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Vita di Paese: The Colors of Italian Skies
July 2024 | Diana Lucarino-Diekmann
Nearly everyone loves watching sunsets. Colors such as pink, orange, and the blues of dusk can evoke feelings of peace, joy, relaxation, and contentment. Sunsets can SUBSCRIBE NOW!
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Vita di Paese: Bridge(s) Over Troubled Water
June 2024 | Diana Lucarino-Diekmann
The Cuyahoga River, dividing the east and west sides of Cleveland, was one of the most polluted waterways in the country. Unregulated dumping for over 100 years had smothered the river in a foot of oil, chemicals, and SUBSCRIBE NOW!
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Vita di Paese: Italian Bridges
May 2024 | Diana Lucarino-Diekmann
The advent of bridges coincided with the rise of modern civilization in ancient Mesopotamia. A bridge is a structure that provides passage over valleys, rough terrain, rivers and bodies of water and is crucial in connecting lands, regions, workers,...
Vita di Paese: Lake View Cemetery: Crypts, Mausoleums and Tombstones
April 2024 | Diana Lucarino-Diekmann
When Joseph Carabelli, a funerary monument maker, moved to Cleveland in 1880 and established the Lake View Granite and Monumental Works near the cemetery, he encouraged Italian immigrants to settle nearby and work for him, and thus, within five...
More of the Bizarre…and Awesome Cults, Catacombs and Crypts
March 2024 | Diana Lucarino-Diekmann
I have a peculiar curiosity for death and the hereafter and a love of the peacefulness of cemeteries. So, on my travels, I have gravitated toward experiencing what most people think is bizarre, but I think is awesome.
The high altar of San...
The Capuchins and Their Crypts
February 2024 | Diana Lucarino-Diekmann
What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be
The Capuchins
They were first known as “Friars Minor of the hermetic life,” then later called Capuchins, which comes from the Latin word cappuccio or capuche, for the hood the Friars...
Altars
December 2023 | Diana Lucarino-Diekmann
The word altar comes from the Latin, altarium, meaning “high” and adolere, meaning “to ritually burn or sacrifice,” which suggests its original purpose was, as detailed in the Bible, sacrifice, adoration, and worship.
For Catholics, the Son of God...
Madonnelle
November 2023 | Diana Lucarino-Diekmann
Devotional imagery has long been a part of Roman tradition and placing a painting or statue of a deity at a crossroads, lare compita, was thought to protect passersby from demons that could come out at night.Madonnelle, or streets shrines, guard...
Vita di Paese: Autumn, Finally!
October 2023 | Marcello Mellino
Visiting Italy once autumn has arrived is usually a wonderful experience, as long as the weather remains cooperative. This is the time when the overwhelming masses of tourists begin to dwindle and it becomes so much easier to get around while...
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