<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649</id><updated>2012-01-15T18:54:34.786+01:00</updated><category term='ballo liscio'/><category term='Serchio'/><category term='good drinking water'/><category term='Ryanair Barga'/><category term='Bussola'/><category term='lucca port'/><category term='Idelfonso Nieri'/><category term='Catalani'/><category term='calvinismo a Lucca'/><category term='September'/><category term='porto di Lucca'/><category term='letargo'/><category term='enigmistica'/><category term='Per l&apos;Australia'/><category term='san lorenzo'/><category term='canzone d&apos;autore'/><category term='estate'/><category term='garfagnana'/><category term='relax'/><category term='Chet Baker'/><category term='Canzone dei Dodici Mesi'/><category term='children song'/><category term='Cialde di Montecatini'/><category term='bambini'/><category term='Gianni Rodari'/><category term='panettone'/><category term='necci'/><category term='campagna toscana'/><category term='opera'/><category term='fontana'/><category term='4 stagioni'/><category term='trail'/><category term='aqueduct'/><category term='italian school'/><category term='Capannori'/><category term='la gente'/><category term='tradizione'/><category term='Italian courses in Italy'/><category term='Bussolotto'/><category term='Bagni'/><category term='Stile liberty'/><category term='Liberty'/><category term='Acquedotto'/><category term='streghe'/><category term='Canti natalizi italiani'/><category term='Olio'/><category term='fiera'/><category term='teatro comico napoletano'/><category term='Carducci'/><category term='diario'/><category term='August'/><category term='maestro'/><category term='Garibaldi'/><category term='Lucchesità'/><category term='muffrina'/><category term='Lucchesism'/><category term='candidato'/><category term='Ligabue'/><category term='santi di Lucca'/><category term='Remo Santini'/><category term='periodo ipotetico'/><category term='esame'/><category term='fisarmonica'/><category term='Ivano Fossati'/><category term='Romanesque style'/><category term='Firenze'/><category term='mamma'/><category term='chestnut museum'/><category term='Cristicchi'/><category term='divertente'/><category term='scioglilingua'/><category term='scuola italiano'/><category term='Collodi'/><category term='passeggiata'/><category term='insegnare'/><category term='Rocca'/><category term='Giovine Italia'/><category term='restauro'/><category term='De Gregori'/><category term='Primo Levi'/><category term='Matteo Renzi'/><category term='Unità d&apos;Italia'/><category term='la vita'/><category term='antichi mestieri'/><category term='parole'/><category term='plaster cast figures'/><category term='Risorgimento'/><category term='ciclismo italiano'/><category term='Minuetto'/><category term='Barga Lucca Italian School'/><category term='italian language school'/><category term='Lucca Summer Festival'/><category term='Manarola'/><category term='immigrazione'/><category term='figlio'/><category term='democrazia cristiana'/><category term='sentiero'/><category term='castagno'/><category term='scuola'/><category term='Geminiani'/><category term='gastronomy'/><category term='Italian language courses in Tuscany'/><category term='cookies'/><category term='filastrocca'/><category term='Maurizio Geri'/><category term='learn the months in Italian'/><category term='ricotta'/><category term='Ruota'/><category term='chiese di Lucca'/><category term='scrittori italiani &apos;900'/><category term='Italian singer-songwriter'/><category term='isola pedonale'/><category term='Barga Scotland'/><category term='Monterosso'/><category term='Grapevine'/><category term='natale'/><category term='giugno'/><category term='neologismi'/><category term='Brazil'/><category term='Barga Scozia'/><category term='chestnut'/><category term='nursery rhyme'/><category term='Italian singer songwriter'/><category term='Trumpet player'/><category term='Stati Uniti'/><category term='natura'/><category term='leggere'/><category term='nostalgia'/><category term='Caterina Bueno'/><category term='Ellis Island'/><category term='acqua buona'/><category term='lucida mansi'/><category term='Maggio'/><category term='traffico.'/><category term='Fosciandora'/><category term='N. 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LO SMONTO....E LO RIMONTO!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' 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con le toppe alla sottana, viva viva la Befana!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se il giorno di Natale per me è bellissimo perchè è il momento per stare tutti insieme, la sera della Befana è però il momento più entusiasmante delle feste natalizie: forse perchè, come ci ha insegnato il poeta Giovanni Pascoli, dovremmo valorizzare e recuperare una dimensione infantile e quasi primitiva della vita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allora: cosa succede in casa mia il 5 gennaio?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ore 14.30: si fanno i “befanini”, tipici biscotti  (&lt;a href="http://http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-ricetta-dei-befanini.html"&gt;vedi ricetta qui&lt;/a&gt;) a forma di stella, angelo, albero, cuore, fiore e “chi più ha, più ne metta”, decorati con chicchi colorati di zucchero. &lt;br /&gt;La mia cucina viene invasa da piccoli mostri urlanti (ovvero mia figlia e le sue adorabili amichette) che armate di grembiule e allegria iniziano a  impastare tutti gli ingredienti. Quando, dopo le varie fasi di lavorazione che non sto a descrivere ma lascio alla vostra immaginazione, i biscotti sono pronti, aspettiamo che siano freddi e ne mangiamo un bel po', ne mettiamo una parte in appositi barattoli di vetro e altri in sacchettini da regalare ai nostri amici!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A questo punto la “mamma”, che in questo caso sono io, si arma di scopa e riconquista la cucina! &lt;br /&gt;Fatto ciò, ci sono 3 opzioni:&lt;br /&gt;1)ogni bambina viene ripresa da un genitore e continua la serata a casa propria... &lt;br /&gt;2)qualche bambina rimane per cena e aspetta l'arrivo della Befana a casa mia&lt;br /&gt;    3) tutte le bambine rimangono a casa mia per cena con il papà e la  mamma&lt;br /&gt;La risposta corretta è la numero...3!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma devo aggiungere che quest'anno mi sono superata!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ore 20.00: rimetto la spianatoia sul tavolo, faccio di nuovo indossare i grembiuli ai piccoli mostri e tiro fuori due grandi ciotole con l'impasto PRONTO, questa volta, per fare la pasta fritta! Quindi, di nuovo con i mattarelli in mano, stendiamo la pasta e la tagliamo in pezzi di varie forme che poi friggo nell'olio caldo.&lt;br /&gt;Intanto le bambine praparano la tavola: mettono il formaggio, il prosciutto, il salame e tante altre ghiottonerie nei vassoi (sono molto entusiaste di farlo, poiché per ogni  fetta che mettono nel vassoio una finisce in bocca!), poi i piatti, i bicchieri, i tovaglioli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Insomma, alle otto e mezzo siamo tutti in cucina a cucinare, chiacchierare, mangiare e bere! Le bambine sono entusiaste e orgogliose offrono i biscotti che hanno preparato; ogni cinque minuti vanno alla finestra del salotto a guardare se la Befana sta arrivando! &lt;br /&gt;E finalmente si sentono delle voci in strada: è lei!! C'è un vecchio carretto trainato da un asino, dove sono stati messi i pacchi e le borse dei regali, la Befana, brutta, vecchia e gobba, cammina accanto al carretto e dietro c'è un gruppo di persone che suonano il flauto, l'organetto e l'armonica e cantano le tradizionali canzoni di Befana.&lt;br /&gt;E' veramente un momento magico, e io mi dimentico di avere superato i quarant'anni, e mi metto in mezzo alle bambine urlanti, convinta per un attimo che anch'io riceverò il mio regalo!!&lt;br /&gt;Poi la Befana sale le scale di casa nostra, suona educatamente il campanello  e, altrettanto educatamente, noi apriamo e salutiamo “Buonasera, signora Befana!”. Lei domanda alle bambine se sono state brave durante l'anno passato e poi consegna loro i regalini. Io, un po' delusa, mi rendo conto che non avrò nessun pacchetto, ma poi mi guardo intorno e penso che il giorno appena trascorso è stato un regalo bellissimo!&lt;br /&gt;Offriamo qualcosa da bere e da mangiare alla Befana, che poi se ne va per continuare la sua serata di duro lavoro!&lt;br /&gt;Ecco, questa è stata la festa di Befana 2012 a casa di Eva!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E, dulcis in fundo, voglio farvi anch'io un regalo - guardate questo meraviglioso, commovente e divertente film d'animazione del 1996, con musiche di Paolo Conte e tratto da un romanzo di Gianni Rodari, "La freccia azzurra" - parla proprio della Befana!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qPwlv81I6_Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Christmas Day is wonderful for me because it's time to be all together, the evening of the Epiphany, however, is the most exciting moment of the holiday season, perhaps because, as we were taught by the poet Giovanni Pascoli, we should try to enhance and restore a life dimension as if we were children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what happens in my house on January 5th?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.30 p.m.: we make "befanini", typical tuscan biscuits in the shape of  stars, angels, trees, hearts, flowers,... decorated with colored grains of sugar.&lt;br /&gt;My kitchen is overrun with screaming little monsters (that is, my daughter and her adorable little friends) who armed with joy begin to mix all the ingredients. When, after the various processing steps that I am not to describe but I'll leave to your imagination, the biscuits are ready, we expect them to be cold and eat a lot, then put a part in special glass jars and give our friends what remains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point the "mother", which in this case it's me, arms herself with a broom and reconquers the kitchen!&lt;br /&gt;At this point, there are 3 options:&lt;br /&gt;1) each child is picked up by a parent and continues the evening at home ...&lt;br /&gt;2) some girls stay for dinner  in my house&lt;br /&gt;3) all the girls are at my house for dinner with their dads and moms&lt;br /&gt;The correct answer is number 3 ... !!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I must add that this year I went even further!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 p.m. : I commend the pastry on the table, I once again wear the aprons to the little monsters and take out two large bowls with the mixture READY, this time to make a fried dough! So again with rolling pins in hand, rolling out pastry, cutting into pieces of various shapes and frying in hot oil.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, the girls prepare the table: put the cheese, ham, salami and other delicacies in many trays (they are very enthusiastic to do so, since for each slice that they put in the tray, one ends in their mouth!) Then the dishes, glasses , the napkins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short, we are all at half past eight in the kitchen to cook, talk, eat and drink! The girls are excited and proud to offer the biscuits they have prepared, and every five minutes  go in the living room  to see from the window if the Befana is coming!&lt;br /&gt;And finally, voices on the street! There is an old cart pulled by a donkey, where there are packages and bags of gifts, and this ugly, old and hump woman walking beside the cart, and behind it there is a group of people who play the flute, the accordion and harmonica and sing the traditional songs of the Epiphany.&lt;br /&gt;It 's really a magical moment, and I forget that I am over forty, and I start screaming in the middle of the girls; I believe for a moment that I will receive my gift!&lt;br /&gt;Then the Epiphany climbs the stairs of our house, the doorbell rings and we open and say "Good evening, madam Befana." She asks the girls if they were good during the past year and then gives them their gifts. I am a bit disappointed since I realize I will not have any package, but then I look around and I think the past day has been a wonderful gift!&lt;br /&gt;We offer something to eat and drink to the Befana, who then leaves to continue his night of hard work!&lt;br /&gt;Well, this was the feast of Epiphany 2012 in Eva's house!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, last but not least, I want to offer you a gift - look at this wonderful, moving and funny animated film of 1996, with music by Paolo Conte, and based on a novel by Gianni Rodari, "The blue arrow" – it speaks about our Befana!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-7494712659637118406?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/7494712659637118406/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-befanacronaca-semi-seria-di-una.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7494712659637118406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7494712659637118406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-befanacronaca-semi-seria-di-una.html' title='La Befana...cronaca semi-seria di una giornata speciale a casa mia'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/qPwlv81I6_Y/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-3400022934114698596</id><published>2012-01-02T13:03:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T17:18:06.415+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italian cycling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ciclismo italiano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coppi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bartali'/><title type='text'>Un grande campione: Fausto Coppi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oggi alla televisione hanno parlato di Fausto Coppi, il campionissimo, scomparso prematuramente all'età di 40 anni, proprio il 2 gennaio 1960. Allora ero ancora piccolo, ma in seguito ho avuto modo di conoscere meglio questo mito del ciclismo italiano, attraverso le cronache, i libri e i filmati che testimoniano la sua carriera. Per questo vorrei proporvi un breve filmato della cronaca di una sua leggendaria vittoria al giro d'Italia del 1949, con vari commenti sulla straordinaria impresa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XpAlgOpJfqE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Today on tv they remembered Fausto Coppi, the foremost champion, umtimely passed away at the age of 40, right on January 2, 1960.  I was a child then, but as I grew up I could know more about this myth of Italian cycling, through newspapers, books and footages,  reporting his great career.  I would like to propose this brief video of a great win at the Tour of Italy in 1949, with some comments on his extraordinary exploit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-3400022934114698596?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/3400022934114698596/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-grande-campione-fausto-coppi.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3400022934114698596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3400022934114698596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-grande-campione-fausto-coppi.html' title='Un grande campione: Fausto Coppi'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/XpAlgOpJfqE/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-5230337779155748293</id><published>2011-12-24T11:15:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-24T18:51:44.573+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tu scendi dalle stelle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas songs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canti natalizi italiani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quando nascette ninno'/><title type='text'>I nostri canti tradizionali natalizi</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In Italia ci sono due famosi canti tradizionali di Natale, che celebrano la nascita &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;di Gesù:   uno è “ Quando nascette ninno”,  ed è in napoletano, scritto nel 18° secolo da Sant'Alfonso Maria de Liguori, allora vescovo di Sant'Agata dei Goti, un antico borgo in provincia di Benevento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Da questo canto deriva “Tu scendi dalle stelle”,  il più famoso canto natalizio italiano. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Abbiamo trovato un video, in cui entrambe le canzoni sono eseguite da bambini,  la prima &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;da un solista accompagnato dagli zampognari, e la seconda da un coro di voci bianche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;I testi completi sono più lunghi e in genere vengono cantate solo alcune strofe:  di seguito vi riportiamo  i testi dei due canti, con la traduzione in italiano del testo napoletano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_v18gd0Gpig" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Buon ascolto e Buon Natale!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quando Nascette Ninno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;table width="100%" border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col width="128*"&gt;  &lt;col width="128*"&gt;  &lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr valign="TOP"&gt;   &lt;td width="50%"&gt;    &lt;p align="LEFT"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quanno    nascette Ninno a Betlemme,&lt;br /&gt;era    notte e pareva miezojuorno...&lt;br /&gt;Maje    le stelle,&lt;br /&gt;lustre    e belle,&lt;br /&gt;se    vedèttero accussí...&lt;br /&gt;e    'a cchiù lucente,&lt;br /&gt;jette    a chiammá li Magge a ll'Uriente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td width="50%"&gt;    &lt;p align="LEFT"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quando    nacque il Bambino a Betlemme      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;era    notte e sembrava mezzogiorno              &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mai    le stelle                                              &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;lucenti    e belle                                                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;si    videro così                                                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;e    la più luminosa                                        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;andò    a chiamare i Magi nell'Oriente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr valign="TOP"&gt;   &lt;td width="50%"&gt;    &lt;p align="LEFT"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;guardavano    le ppecore, 'e Pasture...&lt;br /&gt;E    n'Angelo, sbrennente cchiù d''o sole,&lt;br /&gt;Comparette&lt;br /&gt;e    lle decette:&lt;br /&gt;-    No ve spaventate, no!&lt;br /&gt;Contento    e riso!&lt;br /&gt;la    terra è addeventata Paraviso! -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td width="50%"&gt;    &lt;p align="LEFT"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;I    pastori erano a guardia delle greggi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;e    un Angelo, splendente più del sole &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;apparve                                                          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; e disse loro:                                                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;No, non temete.                                           &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;C’è    felicità e riso:                                          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;la    terra è divenuta Paradiso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tu scendi dalle stelle&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Tu scendi dalle stelle    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;o Re del cielo&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;e vieni in una grotta al freddo e al gelo&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;e vieni in una grotta al freddo e al gelo&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;O Bambino mio divino,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;io ti vedo qui a tremar; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;o Dio beato ! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ah, quanto ti costò l'avermi amato ! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ah, quanto ti costò l'avermi amato ! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;A te, che sei del mondo il Creatore, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;mancano panni e fuoco, o mio Signore. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;mancano panni e fuoco, o mio Signore.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Caro eletto pargoletto, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;quanto questa povertà &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;più m'innamora, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;giacché ti fece amor povero ancora. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;giacché ti fece amor povero ancora.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Our traditional Christmas songs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In Italy there are two most popular Christmas songs, celebrating Jesus' birth.  One is  “Quando nascette Ninno”,  written in the 18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; century  in Neapolitan language by Sant'Alfonso Maria de Liguori,  at the time bishop of Sant'Agata dei Goti,  an ancient hilltown in the province of Benevento. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;From this song was inspired the composition of “Tu scendi dalle stelle”, perhaps the most famous italian Christmas song. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;We are pleased to propose a video, in which both songs are performed by children, the first one as a solo accompanied by bagpipes, and the second  by a children's choir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;The complete lyrics are longer, but usually only a few strophes are sung:  here is the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;translation of the lyrics sung in the video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quando nascette Ninno  (When the Child was born)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; When the Child was born in Bethlehem - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;It was night but it looked like noon -  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the beautiful and bright stars could never                                                                                        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;be seen like that                                                                                                                            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;and the brightest one                                                                                                            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;went to call the Kings from the Orient&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  The shepherd were watching the sheep                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;when an Angel, brighter than the sun                                                                                     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;appeared and told them:                                                                                                           &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;do not be scared!                                                                                                                     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Be happy and smile!                                                                                                               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;The earth has turned into Paradise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Tu scendi dalla stelle   (you descend from the stars)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; You descend from the stars                                                                                                        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;o king of heaven                                                                                                                      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;and come into a manger                                                                                                              &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;in the cold and frost  -    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;O my divine Child                                                                                                                         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;I see you shivering - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;o blessed God                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;how hard was it to you - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the  love you  gave  me!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; You, who are&lt;/span&gt;                                                                                                                            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the earth's Creator,  are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;lacking clothes and fire                                                                                                                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;o my Lord                               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Dear chosen Baby, &lt;/span&gt;                                                                                                                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;your poverty is all the more love inspiring                                                                                     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;as love itself made you poor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Enjoy listening to the songs!  Merry Christmas!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-5230337779155748293?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/5230337779155748293/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-nostri-canti-tradizionali-natalizi.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5230337779155748293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5230337779155748293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-nostri-canti-tradizionali-natalizi.html' title='I nostri canti tradizionali natalizi'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/_v18gd0Gpig/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-7904748314673420486</id><published>2011-12-12T15:00:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-12T20:27:26.132+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cookies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biscotti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biscuits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='befanini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Epifania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='befana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Epiphany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ricetta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recipe'/><title type='text'>La ricetta dei "befanini"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;L'altro giorno a scuola abbiamo preparato insieme i "befanini", biscotti tradizionali delle feste natalizie.  Il nome deriva da Befana, che è quella donna vecchia e brutta che viene la sera del 5 gennaio (vigilia dell'Epifania) a cavallo di una scopa per portare doni ai bambini.  In passato, questi biscotti venivano fatti in casa per l'occasione, ma ormai si possono trovare tutto l'anno dai fornai e pasticceri della lucchesia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La ricetta che Eva ci ha proposto è la seguente:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ingredienti&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1 kg di farina 00&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1/2 kg di zucchero&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4 uova&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1/2 kg di burro&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2 bustine di lievito&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;succo di 1/2 arancia&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Istruzioni&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mettere la farina, aggiungere gli altri ingredienti (il burro deve essere morbido per amalgamarsi bene con il resto) e impastare il tutto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Una volta raggiunto un impasto omogeneo , stendere con un mattarello ad un altezza di circa 5 millimetri e tagliare i biscotti con le apposite formine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sbattere un uovo e con un pennellino da cucina spennellare i biscotti e poi cospargerli di "chicchi" di zucchero o di cioccolato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mettere in forno a 180° per circa 10 minuti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KBPOy1gcOV4/TuYZHfldVPI/AAAAAAAABrc/1kpQyrMUt2M/s1600/PC090634.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KBPOy1gcOV4/TuYZHfldVPI/AAAAAAAABrc/1kpQyrMUt2M/s400/PC090634.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685259196130219250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6NMXHTX7P1s/TuYZHFp7LSI/AAAAAAAABrQ/ay2rjgMM5eE/s1600/SAM_0763.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6NMXHTX7P1s/TuYZHFp7LSI/AAAAAAAABrQ/ay2rjgMM5eE/s400/SAM_0763.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685259189169630498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The other day at school we prepared the "befanini", Christmas traditional biscuits. The name comes from Befana,  the old ugly woman who arrives riding a broom on January 5th (the eve of Epiphany) to bring sweets and toys to children. In the past , these biscuits were made in each home for the occasion, now you can find them at every Lucchese baker's and confectioner's all year round.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's the recipe Eva proposed to us:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ingredients&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1 kg   Wheat flour  for pastry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1/2 kg sugar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4 eggs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1/2 kg butter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2 sachets of baking powder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the juice of half orange&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Instructions&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Put the flour on the table and add the other ingredients (the butter must be soft to amalgamate well with the rest) and work into dough.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Once obtained a smooth mixture,  spread the pastry as thick as  about 0.2 inches with a rolling pin and cut the biscuits with small moulds of various shapes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Beat an egg and brush the biscuits with it, then sprinkle them with sugar or chocolate grains.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then put them in to bake at 356 F for 10 minutes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-7904748314673420486?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/7904748314673420486/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-ricetta-dei-befanini.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7904748314673420486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7904748314673420486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-ricetta-dei-befanini.html' title='La ricetta dei &quot;befanini&quot;'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KBPOy1gcOV4/TuYZHfldVPI/AAAAAAAABrc/1kpQyrMUt2M/s72-c/PC090634.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-3517223773075105424</id><published>2011-11-27T19:33:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-27T20:04:08.309+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pasta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chestnut flour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tagliatelle di castagna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farina di castagna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cucina italiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farina di neccio'/><title type='text'>Tagliatelle di farina di castagne</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Visto che siamo in periodo di castagne mi fa piacere pubblicare questa ricetta per preparare la pasta con farina di castagne (o di neccio, come si dice a Lucca). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tagliatelle di farina di castagne&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ingredienti per 8 persone:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;350 grammi di farina di castagne&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;200 grammi di farina di frumento&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;2 uova&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;200 grammi di ricotta di pecora&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;50 grammi di pecorino o parmigiano grattugiati&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sale e pepe&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Istruzioni&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Si setacciano le due farine insieme per mescolarle bene, facendone un mucchio sul tavolo: fare poi una cavità al centro e aggiungervi le uova, un pizzico di sale e un po' di acqua tiepida.  Mescolare dapprima con una forchetta le uova con l'acqua, aggiungendo via via della farina, poi continuare con le mani finché la pasta diventa omogenea, liscia ed elastica.  A questo punto farne una palla e avvolgerla in una pellicola, facendola riposare per mezz'ora circa.  Poi stendete la pasta in una sfoglia sottile ma non troppo, e lasciatela asciugare un pochino, ma non troppo. Dopo tagliate la pasta in strisce con un coltello liscio  e cuocete in abbondante acqua bollente salata, preferibilmente “al dente”.  Se cuocete la pasta subito dopo la preparazione, sono sufficienti due minuti di cottura da quando l'acqua riprende a bollire.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;Poi si scolano le tagliatelle e si mettono in una terrina, dove in precedenza si era sciolta la ricotta con un po' di acqua di cottura. Si aggiunge il formaggio grattugiato e un po' di pepe, mescolando delicatamente.  Buon appetito!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XpBxs4p6loQ/TtKDRpnpQQI/AAAAAAAABrE/GWELZ7WDYhg/s1600/tag2%2B%25281%2529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XpBxs4p6loQ/TtKDRpnpQQI/AAAAAAAABrE/GWELZ7WDYhg/s400/tag2%2B%25281%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679746419320766722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;As it's the season of chestnuts, I am pleased to publish a recipe to prepare noodles with chestnut flour  (or "neccio" flour as it's called in Lucca)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tagliatelle with chestnut flour&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ingredients for 8 persons:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;350 gram chestnut flour&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;200 gram wheat flour&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;2 eggs&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;200 gram ricotta from sheep milk&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;50 gram grated parmisan or pecorino cheese&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Salt &amp;amp; pepper&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instructions:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;First sift both flours together to mix them well and make a mound on the table. Open a hollow in the middle and add the eggs, a pinch of salt and some lukewarm water.  First stir with a fork the  eggs and the water, gradually adding the flour, then continue with the hands till the dough becomes  smooth and stretchy. At this point make a ball and wrap it in clingfilm, letting it stand for about half an hour.  Then roll out the dough in a thin sheet (but not too thin), and let it become a little dry, but not too much. After that cut the dough in stripes with a smooth knife and cook preferably “al dente” (which means not too soft) in copious salted boiling water . If you cook the noodles just after  preparing the dough, two minutes from when water starts boiling again are sufficient.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;Then you drain the tagliatelle and put them into a bowl, where you had previously melted the ricotta cheese with some cooking water. Add the grated cheese and some pepper, delicately mixing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;Enjoy your meal!|&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-3517223773075105424?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/3517223773075105424/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/11/tagliatelle-di-farina-di-castagne.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3517223773075105424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3517223773075105424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/11/tagliatelle-di-farina-di-castagne.html' title='Tagliatelle di farina di castagne'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XpBxs4p6loQ/TtKDRpnpQQI/AAAAAAAABrE/GWELZ7WDYhg/s72-c/tag2%2B%25281%2529.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-7029667066917825535</id><published>2011-11-20T19:35:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T16:00:23.847+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quello che manca al mondo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ivano Fossati'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italian singer songwriter'/><title type='text'>L'ultima di Ivano Fossati</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Un grande cantautore italiano, Ivano Fossati, ha pubblicato il suo nuovo album con alcune belle canzoni che ci raccontano in modo poetico la realtà del nostro tempo. Fra queste vi voglio proporre &lt;/span&gt;“&lt;span&gt;Quello che manca al mondo”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zU2sZYRfsgs/TtD96tM7AKI/AAAAAAAABq4/NP_neEHYZbw/s1600/Immagine.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zU2sZYRfsgs/TtD96tM7AKI/AAAAAAAABq4/NP_neEHYZbw/s400/Immagine.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679318315122229410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.5cm; "&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span &gt;Quello che manca al mondo è un poco di silenzio                                                                      quello che manca in questo mondo è il perdono che non vedo e non sento                          tutta la gente intorno sogna di cavalcare il temporale&lt;br /&gt;quello che serve alla vita&lt;br /&gt;è acqua e sale&lt;br /&gt;io non sono quell'uomo che aveva un sogno&lt;br /&gt;che ne è stato dei sogni di questo tempo?&lt;br /&gt;Di che cosa parliamo in questa vita? Di che cosa nutriamo i nostri figli?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quello che mancherà domani è un monumento all'uguaglianza &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;quello che manca già stanotte sono mille parole d'amore &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;perché c'è gente che parla d'amore in una lingua morta, sono vivi e gli basta e sanno aspettare, ma in questa estate che sembra piuttosto dicembre non tutto va bene oppure sì, se vi pare. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quello che manca al mondo lo vedo bene coi miei occhi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;quello che manca a questo mondo non lo posso raccontare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;io non sono quell'uomo che aveva un sogno e nemmeno l'artista che aveva un dono ma anche un solo pensiero fa strada, come tutte le grandi illusioni. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quello che manca al mondo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;è un poco di silenzio &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;quello che manca in questo mondo è il perdono che non vedo e non sento &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;quello che manca al mondo è un poco di silenzio. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8wCDKq-qRIc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;A great Italian singer songwriter, Ivano Fossati, has released his latest album with some fine songs which are poetical reports of our time's reality.  I am pleased to propose you “Quello che manca al mondo”  (what the world is lacking)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;What the world is lacking &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;is a little silence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;what this world is lacking is forgiveness which I can't see nor hear &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;All people around dream of overcoming the thunderstorm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What life needs is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;water and salt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I am not the man who had a dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What has become of the dreams of this time?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What are we talking about in this life? With what do we feed our children?