I have just come across the audio of Luciano Pavarotti and Patty Pravo singing Pazza Idea (Crazy Idea), and there is a video of a 2001 performance. Not sure I am fully keen on it, if only because Pava...
What I definitely liked about this year’s Moscow Design Week is its higher class. Last year’s MDW was a first attempt, clearly done with a bit of scepticism towards its own necessity. The ...
This has been one of the favourite audio tracks of the late 1980s in the Soviet Union, and I listened to it a lot, as I was growing up. Recently on my way from an interview with a doctor-and-singer I ...
2011 is the cross-cultural year between Russia and the two European countries of Italy and Spain. So, on Los Cuadernos de Julia I have already started to share insights into representation of Italy in...
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn’t an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole wor...
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. E. M. Forster, an English author...
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher, a 1950 Nobel Prize laureate. ...
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. Christian Lacroix, a French fashion designer. ...
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. La...
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. Samuel Johnson, an English author ...