Sizes, fabrics and prints explained straight-talking, with the honesty of someone who really wears 'a maglietta (the...
In Naples, a graduation is never a private affair: it's a neighbourhood celebration. Here's how to choose an original...
The strongest card on the green table becomes, in Naples, the most elegant way to say who really calls the shots....
Born poor in Terra di Lavoro, Michelina Di Cesare chose the maquis and the rifle against a newly united Italy. A...
When the air turns crisp, in Naples people don't just reach for a hoodie: they reach for a piece of identity. Here's...
The City Council has allocated €50 million for the redevelopment of the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, ahead of...
At the fifth edition of Pizza Maxima, the Oscars of Italian pizza, Franco Pepe confirms his title as Best Pizzeria in...
When the means are few, so is the result. Let's discover the most realistic Neapolitan saying there is.
One word, ‘scugnizzo’ (Neapolitan street kid), and it holds the whole of Naples inside it. We tell you how the year's...
At the market, at the counter, in the family: there's always someone who complains and gets more. It's the sharp...
The songs that carried Naples around the world: who wrote them, when they were born and what they tell, from 'O sole mio to Pino Daniele.
When Pino Daniele wrote and recorded "Napule è" (Naples is), the city of Naples was at the height of a phase of social and cultural change. The song perfectly captured the soul of Naples, a unique mix of tradition and modernity, a city constantly evolving yet anchored to its deep roots...
Dicitencello vuje (Tell her) is a man's desperate declaration of love for the woman he loves, expressed indirectly. The man speaks to a friend of his beloved, referring to the woman he desires with the term cumpagna vosta (your friend). He asks her to tell the woman that because of her he has lost sleep and the will to do anything (aggio perduto 'o suonno e 'a fantasia — I've lost sleep and imagination), that the passio
‘Anema e core’ (Soul and Heart) is a song from 1950, composed by musician Salve D'Esposito with lyrics by Tito Manlio. Since the 1950s the song has been hugely popular with audiences, both in Italy and abroad.
The song was first assigned to Mario Abate and later brought to success by Giacomo Rondinella. It also inspired the films “Totò, Peppino e la Malafemmena” (Totò, Peppino and the Malafemmena), where it is sung by Teddy Reno, and “Malafemmena”, where it is instead reinterpreted by Nunzio Gallo.
