#italian masters

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Detail from Adoration of the Shepherds. Tintoretto - 1581.

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Dormition of the Virgin, Master of the Cini Madonna (active in Rimini, first third of 14th century), ca. 1330

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Art by Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri

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the Nice Dog Agency

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My stupid stupid stupid son I love him

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Italian Master St. Sebastian tended by St. Irene

Oil on canvas, 62 x 74 cm, 17th century

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Italian Audio/Books/Videos Masterlist

Now that I’m at the upper A2/lower B1 level for Italian, I figured I’d compile a quick list of where I’ve found the best stuff to read and listen to.

E-Books and Audiobooks

Kobo Rakuten Italia — where I buy my ebooks. You can read them online, in the app, or download them and [redacted] to export them elsewhere. Has a monthly unlimited subscription that functions like a combo Kindle/Audible subscription.

Storytel — monthly subscription for unlimited access to audiobooks.

YouTube

Learn Italian With Lucrezia — truly the savior of anyone learning Italian. My favorite videos are her Q&As, vlogs, and “n basic phrases you need to know.” I don’t get much out of her grammar explainer videos but that’s because of who I am as a person.

NovaLectio — commentary style mini documentaries. I export them to LingQ to read before watching and it helps me parse what’s going on. Also, they upload some videos dubbed in English so you can watch both.

Vogue Italia — celebrity interviews and fashion content. About 50/50 Italian and English but obviously high production value.

ArtandtheCities — criminally underrated channel imo. 10-15 minute art history/industry videos by an art historian. Super interesting, she’s easy to understand, and has captions.

Chef Max Mariola — utter chaos but fun. A Roman chef cooking various dishes, sometimes with a guest. Gives very “your uncle is hosting Thanksgiving and forgot until yesterday” vibes but in the best way.

TV/Movies/Documentaries

RaiPlay (free!) — Italian version of PBS. Lots of documentaries and some kind of goofy soap operas/narrative shows. You can also watch live TV.

Podcasts and Radio

RaiPlay Sound — basically NPR. Also free! You can find podcasts, live radio stations, audiobooks, and even audio descriptions of movies and TV shows.

Articles

Formula 1 Italia — Formula 1 news. I’m a big Ferrari fan but they cover a lot of news/current events (as long as they can connect it to a driver). The writing is short and to the point so it’s easy to parse for beginners. And honestly the drama is better than a lot of TV shows.

Stile Arte — long, more complex articles about art and archaeology. Cannot recommend it enough if you have an interest in any of those things. There are some straightforward history articles at the B1/B2 level, and also some more creative essays that push C1.

Corriere della Sera — daily news site. I started reading the news only in Italian to keep me from doom scrolling because America is terrifying. This is just the site I have ended up using a lot. Mostly because it’s easy to navigate and they have a ton of content.

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Master of the Griselda Legend, Eunostos of Tanagra, 1490-1499

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| So, we're actually doing this thing now. Gonna translate it in English later (and also color and finish this cover!), for now it's only in Italian :) |

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A Madison, tra le aule affollate e i vivaci corridoi della University of Wisconsin, Vlad e Maddie condividono una passione inarrestabile per il paranormale e la scienza. Sotto le stelle, tra racconti di spiriti e leggende metropolitane, il loro amore giovanile sboccia con la forza di un'apparizione notturna.

Ma le cose prendono una piega inaspettata quando un "incidente" orchestrato dal loro comune amico Jack li separa, lasciando Vlad intrappolato in un limbo tra la vita e la morte, trasformato in un'entità non-umana. Vent'anni dopo, il destino li riporta insieme, in un incontro carico di tensione e nostalgia. Maddie, ora una cacciatrice di fantasmi, è decisa a scoprire i segreti che abitano nel suo passato. Vlad, d'altro canto, si nasconde dietro una maschera di apparente normalità, temendo di svelare la verità sulla sua natura non-umana.

Man mano che si rincorrono tra la nebbia e le ombre del loro passato, Vlad e Maddie dovranno affrontare le paure e i demoni che tormentano entrambi. Riusciranno a ritrovare il loro amore, sfidando le leggi del paranormale e le cicatrici del tempo? "Fantasma d'Amore" è una storia di passione, segreti e redenzione, dove ogni spirito ha una storia da raccontare.

Chiudete gli occhi e immergetevi in un mondo dove l'amore supera ogni barriera, persino la morte stessa.

[Un capitolo al giorno, tutti i giorni, finché la storia non sarà finita! Questo è il nostro primo esperimento nella scrittura di un romanzo rosa "leggero"... e ovviamente è paranormale!]

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Gabriele Salci (Italian, 1681 – after 1720) • Still Life with Fruit Basket, Parrot, Violin, Crystal Glasses and Flowers • 1716

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I find the dialect issue really interesting in Italian, like it’s been a hot second since I studied it (don’t want to get it mixed up with Spanish etc) but I used to be faaaairly profficient-ish. But Italian has some interesting stuff with dialect and language that is of course super political - absolutely I believe that the minority languages of Italy are LANGUAGES, not “dialects,” eg napolitano, Sicilian, Calabrian etc. However! That doesn’t stop the complicating factors that

a) many are (due to repression in part) somewhat unstable and there’s been clear linguistic pushes in the direction of standard Italian

b) many (not all) young people don’t speak their regional language (which is also geographically associated)

c) the minority languages are for the most part still related to Italian and lend easily to blending and mixed forms

d) the standard language in Italian classes for foreigners is that florentine standardized form and they will almost never tell you regional slang or alterations

in essence there’s a dual issue here: minority languages are called “dialects” in a way that is deeply politically loaded, but for many many speakers there is a kind of language spectrum between minority languages (or remnants and borrowings from minority languages and “standard” Italian) that created a lot of…. Actual dialects in modern spoken Italian

but anyway I do think this all encourages a situation where the reality is that the majority of Italian speakers have some kind of mixed form or where regional dialects affect the standard spoken form at LOT , so that when you learn Italian you’re like oh this is easy. I’m getting an a. I’m a b2. Why the fuck can I not understand anyone ever. What is this. Like the standard form/minority language binary are kind of two ends of a spectrum and class will prepare you for like, official tv channels and Dante but not talking. Italians can understand you and they tend to be very very friendly and accommodating in matching that official form and altering their words/grammar, but you can’t easily follow a lot of *their* conversations and daily pronunciation and the literary language is very ornate. There are also not so many resources for this kind of thing

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Title: Saint John the Evangelist (panel from a double-sided polyptych) Artist: Master of Saint Francis (Italian, fl. ca. 1260-1280) Date: 1270s (?) Genre: religious art Period: Middle Ages Movement: Italo-Byzantine Medium: tempera on panel Dimensions: 48.3 cm (19 in) high x 22.5 cm (8.8 in) wide Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Elodie drawed by Milo Manara

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The Death of Hector

Artist : Carlo Alberto Baratta ((1754-1820)

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Street Fighter Masters: Lily cover by enerjax