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"Santa Lucia" (Italian: [ˈsanta luˈtʃiːa], Neapolitan: [ˈsandə luˈʃiːə]) is a traditional Neapolitan song. It was translated by Teodoro Cottrau (1827–1879) from Neapolitan into Italian and published by the Cottrau firm, as a barcarola, in Naples in 1849, during the first stage of the Italian unification.
"Santa Lucia Luntana" is a Neapolitan song written by E. A. Mario in 1919. (There is also a different Neapolitan song transcribed by Cottreau into Italian as "Santa Lucia"; "Santa Lucia Luntana" is sometimes referred to as "Santa Lucia", leading to confusion.) The song is very popular in the repertoire of many singers. Mario Lanza (Mario!
The album consists of traditional Italian and Neapolitan songs (e. g. Santa Lucia) as well as then-current contemporary songs like Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu) or Piove which both had risen to international fame after being Italy's entries to the Eurovision Song Contests of 1958 and 1959.
Santa Lucia (Verona), an ancient paesino next to Verona; Santa Lucia del Mela, a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily; Santa Lucia di Piave, a comune in the province of Treviso, Veneto, north-eastern Italy; Santa Lucia di Serino, a town and comune in the province of Avellino, Campania, southern Italy.
An inscription in Syracuse dedicated to Euskia mentioning St. Lucy's Day as a local feast dates back to the fourth century A.D., which states "Euskia, the irreproachable, lived a good and pure life for about 25 years, died on my Saint Lucy's feast day, she for whom I cannot find appropriate words of praise: she was a Christian, faithful, perfection itself, full of thankfulness and gratitude". [9]
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The song reflects the beauty of the city's great surroundings and the love and passion of its citizens. More recent research indicates that the song may merely have been reworked for the occasion; family papers indicate that the brothers deposited a copy with the Italian Society of Authors and Editors in 1894, eight years before they claimed to ...
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