his promise when he thought he could get more from the marriage of his daughter, just thirteen years old, with a noble Italian: Giovanni Sforza, Lord of Pesaro, but this marriage was declared invalid because Lucrezia was used for other purposes to the Pope, the fact he married the son of the King of Naples ...
Then Lucrezia Borgia began to rule, the first small town, then increasingly large and important, she was good and intelligent, in the second part of his life, after having administered, well, many families for years devoted himself to religion and to the redemption of sins, but what sins?
As for the rest of his family Borgia, during and after its life Lucrezia was the subject of gossip and accusations. His scandalous reputation is interrupted during his time in Ferrara, in which "no longer had touched the gossip," Indro Montanelli wrote in his History of Italy, and then resume the death of the Duchess. The most insistent voices that depict as "a sort of Messalina, scheming, murderous, corrupt, not succumbing, but an accomplice of his father and brother," were recovered and handed down to posterity, and reported in the chronicles and pamphlets from the numerous enemies of the Borgias : including the Sannazzaro (he called Lucretia "daughter, wife and daughter" of the Pope) the bridge, and Guicciardini.
The famous charge of having had an incestuous relationship with his father, was launched by Giovanni Sforza.
About incest with his brothers, there were malignant insinuations that Caesar had him murdered his brother Giovanni, not only because it interfered with his political plans, but because jealous, because it was preferred to "love shared by his sister Lucrezia," says the Guicciardini in his History of Italy. How to write an English biographer Lucrezia, Sarah Bradford, the relationship that bound the Borgia brothers was very tight, especially the one between Cesare and Lucrezia, "who had committed incest or not, no doubt Cesare and Lucrezia loved loved more than anyone Another mutual faithfulness and maintained until the end. "
Who was it, really, Lucrezia Borgia murderess? A good administrator? A loving daughter or a wicked man-eating?
A daughter used unwanted by her family, a whore of the court and certainly beautiful, beautiful as the photos taken from books, short stories, plays, films, poems and pictures here below: continue...
For some time we knew that our (we like to call them fascists, because fascism was most of the Italian population) had made some 'mistakes' during the war in Ethiopia, Libya and the occupied lands of Albania and Yugoslavia. We have, thanks to YouTube, released the film was never published in Italy "The Lion of the Desert" (for a veto of an elected official) and a documentary (bought by RAI, Italian state television, and never published in Italy) From "Fascist Legacy"(The Legacy Italian Fascist War Crimes in Ethiopia and Yugoslavia) produced by the BBC in '89 and so far kept hidden from the Italian public.
The video has been purchased by RAI, which has held its own, without ever putting it on the air.
Only after 18 years after its construction was broadcast in the Italian version of the History Channel.
The film documents the atrocities of fascism against colonial peoples of Ethiopia and against the peoples of Yugoslavia.
It is also an indictment of too many omissions and complicity that allowed the perpetrators of these crimes not be prosecuted, while many German Nazis and Japanese were tried and convicted as war criminals, there were no trials of Italian Fascist or official.
In 1984 the American historian Michael Palumbo, during His archival research in Britain, he discovered a large number of files relating to war crimes committed by the Italians in Abyssinia, Libya, Yugoslavia: from executions with photos smiling with the performer holding the decapitated head by the hair, the use of poison gas for mass murder, bombings of the Red Cross camps, to mass murder to intimidate, deportations, concentration camps, torture all levels. Nothing is missing.
How not to miss the documentation of how the British and U.S. governments strove to pander to the wishes of the postwar Italian governments in an attempt (failed) to put to rest all questions of opportunity for (the communist threat, etc.).
For those interested in exploring the issues of war crimes Italian literature suggest the following:
Borgomaneri Louis (ed.), War Crimes, published by Angelo Guerini e Associati, Milan, 2006.
Charles Capogreco Spartacus, The fields of the leader, Julius Einuadi publisher, Turin, 2006. Angelo Del Boca, "Italians, good people?" Blacks Pozza publisher, Vicenza, 2005. Costantino Di Sante, "Italian without honor," Shadows Editions court, Verona, 2005.
