After Norway’s Storelgen stole Mac the Moose’s place as world’s tallest, a Canadian city hopes to “stick it to Oslo” by increasing their statue’s size. [Read more].
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Battle of the moose: Canada’s Mac the Moose (left), and Norway’s Storelgen (right). Composite: Alamy.
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Momenti eccelsi
O sbarazzina vestita di nuovo rimembri ancor del romano ermo colle il roboar possente vibrar d’eterno? Lassù cime tempestose si univano ad angeli soavi e tu all’amore innalzavi il canto A te che nella fanciulletta mano e fiori vermigli e pregiate porpore recavi al mondo Crudele fu il disdegno di sì prezioso donare Gira la giostra e corrono gli asini e il gaio pollo, dei tacchini il re, cappon si scopre al desco di Quiteria Ahimè Rosellina a nulla valse avvelenar la mela a nulla valse mutar sembianza |
Jean Ache, Mona Lisa in the style of Picasso, Pilote, XV, 1973, No. 718. Credit: Pinzellades al Món.
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The poet
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Chi ha buona cantina in casa non va pel vino all’osteria.
He who has a good cellar at home doesn’t go drinking at the tavern.
Tuscan proverb
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Chi va a letto co’ cani, si leva colle pulci.
If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Tuscan proverb
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Avé’ più corna di un cesto di lumache.
To have more horns than a basket of snails.
Florentine proverb
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Il medico pietoso fa la piaga puzzolente.
Mild physician – putrid wounds.
Tuscan proverb
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Pictured above are a series of floor plans in Liberty/Art Deco style of a very large house owned by Alessandra’s family and located in the heart of Florence, Italy. For almost two years, the house has been unlawfully occupied by a non-communitary woman who almost surely acted on behalf of — alas! — our unidentified fellow “patriots” interested to run their “business” there with no cost in a risk-free way. We filed suit against the frontwoman, and finally, on October 10, 2016, we re-entered into possession of the house. Inside, we found the worst representation of an occupied house, and since then we’ve been working non-stop everyday in order to restore damaged rooms. We haven’t had a single day’s holiday so far. I never forget when I entered the house for the first time on that morning of October 10, I immediately saw and felt something I had seen and felt already, even if not there. Behind the charade of such a badly staged representation, everything revealed the unmistakable style of Arcovazzi. So somehow I think the story we will tell you a little at a time may be of some interest. Of course, the glasses of all windows were broken, and so, no doubt, we should title our (not too short) story “The House with Crying Windows”.
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Altri mangiano la candela e tu smaltisci lo stoppino.
Others ate the candle, and you dispose of the wick.
Tuscan proverb
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A chi fa i ’onti avanti l’oste, li convien’ farli du’ vorte.
You reckon your chickens before they are hatched.
Livorno’s proverb
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Si fa come quello che si tagliò i’ cinci pe’ fa’ dispetto alla moglie.
Let’s do like that guy who cut his own penis off to spite his wife.
Florentine proverb
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Tira più i’ filo di una sottana che un carro di buoi della Chiana.
One woman’s hair can make a man do what a bullock cart cannot.
Florentine proverb
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“Bantu Knots” is a traditional African hairstyle which has been reinvented in recent times. Photo: guardian.ng.
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La pesca di’ Giunti, acqua fino alle palle e pesci punti.
Giunti’s fishing: water up to the balls all day — and no fishes.
Florentine proverb
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Gelosia vien per impotenza, per opinione e per esperienza.
Proverbio toscano
Jealousy comes out from impotence, judgment, and experience.
Tuscan proverb
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Porterebbero via i’ffumo alle candele.
Proverbio fiorentino
They’d steal smoke from a candle.
Florentine proverb
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Se tu fossi alto quanto tu sè bischero tu berresti alle grondaie.
Proverbio fiorentino
If you were as tall as you are dumb you’d drink out of the gutters.
Florentine proverb
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