Dating Italians Online

We know there are many web sites about dating Italians. Some of them are very popular and you probably have seen their advertisement on the internet or on television. One of these is Easyflirt, which has perhaps the largest database of singles from Europe, South America, United States, and all over the world. I mentioned Europe first because that's where the majority of its members is from. Italy, for instance is one of the countries from Europe as having one the highest number of members. There are, indeed,  many singles from Italy listed in the profiles, as well as Italian singles from Europe, Brazil, and North America. If you are looking to meet someone from Italy or of Italian descent, either for friendship, love or even marriage, you could start by using Easyflirt.
Do you have any story to share? Have you met someone online, from Italy, Italian, or that likes Italians?

Video: Mina: Se Telefonando

A timeless masterpiece sung by Mina over Ennio Morricone's music. 1964.

Movies: Terraferma selected for Oscars

Emanuele Crialese's immigration-themed "Terraferma" has been selected to represent Italy in the foreign-language Oscar race.
The passionate morality tale produced by Cattleya and RAI Cinema recently won the special jury prize in Venice and unspooled in Toronto.
Like Crialese's "Respiro," pic is set on a tiny island off the Sicilian coast where fishermen, abiding by the "law of the sea," opt to rescue African boat people and end up in hot water with the local coast guard.
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Video: Etna erupting for the 15th time this year

Rosetta Stone: Learn to speak Italian the right way

Rosetta Stone Italian Level 1-5 Set

Rosetta Stone Italian is an interactive language software with proprietary speech-recognition technology. You can develop your command of the language--read, write, speak, and understand Italian. You will build vocabulary of Italian words; negotiate complex situations; share ideas and opinions.
The set comes with an Audio Companion for CD or MP3 player; learning application for iPhone or iPod Touch device.
Language-enhancing games; live online lessons; includes headset with microphone.

I am an Italian coach for Rosetta Stone. I have been amazed by how fast learners can learn to converse in Italian. I am very pleased by the achievement of my students in learning my native language. In my opinion, if you want to concentrate in learning Italian mostly for conversation, this is the way to go. Just enough grammar to help you along the way. Whether you want to learn Italian for travel or for business and you need to do it fast and efficiently, Rosetta Stone is the only choice I recommend.

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Enrico Caruso: Italian Songs

 

A remastered, implemented selection of Neapolitan songs recorded by Enrico Caruso between 1906 and 1920.  Those unfamiliar with the Caruso phenomenon should hear him under any circumstances, and this is as good a chance as any.

1. Vieni sul mar
2. 'O sole mio
3. Tu can nun chiagne
4. Santa Lucia
5. Pecche?
6. L'Alba separa dalla luce l'ombra
7. Fenesta che lucive
8. Mamma mia che vo' sape
9. Musica proibita
10. Core 'ngrato
11. Luna d'estate
12. Ideale
13. 'A vucchella
14. Vaghissima sembianza
15. Tarantella sincera
16. Senza nisciuno

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Mina: Oggi sono io

This song was written by Alex Britti. Apparently, Mina never sang the song until the time of this recording.
A special video during the recordings of several songs at Mina's own studio in 2001.

Amanda Knox: The Massei Report

 

SENTENCE OF THE COURT OF ASSIZES OF PERUGIA
(PRESIDED OVER BY DR. GIANCARLO MASSEI)
IN THE MURDER OF MEREDITH KERCHER
Translated from the Italian into English

You can download the complete Massei report in PDF format here.

An ancient Roman shipyard found

 

A vast shipyard which is larger than a football pitch and built ships for Roman emperors, including Hadrian, has been discovered by British archaeologists.

Experts from the University of Southampton, among others, excavated the remains of a building more than 150m long and 60m wide at Portus, the ancient port for Rome.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2040402/Ancient-Roman-shipyard-discovered-Portus.html#ixzz1YubafGKD

A Day in Florence

With recent advances in the services provided by Trenitalia, Florence is now only an eighty-minute trip from Rome. What is more, you can book your own seats on the trains from home, on the Internet, and, with Eurostar, move comfortably and swiftly between cities. In some ways this brilliant advance in transport may,  however, be a drawback, making the world ever smaller. It's like the ipad or the blackberry.

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Amanda Knox: Will she be home by Thanksgiving?

Prosecutors seek life sentence

Italian prosecutors asked an appeals court on Saturday to uphold the conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of her British roommate and increase her sentence to life in prison.  

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Also: Prosecutors compare Amanda Knox to Nazis

 

Sophia Loren: Italian Goddess

Sophia Loren: A Biography at Italia.com
Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, to unmarried parents; her father Riccardo Scicolone was an engineer and her mother Romilda Villani was an aspiring actress and piano teacher. Loren grew up impoverished in wartime Pozzuoli, near Naples sharing a small flat with her sister Maria, her grandparents and her uncles and aunts. She has said on many occasions that being born into and living with extreme poverty for most of her childhood gave her a strength of character that allowed her to succeed and appreciate every moment she has been given as a human being. Up until Sophia Loren was about 14, she was considered an ugly duckling. 
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The Sophia Loren Award Collection features the screen legend's most beloved films.
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni team up for a trio of stories about sex in this Academy Award winning comedy. In the first vignette, Loren plays a woman who avoids jail time by pumping out babies with a willing accomplice; in the second, the duo plays a pair of clandestine lovers who are forced to work out their problems in a car; and finally, Loren is a prostitute who quits her best customer for a man of the cloth.
Marriage Italian Style
Sophia Loren stars in this comedy about a successful businessman who kept a woman as his mistress for several years and now plans to marry another woman until his mistress pretends to be on her deathbed to induce him to marry her before she dies.
Sunflower
Mere days after marrying Giovanna (Sophia Loren), Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) is called to the Russian front to fight for the Italian forces. Years after Antonio is reported missing in action, Giovanna travels to Russia to learn what happened to him, only to discover he's alive. Their reunion is bittersweet, however, as Antonio has married another woman.
Vittorio D
A feature length documentary about the life and legacy of the great director, Vittorio De Sica, that offers fascinating interviews with Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, Mike Leigh, and many others.

