Paolo Gambi, Author at italiani.it

Italians abroad: how many are there? Count them all is very difficult. According to official estimates, Italian citizens living outside Italy are around five million….

gli italiani non sono razzisti - busto in marmo di Settimio Severo, imperatore romano

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Italians are not and can never be racists. That’s why!

Italians are not racists. And to tell the truth, they can never be racists. History, geography but above all the founding act of the Italian…

poesia italiana - una rosa, un foglio nero ed una penna

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Italian poetry: a new rebirth?

Italian poetry: are we facing a new rebirth? My experience makes me answer, without a shadow of a doubt, with a convinced yes. For some…

elogio della debolezza - una mamma che abbraccia un figlio

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A tribute to weakness: how art teaches us to be fragile

A tribute to weakness. Yes, these lines are meant to be a praise of what we are most ashamed of: our fragility. The pandemic every…

parliamo italiano - una forchetta con spaghetti

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Don’t overdo when you speak

We speak Italian! I read some newspapers and I find sentences or even headlines of this type: During the lockdown, smart working for managers on…

parole di speranza - nuvola a forma di cuore

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Can we defeat coronavirus with words? Why not

Words of hope can save our lives. They can make quarantine and this complex situation a nice time to live. Concretely, now. Emily Dickinson wrote:…

ritorno alla natura -panorama con colline

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Back to nature. The eternal call of the Italians

It took two months of quarantine to understand the importance of a leaf shaken by the wind. Many Italians have spent the last few weeks…

affetti stabili - due mani che si tengono

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Steady affects. Is a lover enough to leave the house?

Steady affects. The only key to escape from quarantine gets stuck between these two words. “We can go out to visit people with whom we…

Amore a distanza - un segnale stradale che indica la distanza da tenere

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Long-distance love in the time of the coronavirus

Long-distance love. Is that possible? Poetry, music and literature have been asking for generations. Our daily lives depend on the answer to this question, now…

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Rebirth: coronavirus will not stop it

Rebirth: this is what we should all strive to in every moment of difficulty. When we are faced with the difficulties of life, someone dwells…

record italiani - piccolo pezzo di sabbia con un punto interrogativo

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5 Italian records: did you know that in Italy there is …

Italian records. Staying indoors has its positive aspects. Especially as far as knowledge is concerned. Each screen is a window onto the world. And looking…

humanitas - mani che "sorreggono" la terra

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Humanitas: coronavirus shows us we are great

Humanitas. A word that we have forgotten, but whose memory we carry in the flesh and in our history. And now, in an era of…

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Coronavirus: things to remind Italians and others

Things to remind Italians who are desperate. In an era when a virus, the Coronavirus, is enough to depress an entire people, in order to…

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All we need is optimism: it extends the life

Optimism, all we need is a little bit of optimism. Today the virus, yesterday ISIS, the day before yesterday the crisis, and before that the…

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Chiara Ferragni: stop envy, a tribute to a successful Italian girl

Chiara Ferragni always makes people argue. Wherever you say this name everyone knows who you are talking about. She boasts 18.5 million followers on instagram….

foto in bianco e nero di Federico Fellini

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Federico Fellini, his lies and his mysteries

Federico Fellini, awarded with five Oscars, one of which Academy Honorary Award, is considered one of the greatest directors ever. 2020 marks the centenary of…

green - un nonno cerca di spostare qualcosa da terra con il suo bastone da passeggio

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Green? Better follow in our grandfathers footsteps

Green. Today this is the password to label everything that concerns the environment and what is called “eco-friendly”. Let’s be clear: the environment and its…

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Fashion: that’s why Italians are the best in the world

It is what it is: when we talk about fashion we talk about Italy. On second thought, there are few sectors in which one people…

dare del lei - persone in strada che chiedono informazioni

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Does being polite mean something in the internet age?

In Italian, in order to be polite with someone you meet for the first time, or someone you are not familiar with, we use third-person…

nativity scene: detail of the crib of greccio

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Nativity scene: is there anything more Italian?

Nativity scene: the most Italian invention that we have. You don’t necessarily have to be devoted to St. Francis of Assisi, nor Catholic practitioners to…

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Ten things not to do for Christmas in Italy

There are things that can be done all year round but that become real nightmares during the Christmas holidays. Here are ten things not to…

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Champagne or sparkling wine? And if they were the same thing?

Champagne or sparkling wine? If we talk about bubbles we all have Champagne in mind. And we feel as important as the Sun King drinking…

neologisms - Italian flag with the words "the words of the new Italy" inside

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Hideous neologisms. The words of the new Italian are these ?

Neologisms. They would be a good opportunity to enrich the Italian language with beautiful new words, useful for progressing in a present that is becoming…

friendship between man and woman - three friends hugging each other

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Can friendship between man and woman exist?

Friendship between man and woman. Is it a chimera as result of unreal fantasies or a possible option? Everything depends on what we mean by…

love between man and woman - image of a heart of balloons with inside un uomo ed una donna che si baciano

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Love between man and woman: can it still exist?

Love between man and woman: everyone has been looking for it since the days of Adam and Eve. Has anyone ever found it? To read…

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Stop complaints: 7 reasons to be happy Italians

Stop complaints! Everywhere you go you meet people who are complaining. “There are too many taxes”, “bureaucracy kills”, “politics is made up of incompetents” ……

Italian flag with the writing: BLACK FRIDAY

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Black Friday is coming. Let’s go shopping

Black friday is coming. Shall we go shopping?”. Everyone, from Torre del Greco to Sesto San Giovanni, to put in his mouth the English words…

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Halloween, Italian or not, it has a horrible name

Halloween arrives on time this year too. And like every year brings with it the controversy between those who love this party and those who…

Italian flag with the inscription: a bit of Italian pride

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Italian pride: here 7 reasons to have a lot of it

Italian pride: sometimes Italians forget how much they can and should be proud of their country. We look at Italy with serenity and we see…

Italian words - Italian flag inside with the inscription: "I say in Italian"

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10 Italian words that the whole world envies us

Italian words that the whole world envies us. Italian is the language of beauty, cuisine, music and fashion. While many Italians – especially those who…

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Verdi: 10 things every Italian must know

Verdi: no one embodied the Italian genius more than he did. He succeeded in capturing the spirit of Italy with the network of his notes…

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In Italian, please, not in English. 50 words to say in Italian

In Italian! Has anyone noticed that we speak English without realizing it? Has anyone realized that in any speech we use – meaningless – an…

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Goethe as a tourist still invites us to visit Italy

Goethe shows us that Italy is the country of tourism. Every corner, ravine and village is a treasure trove of stories, beauty and secrets. It…

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Ungaretti: a good reason to be proud of being Italian

Ungaretti is a poet who should be continually filmed. His fortune and misfortune together is his presence in school programs. In this way we all…

Image of the film with pinocchio and benign

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Pinocchio: 10 things to know before seeing the film

Pinocchio returns to the cinema and returns again with Benigni.The great Italian Oscar winner had played Pinocchio in 2002, in a film of which he…

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Periodi difficili

In this space Paolo Gambi looks for art in words to tell the love that binds an Italian to his mother Italy. Verses, writings, thoughts…

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La bellezza dell’Italia

In this space Paolo Gambi looks for art in words to tell the love that binds an Italian to his mother Italy. Verses, writings, thoughts…

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Sarà perché ti amo…

In this space Paolo Gambi looks for art in words to tell the love that binds an Italian to his mother Italy. Verses, writings, thoughts…

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