Italian language

Crisis, what crisis?

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

Rodolfo de Angelis’ great 1930s hit explains how to get ourselves out of the mess we’ve got ourselves into.

Tags: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, Music, Poets, translation
Posted in Flashman and the Tiger, Italian language, Rodolfo De Angelis, Royal Baccarat Scandal | No Comments »

Needed, a ballad for the Olli Rehn empire

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Featuring Umberto Eco on Orgasmus, an obscure Restoration Scottish nationalist on London, Mexico’s revolutionary and narco-corridos, and Italian Renaissance bandit- and Camorra-praise poetry, all for the benefit of the European Union’s commissar for pr…

Tags: Empires, rulers and warfare, European Union, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, Mexico, Music, Spanish language, translation
Posted in Andrew Fletcher (politician), Ballad, Breaking Bad, Erasmus Programme, Fra Diavolo, Government of Spain, Italian language, Mexican Revolution, Naples, Narcocorrido, Olli Rehn, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, Umberto Eco, camorra, sex tourism | No Comments »

Help with Milanese?

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

I’m troubled by a scatological sonnet.

Tags: Caganer, Languages, Liberals & locals, poetry, translation
Posted in Italian language, obscenity | No Comments »

Italian language

Crisis, what crisis?

Needed, a ballad for the Olli Rehn empire

Help with Milanese?

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