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| sophia loren vespa: The Cult of Vespa Omar Calabrese, 1996 Many post-war inventions were forgotten as incomes rose and the standard ofiving increased. The Vespa, however, developed from a utility vehicle inton international success - a cult object that has spawned societies and fansorldwide. This title tells its story. |
| sophia loren vespa: On My Vespa Pier Paride Vidari, 2006 When it was first introduced in 1949, the Vespa scooter was an entirely new type of vehicle, the result of a flash of inspiration followed by innovative engineering and astute marketing. The author tells the story of this remarkable two-wheeler, from its Italian origins through 40 years of development, with anecdotes about the machines and the colourful characters involved with them. |
| sophia loren vespa: Made in Italy David Rocco, 2011-12-20 On his hit Cooking Channel show David Rocco’s Dolce Vita, David and his wife, Nina, travel around Italy, exploring the very best foods of every region, making friends wherever they go. From his modern flat in Florence to the lemon groves of the Amalfi coast, David shares recipes for the local favorites he encounters, including a refreshing Caprese salad with avocado, weeknight chicken breasts with fragrant rosemary and chili flakes, a Sunday meat stew flavored with tomatoes and red wine, and the easy apple-yogurt cake he prepares with his twin daughters. Made in Italy features 140 simple, rustic Italian dishes that any home cook can accomplish—all with David’s signature style. With photographs of gorgeous food and sweeping images of the Italian countryside, this book will inspire cooks across America to bring Italy to life in their own homes. |
| sophia loren vespa: Scootermania Josh Sims, 2015-11-05 From its origins the Italian battlefields of the Second World War, to movie roles as Audrey Hepburn's transport in Roman Holiday and Sting's stylish companion in Quadrophenia and on through the current vintage revival, the classic Italian motor scooter is an enduring design classic from the 20th century. Scootermania celebrates the superbly simple vehicles that are so symbolic of freedom, style and the modern world. Originating in the 1940s in Milan and Pontedera, Tuscany, the scooter became an enduring transport choice for young people and urban environments. Early chapters look at scooter racing and long-distance attempts, and their role as an anti-tank weapon in the French army. There is engaging coverage of place of scooters in popular culture from films, music and fashion including the way that a host of disparate groups has made the bikes their own – from the British Mods of the 1960s and 1980s to their role in American and Japanese fashion and in their Italian homeland. The evolution and design of classic models as the Vespa 150 GS and the Lambretta Li 150 Series 3 are covered while scooter stars such as Enrico Piaggio and Georges Monneret are celebrated in their own words. The book also includes a number of specially photographed features on modern scooter designers, collectors and artists. |
| sophia loren vespa: The Scooter Bible Eric Dregni, 2022-06-21 The Scooter Bible is an entertaining, colorful, and authoritative history of the little motorbikes that could. Beginning with the first motor scooter in 1902, Eric Dregni is your guide to everything from the postwar American scooter boom to the golden age of Italian and European scooters, the rise of Mod scooter culture in England . . . right up to modern electric scooters. Today, nostalgia for vintage Vespas, Piaggios, Cushmans, Lambrettas, and other top brands drive a new thirst for retro-inspired scooters in showrooms around the world. This revised and updated edition of The Scooter Bible brings the story up to date with the drive for zero emissions via electric vehicles. Throughout, author Eric Dregni offers you a wealth of imagery: historic black-and-white photos, evocative period advertisements, manufacturer photos, and more—over 500 images! Along the way, he also shows you scooter evolution, changing technologies, and scooter appearances in popular culture. And as the most comprehensive scooter book ever, The Scooter Bible also includes the world’s most exhaustive encyclopedia of scooter brands, from Puddlejumper to Piaggio, Ducati to Doodlebug, and Zündapp Bella to Genuine Stella. The Scooter Bible is all you need before kick-starting your scooter engine to life and praying for ever more speed. Indeed, scooters are mechanical marvels on two wheels. Streamlined spuds. Mutant oddballs of Jet Age styling gone berserk. Innovative inventions shoehorned like sardines into miniaturized monocoque bodies. Engineering and styling enigmas (the stranger the better). They are the weird and the wonderful. And they are all here in The Scooter Bible. |
