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Ars Dicendi

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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 14.17 The futurist hous
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
- 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 faith: th
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 isn’t as outlandish as
- 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 the tramezzino - 15.5
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 changed the life of its inventor, a yo
- 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 the castrati
A candid angel, a bratty popstar and a cunning smuggler: what have they in common? They sacrificed their testicles and gained a splendid voice. In this episode of Italian Culture, we investigate the fascinating world of the castrati singers. Fr
- 2.27 Who is Antonello da Messina? - 4.45 The portrait of Unknown - 5.47 Two smiles - 6.44 Antonello’s eyes - 9.18 Enrico Piraino, il Mandralisca: politician and philanthropist - 12.35 Francesco Vitale: the bishop, the humanist - 14.20 The las
The painting is cursed, it portrays the devil who’ll drive crazy whoever looks at him – that’s what people say. Why is his gaze so unsettling? Who is he really? No one knew, until now. In this episode of Italian Culture, we investigate the stor
- 2.42 The (old) frontiers of electronics - 3.50 Adriano, Roberto and the Electronics Division - 6.58 The “rescue-team” - 10.25 The political scenario - 13.50 Who needs a personal computer? - 14.53 Piergiorgio Perotto, his role and efforts - 17
The machine that wasn’t meant to be created, and yet it was: the merit goes to a small team of engineers, who disobeyed their bosses’ orders, messed with international politics and crafted something unthinkable for the time. This episode of Ita
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