Rodogno David, "The New Mediterranean Order," Basic Books publisher, Turin, 2006
Another case of censorship in Italy is that the film "Lion of the Desert" (The Lion of the Desert) by Moustapha Akkad (USA - LIBYA 1980) with Anthony Quinn in the role of resistance leader Omar Mukhtar, Oliver Reed in the role of General Graziani, Rod Steiger in the role of Mussolini, a role previously held by him in a film by Carlo Lizzani. The cast also includes Irene Papas, Raf Vallone, Lino Capolicchio and Claudio Gora.
In fact, distributed in the U.S. in 1980 and two years later in Europe, has not had in Italy, despite the debate over the press, no distribution, following a veto by then-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Raffaele Costa, the Italian Liberal Party., it was considered detrimental to the honor of the army. The only official screening took place in 1988 at the festival Riminicinema
Historical film on the resistance of the Libyan population the brutal regime of fascist occupation. The film combines the fidelity of the spectacular historical reconstruction of the shooting, entrusting the interpretation of some famous faces to film
The film was shot in Libyan desert and Rome, outdoors and in studios Cinecitta
The film tells the crucial phase of the Italian invasion of Libya's repression of the resistance. Faced with the resistance led by Elder Omar Muhktar, Mussolini sends in Libya in 1929, General Rodolfo Graziani. They quickly realize that it is impossible to eradicate the insurgency until it is supported by the population. Then proceeds to a ruthless crackdown, destroying crops and poisoning wells, undergoing decimation of entire villages, to implement the deportation of the entire population of the Jebel, about 100,000 people, one-eighth of the entire Libyan population in concentration camps in Sirtica desert (where it will be lost around 40%). Faced with continued resistance to isolate it further, he erected a "second Hadrian's Wall" along the Egyptian border, a barrier of barbed wire guarded by trucks and aircraft, which extends for 270 km from the coast to the oasis of Giarabub . Omar Mukhtar finally captured, after a summary trial on September 15, 1931 does hang in front of 20,000 people leaked from the concentration camps.
Prominent historians have expressed their views on key historical accuracy of the film, the most expert of Italian colonialism, Angelo Del Boca, an English author as Denis Mack Smith, interviewed by the Italian press usually in such cases, up to a historian like Drew Middleton, the main military correspondent of The New York Times and the New Republic, newspapers are not likely to feel sympathy towards the Arab world.
"Never before this film but also the nobility of the horrors of guerrilla warfare have been expressed so memorable, so impressive in scenes of battle, never the injustice of colonialism has been denounced so strongly ... Who judges this film with the criterion historical reliability can not but admire the breadth of research that has overseen the reconstruction. " (Denis Mack Smith, "New Cinema", in February 1982.)
Below, the film in english version The Lyon of desert: continue...
Gustav and Luca have to decide -- should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already.
Looking at some defining Italian icons , they go on a emotional trip through Italy to look behind the clichés and to discover what's left of the famous Italian way of life, confronting a glorious past, a shaky present and an uncertain future. www.italyloveitorleave.it continue...
These days, Fiat has a crisis, but in America, the public is worrying about something else. American television screens in Fiat is in fact advertising the new car, the Fiat 500 Abarth and this puts a little tremor in pruritic American public that, as time seems to be very puritanical, Fiat of course thanks to this stupid controversy, all published in more for the new Fiat 500 Abarth You decide if this video is too sexy for American audiences...
Diavel: in Bolognese dialect means Devil. It 'just the latest in a stunning motorcycle with the Ducati brand, a brand that means Italian style. Ducati for years is one of the most popular motorcycle manufacturing companies in the world. Thanks to a special feature, the desmodromic, these bikes are unique in the world, in addition to having the opportunity to have an engine that is more space inside the chassis, have a very particular sound that emphasizes the brutal power. Riding a Ducati, and I speak from experience, is a unique sensation, is a strong emotion, whether it's a 600cc to 1,200 cc of a. The sound, or rather the peculiar roar help the feeling that you are driving a powerful motorcycle enhancing the thrill that every biker look on the throttle. Do not we here to do a list of the most beautiful motorcycles, it would take too much and then I refer you to the official Ducati site, but I want to remember that the Italian design is carved into the seats in those tanks, lights and wheels with Italian designers. To understand how popular Ducati motorcycle enough to say that the countries with the most successful are the ones where the motorcycle tradition is stronger than Japan, Germany and America, and, of course, Italy. Below is the official video of Diavel (devil) the last great Ducati: continue...