| sophia loren vespa: Summary of Sophia Loren's Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Everest Media,, 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Romilda Garbo, the woman who would become my mother, met my father, Riccardo Scicolone Murillo, in 1933. They fell in love, and she became pregnant. But when he found out that she was pregnant, he grew cold toward her. #2 I was born on September 20, 1934, in Rome, Italy. I was frail and not particularly pretty. My mother, Romilda, was terrified that I’d be switched with another baby. So she bought a train ticket and took me back home with her. #3 The apartment was small, but it seemed to expand like an accordion to fit us all in. Our family of seven had grown. My mother, to earn a penny or two, would play in the cafés and trattorie of Pozzuoli and Naples. #4 I was very shy, and I lived my life as best I could behind a thin yet sturdy veil of shyness. I was afraid of being teased, and I would enter the classroom first or last, after the other students were already in class. I was neat and diligent, but not at ease with the other children. |
| sophia loren vespa: The summer of 1989 Enrico Tessarin, 2022-06-30 Who can forget the summer of 1989? Alberto Soriani is eighteen years and, while the world is changing and the whole planet glued to their TV sets, life goes on as normal in his little village in Northern Italy. All his friends leave on an Interrail trip to Berlin, where the famous Wall, Cold War icon, is apparently about to fall; but Alberto has failed his exams and is grounded. Serena, his dream girl, is going too, but promises to send him a postcard at every stop. The first week five cards, the second two, the third a note saying she is not in love with him anymore. Then Alberto, heartbroken, meets the local Sofia Loren, Signora Vanessa, in her forties and with an eye for the boys. Can love triumph over the temptations of a confused adolescence in a small village? Enrico Tessarin is an Italian-born, London-based writer and producer with more than 15 years’ experience working on films, documentaries and TV series. He and his company Pinch Media have written, produced, and co-produced several TV and web series, seven feature films, six feature documentaries, and a documentary TV series, most sold internationally with several selected for prestigious international film festivals. The awards his projects have won include an Emmy Nomination, a British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) nomination, and a United Nations Innovation Award plus many others. Enrico is a graduate of the London Film School, and teaches film production and writing at MA and BA level and through his consultancy Shorts2features. |
| sophia loren vespa: Vroom with a View Peter Moore, 2005 Readers will fall for a side of Italy rarely seen with the just-turned-forty Peter Moore rattling around the country on the back of an ageing Vespa scooter — like himself, a little rough around the edges, and a bit slow in the mornings perhaps, but basically still OK. |
| sophia loren vespa: Somethin' Else Rudolph Kenna, William Grandison, 1989 |
| sophia loren vespa: Bitches on a Budget Rosalyn Hoffman, 2009-12-29 A witty, recession-era guide to being thrifty while not forgoing the fabulous. Today's woman may have a dwindling stock portfolio, but that shouldn't make her bite one well-manicured nail with worry. Rosalyn Hoffman dishes up the wisdom women need to get perfect style without busting what's left of their bank accounts. The author is a recession-era fashion guru, travel agent, grooming consultant, therapist, sommelier, and life coach all rolled into one, and with this book vows no coupon clipping, Prada depriving, carb hating allowed. Because it doesn't take oodles of moola to live well- and that's one trend that will never go out of style. |
| sophia loren vespa: Catherine Fulvio's Eat Like An Italian Catherine Fulvio, 2012-08-31 How is it that Italians live so well? How do they have time for long, leisurely mealtimes with friends and family? Why do they have such strict rules and routine when it comes to eating? They refuse to compromise when it comes to food. Italians eat with the regions and seasons and they respect the importance of mealtimes: work, family, life all revolve around food. According to Catherine Fulvio, the Italian diet and approach to food is a lifestyle lesson to us all on how to relax and enjoy our food moments. In Eat Like an Italian, Catherine Fulvio shows you how to experience this as she celebrates all that is great about Italian food and food culture with over 100 new recipes for the good life. With mouth-watering food photography and lifestyle shots, each chapter includes Catherine's warm and chatty stories about Italy and her Italian family. She also shows you how to use the best of Irish ingredients in Italian recipes. Get ready to enjoy la dolce vita! |
| sophia loren vespa: Business 2.0 , 2004-07 |
