6 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT LIVING IN ITALY

[@Robm_ph]

As an italian, i find so cute to hear your excitement about our country, we are so used to be surrounded by beauty and history that somewhat we understimate its value and importance, i don't mean we are not proud of it, just we don't care too much, as it should be normal or took it for granted. I dont want to generalize too much, in the south is different than in the north too, but listening to your joy exploring our country makes me consider once more that we are lucky to live here. take care. Roberto

[@TheQKatie]

Grazie per il tuo commento, Roberto

[@pamlaenger6870]

@Roberto Macchi If I could not live in the USA/Texas, I would live in Italy!!!!!

[@branc2658]

With regard to wine, apart from the fact that Italy is the largest wine producer in the world, it should be taken into consideration that in France the production of wine is concentrated only in some main areas, for example Bordeaux and Champagne, while in Italy each of the twenty regions can boast numerous native types of grapes and famous wines.

[@Earth.Crafts.World.Seven.6]

Great point.

[@TheQKatie]

Truuuue!

[@azmodanpc]

Yep. And this adds to the diversity of wine choices. There are certainly so many hidden gems and plain weird wines in Italy that really deserve more attention and hype.

[@maumas1312]

Fanno tenerezza i mangia baguette

[@emanuelebisceglie3156]

È fantastico il tuo entusiasmo nel descrivere la tua vita nella nostra Italia! ❤️

[@fabioa458]

You love Italy and we love you...it's reciprocal! You bring so much passion and you have the curiosity of a child which is so refreshing...even for the locals...your desire to learn is so wonderful! Keep smiling and thanks for your great content

[@TheQKatie]

🙏 🤩

[@Earth.Crafts.World.Seven.6]

I LOVE LOVE Italy. Great to hear someone mention the language, history, and piazza culture. Lovely.

[@robertomarino5756]

La trilogia di Calvino: il cavaliere inesistente, il visconte dimezzato e il barone rampante.

[@francesca4941]

Avrei dato lo stesso identico consiglio!

[@overip]

You should totally read “Marcovaldo” by Italo Calvino. It’s an amazing book that you usually read in middle school and it’s just awesome! Consiglio di un italiano in America :)

[@TheQKatie]

Sembra perfetto!! If Italians read it in middle school then it should be just about right for my level of Italian :) I've heard so much about Italo Calvino; must read his stuff soon!

[@cric9786]

You should also read the "Trilogia degli antenati" from Italo Calvino.

[@ignazioorru2422]

Your excitement is so nice, your declaration of love for our Country deeply touched our hearts. the breakfast conversion makes you a real Italian definitely :D Many thanks for spread so much joy and love from all of us.

[@TheQKatie]

🥰🥰🥰

[@albydigiammarco3373]

That's what got me, when she said, I guess I'm Italian, 👍.

[@eddi172]

Ti consiglio "Il deserto dei Tartari" di Buzzati, uno dei romanzi italiani più belli!

[@ldc0322]

Classic Italian books are: Il fu Mattia Pascal (Pirandello) Se questo è un uomo (Primo Levi, one of my favourite books tbh) Gli indifferenti (Alberto Moravia) La coscienza di Zeno (Italo Svevo, also one of my favourite books) You should also read gli scritti corsari, which are a collection of articles from Pierpaolo Pasolini that tell a lot about the Italian society during the first republic. In general this are all heavy books, but hey 90’s Italian literature it’s mainly like this More recent books I vividly suggest are: Bianco (Marco Missiroli) La solitudine dei numeri primi (Paolo Giordano) L’arte di essere fragili (Alessandro d’avenia) There are a lot more, even for example in genres such as fantasy or giallo and a lot of stuff I can’t list here. Hope you get some good experiences out of these comments :)

[@giadalucchi509]

Don't forget Alessandro Baricco and Italo Calvino

[@TheQKatie]

Thank you for these awesome tips! I've been dying to read Italo Calvino and Primo Levy, both...and you other suggestions are also very appreciated, I hope to read them all!

