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" Tu che le vanità" (French: "Toi qui sus le néant", lit. 'You who knew the emptiness') is an aria for soprano from the first scene of the final act of Verdi 's 1867 opera Don Carlo . It was composed to a French text and later translated into Italian, the language in which it is most well known and most often performed.
Vanity (Italian:Vanità) is a 1947 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Walter Chiari, Liliana Laine and Dina Galli. The film is based on a play by Carlo Bertolazzi. Chiari was awarded a Nastro d'Argento for best debut performance. [1] It was made at the Icet Studios in Milan.
Vanitas (c. 1650–1670) by Mattia Preti. Vanitas is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1650–1670 by the Italian artist Mattia Preti, now inventory number 9283 in the Uffizi in Florence, for which it was bought in 1951 from a private collection.
The painting portrays an idealized beautiful woman, a model established in the Venetian school by Titian's master Giorgione with his Laura.She holds an oval mirror with a frame, which reflects some jewels and a maid who is searching in a case.
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A bonfire of the vanities (Italian: falò delle vanità) is a burning of objects condemned by religious authorities as occasions of sin.The phrase itself usually refers to the bonfire of 7 February 1497, when supporters of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola collected and burned thousands of objects such as cosmetics, art, and books in the public square of Florence, Italy, on the occasion ...
In the twentieth century, scholars usually situated Galateo among the courtesy books and conduct manuals that were very popular during the Renaissance. [4] In addition to Castiglione’s celebrated Courtier, other important Italian treatises and dialogues include Alessandro Piccolomini’s Moral institutione (1560), Luigi Cornaro’s Treatise on the Sober Life (1558-1565), and Stefano Guazzo ...
Terra di Lavoro (Liburia in Latin) is the name of a historical region of Southern Italy. [1] It corresponds roughly to the modern southern Lazio and northern Campania and upper north west and west border area of Molise regions of Italy.