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Ferragosto is a public holiday celebrated on 15 August in all of Italy. It originates from Feriae Augusti, the festival of Emperor Augustus, who made 1 August a day of rest after weeks of hard work on the agricultural sector. It became a custom for the workers to wish their employers buon Ferragosto and receive a
"Invece no" ("No, instead!") is a pop song by Italian singer Laura Pausini for her album, Primavera in anticipo, released on October 22, 2008. Its Spanish version, "En cambio no", featured in the Mexican telenovela En Nombre del Amor (2008), was nominated for the 2009 Latin Grammy for Record of the Year.
Please note that Ferragosto is also a bank holiday, hence its non-religious character is stated by the law. Once the day might have been chosen to fit the widespread Catholic tradition (which builds upon the Pagan one) but it cannot be considered as a branch of a religious festival any more.
Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1882 play Fédora by Victorien Sardou.Along with Andrea Chénier and Siberia, it is one of the most notable works of Giordano.
Mid-August Lunch (originally released as Pranzo di ferragosto) is a 2008 Italian comedy-drama and the directorial debut of Italian actor and screenwriter Gianni Di Gregorio. It was produced by Italian writer-director Matteo Garrone whose 2008 film Gomorrah was co-written by Di Gregorio.
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From June 2009 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Susan C. Schwab joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a 92.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a 51.3 percent return from the S&P 500.
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 ...