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;What will be lacking tomorrow is a monument to equality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What is already missing tonight are thousand words of love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;As there's people speaking of love in a dead language, content with being alive and waiting,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;but in this summer that looks like winter not everything is right, or it is, if you think so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What the world is lacking I can see well with my eyes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What this world is lacking I cannot tell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I am not the man who had a dream nor the artist who had a gift, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;but even a single thought finds &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;a way, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;like all big illusions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What the world is lacking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;is a little silence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What this world is lacking is forgiveness which I can't see nor hear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;What the world is lacking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;is a little silence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "&gt;                                                                           &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-7029667066917825535?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/7029667066917825535/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/11/lultima-di-ivano-fossati.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7029667066917825535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7029667066917825535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/11/lultima-di-ivano-fossati.html' title='L&apos;ultima di Ivano Fossati'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zU2sZYRfsgs/TtD96tM7AKI/AAAAAAAABq4/NP_neEHYZbw/s72-c/Immagine.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-4263441265827740859</id><published>2011-10-30T22:18:00.021+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-02T16:43:02.911+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='porto di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucca port'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='porto della formica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canale della formica'/><title type='text'>Il porto di Lucca - the port of Lucca</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Forse non tutti sanno che Lucca aveva un porto fluviale, attivo dall'epoca romana fino alla fine dell'800, che si trovava a Sud della città, nella zona di Via della Formica a San Concordio. Il nome Formica deriva probabilmente dal latino “forma”, termine che indicava una suddivisione del territorio. Il porto era lungo 68 metri e largo 16, con una darsena di 10x5 metri, 4 scali di attracco e un magazzino per le merci. Il canale della Formica era collegato al mare, a Firenze e a Pisa  attraverso l'Arno dove giungeva attraversando il padule di Bientina.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Perhaps you did not know that Lucca had a river port, in operation since the Roman era and till the end of 1800, which was located south of the city, in the suburb of San Concordio adjacent to Via della Formica. The name Formica probably derives from the latin “forma”, which was a Roman term to define land distribution. The port was 74 yards long and 17 wide, with a dock of 11x4,5 yards, 4 mooring places and a warehouse. The Formica canal was connected to the sea, Florence and Pisa via the river Arno, where it emptied after crossing the marsh of Bientina.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6isW3l398YA/Tq3FLYkudvI/AAAAAAAABpA/nccN4N5Ye_0/s1600/scansione0019.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6isW3l398YA/Tq3FLYkudvI/AAAAAAAABpA/nccN4N5Ye_0/s400/scansione0019.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669404305295046386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;(A&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt; sight of Lucca in 1700, showing the port with two freight boats on dock)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Le merci che durante i secoli arrivavano al porto di Lucca erano:&lt;i&gt;  &lt;b&gt;il legname&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; proveniente da Barga e dalla Garfagnana, che era portato a Lucca dalle acque del Serchio;&lt;i&gt;  &lt;b&gt;le pietre da costruzione&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, ad esempio le pietre dell'ultima cerchia muraria provenivano dalla cava di Guamo e attraverso i canali giungevano fino a San Concordio; &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;il sale&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;dalla Versilia; &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;i cereali, il riso e la farina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, provenienti dai territori vicini e dai mulini lungo i fiumi. Invece le merci che partivano dal porto erano: &lt;i style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;i rifornimenti&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left; "&gt; per i magazzini dei mercanti lucchesi in Europa; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;la seta&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left; "&gt; che arrivava grezza e ripartiva lavorata per i mercati europei.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;The goods arriving to the port of Lucca over the centuries were: &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;timber&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify; "&gt; coming from Barga and Garfagnana via the Serchio river; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;construction stones:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify; "&gt; for example, the stones for the walls were excavated from the Guamo quarry and reached San Concordio by the canal; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;salt&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify; "&gt;from Versilia; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;cereals, rice and flour&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify; "&gt; from the nearby territory and the mills along the rivers. The goods departing from the port were &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;supplies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify; "&gt; for the warehouses of Lucchese merchants and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;silk&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify; "&gt;, which arrived as raw material and once processed was shipped to the European markets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MOotce1oJn4/Tq3FLPv3j4I/AAAAAAAABo0/TZKsTIkm0Gg/s1600/scansione0018.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MOotce1oJn4/Tq3FLPv3j4I/AAAAAAAABo0/TZKsTIkm0Gg/s400/scansione0018.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669404302925860738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;                                     &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(A map of 1843 showing the port location)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;La rete fluviale Lucca-Pisa-Firenze aveva il vantaggio di essere rapida e sicura, ma poteva provocare malattie come il tifo, la malaria e il colera per il suo percorso nella palude,&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left; "&gt; &lt;/span&gt; ed essere anche una via agevole per attacchi militari. La fine del porto è stata determinata dall'avvento della ferrovia nella seconda metà dell'ottocento. La darsena fu interrata alla fine dell'800 con la costruzione dei gasometri. Il canale servì poi fino alla seconda guerra mondiale per il trasporto locale di verdure dalla campagna, poi  fu definitivamente intubato. Un comitato di cittadini vorrebbe il restauro e la valorizzazione del porto come monumento storico, e si oppone fortemente alla costruzione di un grande fabbricato che di fatto lo farebbe scomparire per sempre. Maggiori notizie possono trovarsi sul sito &lt;a href="http://www.sanconcordio.it/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;www.sanconcordio.it&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;The advantage of the fluvial network Lucca-Pisa-Firenze was to be safe and fast, yet diseases like typhus fever, malaria and cholera could be provoked along the way through the marsh, and military assaults could be made easier &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;by the smooth route&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left; "&gt;The port ceased to be used after the construction of the railway in the second half of 1800 and the dockyard was interred for the building of great gasometers. The canal was used until the second world war for local transport of vegetables, then it was definitely laid underground. The citizens of San Concordio are urging for the restoration of the port and its exploitation as a historic site, strongly opposing the project for the construction of an enormous building, which would cause its final disappearance. You can find more news on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sanconcordio.it/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;www.sanconcordio.it&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xweCJLCp_nQ/Tq3FL1w5HZI/AAAAAAAABpM/Fb1EoAgQqBA/s1600/scansione0020.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xweCJLCp_nQ/Tq3FL1w5HZI/AAAAAAAABpM/Fb1EoAgQqBA/s400/scansione0020.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669404313130704274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;                                      &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(The customhouse along the canal)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-4263441265827740859?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/4263441265827740859/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/10/il-porto-di-lucca-port-of-lucca.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/4263441265827740859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/4263441265827740859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/10/il-porto-di-lucca-port-of-lucca.html' title='Il porto di Lucca - the port of Lucca'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6isW3l398YA/Tq3FLYkudvI/AAAAAAAABpA/nccN4N5Ye_0/s72-c/scansione0019.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-8430601036141012403</id><published>2011-10-24T12:55:00.016+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T17:59:05.480+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mondine nel borgo antico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roasted chestnuts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='museo del castagno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mondine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antichi mestieri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musica tradizionale toscana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='COLOGNORA DI PESCAGLIA'/><title type='text'>Le “mondine” nel borgo antico – la festa della castagna a Colognora di Pescaglia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TTirkNAIbiI/TqcVHrFzvsI/AAAAAAAABoE/xOWxU9kvoQM/s1600/01_manifesto%2Bmuseo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TTirkNAIbiI/TqcVHrFzvsI/AAAAAAAABoE/xOWxU9kvoQM/s400/01_manifesto%2Bmuseo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667521877639413442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ieri, domenica 23 ottobre abbiamo colto l'occasione di andare, insieme con i nostri studenti, alla festa della castagna a Colognora, il borgo ormai reso famoso dal Museo del Castagno e dalla presenza nel cinema come scenario del film di Spike Lee, Miracolo a Sant'Anna.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Siamo partiti da Lucca alla 2 del pomeriggio e siamo arrivati a Vetriano, il paese prima di Colognora, dove abbiamo lasciato le nostre macchine e utilizzato il servizio della navetta per arrivare fino al paese: questo perché la splendida giornata era molto invitante e c'era una gran folla di visitatori.&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K-ixOwgBC1Y/TqVLdZyVceI/AAAAAAAABm0/JU-8RxSw5_g/s1600/PA230412.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K-ixOwgBC1Y/TqVLdZyVceI/AAAAAAAABm0/JU-8RxSw5_g/s400/PA230412.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667018674625933794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Colognora è un piccolo borgo a 600 metri di altezza nella media valle del Serchio, circondato da boschi di castagni e uliveti.   E' un luogo particolare, fra collina e montagna, dove il castagno e  l'ulivo quasi convivono. Il fascino di questo luogo è dato anche dai cipressi che si incontrano lungo la strada tortuosa che sale dal fondovalle e dai panorami che si possono vedere durante la salita.&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bErF46lb4Qw/TqVLbJwMnFI/AAAAAAAABmQ/5gkRgQRALvo/s1600/PA230409.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 377px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bErF46lb4Qw/TqVLbJwMnFI/AAAAAAAABmQ/5gkRgQRALvo/s400/PA230409.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667018635962260562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Arrivati in paese, abbiamo potuto ammirare i numerosi banchi con i prodotti tipici e gli artigiani degli antichi mestieri, disposti lungo la strada in pietra del borgo. In piazza della chiesa c'erano i “mondinai”, che con le loro padelle arrostivano le castagne, accompagnate da un ottimo vin brulé. C'erano anche come ogni anno gli ospiti del paese di Pfaffenheim in Alsazia, gemellato con Colognora, che offrivano vino bianco, formaggio e pizze del loro paese. C'erano anche suonatori e cantanti, tra cui il nostro Angelo che ha percorso il paese con il suo organino, suonando e cantando canzoni tradizionali della Toscana.&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JNrKK1r85Tk/TqVLdmaRB3I/AAAAAAAABnE/JvBDVG26Kgs/s1600/DSCN1974.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JNrKK1r85Tk/TqVLdmaRB3I/AAAAAAAABnE/JvBDVG26Kgs/s400/DSCN1974.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667018678014642034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CG6InlgFxDc/TqcVH6gVfmI/AAAAAAAABoU/HfGHORLa6J8/s1600/08_mondinai%2Bal%2Blavoro.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CG6InlgFxDc/TqcVH6gVfmI/AAAAAAAABoU/HfGHORLa6J8/s400/08_mondinai%2Bal%2Blavoro.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667521881777208930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yesterday, Sunday October 23&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; , we took the opportunity of going to the Chestnut Festival in Colognora together with our students.  This hamlet is famous for its Museum of the Chestnut and also for being the set  of a Spike Lee's movie :  “Miracle at St. Anna”.   We left Lucca at 2 in the afternoon and got to Vetriano, the village preceding Colognora, where we parked our cars and took a bus to reach the festival's place, as the splendid afternoon was so inviting that visitors were flocking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-etymG23iozE/TqVLcOQowyI/AAAAAAAABms/h-3CyZnNRbQ/s1600/PA230416.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-etymG23iozE/TqVLcOQowyI/AAAAAAAABms/h-3CyZnNRbQ/s400/PA230416.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667018654351934242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Colognora is a hamlet at about 1900 feet on the middle Serchio river valley, surrounded by woods of chestnut trees and olive groves.  It's a particular place,   between hill and mountain, where the chestnut and the olive trees  almost grow side by side.  The charm of the place is heightened by the cypresses along the road and by the sights we can enjoy while going up from the bottom of the valley&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ruMxcTcMpFs/TqVHMUisQgI/AAAAAAAABl0/QVYMX7CRFug/s1600/PA230401.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 348px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ruMxcTcMpFs/TqVHMUisQgI/AAAAAAAABl0/QVYMX7CRFug/s400/PA230401.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667013983113855490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Once in the village, we could browse through and admire stalls with typical products and local people displaying old trades,  placed along the stone-paved street.  In the small church square we found the “mondinai”  ,  offering roasted chestnuts and hot  mulled wine to the visitors. There were also the friends from Pfaffenheim, in Alsace,  a twin village of Colognora, offering good white wine, cheese and  pizzas from their land. There were also musician and singers, among whom Angelo playing his accordion and singing traditional Tuscan songs.&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--8K2smm7VdE/TqcWUeFVj0I/AAAAAAAABoc/Bx68jH6UOo4/s1600/11_angelo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 325px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--8K2smm7VdE/TqcWUeFVj0I/AAAAAAAABoc/Bx68jH6UOo4/s400/11_angelo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667523196997701442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dBKehVfJIH0/TqVHLFHog-I/AAAAAAAABls/M_mPRn93heU/s1600/PA230400.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dBKehVfJIH0/TqVHLFHog-I/AAAAAAAABls/M_mPRn93heU/s400/PA230400.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667013961793962978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-8430601036141012403?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/8430601036141012403/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/10/le-mondine-nel-borgo-antico-la-festa.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/8430601036141012403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/8430601036141012403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/10/le-mondine-nel-borgo-antico-la-festa.html' title='Le “mondine” nel borgo antico – la festa della castagna a Colognora di Pescaglia'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TTirkNAIbiI/TqcVHrFzvsI/AAAAAAAABoE/xOWxU9kvoQM/s72-c/01_manifesto%2Bmuseo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6190808371844520120</id><published>2011-10-02T09:33:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-02T12:56:21.519+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vernacolo lucchese'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Idelfonso Nieri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cultura popolare lucchese'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vittorio Emanuele'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Giuseppe Garibaldi'/><title type='text'>Idelfonso Nieri e la cultura popolare lucchese</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_l6ZECgcCnE/Togutt_LXkI/AAAAAAAABj4/mPoQ7QkxOh8/s1600/scansione0001.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_l6ZECgcCnE/Togutt_LXkI/AAAAAAAABj4/mPoQ7QkxOh8/s400/scansione0001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658824294764600898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Idelfonso Nieri  (1853-1920) fu un letterato e filologo lucchese, che si dedicò alla raccolta e alla divulgazione delle espressioni del popolo, sia in prosa che in poesia. La sua opera è essenziale per la conservazione e la trasmissione in forma scritta di una cultura, che oggi sarebbe ormai dimenticata.  Tra i suoi lavori c'è un libro dal titolo "Cento racconti popolari lucchesi", che fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1906. Di queste storie, alcune vere, altre di fantasia, di contenuto comico o moralistico, per spiegare un proverbio o una frase comune, ne ho scelta una, che nella sua ingenua semplicità, ha anche un valore patriottico.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il linguaggio è originale e alcune parole sono vernacolari e non più in uso, ma la storia è pienamente godibile anche oggi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ma che pretensioni!.....-&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Venticinque o trent'anni fa giù per il nostro piano c'era un uomo che aveva preso moglie di fresco. Dir che fosse un cattiv'omo, non si potrebbe dire, ma delle volte era un po' bestialotto e aveva delle ragionacce spallate. Subito che la su' donna fu grossa, lui gli cominciò a dire: "M'hai a far Vittorio, m'hai a fare il nostro re, e vo' Vittorio! E m'hai a fare un Vittorino!" e non la finiva mai con questo re e con questo Vittorio. Ma venne l'ora del parto, e fu una donna. Come ci restò brutto! Vi basti che seguitò a maltrattare e a rimbrontolar la moglie per un mese, povera donna! Come se ci avesse colpa lei. "Be', per questa volta ti perdono, ma quest'altra, pover'alle tu' costole, se non mi fai Vittorio!"  Come Dio volle ecco che la donna ridiventò gravida, e lui tutti i momenti a soccannarla e a tribolarla. "E m'hai a far Vittorio, e vo' Vittorio, e se mi fai un'altra pisciona, son bòtte e ti rimando con tu' madre"; e lì a farla star male e anco piangere con queste belle pretensioni. Ora viene che partorisce e fa due gemelli, due bellissimi maschiotti!  La prima volta che lui uscì fuori, un amico gli domandò: "E be', che t'ha fatto poi la tu' moglie?" - "Povera donna! M'ha fatto Vittorio e po' anco Garibaldi!"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Idelfonso Nieri  (1853-1920) was a lucchese scholar and philologist, who devoted himself to the collection and the literary rendition of the people's expression, both in prose and in poetry. His work was fundamental for the preservation and the handing down in written form of a culture, which today would be otherwise forgotten.  Among his works there is a book entitled "One Hundred Lucchese Folk Tales", published for the first time in 1906.  From these stories, some  real, some imaginative,  with a comic or moralistic content,  to explain a proverb or a common sentence, I have chosen one, that for all its naivety, assumes a patriotic significance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The language is original and some words are vernacular and no more used, but the tale is fully enjoyable even today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;What kind of demands!.....-&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Twenty-five or thirty years back, down on our plain there was a man who was freshly married. You could not say he was a bad man, but sometimes he was a little bestial and nourished crazy thoughts. As soon as his wife was pregnant, he started to say "You got to bring me Vittorio, you got to bring me our king, I want Vittorio!  You got to bring me a little Vittorio!", and he never stopped  asking for the king and for Vittorio. But when the delivery came, it was  a baby girl.  How he was shocked! Suffice it to say that he kept mistreating and blaming his wife for a month,  like it was the &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;poor woman's &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;fault. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Well, this time I will forgive you, but if you do not bring me Vittorio next time your poor ribs will hurt"  &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;God willing, the woman became pregnant again, her husband all the time urging and tormenting her. "You got to bring me Vittorio, I want Vittorio, if you bring me another girl, I will beat you and send you back to your mother"  and he did her harm and made her cry with his crazy demands. Then she delivered giving birth to two twins, two lovely baby-boys! The first time he went out, a friend asked him: " Well then, what did your wife bring you?" - "Poor woman! She brought me Vittorio and even Garibaldi!"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6190808371844520120?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6190808371844520120/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/10/idelfonso-nieri-e-la-cultura-popolare.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6190808371844520120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6190808371844520120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/10/idelfonso-nieri-e-la-cultura-popolare.html' title='Idelfonso Nieri e la cultura popolare lucchese'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_l6ZECgcCnE/Togutt_LXkI/AAAAAAAABj4/mPoQ7QkxOh8/s72-c/scansione0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-2455730002523351379</id><published>2011-09-25T09:49:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T19:18:29.114+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurine di gesso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Australian students of Italian in Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='emigrazione in Australia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the story of Italian Migration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plaster cast figures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gromignana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Per l&apos;Australia'/><title type='text'>Un libro sugli emigrati italiani in Australia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Poco tempo fa ho incontrato di nuovo un simpatico gruppo di studenti australiani, appassionati della lingua italiana: sono Gail, Sandra, John, Roger e Jane di Melbourne. Ho ricevuto da loro in regalo un bellissimo libro, per il quale li ringrazio di cuore.  Il volume è una testimonianza storica e fotografica dell'emigrazione italiana in Australia, e  si intitola, appunto, &lt;b&gt;"Per l'Australia - The Story of Italian Migration"&lt;/b&gt;,  scritto da Julia Church.  L'ho subito sfogliato avidamente e  ho notato la sua completezza, la ricchezza di immagini di ogni momento della vita dei migranti italiani :   la partenza, la speranza, la nostalgia, i mestieri più vari,  il ricongiungimento con i familiari, la musica, la danza, la cucina, l'allegria........&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Not long ago I met again a nice group of Australian students,  all enthusiasts of our language: Gail,  Jane, Sandra, John and Roger from Melbourne.  On the last day before going back home they gave me as a present a marvellous book,  for which I wish to thank them heartily. It is a photographic and historical review of Italian migration to Australia:  its title is in fact &lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Per l'Australia - The Story of Italian Migration"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;, written by Julia Church.   I have leafed it through eagerly and I noted its completeness, its richness in pictures portraying every moment of the migrants' lives:  the leaving, the hope, the homesickness,  the most various trades,  the reunion of families, music, dance, cooking, cheerfulness......&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GUzz0uS88o0/Tn8KRT4O1SI/AAAAAAAABjg/VJV5Nv4Tld0/s1600/scansione0003.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GUzz0uS88o0/Tn8KRT4O1SI/AAAAAAAABjg/VJV5Nv4Tld0/s400/scansione0003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656250949510812962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Poi ho trovato due foto di italiani provenienti dalla provincia di Lucca:  una è quella dei figurinai Mattei di Gromignana nel comune di Coreglia, artigiani delle statuette di gesso; nell'altra sono immortalati due uomini che lavorano in una cava di granito, già esperti del mestiere per aver lavorato nelle cave di marmo vicino a Lucca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Then I found two pictures of Italians coming from the province of Lucca:  one of  the Mattei's,  artisans of  plaster cast  figures &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;from Gromignana, a village in the borough of Coreglia&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; and the other of two men working in a granite quarry, being experienced stonemasons from the marble quarries near Lucca.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TzJgo6_kHqI/Tn8LlcIyd2I/AAAAAAAABjo/vjiKyhyfpHA/s1600/scansione0004.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TzJgo6_kHqI/Tn8LlcIyd2I/AAAAAAAABjo/vjiKyhyfpHA/s400/scansione0004.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656252394836752226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--6lSeE39Xts/Tn8Lz9cZddI/AAAAAAAABjw/tJXOn_Ljvcc/s1600/scansione0007.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 347px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--6lSeE39Xts/Tn8Lz9cZddI/AAAAAAAABjw/tJXOn_Ljvcc/s400/scansione0007.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656252644295538130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-2455730002523351379?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/2455730002523351379/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/09/un-libro-sugli-emigrati-italiani-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2455730002523351379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2455730002523351379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/09/un-libro-sugli-emigrati-italiani-in.html' title='Un libro sugli emigrati italiani in Australia'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GUzz0uS88o0/Tn8KRT4O1SI/AAAAAAAABjg/VJV5Nv4Tld0/s72-c/scansione0003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-2151354101848880669</id><published>2011-09-19T20:19:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T10:56:16.145+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LUMINARA DI SANTA CROCE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imparare italiano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultura italiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucca'/><title type='text'>Luminara 2011 - una bellissima emozione</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ecco, ieri abbiamo avuto la prima vera pioggia autunnale - e con la temperatura di oggi penso che si possa dire che l'estate 2011 stia davvero finendo...sono comunque soddisfatta però, perché quest'anno non si è avverata la tradizione (quasi fissa) che vede le prime piogge manifestarsi la sera del 13 settembre, quando a Lucca si festeggia la &lt;a href="http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/09/la-luminara-di-santa-croce-lucca.html"&gt;Santa Croce&lt;/a&gt; con l'inevitabile conseguenza che la festa (appuntamento irrinunciabile per i lucchesi doc, anche se il tempo è bruttino) si trasforma in un fuggi-fuggi generale...quest'anno per fortuna no, il 13 settembre era una serata estiva a tutti gli effetti, con cielo stellato e luna quasi piena, e la Luminara, insieme ai successivi fuochi artificiali, ci hanno regalato delle emozioni impareggiabili. Ecco alcune foto della serata:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.26cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.58cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Yesterday we had the first autumn rain, and with today's temperature I think the summer of 2011 is ending........I am quite satisfied though, as this year the almost stable tradition of the first rain pouring on the evening of September 13  this time did not come true:  it's the evening  we celebrate the &lt;a href="http://http//luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/09/la-luminara-di-santa-croce-lucca.html"&gt;Holy Cross&lt;/a&gt;, and the inevitable consequence is that the  feast every genuine Lucchese never holds back from participating with any weather,   ends up in a general rush...... luckily not this year,  September 13 was a clear summer evening, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;starry sky and  (almost) full moon,  when the “Luminara” and the final fireworks did bestow incomparable emotions on us. Here are some pictures of the event:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.26cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.58cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;questa è l'atmosfera allegra della Piazza San Michele nei momenti immediatamente precedenti l'arrivo della Processione, che quest'anno è stata lunghissima... (3 ore di sfilata!!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;the cheerful atmosphere in Piazza San Michele a few moments before the arrival of the Procession, very long this year, going by for 3 hours!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XcUtdn6Ltjo/Tnd2j4U7NRI/AAAAAAAAAb4/FPiL5ErDcp0/s1600/DSC_1014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XcUtdn6Ltjo/Tnd2j4U7NRI/AAAAAAAAAb4/FPiL5ErDcp0/s400/DSC_1014.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;questi sono i nostri studenti, intenti ad ascoltare qualche spiegazione di Marina sulla festa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;and these are our students, listening to Marina's description of the feast.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xjfYLFsalzQ/Tnd3VvI7LOI/AAAAAAAAAcA/mAJ-1-vfbsQ/s1600/DSC_1019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xjfYLFsalzQ/Tnd3VvI7LOI/AAAAAAAAAcA/mAJ-1-vfbsQ/s400/DSC_1019.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;il Palazzo dell'Orologio e la Via Veneto, decorati (come tutti gli edifici dove passa la Processione) con i tradizionali "lumini", da cui il nome "Luminara"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;the Palazzo dell'Orologio and Via Veneto, like all the buildings on the streets of the Procession, adorned with traditional “lumini” (small candlelights), hence the name of “Luminara”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X_vWS3cKiKQ/Tnd4Zxo19EI/AAAAAAAAAcI/yewCJXVugAs/s1600/DSC_1026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X_vWS3cKiKQ/Tnd4Zxo19EI/AAAAAAAAAcI/yewCJXVugAs/s400/DSC_1026.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iOi5VwxMevk/Tnd4aTjglNI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/nhBErTXjhy0/s1600/DSC_1044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iOi5VwxMevk/Tnd4aTjglNI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/nhBErTXjhy0/s400/DSC_1044.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;San Michele dà il meglio di sè in questa occasione&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;San Michele at its best on this occasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9jmB11rNh-Y/Tnd56ApkctI/AAAAAAAAAcY/aQ58rX-Z4yg/s1600/DSC_1036.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9jmB11rNh-Y/Tnd56ApkctI/AAAAAAAAAcY/aQ58rX-Z4yg/s400/DSC_1036.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CoNhSr_8A1I/Tnd56tOR6FI/AAAAAAAAAcg/PEPyd8DMkb4/s1600/DSC_1045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CoNhSr_8A1I/Tnd56tOR6FI/AAAAAAAAAcg/PEPyd8DMkb4/s400/DSC_1045.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;eccola, la Processione! E ora sfilano tutte (ma dico TUTTE!!) le Parrocchie della Diocesi di Lucca e di alcune città vicine&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;here comes the Procession: A L L the Parishes of Lucca Diocese and from some nearby towns are going by!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mllzg9UGFl4/Tnd85hCpnYI/AAAAAAAAAco/CAzAyd3L_hc/s1600/DSC_1057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mllzg9UGFl4/Tnd85hCpnYI/AAAAAAAAAco/CAzAyd3L_hc/s400/DSC_1057.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gpDrm8asj50/Tnd86J1pKuI/AAAAAAAAAcw/RRRSUtySaFM/s1600/DSC_1063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gpDrm8asj50/Tnd86J1pKuI/AAAAAAAAAcw/RRRSUtySaFM/s400/DSC_1063.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OA-7_w-YMSw/TneADwjLvoI/AAAAAAAAAdA/E7KgCvCpKUQ/s1600/parrocchie" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="218" width="231" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OA-7_w-YMSw/TneADwjLvoI/AAAAAAAAAdA/E7KgCvCpKUQ/s400/parrocchie" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;innumerevoli bande musicali&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;innumerable bands&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ful7VQ7STxE/TneAljCHMsI/AAAAAAAAAdI/suVLWotZs_M/s1600/DSC_1080.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ful7VQ7STxE/TneAljCHMsI/AAAAAAAAAdI/suVLWotZs_M/s400/DSC_1080.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;le autorità cittadine religiose e civili&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;the religious and civil authorities of the city&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_LCsehybWZA/TneBCwWaRAI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/HyqtsCUmZgA/s1600/auto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="194" width="259" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_LCsehybWZA/TneBCwWaRAI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/HyqtsCUmZgA/s400/auto.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;dame e cavalieri medievali, che rivivono ogni anno in questa occasione&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;medieval figures of Ladies and Knights, reviving every year on this occasion&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ssOynvBe2ak/TneCk43K8UI/AAAAAAAAAdg/HpVV07svB68/s1600/dame.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="194" width="259" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ssOynvBe2ak/TneCk43K8UI/AAAAAAAAAdg/HpVV07svB68/s400/dame.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;i Lucchesi nel Mondo, discendenti di seconda o terza generazione di emigrati lucchesi, che tornano qui ogni anno da tutto il mondo per questa festa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;the Lucchesi nel Mondo,  descendants from generations of lucchese emigrants, who come back from all over the world every year for the feast.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bCMLjoMZb9w/TneB0C1Y8GI/AAAAAAAAAdY/ctTMVSMSw2E/s1600/lucchesi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="210" width="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bCMLjoMZb9w/TneB0C1Y8GI/AAAAAAAAAdY/ctTMVSMSw2E/s400/lucchesi.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;ci sono anche molte organizzazioni di volontariato e tutti i cittadini che vogliono partecipare, anche se non sono parte di una associazione specifica e dimentico senza dubbio qualcuno...ecco perchè la Processione dura così tanto tempo, ed ecco perché, prima o dopo, quasi tutti si allontanano furtivamente e tornano dopo qualche minuto, avendo fatto una visita a uno dei tanti banchetti di dolciumi vari o, meglio ancora, al famosissimo banco dei "Frati" di Piazza San Michele&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;there are also several volunteering associations and many  citizens not belonging to any organisation,  just for the pleasure  of joining  the procession.  Perhaps I forgot to mention someone,  reason why the Procession takes so long,  and also why, sooner or later,  almost everyone leaves the line stealthily and    jumps back after visiting one of the sweetmeats stalls or,  much better , the renowned  stand  of the “Frati”  (lucchese donuts)  in Piazza San Michele&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4uVWoLTkHZ4/Tnd_qBql84I/AAAAAAAAAc4/s_MB1d9ZJhY/s1600/imagesfrati%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="194" width="259" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4uVWoLTkHZ4/Tnd_qBql84I/AAAAAAAAAc4/s_MB1d9ZJhY/s400/imagesfrati%2B2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;e, a conclusione di tutto, lo spettacolo pirotecnico, che ci andiamo a godere dalle Mura&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;And  then the final  firework display, which we can best see standing on  the walls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YUkPlGE5Zno/TneGg22BxbI/AAAAAAAAAdo/iD97w43Oqec/s1600/DSC_1123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YUkPlGE5Zno/TneGg22BxbI/AAAAAAAAAdo/iD97w43Oqec/s400/DSC_1123.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uECrllfezM0/TneGhWD5DWI/AAAAAAAAAdw/NmMZOItfBgo/s1600/DSC_1125.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uECrllfezM0/TneGhWD5DWI/AAAAAAAAAdw/NmMZOItfBgo/s400/DSC_1125.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "&gt;Appuntamento al 13 settembre 2012, allora, e speriamo che sia tempo bello un'altra volta!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Let's meet again at this memorable feast on September 13, 2012,  and hope the weather will be fine again!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-2151354101848880669?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/2151354101848880669/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/09/luminara-2011-una-bellissima-emozione.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2151354101848880669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2151354101848880669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/09/luminara-2011-una-bellissima-emozione.html' title='Luminara 2011 - una bellissima emozione'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XcUtdn6Ltjo/Tnd2j4U7NRI/AAAAAAAAAb4/FPiL5ErDcp0/s72-c/DSC_1014.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6220865927645510971</id><published>2011-09-02T16:07:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-02T21:04:37.186+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='settembre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francesco Guccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canzone dei 12 mesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='song of the 12 months'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='September'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italian singer-songwriter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italian music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cantautore italiano'/><title type='text'>Settembre, il mese del ripensamento</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g3kZ8OfPUg0/TmDqrY0jonI/AAAAAAAABX4/CZjDmQ04hAM/s1600/radici.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g3kZ8OfPUg0/TmDqrY0jonI/AAAAAAAABX4/CZjDmQ04hAM/s400/radici.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647771963840766578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Lo scorso anno, esattamente il 15 di ottobre, ho iniziato a pubblicare le strofe della canzone dei 12 mesi di Francesco Guccini, una ogni mese. Ora siamo arrivati all'ultima, dedicata a settembre, che è propositiva di nuovi progetti e possibilità, seguita dalla strofa usata come ritornello, che riassume &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;la visione poetica del cantante sul tempo che passa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Poi il video completo della canzone eseguita dal vivo: è una registrazione di anni fa, ma molto buona.  A seguito ho messo anche il testo completo in italiano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Settembre è il mese del ripensamento sugli anni e sull'età, dopo l'estate porta il dono usato della perplessità...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ti siedi e pensi e ricominci il gioco della tua identità,  come scintille brucian nel tuo fuoco le possibilità.....&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;O giorni, o mesi che andate sempre via, sempre simile a voi è questa vita mia. