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sancta simplicitas: holy innocence: Or "sacred simplicity". sancte et sapienter: in a holy and wise way: Also sancte sapienter (holiness, wisdom), motto of several institutions, notably King's College London: sanctum sanctorum: Holy of Holies: referring to a more sacred and/or guarded place, within a lesser guarded, yet also holy location ...
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.
Panettone Living nativity scene in Milazzo Christmas market in Merano Zampognari in Molise during the Christmas period. Christmas in Italy (Italian: Natale) is one of the country's major holidays and begins on 8 December, with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the day on which traditionally the Christmas tree is mounted and ends on 6 January, of the following year with the Epiphany ...
The main elements of Italian culture are its art, music, cinema, style, and food. Italy was the birthplace of opera, [6] and for generations the language of opera was Italian, irrespective of the nationality of the composer.
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore, Roman mythology may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period.
The word "baetyl", probably from Hebraic Beth-El ("house of God"), originally denoted sacred stones of simple geometric shape and aniconic. In analogy to the religious meaning borne by their oriental counterparts, it is thought that for the Nuragics, they could represent the deity's house or the deity, in an abstract and symbolic way.
Pisa Cathedral, a notable example of Romanesque architecture, in particular the style known as Pisan Romanesque [5]. The 2012 Global Religious Landscape survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (an American think tank) found that 83.3% of Italy's residents were Christians, 12.4% were irreligious, atheist or agnostic, 3.7% were Muslims and 0.6% adhered to other religions. [6]
Annalena Altarpiece with predella by Fra Angelico, c. 1438–40 (frame removed), sometimes considered the "first" instance of the sacra conversazione format [1]. In art, a sacra conversazione (Italian: [ˈsaːkra koɱversatˈtsjoːne]; plural: sacre conversazioni), meaning "holy (or sacred) conversation", is a genre developed in Italian Renaissance painting, with a depiction of the Virgin and ...