| sophia loren vespa: Letter To My Younger Self Jane Graham, The Big Issue, 2019-10-31 A Sunday Times Book of the Year All royalties from sales of this book go to The Big Issue If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Over 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask some of the best-known, most interesting and most successful figures in entertainment, politics, food, sport and business to give advice, offer hope and share a few jokes with their younger selves. They opened up, in ways they never had, to interviewer Jane Graham, reflecting on their lives and themselves with affection, sympathy and sometimes disbelief. This collection of 100 of the most incredible letters includes Paul McCartney on how he found inspiration, Olivia Colman on overcoming confidence problems, Mo Farah on the importance of losing, Arianna Huffington on knowing your motivations, Jamie Oliver on trusting your instinct and many, many more, including Rod Stewart, Margaret Atwood, Buzz Aldrin, David Cameron, Eddie Izzard, Desmond Tutu, Neil Gaiman, Ruby Wax, Ranulph Fiennes, Tracey Emin, Ian McEwan, Michael Palin, Melanie C, Tim Peake, Dionne Warwick and Ewan McGregor. Letter to My Younger Self is a revelatory and profound exploration into the wit and wisdom that age brings, and of the unique insights that looking back can reveal. Proceeds from the sales of this book go to The Big Issue to continue their work dismantling poverty and promoting social justice. A truly wonderful book ... a gateway to intelligent, learned and genuinely inspiring stories, moments and people ... We would highly recommend it ... It's a fab cause and put together seamlessly. Magic Radio - October Book Club Pick 'The answers make for great reading.' Sunday Mirror 'This collection is full of insightful stories that will make you think about how you live your own life, and how you want to live it in the future.' Woman's Weekly |
| sophia loren vespa: The Beautiful Ashes of Gomez Gomez Buck Storm, 2020-07-21 Literary Americana fiction filled with humor and heart When his wife, Angel, is killed in a head-on collision, Gomez Gomez feels he can't go on--so he doesn't. He spends his days in the bushes next to the crash site drinking Thunderbird wine, and his nights cradling a coffee can full of Angel's ashes. Slow, sure suicide, with no one for company but the snakes, Elvis's ghost, and a strange kid named Bones. Across town, Father Jake Morales plays it safe, haunted by memories of the woman he left behind, hiding his guilt, loss, and love behind a thick wall of cassock and ritual. Then a shady business deal threatens the town--and his good friend Gomez Gomez--and Father Jake can't just stand by and watch. But what happens when the rescuer is the one in need of saving? The Beautiful Ashes of Gomez Gomez is quirky, heartfelt, and deeply human. Lives and hopes collide in the town of Paradise, stretching across decades and continents in this epic story of forgiveness, redemption, and love. |
| sophia loren vespa: Hiding in the Light Dick Hebdige, 2003-09-02 Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals', Biff cartoons, the Band Aid campaign, Pop Art and promotional music videos. He assesses their broad cultural significance and charts their impact on contemporary popular tastes. |
| sophia loren vespa: Lady Gaga Elizabeth Goodman, 2010-09-14 Packed with 120 full-color photos of the new queen of pop, this volume celebrates the fashion of the edgy, wildly original Lady Gaga, catching this rocketing star at her most outrageous, most revealing, and most fashionable. |
| sophia loren vespa: Material Culture Victor Buchli, 2004 Publisher description |
| sophia loren vespa: The Cheapskate's Guide to Rome and Venice Connie Emerson, 1997 Who or what is taking the kitchen scraps from the garbage every night? What starts out as a puzzle becomes a mystery. Every night Grandma leaves table scraps in a wrapped plastic bag in the garbage can where, according to plan, the McNellis children pick them up to feed their kittens. But the plan changes when the bag is gone in the morning. The twins, Liza and Bill, and brother Jed decide to investigate the matter. First the children discover Liza's missing red sweater in a part of the woods she hadn't been to before, next they read about runaway children in the newspaper, and then their new puppy is lost. Finally they find a teepee in the woods with what seems to be Indians in warpaint dancing and shooting arrows! The young detectives must put all the clues together and solve the mystery. |
