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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.
Italian writers have often used profanity for the "spice" it adds to their publications. This is an example from a seventeenth century collection of tales, the Pentamerone, [99] by the Neapolitan Giambattista Basile:
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.
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.
The Vanity Serum (Italian: Il siero della vanità) is a 2004 Italian mystery film directed by Alex Infascelli. It is loosely based on the novel Il libro italiano dei morti by Niccolò Ammaniti . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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.
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 ...
The Lessico etimologico italiano (LEI) is an etymological dictionary of the Italian language. It has been published since 1979 by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, Germany under the direction of Max Pfister and Wolfgang Schweickard. 1979. — Vol. 1. Lfg. 01. — 96 p. 1980. — Vol. 1. Lfg. 02. — 96 p. 1981. — Vol ...