'Va pensiero' was written by Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, and was a chorus of Jews who yearned to return home. At the time it was written and published this work, Milan was a land dominated by the Austrians and the free Italian freemasonery had already started on revolutionary politics for years, leading to the liberation of Italy to found an independent Italian state. 'It is thought' independence and was immediately associated with this wonderful choir, soft music, triumphant and poignant, a crescendo of a people who had to stand up and fight for their pride, their freedom and independence, became in those years a hymn to the revolution. 'It is thought' also decreed the success of Giuseppe Verdi, the very Italian from there, along with his works became one of the most important musicians of all time for Italian music. The following 'Va pensiero' with lyrics in Italian and English languages:
Fly, thought, on wings of gold; go settle upon the slopes and the hills, where, soft and mild, the sweet airs of our native land smell fragrant!
Greet the banks of the Jordan and Zion's toppled towers... Oh, my country so beautiful and lost! Oh, remembrance so dear and so fatal!
Golden harp of the prophetic seers, why dost thou hang mute upon the willow? Rekindle our bosom's memories, and speak to us of times gone by!
Mindful of the fate of Jerusalem, give forth a sound of crude lamentation, or may the Lord inspire you a harmony of voices which may instill virtue to suffering. From: Wikipedia continue...
Italian Culture explained by Benigni Beingni is host to the European Parliament. In this show Benigni, after a few humorous jokes about Berlusconi, speaking of Italian history, economics, poetry, literature, music, politics, doing an analysis of Italy since Roman Empire times to the present day, spectacular. Obviously we have not translated this long 'piece' is too long: 25 minutes, is in Italian language: continue...
In a time of economic crisis such as this - the worst economic downturn since the end of the European Union from WWII, said the chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel - is the production and export of Italian wine that is giving a great hand to our economy. Italy is at risk of default, but the Italian wine and Italian sparkling wine being giving, just in these days the best of themselves to help us. The quality of grapes this year is excellent, thanks to good weather there's been this summer, the hills of Tuscany, such as those of the Sicily and of Piedmont, have increased production and export is booming. In this time of Christmas, in addition, also the Italian sparkling wineis able to have the same success we have the wine, there are many orders of Italian sparkling wine from around the world, interesting sweat say that this drink will take the place of French champagne in feasts, and on tables around the world is on the evening of Christmas on the evening of the last day of the year . continue...
What would happen if Italy should fail? In Italy these days the risk of default has hit points than ever before - at least since the euro's -. The Italians have concerns because the majority of citizens have invested their savings in bonds, and if it should happen as in Argentina and one morning he goes to the ATM and this gives us more of our money? This hypothesis is remote, very remote: Italy is part of the Euro, more than 50% of foreign holders of our debt and bad accept that their money they were worth nothing. The Italian government debt amounted to 1,900 billion euros, representing 15% of the GDP of the European Union ... A reasonable assumption of solution would be to lengthen the maturities of the repayments of government securities and not to do the same, that is reimbursed 80 percent of face value instead. Another would be to block loans and mortgages. Of course most of these cases that make a withdrawal forced by Italian accounts, perhaps 10% of their value and turn it into more debt - Other Bonds 'forced' - we call them. There are many voices that reassure us, for example, Bank of Italy said that the Italian public debt is sustainable over the next two years although interest rates on government bonds arrived at 8% and growth was zero. Certainly, Europe and other creditors will have to help us for their own good, as well as for our ...continue...
Italy has been considered, always the home of the inventors. He must have thought that a gentleman in 1978, a famous TV show "Portobello", a television program that rewarded the best invention, showed up with a solution to a problem that there are more traditional in Italy: the Po Valley fog - in Northern Italy -. The Po Valley (image satellite on right: fog on Po Valley), which includes the entire bed of the Po River, from Turin to Milan until you arrive in Venice in winter, since it is surrounded by the Alps, the great mountains in Europe, has, in practice every day the fog. Why not pave a Mont in Liguria thought this man? After Fermi, Marconi, Leonardo, here's another Italian genius (laughing) "It 's like a change of air in a room," says the Italian genius, "Just open a window (to destroy a mountain), since the port is already open (in the Tyrrhenian Sea to Venice )..." continue...