| sophia loren vespa: The Consumer Society Reader Juliet Schor, Douglas B. Holt, 2011-07-26 The Consumer Society Reader features a range of key works on the nature and evolution of consumer society. Included here is much-discussed work by leading critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Susan Bordo, Dick Hebdige, bell hooks, and Janice Radway. Also included is a full range of classics, such as Frankfurt School writers Adorno and Horkheimer on the Culture Industry; Thorstein Veblen's oft-cited writings on conspicuous consumption; Betty Friedan on the housewife's central role in consumer society; John Kenneth Galbraith's influential analysis of the affluent society; and Pierre Bourdieu on the notion of taste. Consumer society--the 'air we breathe,' as George Orwell has described it--disappears during economic downtruns and political crises. It becomes visible again when prosperity seems secure, cultural transformation is too rapid, or enviornmental disasters occur. Such is the time in which we now find ourselves. As the roads clog with gas-guzzling SUVs and McMansions proliferate in the suburbs, the nation is once again asking fundamental questions about lifestyle. Has 'luxury fever,' to use Robert Frank's phrase, gotten out of hand? Are we really comfortable with the 'Brand Is Me' mentality? Have we gone too far in pursuit of the almighty dollar, to the detriment of our families, communities, and natural enviornment? Even politicians, ordinarily impermeable to questions about consumerism, are voicing doubts... [and] polls suggest majorities of Americans feel the country has become too materialistic, too focused on getting and spending, and increasingly removed from long-standing non-materialist values. —From the introduction by Douglas B. Holt and Juliet B. Schor |
| sophia loren vespa: Walking on Water Richard Paul Evans, 2015-05-05 When the long walk from Seattle to Key West finally nears an end, Alan Christoffersen must return to the west and face yet another crisis just as he has begun to heal from so much loss. |
| sophia loren vespa: Femina , 2007 |
| sophia loren vespa: Ashes to Ashes Chris O'Leary, 2019-02-12 A comprehensive exploration of the final four decades of David Bowie’s musical career—covering every song he wrote, performed, or produced In Ashes to Ashes, the ultimate David Bowie expert offers a song-by-song retrospective of the legendary pop star's musical career from 1976 to 2016. Starting with Low, the first of Bowie's Berlin albums, and finishing with Blackstar—his final masterpiece released just days before his death in 2016—each song is annotated in depth and explored in essays that touch upon the song's creation, production, influences and impact. |
| sophia loren vespa: The Fashion Lover's Guide to Milan Rachael Martin, 2021-04-14 Milan is the European fashion capital with one of the world’s most unique luxury fashion districts where the leaders of some of the most exclusive fashion houses are still living and working today. It’s the Italian city whose skyline has changed more than any, and whose fashion industry has extended to encompass the worlds of design, restaurants, bars, exhibition spaces, hotels and more. Whether you’re looking for designer labels within the city’s luxury fashion district, prefer to browse the city’s boutiques or pick up some quality vintage at the city’s vintage shops and markets, this is the guide that will tell you where to go. Split into geographical sections along with relevant maps, cultural highlights and suggestions for where to eat and drink, it places Milan as the city of fashion within the context of Italian fashion history and a city, and brings the stories of its people to life. Why did Milan become Italy’s fashion capital? And what does it offer the fashion lover as a city today? |
| sophia loren vespa: Il mio cielo Dalila Di Lazzaro, 2010-12-01 Il racconto di una vita coronata dal successo ma segnata dalla sofferenza. L'autobiografia di una donna che ha incantato il mondo con la sua bellezza e la sua forza d'animo. E che con questo libro ha voluto trasmettere un messaggio di coraggio e speranza. |
| sophia loren vespa: Consumption: Disciplinary approaches to consumption Daniel Miller, 2001 |
| sophia loren vespa: Design Directory Italy Claudia Neumann, 1999-08-12 Packaged in handy pocket-sized format, each book is brightly designed and takes a fresh new look art design concepts, encompassing everything from shoe designers to hi-fi systems, from cutlery to cameras, from lights to cars. |
| sophia loren vespa: Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome Shawn Levy, 2016-10-04 “A brisk, frothy narrative . . . informative and fun.” —The Wall Street Journal In the dizzying wake of World War II, Rome skyrocketed to prominence as an epicenter of film, fashion, photography, and boldfaced libertinism. Artists, exiles, and a dazzling array of movie talent rushed to Rome for a chance to thrive in this hotbed of excitement. From the photographers who tailed the stars to the legends who secured their place in cinematic fame, Dolce Vita Confidential resurrects the drama that permeated the streets and screens of Rome. |
