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Learn Italian through readings that Alessandro G's Italiano Standard has selected for you.

Italiano Standard


    • Jan 24, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 13m AVG DURATION
    • 9 EPISODES


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    Il cappotto di astrakan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2023 15:46


    From Italy's lakes region to Paris, the adventures of an idle young man in Piero Chiara's Astrakhan coat, featuring Sara Maiorana.

    Le ceneri di Gramsci

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2022 7:47


    Celebrating a major poet of 1900s, Pier Paolo Pasolini, one hundred years after his birth. - Credits : "RV 481, concerto in re minore per fagotto, no. 5" by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

    L'isola di Arturo

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2022 22:52


    Celebrating Morante's Bildungsroman in the year when the island of Procida is the Italian capital of culture. - Credits : "Senza fine" by Gino Paoli and Ornella Vanoni (1961)

    Lettera da Casablanca

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2022 10:07


    From Antonio Tabucchi's short story "Letter from Casablanca" featuring Domenico De Marco. - Credits : Josephine Baker's "Banana Dance" (1925) ; "Rosamunda" by Jaromír Vejvoda (1927) ; "Acércate Más" by Osvaldo Farres (1946) ; Beniamino Gigli's "O begli occhi di fata" by Luigi Denza and Tremacoldo (1884)

    L'arte della gioia

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2021 23:40


    Reading from Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy.

    Il barone rampante

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2020 13:29


    Reading from Italo Calvino's 1957 novel "The Baron in the Trees" courtesy of Fabrizia Di Francesco, mistress of theatrical arts. - Credits: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical di Kevin MacLeod è un brano concesso in uso tramite licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 - Artist: http://incompetech.com/

    La bella estate

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2020 10:43


    Reading from 1950 Premio Strega award winner Cesare Pavese's Beautiful Summer. -Credits: "È troppo tardi" by Walter Colì, 1949; "Voglio vivere così" by Giovanni D'Anzi and Tito Manlio, 1941; "Quando l'estate" by Odoardo Spadaro, 1940.

    La pioggia nel pineto

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2020 6:01


    Rain in the pinewoods, D'Annunzio's masterpiece of poetry.Credits: "L'estate" by Antonio Vivaldi, 1725.Special thanks to my friend Stijn Vermeire, who knows the poem by heart.

    Il prete bello

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2020 9:45


    Reading about The Handsome Priest, a 1954 novel by Goffredo Parise, probably his best work as a realist writer. A fresco of ordinary Italians under the Fascist regime.Credits: "Vivere" by Bixio and Brignone, 1936.Special thanks to my mother-in-law Paola Medri, who read it in grace.

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