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The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History (2002) ISBN 0-333-73971-X; Doyle, Don. Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question (2002) Moe, Nelson. The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question (2002) Spagnoletti, Angelantonio. Storia del Regno delle Due Sicilie (2008)
Traditions of Italy are sets of traditions, beliefs, values, and customs that belongs within the culture of Italian people. These traditions have influenced life in Italy for centuries, and are still practiced in modern times. Italian traditions are directly connected to Italy's ancestors, which says even more about Italian history.
The Arch of Constantine in Rome. Italy is known for its considerable architectural achievements, [13] such as the construction of arches, domes and similar structures during ancient Rome, the founding of the Renaissance architectural movement in the late-14th to 16th centuries, and being the homeland of Palladianism, a style of construction which inspired movements such as that of Neoclassical ...
The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when the Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in Milan to document Italian oral culture and traditional music. Today, Italy's folk music is often divided into several spheres of geographic influence, a classification system proposed by Alan Lomax in 1956 and often repeated since.
A trapezophore (table stand), part of the Ascoli Satriano marble set, found in a 4th-century B.C. Daunian tomb, preserved in the Civic Museum of Ascoli Satriano. The culture of Apulia (Italian: Puglia), the region that constitutes the extreme southeast of the Italian peninsula, has had, since ancient times, mixed influences from the West and the East, due to its strategic position near the ...
This raucous lottery-style game is one of the most entertaining Italian Christmas traditions, since it involves prizes and plenty of merrymaking. (Psst: Head to Italy Heritage to learn more about ...
It is among the most recognized forms of traditional southern Italian music. The specific dance-name varies with every region, for instance Sonu a ballu in Calabria, tammurriata in Campania, and pizzica in Salento. Tarantella is popular in Southern Italy, Greece and Malta. The term may appear as tarantello in a linguistically masculine ...
Like most others during the COVID-19 pandemic, chef Tom Colicchio passed a lot of his quarantine in the kitchen. "I spent a lot of time home with time on my hands," he tells Yahoo Life. "I noticed ...