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Diverso tutti gli anni, e tutti gli anni uguale, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;la mano di tarocchi che non sai mai giocare, che non sai mai giocare... &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Last year, precisely on October 15, I started to publish the stanzas of the song of the 12 months by Francesco Guccini, one every month. Now a year has passed and we have come to the last verses, dedicated to September,  which inspire new projects and opportunities, followed by the refrain, which depicts Guccini's poetic vision of the passing of time.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Then comes a video with the complete song performed live: it's a recording of many years ago, but very good.  For those who want to follow it I have added the complete lyrics in Italian.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;September is a month of reflection on years and age&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;When summer's over it brings the usual gift of uncertainty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;You sit down to think and start again the game of your identity	&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;and possibilities like sparks kindle your fire&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;O days, o months that always go away, this life of mine is just the same as yours&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Different every year, and every year alike,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The deal of tarot cards you never know how to play......&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0O-uZQxNw7w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Viene Gennaio silenzioso e lieve, un fiume addormentato&lt;br /&gt;fra le cui rive giace come neve il mio corpo malato, il mio corpo malato.&lt;br /&gt;Sono distese lungo la pianura bianche file di campi,&lt;br /&gt;son come amanti dopo l'avventura neri alberi stanchi, neri alberi stanchi.&lt;br /&gt;Viene Febbraio, e il mondo è a capo chino, ma nei convitti e in piazza&lt;br /&gt;lascia i dolori e vesti da Arlecchino, il carnevale impazza, il carnevale impazza.&lt;br /&gt;L'inverno è lungo ancora, ma nel cuore appare la speranza&lt;br /&gt;nei primi giorni di malato sole la primavera danza, la primavera danza.&lt;br /&gt;Cantando Marzo porta le sue piogge, la nebbia squarcia il velo,&lt;br /&gt;porta la neve sciolta nelle rogge il riso del disgelo, il riso del disgelo.&lt;br /&gt;Riempi il bicchiere, e con l'inverno butta la penitenza vana, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;l'ala del tempo batte troppo in fretta,la guardi, è già lontana, la guardi, è già lontana...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O giorni, o mesi che andate sempre via,&lt;br /&gt;sempre simile a voi è questa vita mia.&lt;br /&gt;Diverso tutti gli anni, ma tutti gli anni uguale,&lt;br /&gt;la mano di tarocchi che non sai mai giocare, che non sai mai giocare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Con giorni lunghi al sonno dedicati il dolce Aprile viene,&lt;br /&gt;quali segreti scoprì in te il poeta che ti chiamò crudele, che ti chiamò crudele.&lt;br /&gt;Ma nei tuoi giorni è bello addormentarsi dopo fatto l'amore,&lt;br /&gt;come la terra dorme nella notte dopo un giorno di sole, dopo un giorno di sole.&lt;br /&gt;Ben venga Maggio e il gonfalone amico, ben venga primavera,&lt;br /&gt;il nuovo amore getti via l'antico nell'ombra della sera, nell'ombra della sera.&lt;br /&gt;Ben venga Maggio, ben venga la rosa che è dei poeti il fiore,&lt;br /&gt;mentre la canto con la mia chitarra brindo a Cenne e a Folgore, brindo a Cenne e a Folgore.&lt;br /&gt;Giugno, che sei maturità dell'anno, di te ringrazio Dio:&lt;br /&gt;in un tuo giorno, sotto al sole caldo, ci sono nato io, ci sono nato io.&lt;br /&gt;E con le messi che hai fra le tue mani ci porti il tuo tesoro,&lt;br /&gt;con le tue spighe doni all'uomo il pane, alle femmine l'oro, alle femmine l'oro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O giorni, o mesi che andate sempre via, sempre simile a voi è questa vita mia.&lt;br /&gt;Diverso tutti gli anni, e tutti gli anni uguale,&lt;br /&gt;la mano di tarocchi che non sai mai giocare, che non sai mai giocare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Con giorni lunghi di colori chiari ecco Luglio, il leone,&lt;br /&gt;riposa, bevi e il mondo attorno appare come in una visione, come in una visione.&lt;br /&gt;Non si lavora Agosto, nelle stanche tue lunghe oziose ore&lt;br /&gt;mai come adesso è bello inebriarsi di vino e di calore, di vino e di calore.&lt;br /&gt;Settembre è il mese del ripensamento sugli anni e sull' età,&lt;br /&gt;dopo l'estate porta il dono usato della perplessità, della perplessità&lt;br /&gt;Ti siedi e pensi e ricominci il gioco della tua identità,&lt;br /&gt;come scintille brucian nel tuo fuoco le possibilità, le possibilità.&lt;br /&gt;Non so se tutti hanno capito, Ottobre, la tua grande bellezza:&lt;br /&gt;nei tini grassi come pance piene prepari mosto e ebbrezza, prepari mosto e ebbrezza.&lt;br /&gt;Lungo i miei monti, come uccelli tristi fuggono nubi pazze,&lt;br /&gt;lungo i miei monti colorati in rame fumano nubi basse, fumano nubi basse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O giorni, o mesi che andate sempre via, sempre simile a voi è questa vita mia.&lt;br /&gt;Diverso tutti gli anni, e tutti gli anni uguale,&lt;br /&gt;la mano di tarocchi che non sai mai giocare, che non sai mai giocare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cala Novembre e le inquietanti nebbie gravi coprono gli orti,&lt;br /&gt;lungo i giardini consacrati al pianto si festeggiano i morti, si festeggiano i morti.&lt;br /&gt;Cade la pioggia ed il tuo viso bagna di gocce di rugiada&lt;br /&gt;te pure, un giorno, cambierà la sorte in fango della strada, in fango della strada.&lt;br /&gt;E mi addormento come in un letargo, Dicembre, alle tue porte,&lt;br /&gt;lungo i tuoi giorni con la mente spargo tristi semi di morte, tristi semi di morte.&lt;br /&gt;Uomini e cose lasciano per terra esili ombre pigre,&lt;br /&gt;ma nei tuoi giorni dai profeti detti nasce Cristo la tigre, nasce Cristo la tigre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O giorni, o mesi che andate sempre via,&lt;br /&gt;sempre simile a voi è questa vita mia.&lt;br /&gt;Diverso tutti gli anni, ma tutti gli anni uguale,&lt;br /&gt;la mano di tarocchi che non sai mai giocare, che non sai mai giocare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6220865927645510971?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6220865927645510971/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/09/settembre-il-mese-del-ripensamento.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6220865927645510971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6220865927645510971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/09/settembre-il-mese-del-ripensamento.html' title='Settembre, il mese del ripensamento'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g3kZ8OfPUg0/TmDqrY0jonI/AAAAAAAABX4/CZjDmQ04hAM/s72-c/radici.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-2848490942570306612</id><published>2011-08-28T16:54:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T09:34:18.696+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hotel Universo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bussolotto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jazz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Il quartetto di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trumpet player'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bussola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chet Baker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucca'/><title type='text'>Chet Baker e Lucca</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "&gt;Immaginatevi di passeggiare sulle mura di Lucca e di passare di fronte alle carceri di San Giorgio,  da una cui cella arriva il suono fluido e suadente  di una tromba :  chi la suona è Chet Baker, un grande del jazz incarcerato in seguito a una condanna per uso di droga.   E' quanto avveniva  tra il 1960 il 1961, quando Chet Baker risiedette a Lucca  (occupò per lungo tempo la camera n. 15 dell'Hotel Universo) e animò con la sua grande musica e la sua irrequietezza la vita della città e dei locali versiliesi, la Bussola e il Bussolotto, dove i suoi fan lo seguivano in entusiasmanti jam sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; line-height: 0.48cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-znpEAtGHqfY/TlpXO9EzguI/AAAAAAAABXs/x3YJ_V4hasY/s1600/chet%2Buniverso.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 194px; height: 259px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-znpEAtGHqfY/TlpXO9EzguI/AAAAAAAABXs/x3YJ_V4hasY/s400/chet%2Buniverso.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645920997286839010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; line-height: 0.48cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Riguardo all'episodio che lo fece condannare alla prigione, la notizia è che fu trovato dalla polizia in una stazione di servizio a San Concordio, ferito e sanguinante nel tentativo di farsi un'iniezione di stupefacente.  Nel clamoroso processo che ne seguì Chet Baker fu infine condannato a 16 mesi di reclusione. Si dice che quando entrò in prigione, la guardia  chiese se potesse portare con sé il suo strumento, e il superiore lo concesse perché “non era permesso, ma neanche proibito”.  Quando uscì di prigione il 15 dicembre 1961, ebbe la sorpresa di essere invitato come ospite d'onore a un concerto jazz organizzato dal contrabbassista Giovanni Tommaso con il suo quartetto al Teatro del Giglio. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; line-height: 0.48cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Sulla vita di Chet Baker a Lucca e sui suoi guai con la giustizia, in questi giorni è uscito un libro molto interessante, a metà tra cronaca e narrazione, scritto da Domenico Manzione, ex procuratore generale della Repubblica a Lucca,  e che si intitola &lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span&gt; “Il mio amico Chet” (Storia un po' vera un po' no del processo a Chet Baker),  edito da Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xHFePVuB3JI/TlpXOmziMtI/AAAAAAAABXk/ey7oR9vHIII/s1600/Cattura.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xHFePVuB3JI/TlpXOmziMtI/AAAAAAAABXk/ey7oR9vHIII/s400/Cattura.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645920991308821202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Imagine to be walking on the city walls and passing the precinct of San Giorgio city prison, while the enticing soft sound of a trumpet catches your ears :  its player is Chet Baker, a jazz great, jailed after a sentence for use of drugs.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is what happened back in the years 1960-1961, when Chet Baker lived in Lucca (he occupied the room # 15 at the Hotel Universo for a long period) and with his great music and his restlessness animated the city life and the clubs in Versilia like la Bussola and il Bussolotto, where his fans followed him playing in exciting jam sessions.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;s to the fact which brought to his arrest and imprisonment, he was found by police in a gas station in San Concordio, wounded and  bleeding as he tried to inject himself with a dose.  With the sensational trial that followed, Chet Baker was eventually condemned to 16 months' jail.  They say that when he entered the prison, the guard was not sure whether he could allow him to bring  his trumpet in his cell, but his superior did it, as “it was not permitted, but not even forbidden....” When he went out of prison on December 15, 1961, he received the surprise to be the guest of honour at a jazz concert organised by double bass player Giovanni Tommaso and his quartet at the Teatro del Giglio.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;On Chet Baker's life in Lucca and his legal troubles, a book has just been published  by Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: it  is an interesting work, mingling facts and fiction, written by Domenico Manzione, former Deputy Chief Prosecutor in Lucca, and entitled  “Il mio amico Chet” (Storia un po' vera un po' no del processo a Chet Baker)”   -  “My friend Chet (Part real and part fictitious story of Chet Baker's trial)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-o8Be7KG2r4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-2848490942570306612?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/2848490942570306612/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/chet-baker-e-lucca.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2848490942570306612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2848490942570306612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/chet-baker-e-lucca.html' title='Chet Baker e Lucca'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-znpEAtGHqfY/TlpXO9EzguI/AAAAAAAABXs/x3YJ_V4hasY/s72-c/chet%2Buniverso.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-7582778847207475287</id><published>2011-08-23T21:04:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T09:35:19.018+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Risorgimento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montecatini Alto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unità d&apos;Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Giuseppe Giusti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dante Alighieri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tuscan poet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poeta toscano'/><title type='text'>Giuseppe Giusti scrive a Dante Alighieri</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRtcOnmtfVQ/TlQPdRwS8rI/AAAAAAAABXc/dJgrlkpU8v0/s1600/giuseppe%2Bgiusti.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 373px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRtcOnmtfVQ/TlQPdRwS8rI/AAAAAAAABXc/dJgrlkpU8v0/s400/giuseppe%2Bgiusti.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644153228658668210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Andando a Montecatini Alto, non si può non notare l'attaccamento di quel borgo al poeta Giuseppe Giusti (1809-1850), che vi risiedette nella casa vicino alla chiesa,  e a cui è dedicata la piazza principale. Per curiosità sono andato a cercare le opere del Giusti, vissuto nella prima metà dell'ottocento: si tratta di poesie dal carattere piacevole, a volte pungente, a volte malinconico, con argomento la vita nella provincia toscana nei suoi vari aspetti - l'amore, la religione, i rapporti sociali, la politica....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E ne ho trovata una che mi è particolarmente piaciuta : è un sonetto di argomento politico dedicato a Dante, il sommo poeta.  Il Giusti fa un paragone tra la situazione dell'Italia del 1848, e quella di Firenze nel Trecento, quando Dante fu costretto all'esilio per le sue idee.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A DANTE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Allor che ti cacciò la parte Nera&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Coll'inganno d'un Papa e d'un Francese&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Per giunta al duro esiglio, il tuo paese&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ti diè d'anima ladra e barattiera:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E ciò perché la mente alta e severa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;con Giuda a patteggiar non condiscese&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Così le colpe sue torce in offese&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chi ripara di Giuda alla bandiera&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E vili adesso e traditori ed empi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ci chiaman gli empi i vili i traditori,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ruttando sé devoti ai vecchi esempi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ma tu consoli noi, tanto minori&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A te d'affanni e di liberi tempi,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Di cuor, d'ingegno, e di persecutori.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;When we go to Montecatini Alto, we can easily notice the attachment of that hamlet to the poet Giuseppe Giusti (1809-1850), who lived there in a house near the church and to whom the main square is dedicated. Out of curiosity I  glanced through a book of Giusti's works: they are &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;agreeable poems, sometimes pungent, sometimes melancholic,  dealing with the life in the Tuscan province in its various  aspects - love, religion, social relationships, politics....... &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And I found one, which I liked very much :  it's a sonnet with a political meaning dedicated to Dante, the greatest Poet, as it compares the situation in Italy in 1848  to that of Florence in 1300, when Dante was forced to be exiled for his convictions.  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;TO DANTE&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;When the Black party threw you out&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;By the deception of a Pope and a Frenchman&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;In addition to hard exile, your country&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;named your soul thief and swindler &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Because your high and austere mind&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Did not accept a pact with Judas&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;So those who turn their wrongs to offence&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;They take shelter under Judas' flag&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;And wicked, craven and traitors&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;The wicked, the craven, the traitors call us&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Burping their devotion to the old models&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;But you comfort us, so lesser than you&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;in worries and in freedom,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;in heart, in mind, and persecutors.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-7582778847207475287?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/7582778847207475287/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/giuseppe-giusti-poeta-toscano.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7582778847207475287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7582778847207475287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/giuseppe-giusti-poeta-toscano.html' title='Giuseppe Giusti scrive a Dante Alighieri'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRtcOnmtfVQ/TlQPdRwS8rI/AAAAAAAABXc/dJgrlkpU8v0/s72-c/giuseppe%2Bgiusti.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-5895983455859563930</id><published>2011-08-21T21:35:00.022+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-21T13:05:06.186+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stati Uniti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emigrazione italiana in America'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francesco Guccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='United States of America'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amerigo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='America'/><title type='text'>Amerigo (L'emigrazione italiana)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Per ritornare al tema dell'emigrazione, vorrei proporre questa ballata di Francesco Guccini dedicata al fratello di suo nonno, Amerigo, che emigrò in America nel secolo scorso e ritornò a casa dopo qualche anno senza aver fatto molta fortuna, ma consumato dal duro lavoro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E' una visione dell'America a due facce, una del prozio che la vede come una speranza di sopravvivenza e poi quella del giovane nipote per il quale l'America è un mito intellettuale e una fonte di nuova cultura.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La traduzione è stata piuttosto difficile, perché il testo italiano non ha una sintassi lineare, ma offre una serie di immagini, che spero di avervi reso più comprensibili.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nel mezzo un video con l'esecuzione dal vivo della ballata  da parte dell'autore&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;To get back to the subject of emigration, I would like to propose this ballad of Francesco Guccini, dedicated to his grandfather's brother Amerigo, who emigrated to America in the past century and returned home after some years without much success, yet  worn out by hard work. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;It is a vision of America from two different perspectives, for the great-uncle the hope and the survival, for the young nephew an intellectual myth and the source for a new culture. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The translation was particularly hard , because the Italian text has no straight syntax, but offers a series of images, which I hope I have rendered decently.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Between the Italian text and the English translation, a video with a live performance of the ballad by the author.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vdQjv_q2cIQ/TlFp75LOsBI/AAAAAAAABXI/G72CV1mGOo0/s1600/Francesco%2Bguccini%2B-%2Bamerigo%2B-%2Bfront.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vdQjv_q2cIQ/TlFp75LOsBI/AAAAAAAABXI/G72CV1mGOo0/s400/Francesco%2Bguccini%2B-%2Bamerigo%2B-%2Bfront.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643408285753061394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Probabilmente uscì chiudendo dietro a sé la porta verde,&lt;br /&gt;qualcuno si era alzato per preparargli in fretta un caffè d' orzo.&lt;br /&gt;Non so se si girò, non era il tipo d' uomo che si perde&lt;br /&gt;in nostalgie da ricchi, e andò per la sua strada senza sforzo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quand' io l' ho conosciuto, o inizio a ricordarlo, era già vecchio&lt;br /&gt;o così a me sembrava, ma allora non andavo ancora a scuola.&lt;br /&gt;Colpiva il cranio raso e un misterioso e strano suo apparecchio,&lt;br /&gt;un cinto d' ernia che sembrava una fondina per la pistola.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma quel mattino aveva il viso dei vent' anni senza rughe&lt;br /&gt;e rabbia ed avventura e ancora vaghe idee di socialismo,&lt;br /&gt;parole dure al padre e dietro tradizione di fame e fughe&lt;br /&gt;E per il suo lavoro, quello che schianta e uccide: "il fatalismo".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma quel mattino aveva quel sentimento nuovo per casa e madre&lt;br /&gt;e per scacciarlo aveva in corpo il primo vino di una cantina&lt;br /&gt;e già sentiva in faccia l' odore d' olio e mare che fa Le Havre,&lt;br /&gt;e già sentiva in bocca l' odore della polvere della mina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L' America era allora, per me i G.I. di Roosevelt, la quinta armata,&lt;br /&gt;l' America era Atlantide, l' America era il cuore, era il destino,&lt;br /&gt;l' America era Life, sorrisi e denti bianchi su patinata,&lt;br /&gt;l' America era il mondo sognante e misterioso di Paperino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L' America era allora per me provincia dolce, mondo di pace,&lt;br /&gt;perduto paradiso, malinconia sottile, nevrosi lenta,&lt;br /&gt;e Gunga-Din e Ringo, gli eroi di Casablanca e di Fort Apache,&lt;br /&gt;un sogno lungo il suono continuo ed ossessivo che fa il Limentra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non so come la vide quando la nave offrì New York vicino,&lt;br /&gt;dei grattacieli il bosco, città di feci e strade, urla, castello&lt;br /&gt;e Pavana un ricordo lasciato tra i castagni dell' Appennino,&lt;br /&gt;l' inglese un suono strano che lo feriva al cuore come un coltello.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E fu lavoro e sangue e fu fatica uguale mattina e sera,&lt;br /&gt;per anni da prigione, di birra e di puttane, di giorni duri,&lt;br /&gt;di negri ed irlandesi, polacchi ed italiani nella miniera,&lt;br /&gt;sudore d' antracite in Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tornò come fan molti, due soldi e giovinezza ormai finita,&lt;br /&gt;l' America era un angolo, l' America era un' ombra, nebbia sottile,&lt;br /&gt;l' America era un' ernia, un gioco di quei tanti che fa la vita,&lt;br /&gt;e dire boss per capo e ton per tonnellata, "raif" per fucile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quand' io l' ho conosciuto o inizio a ricordarlo era già vecchio,&lt;br /&gt;sprezzante come i giovani, gli scivolavo accanto senza afferrarlo&lt;br /&gt;e non capivo che quell' uomo era il mio volto, era il mio specchio&lt;br /&gt;finché non verrà il tempo in faccia a tutto il mondo per rincontrarlo....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jFiGKNvYxf4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Probably he went out and shut the green door behind him&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Someone had got up to prepare hastily a “barley coffee” for him&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I don't know if he ever looked back, he was not the kind of man&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;losing himself in nostalgia like the rich, so he went his way with no effort&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;When I knew him or just start to remember him, he was already an old man&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;or so he looked like to my eyes but at that time I did not go to school yet&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;I was impressed by his bald head and by a mysterious and strange device he bore &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;a hernia truss resembling  a pistol holster&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;But that morning he had  the face of his twenties with no wrinkles&lt;br /&gt;a frenzy for adventure and  vague &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; ideas of socialism                                                      &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;hard &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;words for his father while he left behind a tradition of hunger and escape &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;for his work, that which breaks and kills, fatalism&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;But that morning he had a new feeling for home and mother&lt;br /&gt;and to drive it out he had swallowed the first wine of a cellar&lt;br /&gt;his face already felt the smell of  oil and sea of Le Havre&lt;br /&gt;and his mouth already felt the smell of the  powder of the mine &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;i&gt;To me, America, was then Roosevelt’s G.I.’s,  the Fifth Army&lt;br /&gt;America was Atlantis, the heart and the destiny&lt;br /&gt;America was Life, smiles and white teeth on coated paper&lt;br /&gt;America was the mysterious dreamy world of Donald Duck&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;To me America was then a sweet province, a world of peace&lt;br /&gt;lost paradise, subtle melancholy, slow neurosis&lt;br /&gt;Gunga Din and Ringo, the heroes of Casablanca and Fort Apache&lt;br /&gt;A dream along the constant obsessive sound of the Limentra&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;I can't imagine how he perceived it when the ship offered him the close sight of New York&lt;br /&gt;A wood of skyscrapers, city of  feces and streets, of shouts, a castle!&lt;br /&gt;And Pavana just a memory left by the chestnut trees of the Appennine&lt;br /&gt;English a strange sound wounding his heart like a knife&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And then it was work and blood and toil from morning to night&lt;br /&gt;For years like prison, with beer and whores, and hard days&lt;br /&gt;Negroes, Irish, Poles and Italians in the mine&lt;br /&gt;Anthracite sweat in Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;He returned like many others, two penny and his youth gone&lt;br /&gt;America was a corner, America was a shadow, fine haze&lt;br /&gt;America was a hernia, one of the many tricks of life&lt;br /&gt;Like saying boss for capo, ton for tonnellata, rifle for fucile&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;When I knew him or just start to remember him he was already old&lt;br /&gt;haughtily like the young, I slided alongside without grasping him&lt;br /&gt;And I did not understand that that man was my face, my mirror&lt;br /&gt;Until the time, regardless of the ways of the world, when I will meet him again.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-5895983455859563930?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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Lorenzo - in questa notte si può vedere uno dei tanti spettacoli della natura,le stelle cadenti, e possiamo esprimere un desiderio per ogni stella che abbiamo la fortuna di scorgere... ma "X Agosto" è anche il titolo di una malinconica ma dolcissima poesia di Giovanni Pascoli, grande poeta decadente italiano che ha vissuto anche nella nostra provincia. Ecco la poesia, recitata da Alberto Lupo (dalla voce indimenticabile, un importante attore di teatro, scomparso qualche anno fa) e con il sottofondo del Coro Muto tratto da Madame Butterfly di Puccini...Insomma,una straordinaria combinazione di forme d'arte differenti(poesia, musica, recitazione). E domani sera tutti a scrutare il cielo!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/t1H3KUtLlcQ?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo è il testo della poesia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        X Agosto (di G.Pascoli)&lt;br /&gt;San Lorenzo, io lo so perché tanto&lt;br /&gt;di stelle per l'aria tranquilla&lt;br /&gt;arde e cade, perché si gran pianto&lt;br /&gt;nel concavo cielo sfavilla.&lt;br /&gt;Ritornava una rondine al tetto:&lt;br /&gt;l'uccisero: cadde tra i spini;&lt;br /&gt;ella aveva nel becco un insetto:&lt;br /&gt;la cena dei suoi rondinini.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora è là, come in croce, che tende&lt;br /&gt;quel verme a quel cielo lontano;&lt;br /&gt;e il suo nido è nell'ombra, che attende,&lt;br /&gt;che pigola sempre più piano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anche un uomo tornava al suo nido:&lt;br /&gt;l'uccisero: disse: Perdono;&lt;br /&gt;e restò negli aperti occhi un grido:&lt;br /&gt;portava due bambole in dono.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora là, nella casa romita,&lt;br /&gt;lo aspettano, aspettano in vano:&lt;br /&gt;egli immobile, attonito, addita&lt;br /&gt;le bambole al cielo lontano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E tu, Cielo, dall'alto dei mondi&lt;br /&gt;sereni, infinito, immortale,&lt;br /&gt;oh! d'un pianto di stelle lo inondi&lt;br /&gt;quest'atomo opaco del Male!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-2059782814206603359?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/2059782814206603359/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/x-agosto-giovanni-pascoli.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2059782814206603359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2059782814206603359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/x-agosto-giovanni-pascoli.html' title='X agosto - Giovanni Pascoli'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/t1H3KUtLlcQ/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-1688289924375404795</id><published>2011-07-12T14:26:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T09:49:08.924+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luglio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='August'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francesco Guccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='12 mesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Agosto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='July'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='learn the months in Italian'/><title type='text'>Francesco Guccini conversa di Luglio e di Agosto</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-edAkbcrp1yo/Thw-Mv9iryI/AAAAAAAABUI/frJLI_Up-rM/s1600/images.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-edAkbcrp1yo/Thw-Mv9iryI/AAAAAAAABUI/frJLI_Up-rM/s400/images.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628442023060221730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: right;margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;Con giorni lunghi di colori chiari, ecco Luglio il leone&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: right;margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;riposa, bevi e il mondo attorno appare come in una visione&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: right;margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Non si lavora, Agosto, nella stanche tue lunghe oziose ore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: right;margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mai come adesso è bello inebriarsi di vino e di calore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0NbAnTMuynQ/Thw-NLMuAKI/AAAAAAAABUQ/7e4Hz5vm7Fg/s1600/images1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0NbAnTMuynQ/Thw-NLMuAKI/AAAAAAAABUQ/7e4Hz5vm7Fg/s400/images1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628442030371635362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;With its long days and colours light, here comes July, the lion&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;rest, drink and as a vision the world around will show&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In your long idle hours, we do not work, o  August &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;as  it's most pleasing with wine and heat  to get inebriated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6vhKTH6JIao/Thw-Mfs0PUI/AAAAAAAABT4/8qmZAL7dgFc/s1600/201106171745480.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6vhKTH6JIao/Thw-Mfs0PUI/AAAAAAAABT4/8qmZAL7dgFc/s400/201106171745480.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628442018695101762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-1688289924375404795?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/1688289924375404795/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/07/francesco-guccini-conversa-di-luglio-e.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1688289924375404795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1688289924375404795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/07/francesco-guccini-conversa-di-luglio-e.html' title='Francesco Guccini conversa di Luglio e di Agosto'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-edAkbcrp1yo/Thw-Mv9iryI/AAAAAAAABUI/frJLI_Up-rM/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-3321378373810730763</id><published>2011-06-29T13:20:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T09:41:55.550+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italian school'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orto botanico di lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leggende'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='learn italian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='campagna toscana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucca botanical garden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imparare italiano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucida mansi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucca'/><title type='text'>A spasso per Lucca, tra storia, leggenda e...una bambina da conquistare</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La scorsa settimana stavo passeggiando in città con mia figlia; abbiamo fatto la tradizionale passeggiata in centro, mangiato un buon gelato e poi ci siamo incamminate sulle Mura. Passeggiando siamo arrivate al punto in cui dall'alto si vede l'Orto Botanico: allora abbiamo pensato di concludere il nostro pomeriggio con la visita del giardino.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d_8Y22c90Bk/Tgrnr2Vzs6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/BcTG6RFMqvY/s1600/LUCCA%2B011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d_8Y22c90Bk/Tgrnr2Vzs6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/BcTG6RFMqvY/s400/LUCCA%2B011.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ora, devo ammettere la mia scarsa conoscenza in materia di botanica: distinguo un albero da un arbusto, una pianta ornamentale da un'erba aromatica, mentre le piante grasse si dividono in “quelle con spine” e “quelle senza spine”...quindi capirete che al di là di qualche commento di valore estetico e qualche informazione tratta  dai cartellini che si trovano accanto a ciascun albero non ho potuto trasmettere a mia figlia un “grande sapere”! Però... mi sono sentita sollevata quando ci siamo avvicinate al caratteristico “laghetto delle ninfee”: perché? Non certo perché potessi spiegare alla bambina che “l'albero che cresce dentro il laghetto è un Cipresso Calvo che cresce lungo corsi d'acqua e zone paludose e le cui radici producono particolari conformazioni legnose che si elevano dal terreno e che sembrano delle vere e proprie sculture viventi” (infatti questa informazione l'ho trovata sull'enciclopedia la sera quando siamo tornate a casa...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FAmBVVPi838/TgroG6M32iI/AAAAAAAAAZo/ZNf47H-v4W8/s1600/radici.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="296" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FAmBVVPi838/TgroG6M32iI/AAAAAAAAAZo/ZNf47H-v4W8/s400/radici.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;bensì perché il laghetto dell'Orto Botanico è il luogo dove, secondo una delle più famose e intriganti leggende lucchesi, si è conclusa la vita di una bellissima nobildonna , Lucida Mansi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qt2uF6RCar0/TgroqKy3yhI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/Q28JxYvGJwY/s1600/lucida.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="299" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qt2uF6RCar0/TgroqKy3yhI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/Q28JxYvGJwY/s400/lucida.jpg" width="384" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ecco, questo lo sapevo e potevo raccontarlo! E lo racconto anche qui: secondo questa leggenda, che viene narrata di generazione in generazione, pare che Lucida (una signora realmente vissuta a Lucca nei primi del '600, esponente di una delle famiglie lucchesi più importanti) fosse una donna di rara bellezza, di altrettanto rara crudeltà e amante del lusso e dei piaceri della carne. Secondo la storia popolare era sempre circondata da schiere di uomini, giovani o vecchi, belli o brutti, nobili o commercianti, colti o semplici, i quali le facevano visita durante la notte nel palazzo di città o nella Villa di campagna, e che dopo le prestazioni amorose venivano fatti cadere in botole che si aprivano dal pavimento, precipitando in profondi pozzi irti di lame affilate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BychH-qPjZY/Tgt5UJegXyI/AAAAAAAAAag/JXaMXwlSwfE/s1600/camera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="287" width="380" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BychH-qPjZY/Tgt5UJegXyI/AAAAAAAAAag/JXaMXwlSwfE/s400/camera.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Come si conveniva alle nobili donne dell'epoca anche Lucida si recava quotidianamente a “Messa”: si dice che fosse così innamorata di se stessa e ossessivamente concentrata sul proprio aspetto che avesse messo un piccolo specchio anche dentro il libro delle preghiere; e fu proprio durante la Messa del mattino che un giorno vide sul proprio viso una lievissima ruga! Lucida sembrò quasi impazzire, ogni specchio di casa fu distrutto e disperata pianse e si lamentò così a lungo che di fronte a lei apparve un bellissimo giovane, che altri non era che il Diavolo: questi, in cambio della sua anima, le promise altri trent'anni di giovinezza. Lucida non esitò ad accettare la proposta; e così, mentre le persone intorno a lei invecchiavano, si ammalavano e morivano, Lucida continuava a rimanere giovane  e bellissima e continuava a frequentare feste e ricevimenti, circondata da spasimanti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Così passarono gli anni, uno dopo l'altro, senza che Lucida pensasse più al patto fatto con il Diavolo. Il 14 agosto 1623, arrivati allo scadere del tempo fissato, il bel giovane si ripresentò davanti alla donna: allora questa si ricordò di colpo dell'accordo fatto trent'anni prima. Nel tentativo disperato di fermare il tempo Lucida uscì di corsa dal proprio Palazzo, salì sulla carrozza e diede ordine al cocchiere di recarsi alla Torre delle Ore.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qtSmq6Rnk-o/Tgt5x8F6liI/AAAAAAAAAaw/HclL1mTORFM/s1600/16668499_2289_catania4_carrozza_del_sindaco_H004416_L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qtSmq6Rnk-o/Tgt5x8F6liI/AAAAAAAAAaw/HclL1mTORFM/s400/16668499_2289_catania4_carrozza_del_sindaco_H004416_L.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Arrivata qui,affannata, iniziò correndo a salire le scale, con la speranza di arrivare, prima dello scoccare della mezzanotte, a fermare l'ingranaggio dell'orologio; purtroppo così non fu e la campana iniziò a battere la mezzanotte. Allora la nobildonna scese le scale della torre e risalì sulla carrozza, la quale si diresse sulle Mura che circondavano (e circondano!) la città. Il Diavolo, preso dall'ira, fece scoppiare un terribile temporale, con tuoni fortissimi e fulmini così luminosi che per qualche attimo la città era così luminosa che sembrava un pomeriggio d'estate!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I cavalli, spaventati, iniziarono a correre sempre più velocemente, come impazziti; la carrozza iniziò a dare segni di cedimento, le ruote cigolavano e Lucida dentro la carrozza urlava disperata. Proprio in prossimità dell'Orto Botanico un fulmine colpì la carrozza che, rotolando dalle Mura, finì in fiamme dentro il laghetto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ancora oggi, nelle notti di temporale, si narra che sia possibile vedere correre sulle Mura di Lucca la carrozza in fiamme di Lucida e sentire le urla disperate della donna che cerca di liberarsi dalle mani del suo padrone. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E nelle notti di luna piena, chi vuole, può andare al laghetto dell'Orto Botanico e vedere nelle sue acque il riflesso del volto della nobile lucchese, la cui brama di beltà era così grande  da non avere  nessun dubbio: meglio un’anima dannata che un’esistenza senza gioventù...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UnTldqtk4Ok/Tgt6xEGHk9I/AAAAAAAAAbA/nXz87aenkxo/s1600/luna%2Briflessa%2Bbuona.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="281" width="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UnTldqtk4Ok/Tgt6xEGHk9I/AAAAAAAAAbA/nXz87aenkxo/s400/luna%2Briflessa%2Bbuona.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Quando ho finito di raccontare la storia a mia figlia era ormai l'ora del tramonto, i cancelli dell'Orto Botanico stavano per essere chiusi, e lei mi guardava con uno sguardo di infinita ammirazione!! Che soddisfazione!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;English translation: Strolling in Lucca between history, legend...... and a child to win over&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Last week me and my daughter went  for a walk in town as usual, had a tasty ice cream, then went on to the city walls.  After awhile  we arrived at the  spot  where you can see the Botanical Garden from the promenade down below: then we thought to finish our day with a visit to the garden.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Now well, I must admit my poor knowledge of botany: I can tell a tree from a shrub,  an ornamental plant from an aromatic bush, while I can tell succulent plants as just with or without thorns, so you can imagine that beyond some aestethic comment or information taken from the signs at the plants, I could not convey any great knowledge to my daughter,  but..... I felt a sense of relief when we got near the picturesque “water-lily pond”:   why that?   Not because I could explain my child that  “the tree in the pond is the bald cypress, that grows by  the water or in marshes, and whose roots emerge from the soil and look like living sculptures” (in fact I found this description  on the encyclopedia later at home),  but because the pond in the Botanical Garden is the place where, according to one of the most famous and intriguing lucchese legends, a very beautiful noblewoman's life, Lucida Mansi, came to an end.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nw1LN_0h8tg/Tgrof0XiyHI/AAAAAAAAAZw/A89jQB6GJqo/s1600/laghetto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="268" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nw1LN_0h8tg/Tgrof0XiyHI/AAAAAAAAAZw/A89jQB6GJqo/s400/laghetto.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;I knew that story very well, so I could tell it to my daughter and gladly I relate it here: according to the legend, which  was handed down from generations,  it is said that Lucida (a lady who really lived in Lucca in 1600, belonging to one of the lucchese outstanding families) was a woman of rare beauty, of likewise great cruelty, and a lover of luxury and  lust.  The story tells that she was always surrounded  by host of men,  young or old, handsome or ugly, noble or working people, educated or simple,  who paid visit to her in the night either to her palace in town or to the villa in the country,  and who, after making love, were dropped down trapdoors on the floor into pits bristling with  sharp spears.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tp7cfK6FKC0/Tgt5bRWYyvI/AAAAAAAAAao/fYxzAOuMgkA/s1600/97e7c180c4de6ea4a7570dc614340ee9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="237" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tp7cfK6FKC0/Tgt5bRWYyvI/AAAAAAAAAao/fYxzAOuMgkA/s400/97e7c180c4de6ea4a7570dc614340ee9.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;As was proper for noblewomen in those times, Lucida went to Mass daily: but they say she was so in love with her self and so obsessively centered on her look, that she had a mirror even in her Prayers' book. And one day during the morning Mass she perceived a very slight wrinkle on her face! Lucida went nearly mad about this, broke all mirrors in the house and cried desperately and for so long that eventually a very handsome young man appeared to her: he was the Devil in disguise, who in exchange for her soul promised her thirty more years of youth. Lucida accepted without hesitation, and then while the people around her got old , fell ill and died, she kept being young and charming and attending feasts and receptions, surrounded by admirers as ever.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;The years passed one after the other, and Lucida did no more think of the agreement he had made with the Devil.  On August 14, 1623,  being the expiration date, the handsome young man appeared in front of her: then she suddenly recalled the agreement of thirty years back. In a desperate attempt to stay the time, Lucida rushed out of her palace, got on the coach and ordered the coachman to go to the Torre delle Ore  (tower of the hours, Via Fillungo)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GCTpVzv3hJE/Tgt5xzPFLFI/AAAAAAAAAa4/t15PU52CkHo/s1600/luccatorreore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GCTpVzv3hJE/Tgt5xzPFLFI/AAAAAAAAAa4/t15PU52CkHo/s400/luccatorreore.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;As soon as she arrived there, she ran breathless upstairs  hoping to get there before midnight and stop the mechanism of the clock, but unfortunately it was too late and the bell started to strike the hour.  So the noblewoman went downstairs back to the coach and headed for the walls that surrounded (and still surround) the city.   The Devil flew into a  rage  and had a terrible thunderstorm broken out,  with mighty thunders and lightnings so bright that the city was for awhile as luminous as on a summer day!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The horses, scared, started to gallop faster and faster, as going wild, the coach lost stability and  its wheels squeaked, while Lucida was screaming  with despair.    Right  above the Botanical Garden a lightning hit the coach making it roll on fire from the walls down into the pond.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Still today when there is a thunderstorm at night, they say you can see Lucida's coach on fire racing on  the walls and hear the desperate screams of the woman trying to escape her master. And in the nights of full moon, if you go to the pond of the Botanical Garden, in the water you will see the reflection of the noblewoman's face, whose greed for beauty was so great as not to concede a single doubt: better a damned soul than a life without youth....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;When I finished telling the story to my daughter the sun was setting, the gates of the Botanical Garden were being closed and to my great satisfaction she looked at me with her big eyes in admiration!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-3321378373810730763?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/3321378373810730763/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/spasso-per-lucca-tra-storia-leggenda.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3321378373810730763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3321378373810730763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/spasso-per-lucca-tra-storia-leggenda.html' title='A spasso per Lucca, tra storia, leggenda e...una bambina da conquistare'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d_8Y22c90Bk/Tgrnr2Vzs6I/AAAAAAAAAZg/BcTG6RFMqvY/s72-c/LUCCA%2B011.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-7469150187237026440</id><published>2011-06-24T15:01:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T09:48:14.328+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Torre del Lago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opera lirica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Giacomo Puccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Villa Museo Puccini'/><title type='text'>Una visita a Villa Puccini a Torre del Lago</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mkNDteiG2Dw/TgSMKp5d1UI/AAAAAAAABSE/3_sh56DyVsY/s1600/puccini2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 184px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mkNDteiG2Dw/TgSMKp5d1UI/AAAAAAAABSE/3_sh56DyVsY/s400/puccini2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621772349538686274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;In questi giorni siamo andati con i nostri studenti  a visitare la Villa Puccini a Torre del Lago, dove Giacomo Puccini risiedette negli anni della maturità, dapprima in case in affitto, e poi proprio in questa Villa, che fece costruire sulle rive del Lago di Massaciuccoli nel 1899.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;A Torre del Lago il maestro compose la maggior parte delle sue opere:  Manon Lescaut, la Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, La fanciulla del West,  la rondine, e il Trittico.  Dopo la sua morte nel 1924,  la sua Villa  fu  adibita a museo, mantenendo intatto l'aspetto originale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V10TRkTdNe8/TgSMLG8r17I/AAAAAAAABSU/I36hV5rwklY/s1600/puccini5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 190px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V10TRkTdNe8/TgSMLG8r17I/AAAAAAAABSU/I36hV5rwklY/s400/puccini5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621772357336815538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Che cosa abbiamo visto durante la visita?   Soprattutto lo studio del Maestro  con il pianoforte e lo scrittoio che usava per comporre,  vari suoi ritratti e fotografie in diversi periodi della sua vita e oggetti personali, manoscritti, diplomi e onorificenze;   la stanza dedicata alla caccia, di cui era molto appassionato,  con  i fucili, l'abbigliamento da caccia e i trofei;  la cappella dove il poeta è sepolto con la sua moglie Elvira.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Le stanze che abbiamo visitato fanno rivivere nella memoria non solo la grandezza del compositore nel pieno della sua maturità artistica,  ma anche le sue più comuni passioni, rendendone una  immagine completa e affascinante.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Ed ecco un bel video musicale del Coro Muto dall'opera Madame Butterfly&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mf1S4O-pRtU/TgSMKyMBegI/AAAAAAAABSM/XMvQer0f6LU/s1600/puccini4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/a3DQPesTeUk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;A visit to Villa Puccini in Torre del Lago&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Recently we visited Villa Puccini in Torre del Lago with our students.  Here Giacomo Puccini lived in the years of his maturity, first in rented houses  then in this villa he had himself built in 1899 on the banks of the lake of Massaciuccoli.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z3XMBgeIxAI/TgSMKuEf27I/AAAAAAAABR8/k-fw-I4T5qQ/s1600/puccini%2B1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z3XMBgeIxAI/TgSMKuEf27I/AAAAAAAABR8/k-fw-I4T5qQ/s400/puccini%2B1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621772350658698162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In Torre del Lago the Maestro composed many of his works: Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, La Fanciulla del West, La Rondine, and il Trittico.  After his death in 1924, the Villa became a museum, maintaining its original aspect.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;What did we see during our visit?  First of all, Puccini's studio with the piano and the desk he used to compose,  several portraits and photos of him in different periods of his life;  and personal objects, manuscripts, diplomas and awards;   the hunting room (as he was a passionate hunter) with his guns, clothing and trophies;  the chapel where he rests together with his wife Elvira.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The rooms we visited revive not only the memory of the composer's greatness in his artistic maturity, but also of his more common passions, giving us a complete and fascinating image of him.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X3QNCKG3cn8/TgSURiOAuSI/AAAAAAAABSc/EIz6D5lauDs/s1600/puccini4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 196px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X3QNCKG3cn8/TgSURiOAuSI/AAAAAAAABSc/EIz6D5lauDs/s400/puccini4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621781263829481762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-7469150187237026440?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/7469150187237026440/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/una-visita-villa-puccini-torre-del-lago.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7469150187237026440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7469150187237026440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/una-visita-villa-puccini-torre-del-lago.html' title='Una visita a Villa Puccini a Torre del Lago'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mkNDteiG2Dw/TgSMKp5d1UI/AAAAAAAABSE/3_sh56DyVsY/s72-c/puccini2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-686842726715770224</id><published>2011-06-18T12:37:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T09:55:29.076+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Antichi e storici negozi di Lucca</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TW1DEKfSOew/TfyBcha3spI/AAAAAAAABRM/Je4rKYOvq7E/s1600/carli.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TW1DEKfSOew/TfyBcha3spI/AAAAAAAABRM/Je4rKYOvq7E/s400/carli.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619508762058928786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Il centro storico di Lucca è ricco di antichi negozi con vetrine e insegne risalenti all'800 e agli inizi del '900,  che fanno bella mostra di sé nelle vie principali, in particolare Via Fillungo e le piccole vie adiacenti. In vari casi, l'attività tradizionale del negozio è cessata,  e ne è subentrata un'altra molto diversa: dove c'era una rinomata pizzicheria, ora possiamo trovare un negozio di abbigliamento. &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uHuQ-yN7MRA/TfyBdQ6ybwI/AAAAAAAABRc/sh0ED-1nHAw/s1600/pizzicheria.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uHuQ-yN7MRA/TfyBdQ6ybwI/AAAAAAAABRc/sh0ED-1nHAw/s400/pizzicheria.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619508774809267970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Ma le antiche insegne in stile ottocentesco, o anche liberty dei primi del novecento, sono rimaste a  testimoniare la storia del negozio e a conservare la bellezza e la tradizione nel centro storico della nostra città.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UTe4Z-cGASA/TfyBdz7QYII/AAAAAAAABRk/k--sx-MX0V4/s1600/venus.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UTe4Z-cGASA/TfyBdz7QYII/AAAAAAAABRk/k--sx-MX0V4/s400/venus.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619508784206471298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;The historic center of Lucca is rich in antique shops with windows and signs dating from 1800 and the early 1900,  which are on display in the main streets,  specially Via Fillungo and the small adjacent streets. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wkVbkXbmNyQ/TfyBdBl6f3I/AAAAAAAABRU/bvF5dLuU828/s1600/disimo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wkVbkXbmNyQ/TfyBdBl6f3I/AAAAAAAABRU/bvF5dLuU828/s400/disimo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619508770695184242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;In some cases, the original commercial activity of the shop closed down and another very different replaced it:  where there was a renowned grocer's, now you can find a clothing shop! But the shop signs of 1800  or even early 1900 Modern Style, are being kept to witness the history of the shop and to preserve the beauty and the tradition of the historic center of our city.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--CrE5KghyT0/TfyCmNd6q_I/AAAAAAAABR0/Oliav47u5Ls/s1600/pelleria.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--CrE5KghyT0/TfyCmNd6q_I/AAAAAAAABR0/Oliav47u5Ls/s400/pelleria.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619510028013317106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-686842726715770224?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/686842726715770224/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/antichi-e-storici-negozi-di-lucca.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/686842726715770224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/686842726715770224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/antichi-e-storici-negozi-di-lucca.html' title='Antichi e storici negozi di Lucca'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TW1DEKfSOew/TfyBcha3spI/AAAAAAAABRM/Je4rKYOvq7E/s72-c/carli.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-3466845678953557481</id><published>2011-06-16T22:59:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T09:50:41.757+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='panzanella'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italian language'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cucina toscana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='learn Italian in Tuscany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='campagna toscana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucca'/><title type='text'>Un viaggio estivo tra ricordi, campagne e ricette...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tra i piccoli piaceri della vita che mi piace concedermi c'è quello di passare una serata ogni tanto con le mie sorelle: sono serate di chiacchiere, confidenze, risate, ricordi e qualche volta progetti più o meno fantasiosi o realizzabili! Qualche sera fa avevamo appunto deciso di trovarci a casa mia per passare una di queste serate; prima che arrivassero mi sono ricordata di avere un vecchio album di foto in bianco e nero dei miei nonni: ho iniziato a sfogliarlo e immediatamente un fiume di ricordi, immagini e profumi della mia infanzia mi ha assalita e commossa. I miei nonni erano contadini, persone semplici di campagna, che si alzavano la mattina “al canto del gallo” e andavano a letto la sera “con le galline”. Avevano una piccola vigna e un oliveto, una grande quantità di polli e galline (la domenica sulla tavola non mancava mai un buon “brodo di gallina vecchia”!), un grande orto dove durante l'anno si alternavano verdure , alberi di ciliegie, pesche, mele, pere, melograni e un cachi, che per Natale aveva sempre dei bellissimi frutti arancioni!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Proprio per Natale noi nipoti facevamo l'albero:  usavamo come addobbi una grande quantità di noci, mandarini e biscotti fatti da noi bambini con la nonna!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Insieme all'inverno l'altro momento indimenticabile dell'anno erano le vacanze estive; dopo pranzo, seduti sul letto a giocare a carte, o a imparare a memoria qualche strana filastrocca, aspettavamo che il caldo diminuisse e verso le cinque del pomeriggio, armati di secchielli pieni d'acqua, innaffiatoi, rastrelli e pale costruite da mio nonno a nostra dimensione, andavamo allegri e contenti nell'orto, a strappare via le erbacce, dare acqua alla verdura, raccogliere pomodori, fagiolini e zucchini maturi!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il sabato c'era “da fare il pane”: proprio così, facevamo il pane! Farina, acqua, lievito e sale e tutti a impastare! Mio nonno la mattina accendeva il forno a legna, mia nonna apriva la madia dove si impastava e metteva delle assi di legno in cucina, dove venivano messe le pagnotte di pane prima di essere cotte. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OIMjO0RiXhg/Tfptujhr3YI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/slRkIZq4sIU/s1600/madia_85836_1_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="323" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OIMjO0RiXhg/Tfptujhr3YI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/slRkIZq4sIU/s400/madia_85836_1_01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Poi tutti in fila facevamo una processione dalla cucina al forno, dove mia nonna infornava il pane da cuocere. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il pane rimaneva buono per una settimana e c'erano tantissimi modi per mangiarlo anche quando aveva qualche giorno “di troppo”!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-06j2J1M7828/TfptXTZm3GI/AAAAAAAAAZI/1ZKA9e6g4bQ/s1600/CIMG2357.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-06j2J1M7828/TfptXTZm3GI/AAAAAAAAAZI/1ZKA9e6g4bQ/s400/CIMG2357.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A me piaceva, e piace, tantissimo la “panzanella”, un piatto tipico toscano: un' insalata di pane forse è la definizione più adatta, anche se a me sembra troppo riduttiva! Ci sono il sapore e il profumo del pane, dei pomodori, del basilico e, a chi piace, della cipolla fresca! Insomma, i profumi dell'estate, e per me, delle mie fantastiche estati in campagna, con i giochi, le lucciole  e le leggende che mia nonna ci raccontava la sera prima di andare a letto...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mi è piaciuto rendervi partecipi di questi miei ricordi e vi voglio regalare la ricetta della panzanella... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3NULNmfD1V0/TfpuA2Puy4I/AAAAAAAAAZY/WF-3LcgApNk/s1600/panzanella.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3NULNmfD1V0/TfpuA2Puy4I/AAAAAAAAAZY/WF-3LcgApNk/s400/panzanella.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ingredienti per 4 persone:&lt;br /&gt;8 fette di pane casalingo (meglio se raffermo)&lt;br /&gt;4 pomodori maturi&lt;br /&gt;3 cipollotti rossi o bianchi&lt;br /&gt;Aceto bianco&lt;br /&gt;Olio extravergine di oliva&lt;br /&gt;Sale&lt;br /&gt;Pepe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mettete le fette di pane raffermo in una ciotola con dell'acqua fredda e due cucchiai di aceto e fatele ammorbidire per 20 minuti circa, poi strizzatele bene e sbriciolatele in una insalatiera. Fate a fettine sottili i cipollotti, e affettati i pomodori in pezzi non troppo grandi. Unite le verdure al pane e mescolate bene  per fare insaporire. Aggiungete olio,  sale, pepe e basilico e mescolate ancora. La panzanella deve essere tenuta in frigorifero almeno per un’ora prima che possa essere gustata al pieno della sua freschezza. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Se volete potete aggiungere  tonno,  olive, capperi, cetrioli, sedano, o tutto quello che la vostra fantasia vi suggerisce. Provatela, è fresca e gustosa. E un abbraccio a tutte le nonne del mondo!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;A summer trip through memories, country life and recipes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Now and then I enjoy spending an evening with my sisters:  chatting, telling each other's secrets, laughing, reviving memories and sometimes making more or less fanciful or workable plans. Days ago we had just decided to meet at my home to spend the evening together and before they arrived I found an old scrap book with black and white pics of my grandparents:  I started to leaf through it and suddenly memories of   images and scents  from my childhood seized and moved my mind.   My grandparents were peasants,  simple country folks, who woke up in the morning at the rooster's crow and went to bed in the evening  "with" the hens.  They owned a small vineyard and an olive grove, a good bunch of chicken and hens (for our Sundays' lunch an “old chicken soup" was never missing),  a large vegetable garden and orchard, where during the year according to the season grew all kind of vegetables, and fruits like cherries, peaches, apples, pears, pomegranates, and there was even a persimmon tree, which at Christmas  had its fine orange fruits still. And Christmas time was when all of us grandchildren adorned the tree, using lots of nuts, mandarines and biscuits we had cooked with the help of our grandma.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;As well as Christmas in winter, another memorable time of the year were the summer holidays; after lunch sitting on the bed playing cards or learning a weird rhyme by heart, we waited until about five in the afternoon when the heat was less, to go out into the garden equipped with buckets, rakes and shovels built by our grandad  at our measure and happily pulled up the weed, watered the vegetables, and picked ripe tomatoes, beans and zucchini!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Saturday was the day of the bread, as we cooked our bread every week:  flour, water, yeast and salt, and let's all  knead dough!  In the morning grandad  lit the firewood oven, grandma opened the dough tray and set the boards in the kitchen, where the loafs were lined up before baking. Then we all followed the operations from the kitchen to the oven where grandma put the bread to bake.  The bread was good for a week and  there were lots of ways to eat it even after.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;For example, the “panzanella”, a typical Tuscan dish which I liked and still like a lot:   bread salad is perhaps its correct definition, yet too simplified: it contains the taste and flavour of bread, of tomatoes, of basil and if you like, of fresh onion!   In short, the flavours of summer, and for me, of my fanciful holidays in the country with the games, the fireflies, and the fairy tales my grandma told me before going to bed.  I am glad to share these memories  and I like to present you the recipe of the “panzanella”,  which I hope you will enjoy as a refreshing summer meal:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ingredients for 4 persons&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;8 slices of  Tuscan bread (better if some days old,  a bit hard)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;4 ripe tomatoes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;3 red or white fresh onions&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;white vinegar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;extra-virgin olive oil&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;salt&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;pepper&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Put the slices of hard bread in a bowl with cold water and two spoons of vinegar,  let them soften for about 20 minutes, then squeeze them well and crumble them into a salad bowl. Cut the onions in thin slices and the tomatoes in small pieces.  Add the vegetables to the bread and stir well to make tasty.  Add oil, salt, pepper and basil and stir again.   Then put the panzanella into the fridge for at least one hour as  it tastes best a little cool. If you like you can add tuna, olives, capers, cucumbers, celery or whatever your fancy suggests.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Try it, it's fresh and tasty.   And a big hug to all grandma's of the world!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-3466845678953557481?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/3466845678953557481/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/un-viaggio-estivo-tra-ricordi-campagne.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3466845678953557481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3466845678953557481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/un-viaggio-estivo-tra-ricordi-campagne.html' title='Un viaggio estivo tra ricordi, campagne e ricette...'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OIMjO0RiXhg/Tfptujhr3YI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/slRkIZq4sIU/s72-c/madia_85836_1_01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-46352562433728661</id><published>2011-06-05T10:30:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T09:54:03.964+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giugno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francesco Guccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canzone dei 12 mesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cantautori italiani'/><title type='text'>Giugno descritto da Francesco Guccini</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-anonmHjF540/Tes_skWaLJI/AAAAAAAABQ8/6daBoOx8xig/s1600/guccini_francesco_mini.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-anonmHjF540/Tes_skWaLJI/AAAAAAAABQ8/6daBoOx8xig/s400/guccini_francesco_mini.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614651395351915666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecco, come di consueto,  la rima della "Canzone dei 12 mesi" di Francesco Guccini, dedicata al mese di Giugno:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Giugno, che sei maturità dell'anno, di te ringrazio Dio:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;in un tuo giorno, sotto al sole caldo, ci sono nato io&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;E con le messi che hai fra le tue mani ci porti il tuo tesoro,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;con le tue spighe doni all'uomo il pane, alle femmine l'oro.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gd4zsv--0dY/Tes_srAe-yI/AAAAAAAABRE/tvh-ISTdI-o/s1600/spighe.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gd4zsv--0dY/Tes_srAe-yI/AAAAAAAABRE/tvh-ISTdI-o/s400/spighe.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614651397139004194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;As usual, here's the rhyme from the "Song of the 12 Months" by Francesco Guccini, dedicated to the month of June:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;June, maturity of the year,  for you I thank God:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;I was born on one of your days, under the warming sun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;With the reaping in your hand you bring us your treasure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;With your ears of corn you give bread to men, gold to women.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-46352562433728661?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/46352562433728661/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/giugno-descritto-da-francesco-guccini.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/46352562433728661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/46352562433728661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/giugno-descritto-da-francesco-guccini.html' title='Giugno descritto da Francesco Guccini'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-anonmHjF540/Tes_skWaLJI/AAAAAAAABQ8/6daBoOx8xig/s72-c/guccini_francesco_mini.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-3894087702800171149</id><published>2011-05-28T23:46:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T18:01:43.189+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roberto Saviano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Repubblicano.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unità d&apos;Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cattaneo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Giovine Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mazzini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Federalismo'/><title type='text'>Roberto Saviano parla dell'unità d'Italia</title><content type='html'>Ecco la trascrizione integrale del discorso sull'unità d'Italia che lo scrittore Roberto Saviano ha fatto in una recente trasmissione televisiva&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Here is the complete transcription of a speech on the unity of Italy, the writer Roberto Saviano made recently on tv.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jfYgbLxvnXY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mi andava di... poter tenere la bandiera italiana in mano... questa, proprio questa qui, questa che tengo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;proprio questa, questa è la più.... la prima bandiera italiana, prima ancora che ci cucissero al centro lo scudo sabaudo.  E mi piaceva tenerla, perché credo che sia qualcosa di più di un simbolo... tutte le bandiere sono dei simboli e i popoli più o meno ci si riconoscono, è ovvio che sia così; ma mi piaceva, da meridionale soprattutto, ricordare che in realtà questa bandiera è la traccia di un sogno,  e non sembri retorico quello che sto dicendo.  Cioè, l'Italia unita, nella testa di Mazzini, nelle azioni di Pisacane, nel sogno di centinaia e migliaia di pensatori repubblicani &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;unitaristi, non era semplicemente l'unità di regioni geograficamente vicine, e non è neanche come è capitato per altri paesi - intese di aristocrazie, unità di gruppi di potere: per loro l'unità era l'unica condizione per emancipare il popolo italiano – dopo tre secoli di dominazione straniera – ma di emanciparli dall'ingiustizia.  L'unità non può che essere quella strada, non semplicemente qualcosa che ci permette appunto di avere semplicemente una bandiera, ma una bandiera che diventa simbolo della possibilità di emanciparsi, di emanciparci dalla sofferenza, dall'ingiustizia: questo era nella loro, nella loro testa.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;La grande idiozia che stiamo ascoltando da anni, che spaccare il paese sia un modo per renderlo più forte, è evidente che non solo è un discorso miope, ma insostenibile:  se guardiamo la cartina preunitaria, il Regno, per esempio, di Sardegna, Regno Sabaudo, una sorta di cosa piccola, eccolo là, sotto la Francia, la periferia francese sarebbe;  il Lombardo-Veneto, cosa sarebbe il Lombardo-Veneto? La periferia austriaca. L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;o Stato Pontificio, al centro, uno stato simbolico: si tornerebbe a essere periferia di qualcun altro.  La centralità, l'unità del Paese invece aveva un'altra idealità, un altro progetto, quello di dire “decidiamo del nostro destino”.  Chi pensa di poterlo spaccare, non fa nient'altro che arretrare, indebolirci, distruggere quello che era stato un grande sogno, il sogno di poter vedere, nell'unione del Friuli alla Calabria, in un unico  Paese, un unico sangue, un'unica lingua, la possibilità di disegnare un destino diverso... mi tornano sempre alla mente, per esempio, i martiri calabresi, i cinque martiri di Gerace, cinque ragazzi, il più vecchio aveva 28 anni, vengono fucilati perché sognavano che dal Regno delle Due Sicilie, dal Sud potesse partire l'ideale in grado di unire l'Italia: dal Sud che aveva raggiunto dei primati – la prima ferrovia, le seterie migliori del Mediterraneo – da lì combattere, anche perché c'era stata tutta l'idealità riformista del Settecento : Gaetano Filangeri, Genovesi, Abate Galiani – tutti pensatori meridionali che avevano ispirato i rivoluzionari francesi;  non è pensabile credere che la spaccatura di un Paese oggi sia la soluzione. La continuità con quegli ideali risiede per esempio nel pensare ancora che siamo meglio della nostra classe politica, che il Paese ha voglia di essere ridisegnato, che ha voglia di fare, che i talenti vogliono uscire finalmente, smettere di pensare che i più bravi arrivano ultimi, e imparare a poter sognare che i più bravi arriveranno primi. Sognare con l'idealità che fu degli unitaristi, significa, di fronte alla macchina del fango, di fronte alle baggianate quotidiane scritte sui siti che hanno il compito di diffondere a pigri giornalisti le informazioni di gossip: rispondere a tutto questo non ci interessa, rispondere a tutto questo non ci importa – non vi crediamo, e andiamo avanti. L'idea di poter costruire questa Italia significa essere veramente eredi di quello che è stato il pensiero dell'unità italiana e non le balle che racconta, per esempio, la Lega quando chiama il suo centro di ricerche “Cattaneo”: Carlo Cattaneo, pensatore repubblicano e federalista, credeva che il federalismo fosse un federalismo solidale in grado di unire il Paese,  non di considerare una parte del paese inutile; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;l'amministrazione federale, nel pensiero del Cattaneo, non è, come blaterano le camicie verdi, è un pensiero che va a credere che l'Italia una e amministrata in maniera diversa potesse davvero essere il grande sogno italiano, la cerniera tra la cultura mediterranea e la Mitteleuropa, quella che prima o poi torneremo, riusciremo ad essere. Io forse sono un privilegiato, nel senso che sono figlio di un padre napoletano e di una madre di origine ligure, quindi ho il sangue del sud e il sangue del nord: i miei antenati materni sono stati repubblicani e mazziniani; hanno spesso pagato per questo loro ideale, ma mi è arrivata, la tradizione orale della mia famiglia, come una cantilena, il giuramento che i ragazzi facevano quando diventavano membri della Giovine Italia, che facevano i giovani che credevano che l'unità potesse essere l'inizio per costruire un paese libero e diverso, da come invece era nello scacchiere quando l'Italia serviva ad altri e non a se stessa, e mi piacerebbe poterlo recitare, questo giuramento:  “Io do il mio nome alla Giovine Italia, associazione di uomini credenti nella stessa fede; giuro, invocando sulla mia testa l'ira di Dio, l'abominio degli uomini e l'infamia dello spergiuro, s'io tradissi, in tutto o in parte, il mio giuramento. Giuro di uniformarmi alle istruzioni che mi verranno trasmesse nello spirito della Giovine Italia da chi rappresenta con me l'unione de' miei fratelli, e di conservarne anche a prezzo della vita, inviolati i segreti. Giuro di consacrarmi tutto e per sempre a costituire con essi l'Italia in nazione una, indipendente, libera e repubblicana”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-3894087702800171149?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/3894087702800171149/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/roberto-saviano-parla-dellunita-ditalia.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3894087702800171149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3894087702800171149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/roberto-saviano-parla-dellunita-ditalia.html' title='Roberto Saviano parla dell&apos;unità d&apos;Italia'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/jfYgbLxvnXY/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-5210221265421099633</id><published>2011-05-19T19:25:00.019+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T12:30:21.700+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pinocchio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Giardino di Villa Garzoni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Butterfly House'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carlo Lorenzini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Collodi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carlo Collodi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Villa Garzoni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pescia'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;b&gt;Una visita a Villa Garzoni di Collodi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;La scorsa settimana sono andato con alcune nostre studentesse a visitare il giardino di Villa Garzoni a Collodi,  un paese situato a est di Lucca.  La Villa risale al '600 e fu costruita,  a partire da un castello esistente dal 1300,  dalla famiglia Garzoni di Firenze, che ne è rimasta proprietaria fino a pochi anni fa,  quando, ridotta in pessimo stato di conservazione, è stata venduta a un uomo d'affari che ne ha quasi completato il restauro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J4jvAeLfqvk/TdYg8ZqXtLI/AAAAAAAABPo/EtFWOcC_VIg/s1600/collodi.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J4jvAeLfqvk/TdYg8ZqXtLI/AAAAAAAABPo/EtFWOcC_VIg/s400/collodi.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608706607989372082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;La Villa si trova in una posizione scoscesa ed ha dietro a sé l'intero vecchio paese di Collodi, con cui costituisce un insieme molto suggestivo. Il giardino è splendido,  in stile barocco e disposto a terrazze, con numerose statue sia di figure mitologiche che di semplici popolani, grotte e giochi d'acqua, boschetti e sentieri, fino alla statua della Fama, che dall'alto tutto sovrasta:  vale veramente la pena visitarlo e restarvi per qualche ora, specialmente in una bella giornata di sole come quella. Da visitare, oltre al giardino, anche la casa delle farfalle, un ambiente riscaldato dove vivono e si riproducono molti bellissimi esemplari di  farfalle da tutto il mondo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rId5QLCNdI/TdVUhMzwJqI/AAAAAAAABOg/2tAdKha6amM/s1600/Villano.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 332px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rId5QLCNdI/TdVUhMzwJqI/AAAAAAAABOg/2tAdKha6amM/s400/Villano.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608481840310527650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Ma il paese di Collodi è forse  più famoso per Pinocchio che per la Villa Garzoni:  infatti fu qui che visse nell'infanzia Carlo Lorenzini, lo scrittore fiorentino autore del libro sul burattino di legno, e assunse lo pseudonimo di Carlo Collodi.  La sua mamma era originaria del paese e lavorò come donna di servizio nella villa.   A Pinocchio è dedicato un parco poco distante dalla villa, contenente una ricostruzione artistica degli episodi della sua storia e  meta di visitatori, soprattutto ragazzi, da tutto il mondo.&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AtqOt3ej-lo/TdYf43iw45I/AAAAAAAABPU/7LVhX9sXXyI/s1600/pinocchio1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AtqOt3ej-lo/TdYf43iw45I/AAAAAAAABPU/7LVhX9sXXyI/s400/pinocchio1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608705447779427218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;b&gt;A visit to Villa Garzoni in Collodi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Last week I went on an excursion with some of our students to visit the garden of Villa Garzoni in Collodi,  a hamlet located  to the east of Lucca. The Villa was built in the 17&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century on the site of a castle existing from 1300, by the family Garzoni of Florence and it has remained their property until a few years back, when it was sold in a condition of poor repair  to a businessman who has almost finished restoring it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lf62VmQuAQM/TdVUgn_7Y5I/AAAAAAAABOQ/lRBUJPiixFk/s1600/Prospettiva%2Bdal%2Bterrazzo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lf62VmQuAQM/TdVUgn_7Y5I/AAAAAAAABOQ/lRBUJPiixFk/s400/Prospettiva%2Bdal%2Bterrazzo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608481830429483922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Villa is located on a steep slope and has the entire old hamlet of Collodi "tailwise" behind, making a most impressive composition.  