| sophia loren vespa: How The World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere Peter Conrad, 2014-12-09 From politics and war, to jeans and sneakers: a look at America’s influence on the world from an international perspective On the day after 9/11, foreign newspapers ran headlines announcing “We Are All Americans Now.” Though the sentiment was not new, it was also not quite the same as when Henry Luce announced in 1941, the inauguration of what he called “the American Century,” during which the US was to raise all men “from the level of the beasts to what the Psalmist calls a little lower than angels.” When America suddenly emerged as a global power in the postwar period, the world—with pockets of resistance from France, Russia, and Japan in particular—was happy to be remade in the US image. America dazzled, and sometimes intimidated, older, staler, less innovative cultures. The affluence it placed on display was something to which most other countries aspired, and it was this fantasy that helped win the Cold War. Fast forward to today and the Chinese state news agency Xinhua, days before a possible financial default by the US government, calling for a de-Americanized world. A context for Peter Conrad’s grand tale is, inevitably, politics, war, and commerce, but for the most part he draws on his brilliant repertoire of cultural skills to assess, surprise, invigorate, and delight us with his kaleidoscopic presentation of the movies and music, jeans and sneakers, food and refrigerators, novels and paintings that have shaped so much of the world in our lifetimes. |
| sophia loren vespa: Roma Duncan Garwood, Abigail Hole, 2012 |
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| sophia loren vespa: Questions of Travel Michelle de Kretser, 2013-05-14 Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe -- exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by.Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel -- voluntary in her case, enforced in his. With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21st century, they belong wherever they want to and can be -- home or away. It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book. -- A.S. Byatt, The Guardian |
| sophia loren vespa: Big Time: The Life of Adam Faith David Stafford, Caroline Stafford, 2015-04-13 |
| sophia loren vespa: Napoli/New York/Hollywood Giuliana Muscio, 2018-10-30 This cinema history illuminates the role of southern Italian performance traditions on American movies from the silent era to contemporary film. In Napoli/New York/Hollywood, Italian cinema historian Giuliana Muscio investigates the significant influence of Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors on Hollywood cinema. Using a provocative interdisciplinary approach, Muscio demonstrates how these artists and workers preserved their cultural and performance traditions, which led to innovations in the mode of production and in the use of media technologies. In doing so, she sheds light on the work of generations of artists, as well as the cultural evolution of “Italian-ness” in America over the past century. Muscio examines the careers of Italian performers steeped in an Italian theatrical culture that embraced high and low, tragedy and comedy, music, dance, acrobatics, naturalism, and improvisation. Their previously unexplored story—that of the Italian diaspora’s influence on American cinema—is here meticulously reconstructed through rich primary sources, deep archival research, extensive film analysis, and an enlightening series of interviews with heirs to these traditions, including Francis Coppola and his sister Talia Shire, John Turturro, Nancy Savoca, James Gandolfini, David Chase, Joe Dante, and Annabella Sciorra. |
| sophia loren vespa: Profil , 2003 |
| sophia loren vespa: Beatles - erään yhtyeen anatomia Markku Koski, 2011-05-06 Beatles on niin itsestään selvä, että siitä on hyvin vaikea sanoa mitään ja silti tai ehkä juuri siksi me emme tiedä siitä enää mitään. Näin kirjoitti Markku Koski alun perin vuonna 1986 julkaistun teoksensa esipuheessa (Love Kirjat). Koski pilkkoo The Beatlesin menestystekijät osiin ja löytää syyt paitsi yhtyeen hajoamiseen myös sen musiikin ajattomuuteen. Vaikka neljän pitkätukkaisen liverpoolilaismuusikon tarinasta on jo tullut osa sotienjälkeisten sukupolvien henkistä perintöä, on kulttuurintutkija Kosken kotimainen klassikko edelleen kuranttia kamaa. Beatles - erään yhtyeen anatomia sisältää teräviä sosiologisia oivalluksia kaikkien aikojen menestyneimmästä popyhtyeestä sekä analyyttistä pohdintaa 1960-luvun nuorisokulttuurin ilmiöistä ja lieveilmiöistä. |
| sophia loren vespa: Una montagna di briciole Elena Gorokhova, 2011 |