Roberto Benigni: Life is Beautiful on Blu-Ray

 

Roberto Benigni: Life is Beautiful on Blu-Ray

This title will be released on October 4, 2011.

Italy's rubber-faced funnyman Roberto Benigni accomplishes the impossible in his World War II comedy Life Is Beautiful: he shapes a simultaneously hilarious and haunting comedy out of the tragedy of the Holocaust. An international sensation and the most successful foreign language film in U.S. history, the picture also earned director-cowriter-star Benigni Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor. He plays the Jewish country boy Guido, a madcap romantic in Mussolini's Italy who wins the heart of his sweetheart (Benigni's real-life sweetie, Nicoletta Braschi) and raises a darling son (the adorable Giorgio Cantarini) in the shadow of fascism. When the Nazis ship the men off to a concentration camp in the waning days of the war, Guido is determined to shelter his son from the evils around them and convinces him they're in an elaborate contest to win (of all things) a tank. Guido tirelessly maintains the ruse with comic ingenuity, even as the horrors escalate and the camp's population continues to dwindle--all the more impetus to keep his son safe, secure, and, most of all, hidden. Benigni walks a fine line mining comedy from tragedy and his efforts are pure fantasy--he accomplishes feats no man could realistically pull off--both of which have drawn fire from a few critics. Yet for all its wacky humor and inventive gags, Life Is Beautiful is a moving and poignant tale of one father's sacrifice to save not just his young son's life but his innocence in the face of one of the most evil acts ever perpetrated by the human race. --Sean Axmaker


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Giorgia: Dietro le apparenze

 

Giorgia: Dietro le apparenze

The return of one of the best voices on the Italian pop scene with a brand new work. The first single,"Il mio giorno migliore", is already a hit, broadcast by all radios. This work contains a lot of very good ballads and a special duet with Eros Ramazzotti in the track "Inevitabile" written by Ramazzotti specially for her. 

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Silvio, please leave!

He's a national and international embarrassment.
He has ruined an entire country.
He's richer than ever, while Italians are poorer than ever.
He's a sick man that cannot control his country except for his own business.
How can Italians keep this pervert dwarf in power puzzles me.
Why can't they just have a revolution?
Where is the Italian pride gone?
Have they all become sheep?






Nov 2010: "As always, I work without interruption and if occasionally I happen to look a beautiful girl in the face, it's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay," he told a meeting at a motorcycle industry show in Milan.

Oct 2010: A video emerged in the Italian media of Mr Berlusconi describing a fictional Jewish family agreeing to hide another Jew during the Holocaust, on condition that he pays 3,000 euros a day. He described a member of the family asking another: "Do you think we should tell him that Hitler is dead and the war is over?"

April 2009: The media tycoon yelled "Mr Obama!" during an offical photo call in Buckingham Palace during a meeting of G20 leaders. The Queen, looking irritated, turned round and asked: "Why does he have to shout?"

April 2009: During a visit to survivors of an earthquake in the central Abruzzo region, who were staying in emergency tents, Mr Berlusconi said: "They should see it like a weekend of camping."

Nov 2008: The Italian premier hailed Barack Obama as "handsome, young and also suntanned", after he was elected the United States' first black president.

June 2005: Mr Berlusconi bragged that he had used his charm to persuade Finland's president, Tarja Halonen, to give up her country's claim to host the new European Food Safety Authority. "I had to use all my playboy tactics, even if they have not been used for some time," he said. The Finnish ambassador to Rome protested.

Sept 2004: "Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini sent people on holiday in (internal) exile," Mr Berlusconi told The Spectator, replying "yes" when asked if he thought the World War Two dictator was "benign".

July 2003: "Mr Schulz, I know there is in Italy a man producing a film on the Nazi concentration camps. I would like to suggest you for the role of kapo. You'd be perfect," Mr Berlusconi told Martin Schulz, a Socialist German MEP, who was heckling him during his debut at the European Parliament. A kapo was a concentration camp inmate who was given privileges for supervising prisoner work gangs, often brutally.

Feb 2002: During a group photograph at an informal EU summit in Spain, the media tycoon raised two fingers behind the head of the Spanish foreign minister, Josep Pique, in the traditional Latin gesture for a cuckold.

Oct 2001: Mr Berlusconi sparked an outcry in the Muslim world when he said the West should be aware of its own "superiority".
"We should be conscious of the superiority of our civilisation, which consists of a value system that has given people widespread prosperity in those countries that embrace it, and guarantees respect for human rights and religion," he said. "This respect certainly does not exist in the Islamic countries."

"They can tap my telephone calls. I don't give a f---," the warrants quote Berlusconi as saying. "I'm getting out to mind my own f---ing business, from somewhere else, and so I'm leaving this sh--ty country, of which I'm sickened."

Then leave, Silvio, please and disappear!