La lettura

La lettura

Learn Italian through readings that Alessandro G's Italiano Standard has selected for you.

Episodes

June 26, 2025 2 mins
Teresa Carson's reading of her own piece of poetry - unprecedentedly - in Italian.
  •  Credits :  "Guarda l'alba" by C. Consoli / T. Ferro (2010)
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Alessandro G's reading from Rodari's Telephone Tales, The Invisible Kid.
  •  Credits : "Tonino l'invisibile" by G. Rodari (1962) 
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November 28, 2024 16 mins
Season's reading from Alberto Moravia's Roman Tales, on his very birthday.
  • Credits : "Canon and Variation" by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 - http://www.twinmusicom.org/
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July 11, 2024 17 mins
Reading from narrator-essayist Natalia Ginzburg's Human Relationships (1953) and Small Virtues (1962) clear and easy to understand.
  • Credits :  "Due destini" by F. Zampaglione / R. Sinigallia (2000)
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March 21, 2024 5 mins
Alessandro G's reading of father David Maria Turoldo as voiced by poet Alda Merini (2009)
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December 14, 2023 9 mins
Extracts from The Future of Our Memories by Italo Svevo (1925)

- Credits : FairyTale Waltz by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100232
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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August 2, 2023 19 mins
Reading from Dacia Maraini's masterpiece, The Silent Duchess.
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January 24, 2023 15 mins
From Italy's lakes region to Paris, the adventures of an idle young man in Piero Chiara's Astrakhan coat, featuring Sara Maiorana.
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November 2, 2022 7 mins
Celebrating a major poet of 1900s, Pier Paolo Pasolini, one hundred years after his birth.

- Credits : "RV 481, concerto in re minore per fagotto, no. 5" by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
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July 20, 2022 22 mins
Celebrating Morante's Bildungsroman in the year when the island of Procida is the Italian capital of culture.

- Credits : "Senza fine" by Gino Paoli and Ornella Vanoni (1961)
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April 16, 2022 10 mins
From Antonio Tabucchi's short story "Letter from Casablanca" featuring Domenico De Marco.

- Credits : Josephine Baker's "Banana Dance" (1925) ; "Rosamunda" by Jaromír Vejvoda (1927) ; "Acércate Más" by Osvaldo Farres (1946) ; Beniamino Gigli's "O begli occhi di fata" by Luigi Denza and Tremacoldo (1884)
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September 15, 2021 23 mins
Reading from Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy, featuring Elena Asciutti.
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December 16, 2020 13 mins
Reading from Italo Calvino's 1957 novel "The Baron in the Trees" courtesy of Fabrizia Di Francesco, master of theatrical arts. -
Credits: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical di Kevin MacLeod è un brano concesso in uso tramite licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 - Artist: http://in...
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July 29, 2020 10 mins
Reading from 1950 Premio Strega award winner Cesare Pavese's Beautiful Summer. -
Credits: "È troppo tardi" by Walter Colì, 1949; "Voglio vivere così" by Giovanni D'Anzi and Tito Manlio, 1941; "Quando l'estate" by Odoardo Spadaro, 1940.
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May 13, 2020 6 mins
Rain in the pinewoods, D'Annunzio's masterpiece of poetry.

Credits: "L'estate" by Antonio Vivaldi, 1725.

Special thanks to my friend Stijn Vermeire, who knows the poem by heart.
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February 19, 2020 9 mins
Reading about The Handsome Priest, a 1954 novel by Goffredo Parise, probably his best work as a realist writer. A fresco of ordinary Italians under the Fascist regime.

Credits: "Vivere" by Bixio and Brignone, 1936.

Featuring: Paola Medri, who read it in grace.
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