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The term acqua pazza ( Italian: [ˈakkwa ˈpattsa]; lit. 'crazy water') is used in Italian cuisine to refer to a recipe for poached white fish, [1] or to simply refer to the lightly herbed broth used to poach it. [2] There are many different variations of this sauce, from light broths, to thick tomato based sauces, which have been found on all ...
Italian profanity ( bestemmia, pl. bestemmie, when referred to religious topics; parolaccia, pl. parolacce, when not) are profanities that are blasphemous or inflammatory in the Italian language . The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and ...
Guido ( / ˈɡwiːdoʊ /, Italian: [ˈɡwiːdo]) is a North American subculture, slang term, and ethnic slur referring to working-class urban Italian-Americans. The guido stereotype is multi-faceted. At one point, the term was used more generally as a disparaging term for Italians and people of Italian descent. More recently, it has come to ...
In the Italian language, giallo is a genre of novel including any literary genre involving crime and mystery, with all its sub-genres such as crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, or thriller-horror. [3] The term giallo ("yellow") derives from a series of crime-mystery pulp novels entitled Il Giallo Mondadori ( Mondadori Yellow ...
He composed "Prisencolinensinainciusol" by creating a loop of four drumbeats and improvising lyrics over the top of the loop in his recording studio. [6] The song is characterised by an E flat groove in the drum and bass guitar and riff in the horn section. [7] Between the drum loop, the looped horns, and the conversational improvisational ...
Latin samples from Latium in the Iron Age and early Roman Republican period were generally found to genetically cluster closest to modern Northern and Central Italians (four out of six were closest to Northern and Central Italians, while the other two were closest to Southern Italians). [16] DNA analysis demonstrates that ancient Greek ...
Italian (italiano, Italian: [itaˈljaːno] ⓘ, or lingua italiana, Italian: [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent Romance language from Latin, together with Sardinian.
Tuscan is a dialect complex composed of many local variants, with minor differences among them. The main subdivisions are between Northern Tuscan dialects, the Southern Tuscan dialects, and Corsican. The Northern Tuscan dialects are (from east to west): Fiorentino, the main dialect of Florence, Chianti and the Mugello, also spoken in Prato and ...