Daily Archives: March 27, 2012

Word of the Day: Fare la scarpetta

Fare la scarpetta is one of those awesome Italian sayings that doesn’t really have an identical phrase in English. With fare, meaning ‘to do’, and scarpetta, meaning ‘a small shoe,’  we get, ‘to do the small shoe.’ What does this all … Continue reading

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Review: Dalí at the Vittoriano

A blockbuster beginning to the spring museum season in Rome, the recently opened Dalí exhibition at the Vittoriano takes the novel, if not completely convincing, approach of presenting Italy as a shaping force in his work. It is a chaotic, … Continue reading

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