Posts by Etta Madden
May 2023 All Things Italy
End of Year, End of Career? May marks the end of the school year for many of us in the US. It’s full of proms, award ceremonies, banquets, graduations, and…
Read MoreAll Things Italy April 2023 What Palermo Promises
Dear Friends: Last month I promised more insights from my time in Sicily—specifically, Palermo and its surroundings. Then, last week I shared on social media a bit from Edith Wharton’s…
Read MoreAll Things Italy March 2023 Is the Jet Lag Worth It?
Dear Friends (& new subscribers–welcome!): Earlier this month, five days after my return flight from Italy to the US, I was able stay in bed until 7 a.m., rather than…
Read MoreAll Things Italy February 2023
Time Warp and Culture Waves Hello, friends and fellow Italophiles. And welcome, new subscribers! Many of you know that I’m writing this month from Italy, while I am a Visiting Scholar…
Read MoreAll Things Italy January 2023
Something old, something new . . . Dear Friends, “Something old, something new” rings of weddings rather than January resolutions. The more common adage, of course, is “out with the…
Read MoreAll Things Italy December 2022 19th-C. Asks from Italy Pre-date Giving Tuesday
Dear Friends, This issue of All Things Italy pushes into the past as well as across the Atlantic as I consider end-of-year giving and its traditions. I hope you’ll bear…
Read MoreAll Things Italy November 2022 Where is Home?
With the fall of leaves, the slant of the sun, holidays like All Saints Day, and other holidays ahead, many begin to think of lost family and of what it…
Read MoreAll Things Italy October 2022
Dear Friends: First, a hearty hello to new subscribers! I hope you enjoy a few interesting tidbits about Italy, past and present. Second, as promised to those who read last…
Read MoreAll Things Italy September 2022
Dear friends: Last month I promised info about the Bay of Naples and the Sorrento Peninsula in this issue of All Things Italy. But I begin with a confession. I’ve…
Read MoreAll Things Italy July/August 2022 Fa Caldo . . . Fa Caldissimo!
Dear friends: I’m writing this letter from home, back in the USA, sitting at a desk surrounded by air-conditioning and looking out on a scorched Midwestern patch of grass and…
Read MoreAll Things Italy June 2022 Words from a Solo Traveler
Hello, friends, and greetings from Genova Nervi. It’s been a month that I’ve been away from home and on the ground in Italy. Approaching four weeks away, I felt certain…
Read MoreAll Things Italy May 2022 May’s End Means a Return to Rome
Hello, friends, and greetings from Rome! Late May means, as many of you know, I submitted students’ grades and headed into sabbatical. Soon after, with a suitcase packed for each…
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