Its garden is gorgeous,  in baroque style and  with a terracing structure, with several statues of mythological as well as peasant figures,  caves and water effects, groves and paths,  extending up to the statue of Fame,  towering above the entire slope:   it was really worth visiting and lingering there for a couple of hours, especially on such a fine sunny day as we could enjoy.  Beside the garden,  we also visited the Butterfly House, a special building  to give shelter to many species of butterflies from all the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMORqvUqq9A/TdVUglob99I/AAAAAAAABOY/webdlDF-49I/s1600/La%2BFama.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMORqvUqq9A/TdVUglob99I/AAAAAAAABOY/webdlDF-49I/s400/La%2BFama.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608481829794084818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;But Collodi is perhaps better known for Pinocchio than for the Villa Garzoni:  in fact Carlo Lorenzini, the Florentine author of  the adventures of the wooden puppet spent his childhood there and later decided to take the pen-name of Carlo Collodi:  his mother was from that hamlet and had worked for the Garzoni family as a maid.   A  nearby  park is dedicated to Pinocchio, offering an artistic open-air  reconstruction  of his adventures  to young and adult visitors from all over the world. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-5210221265421099633?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/5210221265421099633/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/una-visita-villa-garzoni-di-collodi.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5210221265421099633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5210221265421099633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/una-visita-villa-garzoni-di-collodi.html' title=''/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J4jvAeLfqvk/TdYg8ZqXtLI/AAAAAAAABPo/EtFWOcC_VIg/s72-c/collodi.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-5209845535541388378</id><published>2011-05-14T01:13:00.015+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-19T20:03:39.175+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italienischkurse in Toskana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italienisch lernen in Toskana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cucina toscana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='practical Italian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='learn Italian in Tuscany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ricette lucchesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italian language courses in Tuscany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buccellato'/><title type='text'>Il buccellato, dolce tipico di Lucca</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ieri mattina, mentre passeggiavo per le vie della città in compagnia di una nostra studentessa che sta frequentando un corso di “italiano pratico”, mi è cascato l'occhio sulla vetrina di una pasticceria dove risaltava in bella vista un cartello con la scritta “&lt;i&gt;Chi viene a Lucca e 'un mangia il buccellato è come se non ci fosse stato&lt;/i&gt;”. Naturalmente sotto troneggiava un bel buccellato a ciambella... L'ho fatto notare alla mia studentessa che mi ha domandato il significato di quella scritta. Ne è seguita una conversazione a metà tra le tradizioni gastronomiche lucchesi e la grammatica pura ( quel congiuntivo trapassato... più croce che delizia degli studenti di italiano...) che è risultata molto interessante, sia per lei che per me.  Da lì, mi è venuto in mente di dedicare un post a questo “pane dolce” che è uno dei simboli della nostra città, il BUCCELLATO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;ahref="http: com="" yuoyu4mzasm="" tc4jsrsu88i="" aaaaaaaabni="" 3wutdar2njw="" s1600="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUOYu4mZasM/Tc4jSrsu88I/AAAAAAAABNI/3WutDar2Njw/s400/buccellato4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606457389997814722" /&gt; &lt;/ahref="http:&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"  &gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Il Buccellato condivide con la torta di verdura il primato del dolce più tipico e conosciuto di Lucca.  Pare che sia stato creato da una famiglia di antichi pasticceri all'epoca dei Guinigi ( prima metà del'400) per deliziare i palati della nobiltà cittadina. Il Buccellato prende il suo nome dal latino ‘buccella’, che significa boccone: per gli antichi romani il “buccellatum” era un pane rotondo formato da una corona di panini .   Il moderno Buccellato  si presenta in due modi: a forma a ciambella e a forma di “baguette”, e nella tradizione lucchese non mancava mai sulle tavole domenicali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vzi14eCcLU0/Tc4jS0-cQTI/AAAAAAAABNQ/w4pkCMd_xCo/s1600/buccellato.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 210px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vzi14eCcLU0/Tc4jS0-cQTI/AAAAAAAABNQ/w4pkCMd_xCo/s400/buccellato.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606457392488005938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Si tratta di un dolce molto semplice ma saporito: all'interno presenta una pasta dolce e morbida ricca di uvetta e anice, mentre fuori è spennellato con uno strato di zucchero e uovo, che gli garantisce il tipico colore bruno e lucido. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Ecco la ricetta, nella sua versione più classica:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ingredienti:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;farina (500gr)&lt;br /&gt;zucchero (150gr)&lt;br /&gt;burro (50 gr)&lt;br /&gt;Lievito di birra (20 gr)&lt;br /&gt;2 uova&lt;br /&gt;1 bicchiere di latte&lt;br /&gt;uvetta (50 gr)&lt;br /&gt;2 cucchiaini di semi di anice&lt;br /&gt;un pizzico di sale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;Preparazione:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Impastare la farina, lo zucchero, il burro, il lievito, il sale ed uno delle due uova ammorbidendo con il latte e un po' di acqua tiepida, realizzando la fontana. Formare una palla di impasto morbida inserendo man mano anche l'uvetta (eventualmente ammorbidita con del liquore) ed i semi di anice. Lasciare lievitare l'impasto circa 1 ora.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Dopo la lievitatura, realizzare dei salsicciotti di pasta (o delle ciambelle) effettuando un leggero taglio con un coltello sulla parte superiore della pasta, in modo da favorirne la lievitatura. Lasciare lievitare ancora 1 ora. Infine spennellare la superficie superiore della pasta con un misto di zucchero e uovo e far cuocere a forno caldo per circa 1 ora.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Una variante deliziosa, adatta a questo periodo di  cerimonie e Comunioni: nelle campagne lucchesi, infatti, un tempo, in occasione della festa per la Comunione di un bambino, la nonna preparava una specie di “zuppa” a base di buccellato inzuppato leggermente nel vin santo, alternato a strati di crema e fragole con il loro succo... che ricordi dolci... buon appetito!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Yesterday morning as I was walking through the streets of Lucca with a student attending our practical Italian course, a sign in the shop-window of a confectioner's caught my eye.  It says “Whoever comes to Lucca and doesn't eat  Buccellato, it's like he never was there”    And naturally a  ring-shaped buccellato towered  below that sign....  I made my student notice it, and she asked the meaning of those words.  We then started talking about  Lucchese gastronomic traditions and  pure Italian grammar  - that past perfect subjunctive,  more affliction than delight for students in Italian –  which proved very interesting for both.  The occasion prompted me to write about this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt; “sweet bread” which is one of the symbols of our city:   IL BUCCELLATO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-laC1-SOSqsc/Tc4jC7_Ku3I/AAAAAAAABNA/4tfAXX8Tzac/s1600/buccellato5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 183px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-laC1-SOSqsc/Tc4jC7_Ku3I/AAAAAAAABNA/4tfAXX8Tzac/s400/buccellato5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606457119492193138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;The Buccellato, beside the Torta di verdura (vegetable cake), is the most typical and well-known cake of Lucca.  They say it was created by an ancient  confectioner's family  at the time the Guinigi were ruling the city (first half of 1400) to delight the taste of the Lucchese nobility.  Its name comes from the Latin “buccella” which means “mouthful”:  for the ancient Romans the “buccellatum” was a ring-shaped bread formed by a crown of  bread rolls.  The modern “Buccellato”  can have two shapes:  like a ring and like a “baguette”, and  in the past is was the traditional dessert for the Sunday's lunch in most Lucchese homes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;It's a very simple  but  tasty cake:  inside  the paste is sweet and soft with raisins and aniseed, outside it is brushed with a mixture of sugar and egg,  which makes it brown and glossy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Here's the recipe in its classical version:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Ingredients:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0.13cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wheat flour (500gr)&lt;br /&gt;Sugar (150gr)&lt;br /&gt;Butter (50 gr)&lt;br /&gt;Leaven (20 gr)&lt;br /&gt;2 eggs&lt;br /&gt;1 glass of milk&lt;br /&gt;Raisins (50 gr)&lt;br /&gt;2 spoonfuls aniseeds&lt;br /&gt;A pinch of salt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Preparation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Make a well with the flour and add sugar, butter, leaven, salt and one egg with  milk and some lukewarm water working it  into a dough. Add  the raisins (if needed softened in liquor) and the aniseed little by little.  Let the dough  rise for about an hour. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;After that, shape the dough into “sausages” or rings as you prefer  and  make a shallow cut with a knife on the upper side, so as to favour its rising. Let it rise for another hour.  Then brush the upper surface of the dough with a mixture of sugar and egg and bake in the oven for about an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H3Fxsm8hXC8/Tc4jeDb52DI/AAAAAAAABNY/bUCxmvOS7ow/s1600/buccellato1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H3Fxsm8hXC8/Tc4jeDb52DI/AAAAAAAABNY/bUCxmvOS7ow/s400/buccellato1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606457585348237362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span  &gt;A tasty version,  fit for this period of ceremonies and Communions:  in the past, in the Lucchese countryside  on the occasion of the religious feast of the Communion, the grandma prepared a sort of pudding  made up of buccellato dipped in sweet wine  and  interlayered with cream and strawberries...... what sweet memories....... enjoy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15pt"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-5209845535541388378?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/5209845535541388378/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/il-buccellato-dolce-tipico-di-lucca.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5209845535541388378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5209845535541388378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/il-buccellato-dolce-tipico-di-lucca.html' title='Il buccellato, dolce tipico di Lucca'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUOYu4mZasM/Tc4jSrsu88I/AAAAAAAABNI/3WutDar2Njw/s72-c/buccellato4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-4258225395916655499</id><published>2011-05-02T11:20:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T11:57:55.463+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francesco Guccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cenne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canzone dei Dodici Mesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Folgore.'/><title type='text'>Il mese di maggio descritto da Francesco Guccini</title><content type='html'>Ecco la strofa dedicata al mese di maggio, nella &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Canzone dei Dodici Mesi&lt;/span&gt; di Francesco Guccini:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ben venga Maggio e il gonfalone amico, ben venga primavera&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il nuovo amore getti via l'antico nell'ombra della sera&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ben venga Maggio, ben venga la rosa, che dei poeti è il fiore&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mentre la canto con la mia chitarra, brindo a Cenne e a Folgore&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gpmTTqMHzQo/Tb5-P95CflI/AAAAAAAABLw/5qFD89vNbb0/s1600/rosa-sfondo-desktop-1920x1200-01250_high.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gpmTTqMHzQo/Tb5-P95CflI/AAAAAAAABLw/5qFD89vNbb0/s400/rosa-sfondo-desktop-1920x1200-01250_high.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602053799272414802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the strophe dedicated to the month of May, from the &lt;i&gt;Song of the 12 Months&lt;/i&gt; by Francesco Guccini&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be welcome May and the friendly banner, be welcome spring season&lt;br /&gt;Let the new love discard the old one in the evening shade&lt;br /&gt;Be welcome May, be welcome rose, the flower of the poets&lt;br /&gt;While I sing to it with my guitar, I toast to Cenne and to Folgore*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Cenne and Folgore were two Tuscan burlesque poets of 1300.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rNW2L4XoBm8/Tb5_Mf6VAXI/AAAAAAAABL4/s3FRRASZv5I/s1600/cenne.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 231px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rNW2L4XoBm8/Tb5_Mf6VAXI/AAAAAAAABL4/s3FRRASZv5I/s400/cenne.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602054839196778866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-4258225395916655499?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/4258225395916655499/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/il-mese-di-maggio-descritto-da.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/4258225395916655499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/4258225395916655499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/il-mese-di-maggio-descritto-da.html' title='Il mese di maggio descritto da Francesco Guccini'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gpmTTqMHzQo/Tb5-P95CflI/AAAAAAAABLw/5qFD89vNbb0/s72-c/rosa-sfondo-desktop-1920x1200-01250_high.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-2710814039217595370</id><published>2011-04-24T23:34:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-25T00:06:26.675+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Piazza Anfiteatro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fiera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='storia di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='religione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leggende'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fiori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Santa Zita'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chiesa San Frediano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='santi di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='miracoli'/><title type='text'>Lucca in fiore per la Festa di Santa Zita</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uBvQn4wQE8o/TbSbQ-rqQcI/AAAAAAAAABM/lEGinxxhwUU/s1600/san_frediano_flowers_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 272px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uBvQn4wQE8o/TbSbQ-rqQcI/AAAAAAAAABM/lEGinxxhwUU/s320/san_frediano_flowers_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599270952734704066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Santa Zita è la Santa Patrona di Lucca. E' vissuta a Lucca nel 13°secolo, dove faceva la domestica presso una famiglia nobile tra le più rinomate della città, quella dei Fatinelli.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Era una ragazzina quando cominciò a lavorare, e fin da subito si distinse per la sua grande generosità e disponibilità ad aiutare chi aveva bisogno. Di lei si ricordano molti miracoli, ma quello più noto fa riferimento a dei fiori, e da qui deriva la tradizione che vede la città di  Lucca trasformarsi in un grande giardino fiorito nei giorni che precedono la Festa, che cade ogni anno il 27 aprile (giorno della morte della Santa).  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Secondo il miracolo in questione, un giorno Santa Zita fu trovata dal suo padrone mentre, contro il suo volere, portava come sempre da mangiare ai suoi amici bisognosi, nascondendo del cibo nel grembiule. Al padrone che le chiese cosa avesse nel grembiule lei rispose: “ Fiori e fronde” e, miracolosamente, dal grembiule spuntarono proprio fiori e fronde.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Il corpo della Santa è conservato in una teca di vetro nella Basilica di San Frediano, e il 27 aprile i lucchesi vanno a venerare la loro Santa ( il cui corpo, miracolosamente?, è quasi intatto)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DfAqI9IP2p0/TbSa2FCFQCI/AAAAAAAAABE/ezMHSipwpj4/s1600/Lucca.San_Frediano17.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DfAqI9IP2p0/TbSa2FCFQCI/AAAAAAAAABE/ezMHSipwpj4/s320/Lucca.San_Frediano17.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599270490582892578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e a comprare “il mazzolino di Santa Zita”, dei narcisi bianchi venduti nelle strade lì intorno. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tLpFkHeqykU/TbSeHeNsVLI/AAAAAAAAABU/rx0V2WiyJtI/s1600/narcisi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tLpFkHeqykU/TbSeHeNsVLI/AAAAAAAAABU/rx0V2WiyJtI/s320/narcisi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599274087935136946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' una bella festa di primavera, Piazza Anfiteatro fa da cornice a un coloratissimo mercato di fiori e piante,  Piazza San Frediano diventa un giardino elegante e raffinato, e i bambini mangiano lo zucchero filato e le cialde.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Appuntamento qui in città allora, ci sono ancora 3 giorni per godersi questa  festa!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--wTMcx5OXIQ/TbSZP6icgtI/AAAAAAAAAA0/zFu7Q5cNpnI/s1600/Lucca_06.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--wTMcx5OXIQ/TbSZP6icgtI/AAAAAAAAAA0/zFu7Q5cNpnI/s320/Lucca_06.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599268735419187922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R8S9DRWl2rw/TbSZPkypaxI/AAAAAAAAAAs/X5KVgj2BXS8/s1600/Lucca%2BChiesa%2Bdi%2BSan%2BFrediano.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R8S9DRWl2rw/TbSZPkypaxI/AAAAAAAAAAs/X5KVgj2BXS8/s320/Lucca%2BChiesa%2Bdi%2BSan%2BFrediano.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599268729581562642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1rll0kDg5p4/TbSamWecrsI/AAAAAAAAAA8/hdrrPaY3cMU/s1600/fiori.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1rll0kDg5p4/TbSamWecrsI/AAAAAAAAAA8/hdrrPaY3cMU/s320/fiori.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599270220387364546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p lang="en" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm"&gt;&lt;a name="result_box"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span &gt;&lt;span &gt;Lucca in bloom for the Feast of Santa Zita&lt;br /&gt;Santa Zita is the patron saint of Lucca. She lived in Lucca in the 13th century, where she worked   for one of the most famous  noble families in town, that of Fatinelli.&lt;br /&gt;She was a little girl when she began to work, and immediately distinguished herself for her great generosity and willingness to help those in need.  Zita  is worshipped for many miracles , but the most well-known of her miracles  refers to flowers, and hence the tradition that sees the city of Lucca turn into a large garden in the days preceding the festival, which falls annually on April 27 (day of the saint's death).&lt;br /&gt;According to this miracle, one day Santa Zita was found by his master while she was bringing food, against his will,  to his friends in need, hiding it in her apron. Her master asked her what  she had in her apron and she replied: "Flowers and foliage”.  Miraculously, from the apron just sprouted flowers and foliage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p lang="en" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm"&gt; &lt;span &gt;&lt;span &gt;The tomb of the saint is preserved in a glass case inside the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Basilica of San Frediano, and on April 27 Lucchesi people go to worship their Santa (whose body, miraculously? is almost intact) and buy "the bouquet of Santa Zita", white daffodils sold in the streets around there. It 's a nice spring festival, Piazza Anfiteatro turns into a colorful market of flowers and plants, Piazza San Frediano  becomes an elegant and refined garden,and the kids eat candy floss and waffles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p lang="en" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span &gt;Let's meet here in town then, there are still three days to enjoy this feast!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div id="gt-res-tools" dir="LTR"&gt;  &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-2710814039217595370?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/2710814039217595370/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/lucca-in-fiore-per-la-festa-di-santa.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2710814039217595370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2710814039217595370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/lucca-in-fiore-per-la-festa-di-santa.html' title='Lucca in fiore per la Festa di Santa Zita'/><author><name>Daniela</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10541867655489974036</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uBvQn4wQE8o/TbSbQ-rqQcI/AAAAAAAAABM/lEGinxxhwUU/s72-c/san_frediano_flowers_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-5512341594417398839</id><published>2011-04-12T21:45:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T21:45:03.475+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cucina tipica lucchese'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='studiare italiano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ricette lucchesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='learn italian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='primavera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cultura italiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tuscany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucca'/><title type='text'>Una zuppa lucchese primaverile - la garmugia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nq7GrIGAick/TaSrVhZZ66I/AAAAAAAAAY8/njax2NO2-JM/s1600/garmugia5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="264" width="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nq7GrIGAick/TaSrVhZZ66I/AAAAAAAAAY8/njax2NO2-JM/s320/garmugia5.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siamo in piena primavera, e oggi mi è venuta in mente una zuppa lucchese, la garmugia, che la mia nonna faceva spesso proprio in questo periodo perchè ci sono ora tutte le verdurine adatte. &lt;br /&gt;E' un piatto che ha origini molto antiche, probabilmente risale al '600. Nella sua versione originaria e  completa, con la carne, era -  almeno così si dice – un piatto molto apprezzato dalla nobiltà lucchese, e ideale per riprendersi dopo le malattie dell'inverno; i contadini lo gustavano “in chiave vegetariana” (loro malgrado, naturalmente...).  Oggi è preparato in entrambi i modi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecco gli ingredienti per 4 persone:  &lt;br /&gt;4 cipolline novelle&lt;br /&gt;4 carciofi&lt;br /&gt;4 cucchiai di pisellini freschi&lt;br /&gt;4 cucchiai di baccelli freschi&lt;br /&gt;4 cucchiai di punte di asparagi&lt;br /&gt;carne di vitella macinata gr. 120&lt;br /&gt;pancetta o prosciutto gr. 70&lt;br /&gt;1,2  l di brodo di carne&lt;br /&gt;3 fette di pane casalingo toscano&lt;br /&gt;Olio d’oliva (extravergine di Lucca, ovviamente)&lt;br /&gt;sale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Preparazione: &lt;br /&gt;in una casseruola rosolare la cipolla tagliata fine con l'olio e la pancetta tritata fine. Quando la cipolla sarà imbiondita aggiungere la carne di vitella e successivamente le fave fresche, i piselli, i carciofi puliti e tagliati a spicchi e infine le punte di asparagi appena scottate. Fare insaporire, quindi aggiungere un litro e 200 gr di brodo e portare lentamente a bollore fino a cottura delle verdure. Servite la "garmugia" col pane abbrustolito e tagliato a dadini.&lt;br /&gt; Il modo di cottura perfetto sarebbe quello antico, cioè a fuoco dolce sulla brace, ma oggi è necessario accontentarsi di una cottura lenta ( un'ora e mezzo circa), ottenuta con la fiamma tenuta bassissima.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buon appetito e buona primavera a tutti! Io vado a fare la spesa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are in full spring, and today I was reminded of a soup from Lucca, the garmugia, that my grandmother would often prepare at this time because now there are all the needed vegetables.&lt;br /&gt;It 's a dish that has very ancient origins, probably dating back to 1600. In its original and complete version, with the meat, it was - or at least so someone says - a dish highly appreciated by the nobility of Lucca, and ideal for recovering from the disease of winter: The peasants would taste  it  “ vegetarian" ( unwittingly, of course ...). Today it is prepared either way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are the ingredients for 4 people:&lt;br /&gt;4 fresh onions &lt;br /&gt;4 artichokes&lt;br /&gt;4 tablespoons fresh peas&lt;br /&gt;4 tablespoons fresh pods&lt;br /&gt;4 tablespoons of asparagus&lt;br /&gt;veal mince gr. 120&lt;br /&gt;70 gr. bacon or ham&lt;br /&gt;1.2 l beef stock&lt;br /&gt;3 slices of Tuscan bread&lt;br /&gt;Olive oil (extra virgin from Lucca, of course)&lt;br /&gt;salt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Preparation:&lt;br /&gt;In a saucepan brown the finely chopped onion with the olive oil and finely chopped bacon. When the onion is browned, add the veal and then the fresh beans, peas,artichokes, cleaned and cut into pieces, and then  the lightly cooked asparagus tips. After 5 minutes, add stock and slowly bring to a boil until vegetables are cooked . Serve the "garmugia" with toasted bread cut into cubes.&lt;br /&gt;The perfect way of cooking would be the old one, ie a low flame on the grill, but now we must settle for a slow cooking (an hour and a half), obtained by keeping the flame low.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy your garmugia and enjoy spring ! I'm going to the grocery shop...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-5512341594417398839?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/5512341594417398839/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/una-zuppa-lucchese-primaverile-la.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5512341594417398839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5512341594417398839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/una-zuppa-lucchese-primaverile-la.html' title='Una zuppa lucchese primaverile - la garmugia'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nq7GrIGAick/TaSrVhZZ66I/AAAAAAAAAY8/njax2NO2-JM/s72-c/garmugia5.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-1493629924816471550</id><published>2011-04-06T22:17:00.019+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T08:01:29.252+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italienischkurse in Toskana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italian courses in Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italian courses in Tuscany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italienischkurse in Italien'/><title type='text'>L'esperienza di un anno alla Lucca Italian School</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Ci piace fare un piccolo resoconto dei nostri corsi di lingua italiana e delle nostre attività culturali:  nell'anno trascorso abbiamo offerto, ma anche fatto in prima persona, numerose esperienze didattiche e di conoscenza del territorio. I nostri studenti, sempre molto motivati e interessati sia alla lingua che alla cultura, hanno risposto in maniera entusiastica alle nostre proposte e ci hanno lasciato sempre un buon ricordo della loro presenza a scuola. Noi, d'altro canto,  ci siamo messi totalmente in gioco, coinvolgendoci molto spesso a livello personale, facendo partecipi gli studenti delle nostre vite ed esperienze.   E' questo soprattutto che contraddistingue la nostra scuola: un rapporto molto stretto tra noi insegnanti,  istruttori, guide e i nostri  studenti, esperienze dinamiche ed indimenticabili sia per noi che per loro. Abbiamo avuto con noi persone di ogni età e provenienza:  americani, canadesi, australiani, giapponesi, coreani, russi, tedeschi, cileni, austriaci, polacchi, svizzeri, inglesi, finlandesi, svedesi, argentini, venezuelani, sudafricani, neozelandesi, siriani, spagnoli, francesi, olandesi, belgi, danesi, romeni,  irlandesi, scozzesi, norvegesi, brasiliani, messicani.... e di tutti abbiamo un caro ricordo, perché li abbiamo voluti conoscere come persone più che come clienti. Siamo orgogliosi e soddisfatti dell'attività svolta finora e continuiamo con entusiasmo su questa strada, confidando nell'apprezzamento delle persone che vengono da noi per imparare la nostra lingua e fare una vera esperienza italiana.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eK4v-vl1jZo/TZzOU8Q2niI/AAAAAAAABJo/2OsA6oUIO-c/s1600/P1000155.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 164px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eK4v-vl1jZo/TZzOU8Q2niI/AAAAAAAABJo/2OsA6oUIO-c/s400/P1000155.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592571696456834594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;We would like to make here a brief report of our Italian language courses and cultural activities:  in the past year we have offered, with a strong personal involvement, many educational and cultural experiences. Our students, highly motivated and with a deep interest  in both the language and culture, have responded enthusiastically to our proposals and have always left us a good memory of their presence at the school. We, on the other hand, committed ourselves very often at personal level, by sharing with the students our lives and experiences. This is what above all distinguishes our school: a very close relationship between our teachers, instructors, guides and our students, dynamic and unforgettable experiences for both. We have taught people of all ages and backgrounds: students from America, Canada, Australia, Japan, Corea, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  England, Finland, Sweden, Chile, Syria,  Argentina, Venezuela, New Zealand, Spain, France, Rumania, Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Ireland , Scotland, Norway,  Brazil, Mexico .... and everyone we remember with affection, because we have wanted to know them as persons rather than as clients. We are proud and satisfied of our work so far and we are determined to continue on this path with enthusiasm and confidence of  the esteem of the people who come to us to learn our language and make a true Italian experience.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-1493629924816471550?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/1493629924816471550/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/lesperienza-di-un-anno-lucca-italian.html#comment-form' title='4 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1493629924816471550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1493629924816471550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/lesperienza-di-un-anno-lucca-italian.html' title='L&apos;esperienza di un anno alla Lucca Italian School'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eK4v-vl1jZo/TZzOU8Q2niI/AAAAAAAABJo/2OsA6oUIO-c/s72-c/P1000155.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6524929256451738117</id><published>2011-04-03T10:31:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T12:43:28.844+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francesco Guccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lucca Summer Festival'/><title type='text'>Aprile visto da Francesco Guccini</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Siamo in Aprile, il mese in cui è piacevole riposarsi, come dice il proverbio "Aprile, dolce dormire".  Ma è anche bello cominciare a star fuori fino a sera e godere della luce delle giornate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;più lunghe.  Francesco Guccini scrive così di  questo mese:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt; &lt;span&gt;"Con giorni lunghi al sonno dedicati il dolce Aprile viene,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;quali segreti scoprì in te il poeta che ti chiamò crudele...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ma nei tuoi giorni è bello addormentarsi dopo fatto l'amore,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;come la terra dorme nella notte dopo un giorno di sole..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;A proposito, Francesco sarà in concerto a Lucca al Summer Festival  il 1° luglio in Piazza Grande,  speriamo di poterci essere!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RzK2fpWyHzw/TZg2NPz1E_I/AAAAAAAABIo/HlNZBTgTiLQ/s1600/guccini.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 192px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RzK2fpWyHzw/TZg2NPz1E_I/AAAAAAAABIo/HlNZBTgTiLQ/s400/guccini.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591278538590589938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;April is here,  the month when it's nice to  rest, as the proverb says "April, when sleep is sweet", but it's also pleasant to stay out  till evening and enjoy the light of longer days.  Francesco Guccini sings like this about this month: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;"Sweet April comes bringing long days to sleep devoted &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Which secrets did you tell the poet who  called you cruel? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Yet after love it's nice to get  asleep  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;as night brings earth to rest  after a sunny day"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;By the way, Francesco is going to be at Lucca Summer Festival for a concert on July 1 in Piazza Grande,  we hope to be there!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6524929256451738117?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6524929256451738117/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/aprile-visto-da-francesco-guccini.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6524929256451738117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6524929256451738117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/aprile-visto-da-francesco-guccini.html' title='Aprile visto da Francesco Guccini'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RzK2fpWyHzw/TZg2NPz1E_I/AAAAAAAABIo/HlNZBTgTiLQ/s72-c/guccini.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-7574462273654687224</id><published>2011-03-12T11:38:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-12T11:46:01.079+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unità d&apos;Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='storia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='150 anni'/><title type='text'>150 anni dall'Unità d'Italia: intervista a Giuliano Amato</title><content type='html'>Avvicinandosi al 17 marzo, pubblichiamo volentieri una interessante intervista (in italiano con sottotitoli in inglese) a Giuliano Amato, storico e Presidente della Commissione per i 150 anni dell'Unità d'Italia, che parla di storia e di attualità. Buona visione!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/D8Eta7XS_ws?fs=1" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-7574462273654687224?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/7574462273654687224/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/03/part-1-giuliano-amato-lunita-ditalia.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7574462273654687224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7574462273654687224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/03/part-1-giuliano-amato-lunita-ditalia.html' title='150 anni dall&apos;Unità d&apos;Italia: intervista a Giuliano Amato'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/D8Eta7XS_ws/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6162306575609640031</id><published>2011-03-01T23:08:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T12:02:39.902+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tè italiano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mostra delle antiche camelie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='villa borrini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='compitese'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pieve di compito'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guido cattolica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='s.andrea di compito'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='camellia sinensis'/><title type='text'>Il mondo delle antiche camelie del Compitese</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T8knFDG6JkU/TW1vu2iprDI/AAAAAAAABH4/LjSd9ctbOak/s1600/camelia%2Bsinensis.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579238364087430194" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T8knFDG6JkU/TW1vu2iprDI/AAAAAAAABH4/LjSd9ctbOak/s400/camelia%2Bsinensis.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 204px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 247px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Con la mostra delle antiche camelie nelle ville  di  Pieve di Compito e di Sant'Andrea di Compito nel Comune di Capannori che a marzo di ogni anno fino dal 1989  concedono al pubblico l'ammirazione dei loro tesori coltivati da secoli,  è  bello conoscere  anche le persone che stanno dietro a questa pregevole attività.   (per informazioni sulla manifestazione potete vedere questa pagina del nostro sito: &lt;a href="http://www.luccaitalianschool.com/lingua-italiana/lucca-italian-school/notizie.cfm"&gt;http://www.luccaitalianschool.com/lingua-italiana/lucca-italian-school/notizie.cfm&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Nel video che presentiamo, Guido Cattolica, un agronomo discendente della nobile famiglia Borrini, ci racconta la sua esperienza di coltivazione della camelia ed anche un po' la storia della sua famiglia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Nella prima parte,  ci parla della coltivazione della camelia da tè e della produzione di tè nero italiano,  attraverso la creazione di un ibrido che possa resistere al clima freddo della zona.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Poi, quando parla della sua famiglia, che iniziò la coltivazione della camelia fin dall' '800,  il pensiero va al periodo del Risorgimento, quando i fiori venivano portati come coccarde dai patrioti che lottavano per  l'ideale dell'Italia unita e per la  liberazione dai regimi stranieri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;English translation:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;With the exhibition of the old camellias in the Villas of Pieve di Compito and Sant'Andrea di Compito in the territory of the municipality of Capannori, which in March every year since 1989 allow the public to admire their century-old cultivated treasures, it's nice to get to know also the people who constantly operate this worthful activity  (for more information about the event, please see also our news page at &lt;a href="http://www.luccaitalianschool.com/lucca-italian-school/news.cfm"&gt;http://www.luccaitalianschool.com/lucca-italian-school/news.cfm&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;In the video we are showing here,  Guido Cattolica, an agronomist descending from the  illustrious family Borrini,  talks about his experience in the camellia cultivation and also about the story of his family.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;In the first part he tells of the cultivation of the tea camellia and of  the production of the italian black tea through the creation of a hybrid, which can stand up the cold weather of the area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Then, when Guido talks about his family, that started the camelia cultivation in mid 1800 , he turns his thought to the period of Risorgimento, when the flowers were worn as cockades by patriots who struggled for the ideal of a united Italy and the liberation from the foreign rulers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MP20-0clBrw" title="YouTube video player" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6162306575609640031?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6162306575609640031/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/03/il-mondo-delle-antiche-camelie-del.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6162306575609640031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6162306575609640031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/03/il-mondo-delle-antiche-camelie-del.html' title='Il mondo delle antiche camelie del Compitese'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T8knFDG6JkU/TW1vu2iprDI/AAAAAAAABH4/LjSd9ctbOak/s72-c/camelia%2Bsinensis.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6949114927259647293</id><published>2011-03-01T17:15:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-01T17:44:49.491+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Il mese di marzo secondo Francesco</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uP7YZF5LhGE/TW0gW1SNHII/AAAAAAAABHw/_jU5WjtBOso/s1600/Fiori%2Bal%2Bdisgelo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 270px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uP7YZF5LhGE/TW0gW1SNHII/AAAAAAAABHw/_jU5WjtBOso/s400/Fiori%2Bal%2Bdisgelo.