Posts Tagged ‘italy’

FABIO BOCCANERA : THE ITALIAN VOICE OF JOHNNY DEPP (and much more…)

January 29, 2014
Benedetta Tintillini e Fabio Boccanera

Benedetta Tintillini e Fabio Boccanera

by Benedetta Tintillini

English version by Joan Malloy
Honestly I think that half the success that Johnny Depp receives in Italy, is due to Fabio Boccanera and his awesome talent. The general audience is not even aware of the high level of professionalism that the ‘Italian Voice Actors’ (more…)

ENCOUNTERS – POPE FRANCIS AND THE INFIORATORI OF SPELLO

October 8, 2013
Benedetta Tintillini

Benedetta Tintillini

by Benedetta Tintillini

Miracles are to be recognized in the unexpected joys that happens every day.
I have the honor , for about a year , to be a Infioratore of Spello (card 740 ) , which fills me with pride and that allowed me , today , to be full of pain in the whole body but also of great happiness .
The President of the Association, and dear friend , Guglielmo Sorci , gave me one benof the most intense ( and exhausting ) days of all my life , giving me the opportunity to participate in the realization of the Infiorata on the occasion of the visit of Pope Francis in Assisi.
Each of us Infioratori came home with a wealth of memories and feelings that I do not think we will be able to forget .
The uniqueness of the Pope’s visit to Assisi is known, but the chorus of people to attend the event in Spello is amazing. (more…)

MATAVITATAU : A REAL AND VIRTUAL JOURNEY AMONG THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL WONDERS OF ANCIENT ROME

September 20, 2013
Benedetta Tintillini

Benedetta Tintillini

by Benedetta Tintillini

Next appointment with our past will take place on September 29th in Rome. The Matavitatau Cultural Association scheduled the activity entitled: LIVING IN ROME : THE DOMUS of Palazzo Valentini , the Trajan’s Column and the ROMAN DOMUS of Celio Hill.

Memeber and not-members will have the opportunity guided by the President of the Association , Nicoletta Bernardini , to discover the excavations made ​​in the (more…)

Exhibition: Small ceramic sculptures – Museum of Deruta

August 29, 2013

Deruta_Gruppo_di_orchestraliSmall figures of children and young girls, caricatures of people and animals drawn from the rural world, including a successful series of donkeys, or the village life and the town, with a large repertoire of (more…)

“PILGRIM AND NEW APOSTLE. ST. FRANCIS ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO”

August 21, 2013

assisiAssisi, Palazzo Bonacquisti – August 22nd/October 20th , 2013

Promoted by the Xunta de Galicia, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Assisi, the Ordo Fratrum Minorum, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia and the Centro Italiano di Studi Compostellani di Perugia, on August 22nd, the exhibition Pellegrino and new Apostle will be inaugurated in (more…)

ENCOUNTERS – FRANCESCO BAIANO: HISTORY AND MEMORY OF THE CERAMICS OF DERUTA

August 21, 2013
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Benedetta Tintillini and Francesco Baiano

I come into the shop – workshop – museum “Antica Fornace” of Deruta, immediately greeted by the founder, Mr. Francesco Baiano. He accompanies me, with courtesy and enthusiasm, on a visit through his collection of ceramics, an astounding collection of pottery and ceramic production in Deruta from 1400 to the present.

He tells me of his relatives, Mr. Margaritelli, who created the first Factory of (more…)