Italianità
The essence of being Italian
What is Italianità?
It is the life-affirming attitude that seizes being; a cognizance of the sheer joy of simply being alive. What all Italians have in common, Italian and Italian-Americans, is a passion for life itself.
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Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.
Consider well the seed that gave you birth:
you were not made to live your lives as brutes,
but to be followers of worth and knowledge.
Dante
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Hi - I’m William Giovinazzo
Words and Music. Someone once asked me if they wrote a book about my life what would the title be, Words and Music. Two of my three great passions in life are literature and music, especially when it is related to my Italian-American heritage.
When I am not reading literature or writing, I am studying the classical guitar… or eating. I like that a lot too. Ok, let me start over, two of my FOUR great passions…
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Historical fiction is one of today’s most popular genres. From the Peloponnesian War to the war in Iraq and all points in between, you can read books that will give you a sense of what it was like to live in those times. Unsurprisingly, the most compelling of these works are created by the people who witnessed these momentous events, who were part of it. I think of such great novels as Hemmingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls, Heller’s Catch-22, and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. John Hersey’s Pulitzer Prize winning A Bell for Adano, although not ranked as highly as these others, deserves praise. There is an authenticity to it that gives the reader a sense of what life in Italy must have been like as the war ended.