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579151090014559362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oggi è il primo marzo, il mese che ci porterà la primavera....speriamo presto! Ecco i versi della canzone dei 12 mesi di Francesco Guccini che descrivono in poesia il risveglio dal freddo invernale:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cantando Marzo porta le sue piogge, la nebbia squarcia il velo, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;porta la neve sciolta nelle rogge il riso del disgelo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Riempi il bicchiere, e con l'inverno butta la penitenza vana, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;l'ala del tempo batte troppo in fretta, la guardi, è già lontana&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;in inglese:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Today is the first day of March, the month which is going to bring us Spring..... let's hope soon!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Here's the rhymes from Francesco Guccini's Song of the 12 Months, poetically depicting  the awakening from winter's  cold:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;March brings its rains while singing,  fog pierces the veil&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;snow melted in the ditches brings the smile of thaw&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;fill up your glass and with winter discard vain penitence&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;the wing of time flaps too fast, you glance at it and it's already past&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6949114927259647293?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6949114927259647293/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/03/il-mese-di-marzo-secondo-francesco.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6949114927259647293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6949114927259647293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/03/il-mese-di-marzo-secondo-francesco.html' title='Il mese di marzo secondo Francesco'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uP7YZF5LhGE/TW0gW1SNHII/AAAAAAAABHw/_jU5WjtBOso/s72-c/Fiori%2Bal%2Bdisgelo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-1089920277687380973</id><published>2011-02-20T15:27:00.023+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T11:11:13.643+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emigrazione Barga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barga Scozia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tamburino di Garibaldi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barga Scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Medici Barga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Garibaldi Barga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barga sotto Firenze'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barga Lucca Italian School'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ryanair Barga'/><title type='text'>Un pomeriggio a Barga</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4ftf9GEaZec/TWEmIOfThpI/AAAAAAAABE4/vElkN1zQJM8/s1600/IMG_3278.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4ftf9GEaZec/TWEmIOfThpI/AAAAAAAABE4/vElkN1zQJM8/s400/IMG_3278.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575779736431593106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Venerdì, dopo una settimana piuttosto piovosa, finalmente è arrivato il bel tempo e ne abbiamo approfittato per visitare Barga,  un borgo medievale di indiscussa bellezza,  posto alla sommità di un colle  e circondato da ogni parte da montagne:  a sud est le Pizzorne, a sud ovest le Alpi Apuane e a nord l'Appennino. Nelle giornate di sole, quando l'aria è tersa, dal prato del Duomo romanico che sorge alla sommità del paese, è possibile ammirare un panorama stupendo.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Barga è un'antica cittadina, la cui esistenza risale addirittura alla preistoria. Nel periodo storico, sappiamo che appartenne ai Liguri, poi dal II secolo a.C.  Ai Romani e successivamente fu feudo Longobardo.  Dopo il 1000,  i lucchesi e i pisani tentarono a più riprese di conquistare Barga, che, per evitare i continui assedi, si sottomise a Firenze.  Proprio sotto i Medici conobbe un periodo  di crescita economica:  per i fiorentini infatti il territorio di Barga era fonte di materie prime, che venivano compensate con l'esenzione dalle tasse, favorendo così lo sviluppo di attività artigianali e commerciali.  Dal secolo XV al  XVII  la città si arricchì di palazzi rinascimentali, quali il Palazzo Pancrazi, oggi sede del Comune.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Con l'Unità d'Italia, Barga cessa di godere dei privilegi che aveva e la sua economia perde di importanza, tanto che molti barghigiani sono costretti ad emigrare, soprattutto in Gran Bretagna e negli Stati Uniti. Un rapporto intenso lega ancora oggi la città ai suoi emigranti, in special modo con quelli stabilitisi in Scozia:  qui la comunità ha relazioni molto strette e vivaci, per cui la creazione della rotta Gasgow – Pisa da parte della Ryanair un paio di anni fa è stata addirittura salutata con una festa cittadina!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5CEEPVTUoZg/TWEmVM7awlI/AAAAAAAABFA/so6xCy92XTI/s1600/IMG_3293.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 361px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5CEEPVTUoZg/TWEmVM7awlI/AAAAAAAABFA/so6xCy92XTI/s400/IMG_3293.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575779959350936146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Barga è anche una città molto legata a Garibaldi,  e ne parliamo volentieri, visto che quest'anno si celebra il 150°  dell'Unità d'Italia.  Nella piazza dove c'è la statua del generale, abbiamo notato anche una targa per ricordare Antonio Arrighi, un ragazzo di Barga che ad appena 13 anni si arruolò come tamburino nella spedizione dei Mille per la liberazione del Regno delle Due Sicilie dai Borboni.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d9keoImquRI/TWEmij2VGOI/AAAAAAAABFI/YXhTKp1xQAU/s1600/IMG_3294.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 392px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d9keoImquRI/TWEmij2VGOI/AAAAAAAABFI/YXhTKp1xQAU/s400/IMG_3294.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575780188841908450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;English translation&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Last Friday, after a rather rainy week, it was sunny again,  so we took the opportunity for a trip to Barga,  a medieval hilltown of great charm, surrounded on each side by mountains: to the southeast the Pizzorne, to the southwest the Apuan Alps and to the north the Appennines. On sunny days when the air is clear, from the green  surrounding the Romanesque Cathedral on top of the hill  you can enjoy a splendid view.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QoHo4-IkqKw/TWEo1HIrzqI/AAAAAAAABFg/JEDJg1WsOZI/s1600/IMG_3282.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QoHo4-IkqKw/TWEo1HIrzqI/AAAAAAAABFg/JEDJg1WsOZI/s400/IMG_3282.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575782706575036066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Barga is an ancient small town, which has existed since prehistory.   During the historic era it was first under the rule of the Ligurians, then from the II century b.C. It belonged to the Romans. After the Romans came the Longobards and the Germanic rule. In the early Middle Ages, Barga was often under siege from the powerful neighbors of Lucca and  Pisa, who aimed at conquering the  town: finally, in the year 1341, the “Barghigiani”, to avoid any further stressful and dangerous situation, chose to submit to the rule of Florence, under which they remained until the Unity of Italy. This was a fortunate event, as for the following centuries Barga enjoyed a long period of economic growth and prosperity, as Firenze granted the privilege of tax exemption  in exchange for the provision af raw materials from its territory.  From the XVI to the XVII century  some Renaissance palaces were built in the city, among which Palazzo Pancrazi, today the seat of the Town Hall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OkwxjoVALYc/TWEmszT4onI/AAAAAAAABFQ/btUdD7rFB1M/s1600/IMG_3299.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OkwxjoVALYc/TWEmszT4onI/AAAAAAAABFQ/btUdD7rFB1M/s400/IMG_3299.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575780364791095922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;With the unification of Italy, Barga ceased to enjoy the privileges of the past and its economy declined, so that many people were forced to emigrate to Great Britain and the United States. A strong tie  still binds Barga to its emigrants, especially those who settled in Scotland:  with them are the most frequent and deep relationships, so that the creation of the route Glasgow-Pisa by Ryanair  2 years ago was even celebrated by the city council!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Barga has also a traditionally strong attachment to Garibaldi:  it's only right to mention this in the 150&lt;sup&gt;th &lt;/sup&gt;year from the Unity of Italy.  Curious to know, in the square where the General's statue was erected, we found  a memorial plaque to remember a boy of 13 from Barga, Antonio Arrighi, the wee drummer of the Thousand  expedition to free the South of Italy from the Bourbons' oppression.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-1089920277687380973?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/1089920277687380973/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/02/un-pomeriggio-barga.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1089920277687380973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1089920277687380973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/02/un-pomeriggio-barga.html' title='Un pomeriggio a Barga'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4ftf9GEaZec/TWEmIOfThpI/AAAAAAAABE4/vElkN1zQJM8/s72-c/IMG_3278.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-5561461415583594952</id><published>2011-02-13T11:41:00.022+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T21:25:10.819+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='commercio della seta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silk trade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='immigrazione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LUCCHESI NEL MONDO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurinai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='calvinismo a Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emigrazione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emigration'/><title type='text'>L'emigrazione lucchese e italiana</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;L'emigrazione da Lucca e dal suo territorio ha origini lontane e si sviluppa in forme molto diverse nel tempo. Una emigrazione “commerciale” si verificò dal 1300 al 1500 con l'espansione delle due attività prevalenti dell'economia lucchese all'epoca:  il commercio della seta e l'impresa bancaria. Lucca godeva di una posizione strategica sulle vie di comunicazione (per questo era stata favorita nel suo sviluppo sin dai tempi dei Romani) e diventò luogo di passaggio di pellegrini, mercanti e soldati, per cui si sviluppò rapidamente l'attività di cambiavalute e di prestito di denaro, e vennero creati numerosi uffici in altre città.  Per quanto riguarda la produzione e il commercio di manufatti di seta, l'intraprendenza dei mercanti e la maestria degli artigiani fecero di Lucca per alcuni secoli un centro di primo piano di questa attività. I lucchesi  vi investivano i capitali e andavano dove i mercati lo richiedevano, fondando sia in  Italia che all'estero delle vere e proprie piccole comunità, le “nationes lucenses”, punto di riferimento anche per i concittadini di passaggio.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w2QUVb9P1II/TVe2HiL8OrI/AAAAAAAABAg/VUO1lInpH2U/s1600/arte%2Bdella%2Bseta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 216px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w2QUVb9P1II/TVe2HiL8OrI/AAAAAAAABAg/VUO1lInpH2U/s400/arte%2Bdella%2Bseta.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573123304446507698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; Un'altra emigrazione di cittadini lucchesi coincise con la Riforma di Lutero e l'adesione alla dottrina calvinista, verso la metà del '500.  A Lucca molti cittadini si convertirono al calvinismo, ma il governo della città rimase legato al cattolicesimo e alla Curia Romana, che spingeva affinché vi fosse instaurato il tribunale dell'inquisizione.  Quando la situazione divenne insostenibile, gli  “eretici” furono espropriati dei loro beni ed esiliati, ma con il sostegno delle loro famiglie che riacquistarono all'asta le proprietà, ricevettero fondi per potersi stabilire in altre città europee, come Ginevra, Lione e Bruges, dove continuarono con successo le loro attività e divennero classe dirigente.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; Parallelamente a questi movimenti migratori di tipo espansionistico e commerciale,  vi furono migrazioni delle popolazioni povere della Garfagnana e della Valdiserchio,  spostamenti stagionali legati all'attività della pastorizia (transumanza), migrazioni di mano d'opera per lavori agricoli verso la Corsica, la Francia, la Tunisia, l'Algeria.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; Una menzione a parte meritano i figurinai,  i  costruttori di statuine di gesso che andavano per il mondo a vendere le loro creazioni, raffiguranti animali e personaggi mitologici e letterari.  Provenivano dalla Media Valle del Serchio e dalla Val di Lima,  ed iniziarono questa attività nel '700.  Il centro della statuina di gesso era Coreglia, dove oggi c'è un museo per testimoniare il prezioso contributo di questi artigiani.  La presenza nel mondo dei venditori di statuine ebbe una tale diffusione,  che la fantasia popolare immaginò che Cristoforo Colombo al suo arrivo nelle Americhe trovasse a dargli il benvenuto proprio uno di loro!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-scikHwkJ0b0/TVe2Hh0gcGI/AAAAAAAABAo/of7Lwx6YW34/s1600/5140181.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-scikHwkJ0b0/TVe2Hh0gcGI/AAAAAAAABAo/of7Lwx6YW34/s400/5140181.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573123304348217442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; Nell'ottocento ebbe inizio l'emigrazione delle balie,  mamme che  andavano in Corsica e in Francia ad allattare figli di signore, lasciando a casa il loro nato, che veniva tirato su con latte di mucca. Era una prestazione più redditizia di quella degli uomini come braccianti, ed ebbe successo, nonostante il giudizio negativo dell'opinione pubblica.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CvpDXO_QzoI/TVe2II3FDyI/AAAAAAAABAw/bHvsj3RQhtM/s1600/balia%2B%25281%2529.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 285px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CvpDXO_QzoI/TVe2II3FDyI/AAAAAAAABAw/bHvsj3RQhtM/s400/balia%2B%25281%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573123314827988770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; In seguito all'unità d'Italia nel 1861, a causa delle precarie condizioni economiche e della diffusione della piccola proprietà terriera e della mezzadria, insufficienti a sfamare famiglie numerose, iniziò il grande esodo verso l'America del Nord e del Sud, che non conobbe sosta fino al fascismo, e riprese poi dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, anche verso l'Europa, l'Australia e il Sudafrica. Si calcola che da tutta Italia, dall'ottocento a oggi siano emigrati oltre 26 milioni di persone!   Alcuni ritornarono, ma la gran parte si stabilì definitivamente nei paesi ospitanti, perché le condizioni di vita erano molto più favorevoli che in patria.   &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-raBlam_LMxI/TVe2IEW2CCI/AAAAAAAABA4/aGCWn3Xlkjc/s1600/emigrazione.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-raBlam_LMxI/TVe2IEW2CCI/AAAAAAAABA4/aGCWn3Xlkjc/s400/emigrazione.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573123313619044386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt; Da paese di emigrazione, a seguito dello sviluppo economico degli ultimi 50 anni, siamo divenuti paese di immigrazione per varie popolazioni mediterranee e africane:  una mostra che si tiene a Palazzo Ducale in questo periodo e che durerà fino al 1° Maggio è dedicata a tutti i migranti e offre un contributo alla sensibilizzazione dell'opinione pubblica sul problema. Per  maggiori dettagli : &lt;a href="http://www.luccaitalianschool.com/lucca-italian-school/news.cfm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;http://www.luccaitalianschool.com/lucca-italian-school/news.cfm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;English translation:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;Emigration from Lucca and its territory started centuries ago and has assumed many different forms over time. A “commercial” migration  took place from 1300 to 1500 with the expansion of the two dominant economic activities:  silk trade and banking. Lucca was in a strategic position on the route from  Europe to Rome (for this it had been favored in its development since Roman times) and became a place of passage of pilgrims, merchants and soldiers, which gave rise to the currency exchange and banking activities, for which  numerous offices were also opened in other cities. With regard to the production and trade of silk, the enterprise of the merchants and the skill of the craftsmen made Lucca a leading center of this activity for centuries. The Lucchese  invested in the trade and  went  where the demand was higher, founding in Italy and Europe small communities named "nationes lucenses", also meeting points for the Lucchese travellers abroad.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; Another migration of lucchese citizens coincided with the Reformation of Luther and the embracing of the Calvinist doctrine, in  mid 1500. In Lucca, many people were converted to Calvinism, but the government of the city remained in the hands of the  Catholics and the Roman Curia, which urged the establishment of  the Inquisition. When the situation became unbearable, the "heretics" were dispossessed  and exiled, but with the support of their families who bought back the properties, received funds to settle down in other European cities such as Geneva, Lyon, Bruges , where they continued their activities successfully and became part of the ruling class.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; Parallel to these migratory movements of expansionist and commercial type, there were migrations of poor people from Garfagnana and Valdiserchio, namely seasonal movements related to the activity of sheep breeding (transhumance) and to  agricultural labor  in Corsica, France, Tunisia, Algeria.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; Special mention deserve the “Figurinai”, the manufacturers of plaster cast statuettes depicting animals, mythological and literary characters, who toured the world to sell their creations. They were from Serchio and Lima Valleys, and started  this activity in the 18&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century. Its center  was Coreglia, where today a museum  witnesses the important contribution of these artisans. Their hawking trade was so widespread that the popular belief imagined Christopher Columbus on his arrival in the Americas being welcomed by  a Lucchese Figurinaio!  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; In the 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century  the emigration of nurses began: they were mothers who went to Corsica and France to nurse babies of ladies of high rank, leaving theirs at home to be fed with cow's milk. It was a service which yielded more than man's labor and became popular  despite negative criticism from the public opinion.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; After the unification of Italy in 1861, due to poor economic conditions and the spread of small land ownership and sharecropping, both insufficient to feed large families, the great exodus to North and South America was started, which  did not stop until the fascist period, and then resumed after the second world war, adding Australia, South Africa and Northern Europe as destinations.  It is estimated that from all over Italy, from the 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;  century till today  over 26 million people have emigrated! Some returned, but most of them settled permanently in their host countries, as living conditions were much more favorable than at home.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt; Then, with the economic growth in  the last 50 years we have become a country of immigration for several Mediterranean and African populations: an exhibition held in Palazzo Ducale in this period and till May 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;  is dedicated to emigration and is a contribution to raise public awareness about the problem. More details here : &lt;a href="http://www.luccaitalianschool.com/lucca-italian-school/news.cfm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;http://www.luccaitalianschool.com/lucca-italian-school/news.cfm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-5561461415583594952?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/5561461415583594952/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/02/lemigrazione-lucchese-e-italiana.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5561461415583594952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5561461415583594952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/02/lemigrazione-lucchese-e-italiana.html' title='L&apos;emigrazione lucchese e italiana'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w2QUVb9P1II/TVe2HiL8OrI/AAAAAAAABAg/VUO1lInpH2U/s72-c/arte%2Bdella%2Bseta.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-4049642998371767311</id><published>2011-02-04T08:29:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-04T13:01:28.280+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Il Carnevale impazza.......</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TUusfT2RkcI/AAAAAAAAA_E/H23thl4YJWc/s1600/Carnevale_Viareggio_2008_www.bellezzedellatoscana.it_018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TUusfT2RkcI/AAAAAAAAA_E/H23thl4YJWc/s400/Carnevale_Viareggio_2008_www.bellezzedellatoscana.it_018.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569735018077589954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-top: 0.13cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;Viareggio è una suggestiva cittadina balneare sulla costa tirrenica della Versilia a circa 20 km da Lucca, dove ogni anno in febbraio e marzo si svolge un famoso Carnevale,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;un &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;evento spettacolare tra i più belli e grandiosi del mondo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;A Viareggio la tradizione del Carnevale risale alla seconda metà dell'Ottocento. La sua prima edizione si svolse nel 1873, quando un gruppo di giovani dell'alta società viareggina organizzò la prima sfilata di carrozze  trainate da buoi e addobbate di fiori. In breve tempo questa idea divenne uno dei simboli della città. Già a fine secolo, infatti, le carrozze furono sostituite dai carri trionfali, montati dagli operai dei cantieri navali e addobbati e decorati da scultori locali.  Altra caratteristica distintiva del Carnevale è l'allegoria delle figure, in chiave satirica e di impegno sociale. La sfilata dei carri, con a bordo ragazzi in costume che lanciano coriandoli, stelle filanti e caramelle, diventa così anche l'occasione di prendersi gioco di politici, usi e costumi e fatti della vita italiana e del mondo. È una particolarità, questa, che si mantiene ancora intatta nel tempo. Nel 1925, viene introdotta la cartapesta, un impasto di acqua, colla, gesso e carta, molto leggero e adatto a modellare forme mobili da montare sui carri. Questa tecnica farà la fortuna del carnevale e lo renderà unico in tutta Italia.  Da sempre, ogni anno,  ospiti illustri, politici,  personaggi dello sport e dello spettacolo, sono presenti a Viareggio per ammirare la propria caricatura in cartapesta, così come ad ogni corso mascherato partecipano centinaia di migliaia di spettatori, decretando un continuo successo alla manifestazione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il Carnevale di Viareggio prevede un mese intero di feste diurne e notturne, con sfilate di carri spettacolari, feste rionali e veglioni in maschera. Ed è anche un momento di incontro tra popoli e culture diverse il cui scopo è quello di esaltare i valori universali di solidarietà e pace.  Le sfilate di questo Carnevale 2011 saranno a febbraio il 20 e il 27, e a marzo il 6, l' 8 e il 13.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 0.26cm; margin-top: 0.08cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bYKcR5SHzww" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 0.26cm; margin-top: 0.08cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.26cm; margin-top: 0.08cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; line-height: 0.42cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.26cm; margin-top: 0.08cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; line-height: 0.42cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.26cm; margin-top: 0.08cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; line-height: 150%; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;Viareggio is a picturesque seaside resort located at 20 km from Lucca.  During the months of February and March the city interrupts its quiet winter season with the  spectacular event of  the Carnival. The beginning of this tradition  dates back to 1873, as a group of youths from the upper class of Viareggio organized a first parade of carts,  pulled by oxen and adorned with flowers. In a few years  this idea became a symbol of the city.  Already at the turn of the century, the carts were replaced with triumphal carriages, built by shipyard workers and decorated by local sculptors. Another feature of the Carnival that soon came into being was the allegory of the carriages, inspired by satire and social commitment. Their parading with youths on board throwing confetti, streamers and candies,  became a way of mocking politicians, customs and events of the italian and international life,  which has been maintained till present.  In 1925  the use of papier-mâché&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt; was started:  a mix of water, glue, chalk and paper,  light and fit to mould mobile  figures suitable to be fixed on the floats. Every year a bunch of  personalities from the world of politics, sports and show business gather in Viareggio to admire their papier-mâché&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;caricatures and thousands of people participate in every masqued parade,  conferring on the carnival enormous success.  The whole town becomes the scene of day and night feasts, spectacular floats parading, neighborhood festivals  and masqued balls.  The Carnival is also an ideal crossroads of different peoples and cultures and celebrates the universal values of peace and solidarity. The Parades of this year's Carnival will take place on February 20 and 27  and on March 6, 8 and 13.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.26cm; margin-top: 0.08cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-4049642998371767311?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/4049642998371767311/comments/default' title='Commenti sul 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url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TUusfT2RkcI/AAAAAAAAA_E/H23thl4YJWc/s72-c/Carnevale_Viareggio_2008_www.bellezzedellatoscana.it_018.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-2739929475716510431</id><published>2011-02-02T16:03:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-02T19:36:25.116+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carnevale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francesco Guccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arlecchino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dodici mesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Febbraio'/><title type='text'>Il canto di Febbraio</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TUl-og3AQHI/AAAAAAAAA9o/FHNBGlniV0U/s1600/febbraio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 183px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TUl-og3AQHI/AAAAAAAAA9o/FHNBGlniV0U/s400/febbraio.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569121648700833906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ecco come Francesco Guccini descrive il mese di Febbraio nella sua famosa "Canzone dei  dodici mesi"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Viene Febbraio, e il mondo è a capo chino, ma nei convitti e in piazza&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;lascia i dolori e vesti da Arlecchino, il carnevale impazza...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;L'inverno è lungo ancora, ma nel cuore appare la speranza&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;nei primi giorni di malato sole la primavera danza...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here's how Francesco Guccini describes the month of February in his famous "Song of the Twelve Months"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;February comes and the world stays with head bowed, but in your house and out&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Forget your griefs and wear Harlequin's clothes in Carnival  full swing...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Winter  goes on still but hope grows in our hearts&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;With the  first feeble sunlight spring's dance begins...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br 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Febbraio'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TUl-og3AQHI/AAAAAAAAA9o/FHNBGlniV0U/s72-c/febbraio.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-4354306357242005611</id><published>2011-01-27T19:36:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-27T19:40:12.195+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scrittori italiani &apos;900'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poesia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='27 gennaio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='olocausto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Primo Levi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='persecuzioni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='memoria'/><title type='text'>27 Gennaio, Giorno della Memoria</title><content type='html'>Anche noi vorremmo in qualche modo essere partecipi di questa giornata, e lo facciamo con una poesia di Primo Levi, uno dei grandi scrittori italiani del'900, che ha vissuto in prima persona le devastazioni di Auschwitz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Se questo è un uomo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voi che vivete sicuri&lt;br /&gt;nelle vostre tiepide case,&lt;br /&gt;voi che trovate tornando a sera&lt;br /&gt;il cibo caldo e visi amici:&lt;br /&gt;Considerate se questo è un uomo&lt;br /&gt;che lavora nel fango&lt;br /&gt;che non conosce pace&lt;br /&gt;che lotta per mezzo pane&lt;br /&gt;che muore per un si o per un no.&lt;br /&gt;Considerate se questa è una donna,&lt;br /&gt;senza capelli e senza nome&lt;br /&gt;senza più forza di ricordare&lt;br /&gt;vuoti gli occhi e freddo il grembo&lt;br /&gt;come una rana d'inverno.&lt;br /&gt;Meditate che questo è stato:&lt;br /&gt;vi comando queste parole.&lt;br /&gt;Scolpitele nel vostro cuore&lt;br /&gt;stando in casa andando per via,&lt;br /&gt;coricandovi, alzandovi.&lt;br /&gt;Ripetetele ai vostri figli.&lt;br /&gt;O vi si sfaccia la casa,&lt;br /&gt;la malattia vi impedisca,&lt;br /&gt;i vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/N3Y2oyvdyz0?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-4354306357242005611?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/4354306357242005611/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/27-gennaio-giorno-della-memoria.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/4354306357242005611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/4354306357242005611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/27-gennaio-giorno-della-memoria.html' title='27 Gennaio, Giorno della Memoria'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/N3Y2oyvdyz0/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-7691734282429551105</id><published>2011-01-24T20:13:00.013+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-25T00:03:08.875+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lucca e l&apos;Unità d&apos;Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unità d&apos;Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mura di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Garibaldi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Camicie Rosse'/><title type='text'>Lucca, l'Unità d'Italia e Garibaldi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;Nonostante le notizie di questi giorni siano di tutt'altro tenore,  è  bene ricordare che nel 2011 ricorre il 150° anniversario dell'Unità d'Italia, esattamente il 17 marzo.&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;  Per questo sono previste celebrazioni e festeggiamenti. A tale proposito vorrei spendere qualche parola su Lucca e sugli anni che precedettero la sua adesione allo stato unitario.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;Dopo il periodo napoleonico e la reggenza di Elisa Bonaparte, sorella di Napoleone, e in seguito alla caduta dell'impero, il Congresso di Vienna assegnò il governo di Lucca ai Borboni, lasciandone intatta l'autonomia dal Granducato di Toscana, in mano agli austriaci della casa di  Lorena. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;Ma, dopo che la guida della città  passò da Maria Luisa di Borbone al figlio Carlo Ludovico, questi, nonostante un primo periodo di positivo sviluppo, per mancanza di controllo della spesa pubblica,  portò la situazione economica a uno stato fallimentare e decise di vendere la città agli austriaci. Lucca in questo modo perse la propria autonomia ed entrò a far parte del Granducato di Toscana.  I lucchesi vennero a sapere  a sorpresa di questa cessione e manifestarono il loro malcontento per avere perso la propria identità di gloriosa città-stato, mantenuta attraverso i secoli a costo di innumerevoli battaglie e sacrifici.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;La notizia della cessione di Lucca al Granducato fu annunciata  il 5 ottobre 1847,  e la delusione per il “tradimento” del proprio principe portò in breve i lucchesi ad abbracciare la lotta patriottica contro gli austriaci e a favore dell'indipendenza dell'intera penisola italiana. Già nel 1848 volontari lucchesi parteciparono alla prima guerra di indipendenza e alla battaglia di Curtatone e Montanara. Questo primo tentativo non ebbe successo, ma circa 10 anni dopo la rivolta scoppiò di nuovo, e con l'appoggio dell'esercito francese i Lorena furono costretti  ad abbandonare definitivamente il Granducato.   &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;Così, mentre Garibaldi e i suoi Mille nella primavera del 1860 portavano il loro contributo all'Unità d'Italia con la  conquista del Regno delle Due Sicilie, già il 15 marzo di quell'anno i lucchesi votarono  a grande maggioranza l'annessione al nascente Stato Italiano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;Non voglio dilungarmi su questioni strettamente storiche, ma soltanto ricordare un fatto molto importante per Lucca, e cioè la conservazione delle sue preziose mura, un monumento che la rende ancora oggi una città unica :   ebbene, dopo l'unità, lo stato italiano aveva previsto la vendita o addirittura la distruzione della cinta difensiva, ritenuta ormai inutile.  Anche in questo caso, l'orgoglio e la lungimiranza dei lucchesi fecero sì che il Comune riscattasse dallo stato le proprie Mura, acquistandole al prezzo di circa 122.000 Lire nel 1865.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;E per finire (dopo la versione in inglese)  vorrei proporvi il video di una canzone dedicata a Garibaldi,  conosciuto  come “l'eroe dei due mondi”,  perché oltre a dare un contributo determinante all'unificazione dello Stato italiano, combatté anche nelle lotte di liberazione dei popoli dell'America latina in Brasile e in Uruguay.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TT3O8uVZCfI/AAAAAAAAAYE/I9gxRI9OwQc/s1600/unita_italia_800_800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TT3O8uVZCfI/AAAAAAAAAYE/I9gxRI9OwQc/s320/unita_italia_800_800.jpg" width="262" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Though recent news are of a quite different tenor,  it's good to remember that this year is the 150&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; anniversary of the Unity of Italy, exactly on March 17&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;,  for which festivities and celebrations are in store.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;About this matter I would like to spend a few words on Lucca's history in the years preceding its accession to the unitary state.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;After the Napoleonic rule and the regency of Elisa Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister, and following the fall of the empire, the Congress of Vienna assigned the government of Lucca to the House of Bourbon from Spain, maintaining the city independent from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany,  at the time under the House of Lorraine (Austrian rule) &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;But after the leadership of the city passed from Maria Luisa to her son Carlo Ludovico, except for a first period of relative progress, he soon took the city to the  brink of bankruptcy owing to a faulty control of the public expenditure and decided to sell it to the Austrians. This way Lucca lost its autonomy and became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.  The Lucchesi knew of this change by surprise and showed discontent for the loss of their glorious identity of city-state, maintained over the centuries at the cost of countless battles and sacrifices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;The news of the handing over of Lucca to the Grand Duchy was given on October 5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, 1847, and the disappointment for the “betrayal” of their prince led the Lucchesi in a short time to embrace the patriotic struggle against the Austrians and in favour of the independence of the Italian peninsula in its entirety. Already in 1848 Lucchese volunteers took part in the first independence war and in the battle of Curtatone and Montanara. This first attempt  was unsuccessful, but 10 years later a new uprising broke out and with the support of the French army the Lorraine were forced to leave the Grand Duchy for good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;So, while Garibaldi and his Thousand in the spring of 1860 were giving their contribution to the unity of Italy by their conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a wide majority of the Lucchesi voted in favour of the annexation of their city to the dawning Italian state.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;I don't want to go into details of strict historic interest, but just remember a very important fact for Lucca: the preservation of its precious walls, today a monument  of  unique beauty.   Well, after the Unity, the Italian state had considered selling or even demolishing the defensive circle, as it was regarded as of little or no utility.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;Also in this case, the pride and far-sightedness of the Lucchesi ensured that the Comune bought the walls back from the state for an amount of 122.000 Liras in 1865.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;And now I  am glad to propose you a video of a song dedicated to Garibaldi, known as the “hero of two worlds”, as  beside his decisive contribution to the unification of the Italian state, he also fought in the struggles for liberty of South-American peoples in Brazil and Uruguay.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2bsSFMi94oo" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-7691734282429551105?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/7691734282429551105/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/lucca-lunita-ditalia-e-garibaldi_24.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7691734282429551105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7691734282429551105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/lucca-lunita-ditalia-e-garibaldi_24.html' title='Lucca, l&apos;Unità d&apos;Italia e Garibaldi'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TT3O8uVZCfI/AAAAAAAAAYE/I9gxRI9OwQc/s72-c/unita_italia_800_800.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-1759716965639157953</id><published>2011-01-18T16:13:00.018+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T15:39:07.786+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Piazza Anfiteatro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ponte delle Catene a Bagni di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Specola di Marlia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Acquedotto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Convento dell&apos;Angelo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bagni di Lucca chain bridge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lorenzo Nottolini'/><title type='text'>L'architettura secondo Lorenzo Nottolini</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lorenzo Nottolini è stato un grande ingegnere e architetto lucchese.  Nato a Capannori nel 1787, compì i suoi  studi  nel seminario diocesano:  era questo  per molti giovani di talento ma di modeste condizioni il modo di  acquisire un' istruzione superiore.  Si distinse negli studi tecnici e già a 20 anni  iniziò a lavorare come assistente al cantiere della Villa Reale di Marlia.  In seguito si perfezionò da una parte nello studio dei monumenti frequentando le Accademie di Firenze e di Roma,  e dall'altra  nello studio dei problemi idrogeologici del territorio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TTXK0JQVHQI/AAAAAAAAAW4/lFDwKnGNjGQ/s1600/convento%2Bdell%2527angelo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="194" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TTXK0JQVHQI/AAAAAAAAAW4/lFDwKnGNjGQ/s320/convento%2Bdell%2527angelo.jpg" width="259" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Il Convento dell'Angelo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Per circa 30 anni fu il principale architetto della città di Lucca e ci ha lasciato numerose opere che ancora oggi possiamo ammirare.  