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About “the Genie in the Bottle”

1.46 Campari as an elite brand 3.10 The Milanese market 4.17 The world of the factory is the factory of the world 6.22 Pop & glamour 7.29 The dawn of mass advertising 10.47 Depero and Futurism 12.30 Art as autobiography Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago
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The Genie in the Bottle – Show Notes

Images Suggested Readings Daniele Baroni, Maurizio VItta, Breve Storia del Design Grafico, Longanesi Marina Mojana, Ada Masoero, Depero con Campari, De Luca Vv. Aa., Depero Futurista, Electa Gabriella Belli, Beatrice Avanzi, Depero Pubblicitario, Skira Vv. Aa., Futurist Manifestos Suggested Sites Casa d’Arte Futurista Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago
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The Genie in the Bottle

There’s a small piece of art in almost every fridge, even in yours. It’s from the Twenties, the time when an avant-garde artist (Fortunato Depero) and an entrepreneur (Davide Campari) proved that ads could be something more than shouted slogans Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago
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About “When the Pope’s Corpse went on trial”

– 2.10 Ripples and bubbles: the Roman factions and a dissolving empire – 5.03 The four margraves – 6.22 The complexity of the papacy – 8.48 Formosus: controversial and pious – 10.59 Infallibility, the play – 11.58 Power, authority and Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago
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When a Pope’s Corpse went on Trial – Show Notes

Images Suggested Readings Roger Collins, Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy,  Weidenfeld & Nicholson/Basic Books. Ludovico Gatto, Storia di Roma nel Medioevo, Newton & Compton. Jégou Laurent, « Compétition autour d’un cadavre. Le procès du pape Formose et ses Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago
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When the Pope’s Corpse went on trial 

Here’s one question you didn’t expect to ever ask yourself: can the Pope take a dead Pope to court? The answer is yes, but be ready for another surprising turn, because the reason why the exhumed Pope’s corpse faces trial Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago
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About “Let there be Sandwich, and there was Sandwich”

– 1.40 The secret recipe – 2.27 Inside a Mulassano’s tramezzino – 4.53 Mulassano before it was Mulassano – 8.09 VIP customers: legend and truth – 11.11 Tramezzino: a case study – 13.17 The shape, the meaning, the origin of Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago
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Let there be sandwich, and there was sandwich – Show Notes

Images Suggested Readings Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food, Oxford University Press. Solomon H. Katz et al., Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Thomson Gale. Massimo Montanari, Il cibo come cultura, Laterza. Massimo Montanari, Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago
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Let there be Sandwich, and there was Sandwich

What if I told you that the good, old sandwich has both a birthplace and a birthdate? What if this place was Italy and the year was 1926? In this episode of Italian Culture, we discover how a humble recipe Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago
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About “Forgotten Voices”

– 3.35 Opera and gender construction – 5.36 “Tuneful scarecrows”: orchiectomy and its effects – 6.35 Masters of the voice: the castrato training – 9.20 Voice and femininity – 11.25 The ambivalence of the church – 13.10 The apex of Read more…

By ItalianCulture, 3 years3 years ago

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