| sophia loren vespa: Sophia Loren. Una vida de novela Silvana Giacobini, 2015-01-01 Todos conocen a Sophia Loren, pero pocos conocen a Sofia. Una mujer con una vida muy atormentada y distinta de cómo se pueda imaginar. Sofia pasó su infancia con sus abuelos en la pobreza, cuando faltaba el pan y se comía hasta los huesos de los albaricoques; su adolescencia estuvo marcada por la difícil relación con su padre, Riccardo, por la fuerte presencia de su madre, Romilda, que volcó en ella sus sueños de actriz, y por su hermana Maria, que creció a su sombra. Hoyse tiende a dar por sentado su éxito y, sin embargo, fueron muchos los sacrificios que tuvo que hacer para alcanzar sus sueños. Como su historia de amor con Carlo Ponti, que hizo correr ríos de tinta y de la que pocos saben cuántas ofensas y sufrimientos le causó. Ahora Sofia vive en Ginebra, pero, como una verdadera mujer cosmopolita, habitó casas de ensueño en Londres, Nueva York y París. Ha participado en más de un centenar de películas. Ha ganado el Oscar, vestida con harapos, por Dos muj eres, pero lleva trajes de Armani. El maquillaje la ha envejecido hasta los ochenta años en Lady L, pero aún parece hija de aquel personaje que interpretó hace veinticinco años. Bajo la luz de los focos en cada momento importante de su vida, para todos es como de la familia y, no obstante, solo sabemos de su vida íntima aquello que quiere revelar, en una contradicción entre fama e intimidad que parece haber marcado toda su existencia . Una vida de novela, contada también a través de sus fotos menos conocidas, algunas inéditas. Un libro para leer de un tirón que arroja luz sobre las verdades ocultas de la vida de Sophia Loren. |
| sophia loren vespa: Il libro della comunicazione 2007 Tiziana Rocca, 2007 |
| sophia loren vespa: Becoming Mariella Janet Constantino, 2025-02-04 For fans of Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults and Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation comes a contemporary coming-of-age tale about a young Italian immigrant’s desperate journey to find her personal freedom. It’s unprecedented, even in the twenty-first century, for a young Sicilian woman to defy the centuries-old mandate, “Family is everything!”—but twenty-two-year-old Mariella Russo is desperate to escape Sicily. She’s being relentlessly coerced into an engagement with her wealthy college sweetheart—a young man from a prominent, powerful family—by her envious and erratic mother, who hopes the match will increase her own ignominious social status. Suddenly, Mariella’s lifelong home has become a claustrophobic island. In a bid for independence and an attempt to escape entrapment, she flees to San Francisco. But Mariella’s bête noire—entrapment—follows her to San Francisco, where everyone wants more from her than she wants to give. Her American roommate, Leslie, turns out to be a gay man rather than the woman she imagined; her employer/lover is pressuring her to live with him; and her neurotic mother is haunting her, wreaking havoc and embarrassment. An urgent return trip to Sicily puts Mariella to the ultimate challenge: will she submit to tradition, or choose a life she wants for herself? |
| sophia loren vespa: Palmento Robert V. Camuto, 2010-09-01 Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage, and a desire for a land somewhat wilder than his home in southern France, Robert V. Camuto set out to explore Sicily?s emerging wine scene. What he discovered during more than a year of traveling the region, however, was far more than a fascinating wine frontier.ø Chronicling his journey through Palermo to Marsala, and across the rugged interior of Sicily to the heights of Mount Etna, Camuto captures the personalities and flavors andøthe traditions and natural riches that have made Italy?s largest and oldest wine region the world traveler?s newest discovery. In the island?s vastly different wines he finds an expression of humanity and nature?andøthe space where the two merge into something more. Here, amid the wild landscapes, lavish markets, dramatic religious rituals, deliciously contrasting flavors, and astonishing natural warmth of its people, Camuto portrays Sicily at a shining moment in history. He takes readers into the anti-Mafia movement growing in the former mob vineyards around infamous Corleone; tells the stories of some of the island?s most prominent landowning families; and introduces us to film and music celebrities and other foreigners drawn to Sicily?s vineyards. His book takes wine as a powerful metaphor for the independent identity of this mythic land, which has thrown off its legacies of violence, corruption, and poverty to emerge, finally free, with its great soul intact. Watch the Palmento book trailer on YouTube. |
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It is Sophia who is at the heart of every true religion, guiding those who will to know and act in the light of what is true, right and lasting. She has been known as Radha, as Tara, as Prajna …
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Sophia (Gnosticism) - Wikipedia
Sophia (Koinē Greek: Σοφíα "Wisdom", Coptic: ⲧⲥⲟⲫⲓⲁ "the Sophia" [1]) is a figure, along with Knowledge (γνῶσις gnosis, Coptic: ⲧⲥⲱⲟⲩⲛ tsōwn), among many of the early Christian …