Nella sua concezione architettonica si ispirò sempre a un profondo rispetto del territorio e le costruzioni e i restauri da lui progettati si inserirono armonicamente nell'ambiente circostante. In questo possiamo dire che seppe unire il gusto neoclassico all'amore per la natura, tipicamente romantico.Vogliamo ricordare alcuni suoi importanti lavori:   il rifacimento di Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, svuotato dalle rovine e destinato a piazza del mercato; la costruzione dell'imponente acquedotto monumentale per portare l'acqua dai Monti Pisani alla città di Lucca,  la Specola di Marlia, progettata per essere un osservatorio astronomico,  il Convento dell'Angelo dei padri Passionisti, il Ponte delle Catene a Bagni di Lucca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TTXKcp_209I/AAAAAAAAAWw/9ezwgM-TBZ0/s1600/acquedotto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TTXKcp_209I/AAAAAAAAAWw/9ezwgM-TBZ0/s320/acquedotto.jpg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;L'acquedotto monumentale&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lorenzo Nottolini was a great lucchese architect and engineer. He was born in Capannori in 1787 and  attended the high school at the local diocesan seminary:  that was the way many talented youths from modest families could  access  higher education.  He distinguished himself in technical studies and as young as 20 started to work as assistant on the building site of Villa Reale in Marlia.  Afterwards he specialized both in the study of monuments by attending the schools of fine arts in Florence and in Rome and &amp;nbsp;in the study of   hydrogeologic  problems of the land.&amp;nbsp;He was the main architect of the city of Lucca for a period of 20 years and left to us a number of works which still today show their beauty.   His concept of architecture was always inspired by a deep respect for the territory and the buildings and restoration works he projected  integrated harmoniously  in the environment.   As a result, we may well admit that he was able to combine the neoclassical style with the love of nature as was typical of the romantic mood.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TTXNQhr10AI/AAAAAAAAAXY/ZkJ2CdYk4m8/s1600/specola.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TTXNQhr10AI/AAAAAAAAAXY/ZkJ2CdYk4m8/s1600/specola.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;La Specola&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We want to remember here some of his outstanding works:  the restoration of  Piazza Anfiteatro, emptied of the ruins and  redesigned as a market;   the building of the impressive monumental acqueduct to bring water from the Monti Pisani to the city of Lucca,  the Specola in Marlia,designed to become an astronomical observatory, the Convento dell'Angelo, a monastery of Passionist monks and the chain bridge in Bagni di Lucca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-1759716965639157953?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/1759716965639157953/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/larchitettura-secondo-lorenzo-nottolini.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1759716965639157953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1759716965639157953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/larchitettura-secondo-lorenzo-nottolini.html' title='L&apos;architettura secondo Lorenzo Nottolini'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TTXK0JQVHQI/AAAAAAAAAW4/lFDwKnGNjGQ/s72-c/convento%2Bdell%2527angelo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-3924028291324340392</id><published>2011-01-16T11:37:00.029+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T12:24:40.242+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='necci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CHESTNUT PANCAKES'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='testi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='museo del castagno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='COLOGNORA DI PESCAGLIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farina di neccio'/><title type='text'>Come si facevano i necci di castagne nei tempi passati</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Vi offriamo una descrizione fotografica del procedimento tradizionale di preparazione  dei necci (sfoglie di pasta di farina di castagna da mangiare da sole o con la ricotta): oggigiorno, invece dei testi di pietra si usano delle piastre di acciaio, un po' meno poetiche, segno di modernità.  Le foto di Ugo Conti sono tratte da un libriccino pubblicato dagli amici del Museo del Castagno di Colognora di Pescaglia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are offering you here  a photo description of the traditional way of cooking "necci"  (a thin pancake of chestnut flour to eat alone or filled with ricotta cheese):  nowadays, instead of the stone plates, they use steel plates, somewhat less poetic, a sign of modernity.  Pictures are by Ugo Conti and are taken from a booklet published by our friends of the Museum of the Chestnut in Colognora di Pescaglia.  (I won't translate the captions, as they are simple sentences, useful to learn)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLYlg6JKDI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/_2qYBAM2XPs/s1600/scansione0104.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562746628756547634" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLYlg6JKDI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/_2qYBAM2XPs/s400/scansione0104.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 273px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Si accende il fuoco nel camino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLYlucDTyI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/06o3zIE2Ypw/s1600/scansione0105.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562746632388431650" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLYlucDTyI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/06o3zIE2Ypw/s400/scansione0105.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 265px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Un mazzetto di foglie di castagno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLYlX1GnHI/AAAAAAAAA5I/RXqsVgq-7_Y/s1600/scansione0108.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562746626319490162" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLYlX1GnHI/AAAAAAAAA5I/RXqsVgq-7_Y/s400/scansione0108.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 282px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Si mettono le foglie in acqua prima di usarle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLYlfCsTqI/AAAAAAAAA5A/45R4q6ARAQM/s1600/scansione0109.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562746628255534754" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLYlfCsTqI/AAAAAAAAA5A/45R4q6ARAQM/s400/scansione0109.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 269px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Le piastre ( i testi) sono pronte per essere riscaldate sul fuoco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLXvsC1aoI/AAAAAAAAA44/bNLhhTEXsLQ/s1600/scansione0110.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562745704032856706" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLXvsC1aoI/AAAAAAAAA44/bNLhhTEXsLQ/s400/scansione0110.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 273px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Si mettono le piastre a riscaldare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562745695197222466" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLXvLIQVkI/AAAAAAAAA4g/eCrMFjTHBAc/s400/scansione0113.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 254px;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Si spegne (si stempera) la farina in un recipiente di legno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLXu4dyfUI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/5N8VAAdwnnc/s1600/scansione0114.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562745690187267394" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLXu4dyfUI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/5N8VAAdwnnc/s400/scansione0114.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 272px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Si aggiunge acqua e un po' di sale e si mescola con un mestolo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; 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text-align: left; width: 273px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Si versa una ramaiolata dell'impasto sulle foglie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLWlvQtjPI/AAAAAAAAA4A/Po75-0FDdCg/s1600/scansione0118.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562744433586048242" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLWlvQtjPI/AAAAAAAAA4A/Po75-0FDdCg/s400/scansione0118.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 252px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Si mettono due foglie sull'impasto e si copre con un'altra piastra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLWlV9C8DI/AAAAAAAAA34/OVvrZkTQ-xg/s1600/scansione0120.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLWlJTUcFI/AAAAAAAAA3w/5ZUBXC5l2jM/s1600/scansione0121.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562744423396438098" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TTLWlJTUcFI/AAAAAAAAA3w/5ZUBXC5l2jM/s400/scansione0121.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 245px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;E infine i necci sono pronti da gustare!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TSoE9YoUN1I/AAAAAAAAA1c/moYUrB_TppE/s320/jazz%2Bdonna.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560262142572377938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Vi segnaliamo volentieri il prossimo appuntamento con il festival Lucca Jazz Donna, giunto alla settima edizione.  E' un evento che ha come protagoniste musiciste impegnate nel jazz, sia italiane che straniere.  Come afferma il Presidente del Circolo Lucca Jazz, Vittorio Barsotti &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;"L'importanza di questo progetto sta nell'aver realizzato un ponte tra la realtà lucchese e il panorama internazionale permettendoci da un lato di rispettare e valorizzare il jazz a Lucca e dall'altro di creare questa sua 'sprovincializzazione'". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;Il festival si svilupperà in 5 date ufficiali,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;dal 29 gennaio al 13 marzo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;, comprendendo le due serate dedicate al Premio Lucca Jazz Donna (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;il 25 e 26 febbraio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;) e la consueta proiezione realizzata in collaborazione con il Circolo del Cinema (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;il 21 febbraio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;), cui si aggiungono l'anteprima del 29 gennaio,  e l'arrivederci del 13 marzo. Anche quest'anno sarà presentato da Jasmine Tommaso, giovanissima cantante italoamericana, laureata in "Theatre Arts" all'Università della California di Santa Cruz. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Le novità di quest'anno è che saranno coinvolte anche le scuole di musica della città, i cui studenti eseguiranno un brano introduttivo ad ogni concerto; inoltre il pubblico sarà chiamato a giudicare le migliori band emergenti, alle quali saranno assegnati dei premi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Potete trovare il programma completo  all'indirizzo  web&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.luccajazzdonna.it/?q=node/31"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span lang="zxx"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;http://www.luccajazzdonna.it/?q=node/31&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;We are pleased to announce the forthcoming rendezvous with Lucca Jazz Donna Festival, now in its 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;  year.  Its protagonists are women from Italy and the rest of the world  playing and singing jazz.  Mr Vittorio Barsotti, President of the Lucca Jazz Club, declares in an interview: “The importance of this project lies in the bridging of lucchese reality with the international scene, allowing to respect and bring out jazz in Lucca, and at the same time realizing its “deprovincialisation” " &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;The festival will   take place on  5 official  dates  from January 29 to March 13, comprising the preliminary concert on January 29, the usual movie show at the Lucca Movie Club on February 21, the two performances dedicated to the Lucca Jazz Donna Award on February 25 and 26 and the farewell concert on March 13. As last year, the shows will be presented by Jasmine Tommaso, a young italian-american singer and graduate in “Theater Arts” at the University of California in Santa Cruz. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;This year for the first time the music schools of the city will take part in the event, their students performing an introductory piece at each concert; besides, the audience will  vote the best emerging bands, who will be awarded prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;You can see the complete program at :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.luccajazzdonna.it/?q=node/31"&gt;http://www.luccajazzdonna.it/?q=node/31&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: transparent"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VKVhiGcV5hA?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VKVhiGcV5hA?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; widows: 2; orphans: 2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-7239292644575042911?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/7239292644575042911/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/il-nuovo-appuntamento-di-lucca-jazz.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7239292644575042911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/7239292644575042911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/il-nuovo-appuntamento-di-lucca-jazz.html' title='Il nuovo appuntamento di Lucca Jazz Donna'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TSoE9YoUN1I/AAAAAAAAA1c/moYUrB_TppE/s72-c/jazz%2Bdonna.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-3836888300025972675</id><published>2011-01-02T21:47:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-29T17:00:26.355+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Liguria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trekking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Monterosso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sentiero'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cinque terre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Riomaggiore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Manarola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vernazza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Corniglia'/><title type='text'>Una giornata d'inverno alle Cinque Terre</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TSDlcpwIuII/AAAAAAAAA1M/FtY-uJDF0p8/s1600/cinque_terre3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TSDlcpwIuII/AAAAAAAAA1M/FtY-uJDF0p8/s320/cinque_terre3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557694220582041730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Una meta preferita  per una breve gita dalla mattina alla sera sono le 5 terre, a nord della città di La Spezia in Liguria, a circa 60 km da Lucca. E' un modo di iniziare il nuovo anno pregustando la primavera, perché di solito vi si trova un tempo più mite che dalle nostre parti. Così ci sono andato oggi e, pur avendo trovato il sentiero basso chiuso in alcuni punti per le frane causate dalle recenti piogge, ho potuto utilizzare un altro sentiero più alto e più faticoso, ma che mi ha fatto conoscere meglio una parte delle 5 terre da cui non ero ancora passato, e cioè i vigneti e i boschi che stanno sul promontorio a una certa distanza dal mare. La vista in lontananza era stupenda, soprattutto nel pomeriggio, quando le nuvole si sono diradate e il sole ha illuminato il mare e la costa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;E' stato anche piacevole perché i sentieri e le terre non erano così affollate come in estate, per questo il cammino è stato rilassante e ricco di ispirazione.  Così da Riomaggiore a Manarola, e poi a Corniglia, Vernazza e Monterosso, il cammino di un giorno mi ha fatto iniziare il nuovo anno con serenità e ottimismo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TSDl9-GUhVI/AAAAAAAAA1U/HhZgxS2fWtY/s1600/341810871DDadqi_fs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TSDl9-GUhVI/AAAAAAAAA1U/HhZgxS2fWtY/s320/341810871DDadqi_fs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557694792979481938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;A favourite destination for a one day trip  is to the Cinque Terre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;(5 lands) north of the town of La Spezia in the region of Liguria, about 60 km from Lucca. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;It's a way of anticipating a taste of springtime, as the climate is usually milder than in our region. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I decided to go there today and though I found the lower trail closed for a landslide  by  recent heavy rain, I took the more  difficult upper trail, which made me know a part of the Cinque Terre I had not yet been hiking:  the vineyards and the woods  in the inland,  farther from the sea. The sight in the distance was gorgeous, specially in the afternoon when clouds cleared away and the sun lit up the sea and the coastline. It was also more enjoyable as the trail and the villages were not so crowded as in summer, and hiking was relaxing and inspiring.  So, from Riomaggiore to Manarola and further on to Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;spending a day out there made me start the year with peace of mind and optimism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-3836888300025972675?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/3836888300025972675/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/una-giornata-alle-cinque-terre.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3836888300025972675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3836888300025972675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/una-giornata-alle-cinque-terre.html' title='Una giornata d&apos;inverno alle Cinque Terre'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TSDlcpwIuII/AAAAAAAAA1M/FtY-uJDF0p8/s72-c/cinque_terre3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6523763879342426413</id><published>2010-12-30T14:06:00.013+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-02T12:29:31.741+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='storia di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lucchesism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Remo Santini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lucchesità'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La Nazione'/><title type='text'>Un piccolo grande libro per capire Lucca e i lucchesi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TRyE_VsPmmI/AAAAAAAAA1E/MvxIsHA4sTU/s1600/lucchesita.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TRyE_VsPmmI/AAAAAAAAA1E/MvxIsHA4sTU/s320/lucchesita.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556462263957690978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;E' uscito in questo periodo un libro di Remo Santini, giornalista della “Nazione”,  che ho notato sugli scaffali di un'edicola e che mi ha subito incuriosito: "Lucchesità – Vizi &amp;amp; Virtù".  In un primo momento, ho pensato fosse una pubblicazione editoriale, di quelle che si vendono insieme ai giornali, tipo il dizionario del vernacolo o le ricette,  ma poi l'ho voluto leggere e mi sono accorto che  era veramente una narrazione originale, per niente celebrativa, ma anzi ricca di spunti per una lettura critica e costruttiva del nostro essere lucchesi. Un testo che sarà molto utile come materiale di studio per le nostre classi di italiano per stranieri: gli studenti infatti apprezzano sì l'arte, la cucina, la natura,  ma sono anche interessati a capire la mentalità e le abitudini della gente, specialmente quando vengono per imparare o perfezionare l'italiano.  Grazie quindi a questo contributo di Remo Santini, e....... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;buon 2011 a tutti i lettori del nostro blog!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Some days ago I noticed a book on sale at a newsagent, which aroused  my curiosity: "Lucchesità-Vizi &amp;amp; Virtù",  by Remo Santini, a journalist at  “La Nazione”.  At first I thought it was kind of editorial stuff  to sell with newspapers, like a vernacular dictionary or a book of recipes, but I decided to read it and realized it was a definitely original narration, not at all celebrating, on the contrary rich in cues for a constructive criticism of our “Lucchesism”. I think this book will be useful as learning material for our classes of Italian for foreigners:  our students enjoy Lucca's  art,  cuisine and natural environment a lot, but at the same time they are willing to understand the mentality and the customs of the people, especially when they come here to learn or refresh their Italian. Well, thanks to Remo Santini for his fine contribution and.....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;a happy and peaceful 2011 to all our blog readers!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6523763879342426413?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6523763879342426413/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/un-piccolo-grande-libro-per-capire.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6523763879342426413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6523763879342426413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/un-piccolo-grande-libro-per-capire.html' title='Un piccolo grande libro per capire Lucca e i lucchesi'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TRyE_VsPmmI/AAAAAAAAA1E/MvxIsHA4sTU/s72-c/lucchesita.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-3356941165953004296</id><published>2010-12-27T16:25:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T23:32:30.831+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romanesque style'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chiese di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stile romanico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='churches in Lucca'/><title type='text'>Le chiese di Lucca</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Oggi è stata una bella giornata di sole  e ne ho approfittato per fare un giro in bicicletta fotografando le chiese di Lucca.  La tradizione dice che fosse la città delle 99 chiese, e anche oggi ce ne sono veramente molte!  Dentro le mura ne ho trovate 43, poi ho fatto una selezione delle foto e ne è venuto fuori il collage che vedete. Lo stile predominante è il romanico :  ne sono pregevoli esempi le chiese di San Martino, San Michele e San Frediano.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TRkBfkPDjLI/AAAAAAAAA08/OqIxAi-9nDs/s1600/foto22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TRkBfkPDjLI/AAAAAAAAA08/OqIxAi-9nDs/s320/foto22.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555473257152613554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TRkBfd951UI/AAAAAAAAA00/obh48YoCCBo/s1600/foto21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TRkBfd951UI/AAAAAAAAA00/obh48YoCCBo/s320/foto21.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555473255470060866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;Today has been a fine sunny day and I went on a bike tour through the city streets taking pictures of the churches of Lucca, also known in the past as the city with 99 churches!   Still today there are many: I could find and photograph 43 inside the city walls and did a patchwork out of a selection of them. The main architectural style is romanesque, of which magnificent examples are the churches of San Martino, San Michele and San Frediano.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-3356941165953004296?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/3356941165953004296/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/le-chiese-di-lucca.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3356941165953004296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/3356941165953004296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/le-chiese-di-lucca.html' title='Le chiese di Lucca'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TRkBfkPDjLI/AAAAAAAAA08/OqIxAi-9nDs/s72-c/foto22.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-12422702561761660</id><published>2010-12-22T15:15:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-23T08:30:31.821+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teatro comico napoletano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='presepe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crib'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Naples'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eduardo De Filippo'/><title type='text'>Il presepe di casa Cupiello-Christmas crib at Cupiello's</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Per tornare ai presepi, vi voglio presentare un video molto divertente tratto da una commedia di Eduardo De Filippo, un grande attore e scrittore napoletano di  teatro. Il padre descrive entusiasticamente il suo progetto di presepe, ancora da costruire,  e il figlio è piuttosto indifferente, anzi non gli piace ed è proprio scocciato tanto che il padre, alla fine della discussione, perde la pazienza e lo manda via di casa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;To get back to Christmas cribs stories, here's a funny video from a play by Eduardo De Filippo, a great neapolitan actor and playwright.  In this scene the father describes his project of a crib with great enthusiasm, while his son is rather indifferent and says he doesn't like the idea at all, showing himself annoyed and unwilling to converse. In the end his father runs out of patience and throws him out of the house! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hlZtjvNxsIs?fs=1" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-12422702561761660?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/12422702561761660/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/il-presepe-di-casa-cupiello-crib-at.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/12422702561761660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/12422702561761660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/il-presepe-di-casa-cupiello-crib-at.html' title='Il presepe di casa Cupiello-Christmas crib at Cupiello&apos;s'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/hlZtjvNxsIs/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6125733982976346219</id><published>2010-12-22T00:00:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-22T00:39:24.494+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fabrizio de André'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canzone d&apos;autore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inverno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cantautore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stagione'/><title type='text'>E' arrivato l'inverno</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Da ieri è iniziata la stagione invernale. Per questo voglio presentare una canzone dolce e malinconica di un grande cantautore italiano,&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt; &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_De_Andr%C3%A9"&gt;Fabrizio de André&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1FSU_EJjp3s?fs=1" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Sale la nebbia sui prati bianchi&lt;br /&gt;come un cipresso nei camposanti&lt;br /&gt;un campanile che non sembra vero&lt;br /&gt;segna il confine fra la terra e il cielo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Ma tu che vai, ma tu rimani&lt;br /&gt;vedrai la neve se ne andrà domani&lt;br /&gt;rifioriranno le gioie passate&lt;br /&gt;col vento caldo di un'altra estate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anche la luce sembra morire&lt;br /&gt;nell'ombra incerta di un divenire&lt;br /&gt;dove anche l'alba diventa sera&lt;br /&gt;e i volti sembrano teschi di cera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma tu che vai, ma tu rimani&lt;br /&gt;anche la neve morirà domani&lt;br /&gt;l'amore ancora ci passerà vicino&lt;br /&gt;nella stagione del biancospino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La terra stanca sotto la neve&lt;br /&gt;dorme il silenzio di un sonno greve&lt;br /&gt;l'inverno raccoglie la sua fatica&lt;br /&gt;di mille secoli, da un'alba antica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma tu che stai, perché rimani?&lt;br /&gt;Un altro inverno tornerà domani&lt;br /&gt;cadrà altra neve a consolare i campi&lt;br /&gt;cadrà altra neve sui camposanti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6125733982976346219?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6125733982976346219/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/inverno-fabrizio-de-andre.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6125733982976346219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6125733982976346219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/inverno-fabrizio-de-andre.html' title='E&apos; arrivato l&apos;inverno'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/1FSU_EJjp3s/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6409791793571784338</id><published>2010-12-21T22:53:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-30T14:36:55.889+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ruota'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='presepe vivente'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='presepe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='albero di Natale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crib'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coreglia'/><title type='text'>Presepi e alberi di Natale</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TREjvNKXR1I/AAAAAAAAAz4/x3wiTQ6k9io/s1600/immagini-albero-di-natale-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TREjvNKXR1I/AAAAAAAAAz4/x3wiTQ6k9io/s320/immagini-albero-di-natale-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553259109418485586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E' il tempo del presepe, o dell'albero di Natale, o di tutti e due.  L'albero del nord e il presepe del sud, in versione federalista oppure un bel mix di entrambi dalle Alpi alla Sicilia? In realtà la tradizione vuole il presepe più sentito al sud, e l'albero al nord, ma noi che siamo al centro ci diamo dentro con l'uno e l'altro! Il classico abete viene per lo più addobbato in casa, mentre fuori tante luci si mettono su vari alberi e cespugli, su ringhiere e cancelli e poi c'è il presepe, che rappresenta un vero impegno per famiglie, parrocchie e interi paesi in gara fra loro. E a Lucca e provincia fioriscono presepi artistici e diversi presepi viventi, veri spettacoli che rievocano la Natività coinvolgendo le comunità di interi borghi. Così ad esempio possiamo ammirare il presepe nella Chiesa di San Paolino a Lucca,  quello di Ciciana sulle colline, e poi  le ormai note rappresentazioni di Barga, Coreglia e Ruota,  che attirano tantissimi visitatori da tutta la provincia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TREjvbJuw9I/AAAAAAAAA0I/HYvWEU7LVxI/s1600/foto_8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TREjvbJuw9I/AAAAAAAAA0I/HYvWEU7LVxI/s320/foto_8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553259113173926866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Time to set up a manger scene, or adorn a Christmas tree or  both.  The tree in the North and the crib in the South, the federal way, or a fine mix from the Alps down to Sicily?  In fact tradition says the crib is more loved in the South and the tree in the North, but as we are in the center we cannot but  work on both. Beside the classical fir inside the homes,  lots of lights  are put on any kind of tree or bush,  on railings or window sills, and the crib tradition is still alive, so you can see  families, parishes, villages set up cribs every year  in competition with each other. And in Lucca and its province art cribs are made and living nativities are performed with the enthusiastic involvement of the local communities. So for instance we can admire the crib in the church of San Paolino in Lucca or in Ciciana on the hills, and  go see the well-known  living performances in Barga, Coreglia and Ruota, which pack in thousands visitors from all the Province.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TREl6L4zvuI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/_RM5MxWQeJQ/s1600/3147380217_09860d01f3_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 278px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TREl6L4zvuI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/_RM5MxWQeJQ/s320/3147380217_09860d01f3_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553261497078234850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6409791793571784338?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6409791793571784338/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/presepi-e-alberi-di-natale.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6409791793571784338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6409791793571784338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/presepi-e-alberi-di-natale.html' title='Presepi e alberi di Natale'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TREjvNKXR1I/AAAAAAAAAz4/x3wiTQ6k9io/s72-c/immagini-albero-di-natale-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6037941636392330853</id><published>2010-12-18T18:15:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-18T18:17:33.444+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canzone d&apos;autore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francesco Guccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toscana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cantautore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lingua toscana'/><title type='text'>La Toscana che Voglio  - Francesco Guccini</title><content type='html'>Un'intervista che parla di Toscana a uno dei  nostri cantautori preferiti, Francesco Guccini, nato a Modena, ma anche un po' toscano...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yFpZynWmL5U?fs=1" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6037941636392330853?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6037941636392330853/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-toscana-che-voglio-francesco-guccini.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6037941636392330853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6037941636392330853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-toscana-che-voglio-francesco-guccini.html' title='La Toscana che Voglio  - Francesco Guccini'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/yFpZynWmL5U/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-1317081381982477867</id><published>2010-12-16T15:10:00.020+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-17T21:26:35.633+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ricciarelli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='natale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dolci natalizi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dolci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cavallucci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='struffoli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='torrone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='panettone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pandoro'/><title type='text'>Natale è anche ... dolci!</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;A Natale&lt;/b&gt; si mangiano dei dolci che si trovano solo in questo periodo dell'anno, e che variano da una regione all'altra.&lt;br /&gt;I dolci più tradizionali, che da molti anni sono diffusissimi in tutta Italia, sono il &lt;b&gt;Panettone&lt;/b&gt; e il &lt;b&gt;Pandoro&lt;/b&gt;. Il panettone è originario di Milano, il pandoro di Verona. Ecco le foto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQoZxo4FY3I/AAAAAAAAAV4/7ghQakGZlf0/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQoZxo4FY3I/AAAAAAAAAV4/7ghQakGZlf0/s1600/images.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQoZ1shY_dI/AAAAAAAAAV8/JF4E2TGBBZg/s1600/images+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQoZ1shY_dI/AAAAAAAAAV8/JF4E2TGBBZg/s1600/images+%25281%2529.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Io sono una "fan" del panettone, ma direi che, anche in questo caso, come abbiamo ben visto in questi giorni, gli italiani si dividono al 50 e 50....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Poi ci sono dolci che si trovano solo, o quasi, nelle regioni di origine. In Toscana, per esempio, ci mangiamo i &lt;b&gt;Ricciarelli&lt;/b&gt;, i &lt;b&gt;Cavallucci&lt;/b&gt; e il &lt;b&gt;Panforte&lt;/b&gt; ( tutte e tre specialità di Siena). Eccoli: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TQvFj2SO-PI/AAAAAAAAAzo/jROY9VoOrC8/s1600/ricciarelli.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block;  margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TQvFj2SO-PI/AAAAAAAAAzo/jROY9VoOrC8/s320/ricciarelli.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551748185322354930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TQvFj1JrDDI/AAAAAAAAAzg/vMSqZPkqyIo/s1600/cavallucci01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TQvFj1JrDDI/AAAAAAAAAzg/vMSqZPkqyIo/s320/cavallucci01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551748185018010674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TQvFkctJrtI/AAAAAAAAAzw/qgAnfTflvcQ/s1600/Panforte-Jul05-D0396sAR800.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TQvFkctJrtI/AAAAAAAAAzw/qgAnfTflvcQ/s320/Panforte-Jul05-D0396sAR800.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551748195635801810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Da Napoli, poi, arrivano gli &lt;b&gt;Struffoli&lt;/b&gt;: buoni!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQobnN6T70I/AAAAAAAAAWM/65nTf5vQG2M/s1600/images+%25285%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQobnN6T70I/AAAAAAAAAWM/65nTf5vQG2M/s1600/images+%25285%2529.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ora torno al Nord: da Cremona, il &lt;b&gt;Torrone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQob-D0mRVI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/mrz0XDYExjk/s1600/images+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQob-D0mRVI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/mrz0XDYExjk/s1600/images+%25283%2529.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finisco questa carrellata, molto parziale devo dire, con dei biscotti, che credo diffusi un po' da tutte le parti, che si chiamano &lt;b&gt;Befane&lt;/b&gt; o Befanini ( e sarebbero più tipici per il giorno dell'Epifania, ma oramai si trovano da novembre a marzo, praticamente...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQoceXv4itI/AAAAAAAAAWU/9RYG8hnyiKs/s1600/images+%25284%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQoceXv4itI/AAAAAAAAAWU/9RYG8hnyiKs/s1600/images+%25284%2529.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'abbuffata, insomma, si avvicina...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-1317081381982477867?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/1317081381982477867/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/natale-e-anche-dolci.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1317081381982477867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1317081381982477867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/natale-e-anche-dolci.html' title='Natale è anche ... dolci!'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TQoZxo4FY3I/AAAAAAAAAV4/7ghQakGZlf0/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6747719140181628938</id><published>2010-12-06T23:22:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T10:06:18.458+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='San Frediano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='storia di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Serchio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chiesa San Frediano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='santi di Lucca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vescovo di lucca'/><title type='text'>La storia di San Frediano</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TP1j84r1i7I/AAAAAAAAAyQ/kEmjL-mzRAI/s1600/10%2Bsan%2Bfrediano.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TP1j84r1i7I/AAAAAAAAAyQ/kEmjL-mzRAI/s320/10%2Bsan%2Bfrediano.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547700213649869746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Una delle chiese più importanti di Lucca è quella di San Frediano, con lo splendido mosaico sulla facciata a rappresentare l'Ascensione di Cristo. Ma sapete chi era Frediano, prima di diventare santo?   Era un monaco irlandese, venuto in Italia in pellegrinaggio, che al ritorno da Roma si fermò vicino a Lucca e vi si stabilì come  eremita, chiamando altri religiosi a condividere la sua scelta. Credendo nella sua profonda virtù, i Lucchesi lo vollero loro vescovo nel 560 circa.  Una volta eletto, fece costruire la chiesa di San Vincenzo, quella che  oggi è la basilica di San Frediano e ne conserva le spoglie. Morì nel 588 e fu proclamato santo pochi anni dopo. San Frediano è venerato sia a Lucca che a Firenze, e in entrambi i casi si tramandano leggende di opere  miracolose compiute sui rispettivi fiumi:  il Serchio e l'Arno. Nel caso del fiume di Lucca, il Serchio,  Frediano ne deviò il corso, tracciandone uno nuovo con un semplice rastrello:  le acque si incanalarono prodigiosamente e il fiume cessò di costituire un pericolo per la campagna e la città di Lucca, che spesso subivano delle inondazioni. Nel caso invece del fiume di Firenze, si dice che Frediano, venuto a rendere omaggio alla tomba del martire Miniato, trovasse l'Arno in piena e l'impossibilità di attraversarlo in barca.  