Italy in One Dozen Sounds | Italian History and Culture - l to l - Top

When you pull the leafy stem from the orange you bought at the market: that pop.

A Vespa scooter coming at you fast, in an alley in Rome.Vespa in Italian means wasp.

The sound of your new language, Italian, in your mouth.

A child on his way home from school with his mother, asking for agelato.

A Venetian fish monger at his market stall packingdown the ice in his display tray with the back of his ice scoop.

A congregation of locals and tourists in Assissi singing a hymn during Mass.

Your roommate singing along to her iPod.

Taxi drivers in Capri, slamming down cards on the seawall as they play poker, and laughing.

A knife, slicing through bread, as the man behind the deli counter, makes your proscuitto and mozzarella and tomato sandwich.

Different shoes on the wavy, cobblestone streets of Rome: sandals, tennis shoes, high heels, espadrilles.

The things you whisper to yourself at the end of a long day of travel.

The sound your heart makes when you first look up at the Sistine Chapel.

–Prof. Charles Israel, Jr.

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