Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for some years in Italy. Festa is a year-long feast of memories and delicious, traditional Italian dishes--from St. Nicholas sweetmeats in December and perciatelli with sardines and fennel for March's St. Joseph's Day, to figs with prosciutto for summer's Ferragosto and pumpkin gnocchi for an American Thanksgiving in Italy.

This volume is dedicated to "Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe", especially to the production of this music-dramatic genre at the courts on the Iberian Peninsula, in Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire where it was an integral part of court ceremonials and a privileged ritual of repraesentatio maiestatis. The 16 studies on patrons and artists, exceptional events and local traditions, reveal highly interesting material for the research on these up to now largely neglected genre. Any approach to these works full of metaphors, symbols and allusions has to take into account the context of the celebration and the resulting multiplicity of aspects: choice of themes, dramaturgical forms, textual and musical structures, vocal and instrumental ensembles, and the various options regarding the stage apparatus. "Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe", edited by Iskrena Yordanova (Lisbon) and Paologiovanni Maione (Naples), inaugurates the series "Cadernos de Queluz", a subseries of "Specula Spectacula" by Don Juan Archiv Wien.

Gli oroscopi in versetto per tutti i segni dello zodiaco sono pubblicati da Alexander Nevzorov ogni anno. La loro lettura è in continua espansione. Poesie di oroscopi di eccellente qualità. Sono ben rima, con umorismo, colpiscono con precisione l’obiettivo e sono ben ricordati. Gli oroscopi possono essere letti ad alta voce, in una grande azienda, specialmente alla vigilia del nuovo anno. Le previsioni divertenti sono di particolare interesse, sorrisi, umore positivo.

O que você faria se, no meio de uma festa do pijama, a Fada dos Dentes aparecesse para ajudar a combater os malvados Bichos da Cárie? Junte-se a ela nessa aventura e descubra quem sairá vencedor dessa batalha!