Allora si mise a pregare e in questo modo riuscì a placare il fiume:  i fiorentini gli dedicarono una chiesa eretta nel punto in cui sbarcò sulla riva sinistra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One of the most important churches in Lucca is San Frediano, ornamented with the splendid mosaic on its façade representing Christ's Ascension. Do you know who was Frediano, before he became a saint?    He was an Irish monk, who came to Italy on a pilgrimage and on his way back from Rome settled near Lucca as a hermit, gathering round himself other religious willing to share his choice. As the Lucchese believed in his profound virtues, they called  him to be their bishop  in the year 560. Once elected, he had the church of San Vincenzo built, which took his name after his death in 588 and his canonization:  his mortal remains are kept in his church. San Frediano is worshipped both in Lucca and in Florence for reported miracles on the respective rivers: the Serchio and the Arno. In the case of the river of Lucca, the Serchio, Frediano diverted its course by means of a simple rake:  the waters flowed prodigiously into the new channel and the river ceased to endanger the country and the city with its frequent floods. As regards the river of Florence, it is said that Frediano went to honour the grave of the martyr Miniato but  the boat could not carry him over because of the impetuous water.  Then he set to pray and by miracle the river calmed down:  the Florentines dedicated a church to him, right where he went ashore on the left bank.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TP1j8cMUE4I/AAAAAAAAAyI/Kj53q-Yu3Cc/s1600/SAN%2BFREDIANO.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TP1j8cMUE4I/AAAAAAAAAyI/Kj53q-Yu3Cc/s320/SAN%2BFREDIANO.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547700206001460098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6747719140181628938?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6747719140181628938/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-storia-di-san-frediano_06.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6747719140181628938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6747719140181628938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-storia-di-san-frediano_06.html' title='La storia di San Frediano'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TP1j84r1i7I/AAAAAAAAAyQ/kEmjL-mzRAI/s72-c/10%2Bsan%2Bfrediano.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6024642465735550374</id><published>2010-12-02T20:54:00.023+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T08:26:28.164+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montecatini Terme'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montecatini Alto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cialde di Montecatini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Acque termali'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern Style'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stile liberty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funicolare'/><title type='text'>Visita a Montecatini</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPgVBjL7CoI/AAAAAAAAAxc/nm9XsHiC2hA/s1600/Cattura3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPgVBjL7CoI/AAAAAAAAAxc/nm9XsHiC2hA/s320/Cattura3.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546206057476065922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oggi siamo andati a visitare un luogo piuttosto conosciuto, che in questa stagione non è così affollato di turisti come in primavera e in estate, e perciò assume un fascino particolare: si tratta di Montecatini, un'importante località termale a circa 30 km da Lucca.  In realtà il paese originario si trova in collina e si chiama Montecatini Alto:   il castello e il borgo fortificato risalgono al Medioevo e costituivano un avamposto di Firenze nelle frequenti lotte con le altre città toscane di Pisa e di Lucca. Nella pianura ai suoi piedi  vi era una palude, ricca di acque conosciute già nell'antichità per le loro qualità curative.  Ma trattandosi di acque stagnanti,  l'ambiente era alquanto insalubre. Lo sfruttamento vero e proprio come centro termale iniziò a fine '800, dopo che il Granduca Leopoldo di Toscana fece costruire dei canali per far defluire le acque. Si costruirono allora i primi stabilimenti termali  e agli inizi del '900, i  Bagni di Montecatini si costituirono in comune indipendente, distinto da Montecatini Alto. Poi, nel 1940 le due località si unificarono e Montecatini Terme divenne il centro amministrativo unico per entrambe.   Nel frattempo si era costituita la provincia di Pistoia nel 1927 e Montecatini ne entrò a far parte.Alcuni stabilimenti termali sono dei gioielli dell'architettura in stile liberty di inizio secolo e li abbiamo potuti ammirare nella foschia di un pomeriggio autunnale, fortunatamente senza pioggia. Poi abbiamo gustato le cialde di Montecatini,  deliziosi dolci fatti con farina, latte, uova e mandorle. Per raggiungere il borgo di Montecatini Alto c'è anche una funicolare che è in servizio da Marzo a Ottobre,  che sale lungo un percorso ripido e pittoresco attraverso i boschi e gli oliveti della collina.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPgRalF9UmI/AAAAAAAAAxU/-ssYDdB6GsI/s1600/Cattura2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPgRalF9UmI/AAAAAAAAAxU/-ssYDdB6GsI/s320/Cattura2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546202089438138978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Today we went on an excursion to a well-known place, which in this season is not so crowded with tourists as in Spring and Summer,  being therefore particularly charming:  I am speaking of Montecatini,  an important thermal center at about 30 km from Lucca.  Actually, the ancient town is located on a hill and its name is Montecatini Alto:  its castle and fortified hamlet date back to the Middle Ages, when  it was an outpost  of Florence in its frequent struggles with the other Tuscan towns of Pisa and Lucca.  On the plain at its feet there was a marsh:  the waters springing from the subsoil  were already known for their healing qualities, but as they stagnated,  the environment was rather unhealthy.  The actual utilization of this resource  started at the end of the XIX century, after Grand Duke Leopoldo of Tuscany  had some canals built to let the waters flow out.  The first thermal establishments were then erected and at the beginning of the XX century, Bagni di Montecatini became an independent municipality. Afterwards, in 1940 the two hamlets became united and the seat of the  Comune was moved to Montecatini Terme, the growing center of the plain below. In the meantime Pistoia had become a Province in 1927 and Montecatini was included in its territory. Some of the thermal establishments are jewels of the Modern Style, and we could admire them  in a foggy autumn afternoon,  luckily without rain. Then we tasted the Cialde of Montecatini, a delicious cake made of flour, milk, eggs and almonds.  To reach the hamlet of Montecatini Alto  there is also a funicular operating form March to October, which connects the thermal center to the old village, climbing on a steep and picturesque track through the woods and olive groves covering the hill.&lt;/div&gt;_____________________________________________________________________________________&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6024642465735550374?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6024642465735550374/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/visita-montecatini.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6024642465735550374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6024642465735550374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/visita-montecatini.html' title='Visita a Montecatini'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPgVBjL7CoI/AAAAAAAAAxc/nm9XsHiC2hA/s72-c/Cattura3.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6532045129824622086</id><published>2010-11-30T18:40:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-10T08:18:39.087+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='letargo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cristo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inverno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dicembre'/><title type='text'>Arriva Dicembre</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPWD1R6fenI/AAAAAAAAAvc/6DnCB3RaE7Q/s1600/letargo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 171px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPWD1R6fenI/AAAAAAAAAvc/6DnCB3RaE7Q/s320/letargo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545483467541674610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Ecco la strofa della "Canzone dei dodici mesi" di Francesco Guccini dedicata a Dicembre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;E mi addormento come in un letargo, Dicembre, alle tue porte, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;lungo i tuoi giorni con la mente spargo tristi semi di morte&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Uomini e cose lasciano per terra esili ombre pigre, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;ma nei tuoi giorni dai profeti detti nasce Cristo la tigre!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Here's the few lines dedicated to December from the "Song of the 12 months" by Francesco Guccini.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;At your door I fall asleep like in hibernation, o December&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Over your days my mind scatters sad seeds of death&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Men and things leave their lazy slender silhouettes on the ground&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;But in your time as by the prophets told,  Christ the Tiger is born!&lt;/div&gt;_____________________________________________________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6532045129824622086?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6532045129824622086/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/arriva-dicembre.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6532045129824622086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6532045129824622086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/arriva-dicembre.html' title='Arriva Dicembre'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPWD1R6fenI/AAAAAAAAAvc/6DnCB3RaE7Q/s72-c/letargo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-467859627518869846</id><published>2010-11-29T00:08:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T08:28:13.610+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Collina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Olio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rocca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montecarlo'/><title type='text'>Montecarlo, a una mezz'oretta da Lucca...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Talvolta, parlando con qualche studente straniero delle località intorno a Lucca che vale la pena visitare,  si consiglia anche Montecarlo.  Lo studente rimane un po' perplesso, perché lipperlì gli viene da pensare a Montecarlo nel Principato di Monaco, e non gli sembra che sia nei dintorni di Lucca. Ma il dubbio è presto dissolto:  esiste anche un piccolo paese fortificato che si chiama Montecarlo perché fu costruito dal futuro imperatore Carlo IV di Boemia nel 1333. Questo paese  è su una collina a  circa 15 km da Lucca.  Sulle sue pendici si coltivano viti e olivi, da cui si ricavano un vino di pregio e un ottimo olio.  Il paese conserva ancora benissimo il suo patrimonio storico, in particolare la rocca, la chiesa di S. Andrea,  parte delle mura medievali e il teatro del Settecento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPLiQIc1BrI/AAAAAAAAAvM/vxO7ZErz2wg/s1600/MONTECARLO.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPLiQIc1BrI/AAAAAAAAAvM/vxO7ZErz2wg/s320/MONTECARLO.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544742858020685490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sometimes, when talking with a foreign student about places around Lucca that are worth a visit, we happen to mention Montecarlo. The student is puzzled, because at first he thinks of Montecarlo  in the Princedom Monaco, which is located pretty far from Lucca, not exactly around it. But soon his doubt is cleared:  there exists also a small fortified hamlet, named Montecarlo after the future emperor Charles IV of Bohemia had it built in the year 1333.  This village stands on a hill at about 15 km from Lucca,  on which olive groves and vineyards are grown, producing  very fine wines and an excellent extra virgin olive oil.  The historic heritage of the hamlet is well preserved, in particular its castle, the romanesque church of S. Andrea, part of the medieval walls and its theatre from the XVIII century.&lt;/div&gt;_____________________________________________________________________________________&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-467859627518869846?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/467859627518869846/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/montecarlo-una-mezzoretta-da-lucca.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/467859627518869846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/467859627518869846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/montecarlo-una-mezzoretta-da-lucca.html' title='Montecarlo, a una mezz&apos;oretta da Lucca...'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TPLiQIc1BrI/AAAAAAAAAvM/vxO7ZErz2wg/s72-c/MONTECARLO.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-2598927395230841964</id><published>2010-11-23T18:05:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T08:28:52.694+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pinocchio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Capannori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='streghe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grande quercia'/><title type='text'>La grande quercia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nel comune di Capannori,  a circa 10 km da Lucca, sulla collina a sud dei paesi di Gragnano e Lappato, dopo un breve percorso si arriva alla “grande quercia”  : è un albero secolare di oltre quattro metri di circonferenza.  La leggenda vuole che la sua forma schiacciata sia dovuta al peso delle streghe che danzano sui suoi rami.   Ma la grande quercia è conosciuta anche come l'albero di Pinocchio, sotto il quale si dice che il bambino di legno sotterrò i suoi denari, ingannato dal Gatto e dalla Volpe. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOv0gfjG43I/AAAAAAAAAus/im6ycxhyigI/s1600/Quercia2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOv0gfjG43I/AAAAAAAAAus/im6ycxhyigI/s320/Quercia2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542792605471269746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In the territory of Capannori, about 10 km from Lucca, on the hill south of the villages of Gragnano and Lappato, after a short trail it's possible to reach “the big oak”, a centuries-old tree with a girth of over four metres. According to legend, its flattened shape is due to the weight of witches dancing on it.    But the big oak is also known for being the tree at the foot of which Pinocchio, deceived by the Cat and the Fox,  buried his money.&lt;/div&gt;_____________________________________________________________________________________&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-2598927395230841964?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/2598927395230841964/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/la-grande-quercia.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2598927395230841964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2598927395230841964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/la-grande-quercia.html' title='La grande quercia'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOv0gfjG43I/AAAAAAAAAus/im6ycxhyigI/s72-c/Quercia2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6954066647825151341</id><published>2010-11-23T09:45:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T09:07:37.434+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bambino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sogno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cantautore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='De Gregori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='calcio'/><title type='text'>La poesia del calcio: una canzone di Francesco de Gregori</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOuEPim8mqI/AAAAAAAAAuk/iuGTnfTjtX8/s1600/degregori.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOuEPim8mqI/AAAAAAAAAuk/iuGTnfTjtX8/s320/degregori.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542669168932592290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il calcio visto attraverso i sogni e le paure di un bambino: un'immagine poetica lontana dalla violenza e dall'affarismo che contraddistinguono questo bellissimo sport oggigiorno&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Football as seen through the dreams and the fears of a child: a truly poetic vision in contrast with the violence and speculation affecting this great sport nowadays&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rX6XwQA3ktU?fs=1" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6954066647825151341?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6954066647825151341/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/la-poesia-del-calcio-una-canzone-di.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6954066647825151341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6954066647825151341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/la-poesia-del-calcio-una-canzone-di.html' title='La poesia del calcio: una canzone di Francesco de Gregori'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOuEPim8mqI/AAAAAAAAAuk/iuGTnfTjtX8/s72-c/degregori.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-1637652917380686877</id><published>2010-11-21T16:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T08:30:13.322+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bartezzaghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mike Bongiorno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tullio De Mauro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lingua italiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='televisione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='enigmistica'/><title type='text'>Intervista a Stefano Bartezzaghi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ecco una interessante intervista a Stefano Bartezzaghi, un enigmista e scrittore italiano. Nella prima parte lui parla dell'enigmistica, una parola peculiare della nostra lingua, e delle differenze dei cruciverba da paese a paese. Poi fa un po' la sintesi del processo di unificazione della lingua italiana ad opera della televisione citando il grande studioso Tullio De Mauro  e il presentatore   Mike Bongiorno, il quale iniziò la sua carriera proprio quando la RAI-TV cominciò a trasmettere nel 1954. Nella parte finale dell'intervista, Bartezzaghi rivendica l'importanza dell'enigmistica nella formazione dell'italiano moderno, seppure non ufficialmente riconosciuta.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;-----------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Here's an interesting interview to Stefano Bartezzaghi, an italian puzzle maker and writer.First he talks about "enigmistica", a peculiarly italian word for puzzle composing, and of crossword and its differences in every country. Then of the process of unification of the language brought about by the television, mentioning Tullio De Mauro, a famous linguist, and  Mike Bongiorno, the anchorman who started his career just when the italian television began to broadcast in 1954. In the final part of the interview, Bartezzaghi claims the importance of "enigmistica"  in the forming of modern Italian, although this is not officially recognised.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cDO47420dG0?fs=1" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-1637652917380686877?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/1637652917380686877/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/intervista-stefano-bartezzaghi.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1637652917380686877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1637652917380686877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/intervista-stefano-bartezzaghi.html' title='Intervista a Stefano Bartezzaghi'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/cDO47420dG0/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-6802591043253536696</id><published>2010-11-18T23:22:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-29T16:11:25.766+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bathing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viareggio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bagni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Liberty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Villeggiatura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Modern Style'/><title type='text'>Viareggio:  cenni storici</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOWoSsi5gTI/AAAAAAAAAuU/OTOzb3UYN3k/s1600/IMG_2856.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOWoSsi5gTI/AAAAAAAAAuU/OTOzb3UYN3k/s320/IMG_2856.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541019955697910066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In  origine, Viareggio era un piccolo centro raccolto intorno a una torre di guardia a difesa della costa e del porto.  I Lucchesi vi avevano infatti costruito nel XVI secolo, al termine della Via Regia (da cui deriva il nome di Viareggio) che fungeva da collegamento fra l'entroterra e il mare, una fortificazione:  la torre Matilde, che ancora oggi possiamo vedere al limite est della città, faceva parte di quella costruzione difensiva, sorta lungo il canale Burlamacca. Proprio qui si sviluppò il primo nucleo abitato composto da pescatori, portuali e carpentieri. Il cambiamento, che rese Viareggio la ridente città di villeggiatura che conosciamo oggi, avvenne molto più tardi, e cioè nel XIX secolo,  e fu indotto dalla presenza di due donne ai vertici del potere: Maria Luisa di Borbone, che fece costruire la prima darsena e portò Viareggio ad essere una vera città,   e Paolina Bonaparte, la cui villa di fronte al mare circondata da un parco, dette inizio alla tendenza, poi sempre più diffusa, alla residenza di villeggiatura balneare. Quindi, durante il XIX secolo, i nobili e i borghesi vengono a Viareggio per i bagni, e sul lungomare si costruiscono stabilimenti in legno e moli su palafitte.  Poi, nel secolo successivo, il Viale Regina Margherita  (quello che oggi tutti chiamano “la passeggiata”)  conoscerà il grande splendore dello stile liberty, di cui si possono ammirare ancora oggi numerosi esempi:  il Gran Caffè Margherita, ritrovo degli artisti e degli intellettuali del tempo, i magazzini Duilio 48, la galleria del Libro, i bagni Balena, Martinelli e Bertuccelli;   inoltre, di fronte alla passeggiata nascono i grandi alberghi, fra cui il  Grand Hotel Royal e il Principe di Piemonte. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOWn-G0OX5I/AAAAAAAAAuM/z3LnvohkuwE/s1600/IMG_2844.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOWn-G0OX5I/AAAAAAAAAuM/z3LnvohkuwE/s320/IMG_2844.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541019601972649874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Going back to its origins, Viareggio was but a hamlet around a fortress built by Lucca in the XVI century as a defense of the coast and the port at the end of the Via Regia (the Royal Road, hence the name of the town), connecting the interior to the sea.   Today we can still see a portion of that fortress, namely the Torre Matilde, on the east side of town, along the Burlamacca canal:  right here the first settlement of fishermen, dockers and carpenters was started. The change to a charming seaside resort as we know it today, took place much later in the XIX century, when two important women of power excercised their influence: Maria Luisa di Borbone had the first dockyard built, which brought about the development into a  real town;  and Paolina Bonaparte, whose villa surrounded by a park in front of the sea  gave rise to the fashion of the holidays at the seaside. Consequently, during the whole XIX century, the aristocracy and the upper class went to Viareggio to bathe and on the sea promenade the first bathing establishments  and wooden moles were built on piles.  Then, in the following century, the Viale Regina Margherita  (aka “la passeggiata”) knew the great splendour of the Modern Style,  notably the Gran Caffè Margherita, meeting point of the artists and intellectuals of that period, the store Duilio 48, the Book Gallery, the bathing establishments Balena, Martinelli and Bertuccelli, all of which are still well preserved today. Besides, opposite the promenade, some big hotels were built, among which the Grand Hotel Royal and the Principe di Piemonte.&lt;/div&gt;_____________________________________________________________________________________&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-6802591043253536696?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/6802591043253536696/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/in-origine-viareggio-era-un-piccolo.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6802591043253536696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/6802591043253536696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/in-origine-viareggio-era-un-piccolo.html' title='Viareggio:  cenni storici'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOWoSsi5gTI/AAAAAAAAAuU/OTOzb3UYN3k/s72-c/IMG_2856.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-4314572457283318892</id><published>2010-11-16T23:06:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T08:34:56.332+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Festa della Castagna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garfagnana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tradizione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fosciandora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lupinaia'/><title type='text'>Una escursione a Lupinaia per la festa della castagna</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Domenica scorsa abbiamo fatto una bella escursione a Lupinaia, un piccolo paese in Garfagnana, in occasione della locale festa della castagna.  Abbiamo preso il treno a Lucca e siamo scesi alla stazione di Fosciandora.  Poi abbiamo camminato su una mulattiera per circa due ore e siamo finalmente arrivati a Lupinaia.  C'erano cinque studenti della scuola, una coppia di americani, Rick e Susie,  una svizzera, Barbara, una tedesca, Doris e un'altra americana Jyotika.  Inoltre c'erano altri partecipanti di Lucca e di Viareggio e le due guide ambientali che hanno organizzato l'escursione, Federica e Matteo.  Il cielo era nuvoloso, ma per fortuna non ha mai piovuto. Per questo la festa si è svolta benissimo.  Abbiamo potuto mangiare le molte specialità gastronomiche del territorio:  bomboloni di castagna, necci con la ricotta, mondine (castagne arrostite), maccheroni di castagna, affettati locali, il tutto innaffiato da un ottimo vino rosso! C'era anche un gruppo di musicisti un po' pazzi ma anche molto bravi ad eseguire polche, mazurche e stornelli in giro per il paese. Verso le 5 del pomeriggio siamo ritornati alla stazione per prendere il treno per Lucca, dove siamo arrivati alle 6 e mezzo.  E' stata per tutti davvero una giornata indimenticabile!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOWxHivvc9I/AAAAAAAAAuc/dBUh1fF0oVU/s1600/l%25C3%25B2upionaia.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 290px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOWxHivvc9I/AAAAAAAAAuc/dBUh1fF0oVU/s320/l%25C3%25B2upionaia.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541029659693511634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Last Sunday we went on a very fine excursion to Lupinaia, a hamlet of Garfagnana, for the  feast of the chestnut, which takes place every year in November.  We took the train in Lucca and got off at Fosciandora. Then we walked for about two hours on a “mulattiera”  (a mule track) and we finally reached Lupinaia. In our group there were five students of Lucca Italian School,  Rick, Susie, Jyotika, americans,  Barbara from Switzerland and Doris from Germany.  Then there were other participants from Lucca and Viareggio, who had joined the excursion organised by the Association “Il Bivacco” : Federica and Matteo guided the group.   The sky was cloudy all day, but luckily it never rained, so the feast  was very very agreeable.   We could eat the many local delicacies offered:   chestnut cakes, necci with ricotta cheese, roasted chestnuts, chestnut noodles, local salami and cheese,  and drink good red wine. There was also a group of musicians, who delighted us playing polkas, mazurkas and singing songs in the village streets.  At about 5 p.m. we got back to the station to take the train to Lucca, and we were home by 6.30.  It was an unforgettable experience for all of us!&lt;/div&gt;_____________________________________________________________________________________&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-4314572457283318892?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/4314572457283318892/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/una-escursione-lupinaia-per-la-festa.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/4314572457283318892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/4314572457283318892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/una-escursione-lupinaia-per-la-festa.html' title='Una escursione a Lupinaia per la festa della castagna'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6jogIfaG0JI/TOWxHivvc9I/AAAAAAAAAuc/dBUh1fF0oVU/s72-c/l%25C3%25B2upionaia.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-5044395957541442739</id><published>2010-11-11T11:18:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T11:07:57.398+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carducci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='San Martino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poesia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Autunno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Novembre'/><title type='text'>Video poesia" S.Martino" di Giosuè Carducci</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-365MkG51RNY/TVj-8y57PqI/AAAAAAAABBg/biFxmWGCgF0/s1600/giosu%25C3%25A8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-365MkG51RNY/TVj-8y57PqI/AAAAAAAABBg/biFxmWGCgF0/s400/giosu%25C3%25A8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573484859281325730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi è San Martino; è il giorno giusto per ricordarsi di questa bellissima poesia di Giosuè Carducci che tutti abbiamo imparato a memoria quando eravamo bambini...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/ZKTFqU0e37w/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZKTFqU0e37w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZKTFqU0e37w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-5044395957541442739?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/5044395957541442739/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/video-poesia-smartino-di-giosue.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5044395957541442739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5044395957541442739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/video-poesia-smartino-di-giosue.html' title='Video poesia&quot; S.Martino&quot; di Giosuè Carducci'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-365MkG51RNY/TVj-8y57PqI/AAAAAAAABBg/biFxmWGCgF0/s72-c/giosu%25C3%25A8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-5379845761210970843</id><published>2010-11-10T23:53:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T09:06:51.346+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garfagnana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='folclore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fisarmonica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='camporgiano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tradizioni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='balli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toscana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='muffrina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucca'/><title type='text'>Il trescone: il ballo toscano tradizionale per eccellenza</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ecco un bel video del Gruppo Folclorico "La Muffrina" di Camporgiano (Garfagnana) che esegue il ballo tradizionale toscano, chiamato "Trescone"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Here's a fine video of the Folkloric Group "La Muffrina" from Camporgiano  (Garfagnana), performing a traditional tuscan dance called "Trescone"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/9oI77Zcff8M/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9oI77Zcff8M?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9oI77Zcff8M?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-5379845761210970843?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/5379845761210970843/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/il-trescone-il-ballo-toscano.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5379845761210970843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/5379845761210970843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/il-trescone-il-ballo-toscano.html' title='Il trescone: il ballo toscano tradizionale per eccellenza'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-1262003182718368998</id><published>2010-11-10T19:01:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T10:46:13.543+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nursery rhyme'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gianni Rodari'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='filastrocca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poesia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morale'/><title type='text'>Gianni Rodari, il poeta dei bambini</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IrvFKyCRCRA/TVj51TQ15XI/AAAAAAAABBA/Zcz1irm751M/s1600/GiornalinoRodariCover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IrvFKyCRCRA/TVj51TQ15XI/AAAAAAAABBA/Zcz1irm751M/s400/GiornalinoRodariCover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573479232970286450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Gianni Rodari è stato un famoso scrittore e poeta italiano, la cui opera è in gran parte composta di rime scherzose per bambini.  Ma le sue filastrocche, al di là dello stile e della piacevolezza estetica,  molto spesso contengono una morale che si addice anche al mondo degli adulti.  Ecco un esempio illuminante della sua vasta produzione poetica:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Gianni Rodari was a famous Italian writer and poet, who mainly wrote poems for children. Nevertheless, beyond their funny style and enjoyableness, his rhymes often contain a moral that makes sense for adults as well. Here is an excellent example of his poetic work:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;FILASTROCCA IMPERTINENTE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Filastrocca impertinente,&lt;br /&gt;chi sta zitto non dice niente;&lt;br /&gt;chi sta fermo non cammina;&lt;br /&gt;chi va lontano non s’avvicina;&lt;br /&gt;chi si siede non sta ritto;&lt;br /&gt;chi va storto non va dritto;&lt;br /&gt;e chi non parte, in verità,&lt;br /&gt;in nessun posto arriverà&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gianni Rodari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-1262003182718368998?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/1262003182718368998/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/gianni-rodari-great-poet.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1262003182718368998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/1262003182718368998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/gianni-rodari-great-poet.html' title='Gianni Rodari, il poeta dei bambini'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IrvFKyCRCRA/TVj51TQ15XI/AAAAAAAABBA/Zcz1irm751M/s72-c/GiornalinoRodariCover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-9222526645708760447</id><published>2010-11-10T17:09:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T11:02:14.786+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toscani nel mondo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emigrazione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ellis Island'/><title type='text'>L'emigrazione italiana in America</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fVAf1dCAb9s/TVj9m2WmWtI/AAAAAAAABBQ/aQOKBuspEDQ/s1600/EllisIsland17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fVAf1dCAb9s/TVj9m2WmWtI/AAAAAAAABBQ/aQOKBuspEDQ/s400/EllisIsland17.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573483382738148050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un breve e commovente racconto di un giovane americano, che parla dell'emigrazione dei suoi antenati dalla Toscana agli Stati Uniti nel secolo scorso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A short touching narration from a young American on his ancestors' emigration from Tuscany to the Usa in the past century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/qeMVnUhLktE/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qeMVnUhLktE?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qeMVnUhLktE?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT" width="480" height="295" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-9222526645708760447?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/9222526645708760447/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/lemigrazione-italiana-in-america.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/9222526645708760447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/9222526645708760447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/lemigrazione-italiana-in-america.html' title='L&apos;emigrazione italiana in America'/><author><name>Angelo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02030341611394544195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rs13gYJ9EXM/TnJd-KZhPHI/AAAAAAAABhg/QgraY1Ku3CA/s220/46804_1481129121351_1627521068_1158487_5821640_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fVAf1dCAb9s/TVj9m2WmWtI/AAAAAAAABBQ/aQOKBuspEDQ/s72-c/EllisIsland17.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-8375930751387226254</id><published>2010-11-07T11:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-10T17:29:16.761+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musica italiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francesco Guccini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Autunno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nostalgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canzoni'/><title type='text'>Francesco Guccini -  Autunno</title><content type='html'>Continuiamo con altre emozioni su questa stagione... (i sottotitoli sono in bulgaro, per i nostri amici del paese delle rose)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's enjoy other seasonal emotions..... (subtitles in Bulgarian, for our friends of the country of roses)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/goGFUM1Qs4I/hqdefault.jpg)"  width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/goGFUM1Qs4I?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/goGFUM1Qs4I?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-8375930751387226254?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/8375930751387226254/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/francesco-guccini-autunno-bg-sub.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/8375930751387226254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/8375930751387226254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/francesco-guccini-autunno-bg-sub.html' title='Francesco Guccini -  Autunno'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706785181655010649.post-2932406636774025776</id><published>2010-11-04T20:51:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T11:06:25.683+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pascoli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poesia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garfagnana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Autunno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Novembre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><title type='text'>Una poesia di Giovanni Pascoli: "Novembre"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B7bJGYerKZo/TVj-k6j8RJI/AAAAAAAABBY/a9FwYK8ka70/s1600/Giovanni_Pascoli.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B7bJGYerKZo/TVj-k6j8RJI/AAAAAAAABBY/a9FwYK8ka70/s400/Giovanni_Pascoli.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573484449019741330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) è uno dei più grandi poeti italiani. Ha abitato a lungo nella nostra provincia, in Garfagnana,e ha composto una delle sue poesie più belle e note proprio in onore del mese di Novembre. Eccola:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/FAELdcMAq1U/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FAELdcMAq1U?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FAELdcMAq1U?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7706785181655010649-2932406636774025776?l=luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/feeds/2932406636774025776/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/giovanni-pascoli-novembre.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2932406636774025776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7706785181655010649/posts/default/2932406636774025776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luccaitalianschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/giovanni-pascoli-novembre.html' title='Una poesia di Giovanni Pascoli: &quot;Novembre&quot;'/><author><name>lucca italian school</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06225762535983334888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='14' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TNhPcP1A7Bo/TA-yPFEVgRI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ftz2BCcrAxY/S220/logo.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B7bJGYerKZo/TVj-k6j8RJI/AAAAAAAABBY/a9FwYK8ka70