[@AlessandroGenTLe]

@@TheQKatie La coscienza di Zeno gets my approval too. It's both funny and introspective :) Like when he is on altair to marry his GF and still thinking "How do I escape from here??" :D :D

[@mgz9999]

Lista perfetta. Per aggiungere un po' di soft, citerei Andrea De Carlo (due di due), Camilleri, con un Montalbano qualunque (il cane di terracotta) e Stefano Benni

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

Read all the plays and short stories of Luigi Pirandello. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Of course read "La Divina Commedia" by Dante. Read the poetry of Ungaretti and Leopardi. A recent masterpiece is "Malacqua" by Pugliese.

[@costantinodicarlo3233]

Non so perché nessuno consiglia il più classico dei classici italiani, "Le avventure di Pinocchio" nella versione originale. Letto da adulti, affrontato su un piano di lettura più maturo, è una finestra sull' "italianità". In più è scritto in un italiano facilmente comprensibile e grammaticalmente inappuntabile. Provare per credere.

[@TheQKatie]

Ah sì!!!! Grazie!!!!

[@costantinodicarlo3233]

@@TheQKatie It was written 10 years after Italy's unification and is a window on life (and misery) in those years which were crucial in the creation of an Italian identity. You can understand a lot on why so many Italians emigrated to America. Furthermore, you can see Pinocchio as the negative stereotype of Italians: lazy, liar, untrustworthy; its adventures are a sort of bildungsroman and at the end Pinocchio has become a new character: a hardworking, honest and reliable boy; perhaps a new kind of citizen for a new nation. Let us know what you think about it.

[@alessandromancuso7242]

@@TheQKatie Anche la saga di Don Camillo di Guareschi. Comunque se apprezza la lingua italiana e la capisce, le consiglierei di ascoltare i nostri vecchi cantautori, De andrè in primis, ma anche Guccini, Dalla, Battisti, De Gregori, ecc..

[@lislearnitalianwithsongs]

@@costantinodicarlo3233 Parole sante! An exceptional book that can be read on many levels. Not just for children!

[@lsscpp]

Esatto! L'ho consigliato anche io. Tra l'altro credo siano in pochi fuori dall'Italia (e anche anche) a conoscere la storia originale e non lo snaturato disneyano

[@quelodequelo]

Italo Calvino : il cavaliere inesistente, il barone rampante, il visconte dimezzato Pasquale festa campanile : per amore, solo per amore Marcello d'orta : io speriamo che me la cavo

[@jacquiegrosz4469]

We are so excited to see that you live in Puglia as we are moving to Pisticci from Florida in May 2022! Your videos are great!

[@TheQKatie]

What an adventure. You’re gonna love it! Why Pisticci? That’s so cool!

[@janetlombardi2314]

Italy is fantastic in every way and it's hard to beat. Thanks for sharing

[@italialibera2102]

it is always a pleasure to see clips or videos like yours. it remains clear that your luck is to be able to live two lives, one American and one Italian, and that you can live them at the same time

[@DarioPesce]

Two little (and very "classic" for us italians) book tips for you ;) "Il nome della rosa" - Umberto Eco "Novecento" - Alessandro Baricco

[@TheQKatie]

Piccoli e classici! Perfetto! Grazie mille :)

[@DarioPesce]

@@TheQKatie Grazie a te ;)

[@lorettaorini8851]

Novecento sì, lo leggi in un paio di giorni, ma per definire corto Il nome della rosa ce ne vuole...

[@LifeDiaryGedi]

I love how you incorporate speaking Italian in your videos, I’m currently learning the language and planning a trip to Italy and your videos are just so awesome!

[@scavo71]

Sei dolcissima! From an Italian living in the US, I understand why you love Italy, and I'm looking forward to going back once I retire

[@jaygenglish2669]

Brava! You appreciate everything that I love about Italy. Keep up this type of content.

[@niccolotrentini9752]

Your passion and knowledge is compelling and inspiring!

[@Hoakaloa]

grazie mille for your positivity, enthusiasm and smile...now, on to learning a little Italiano!

[@laurenengelman522]

Il piccolo principe - always a favorite when learning another language. Such a beautiful story, written simply.

[@cwboytop]

Love your videos. Wish I had moved to Italy when I was younger. Visited a few times and never wanted to leave....but you know...that work thing.

[@Alexandre-Giacomo]

How lovely you appreciate so much our lifestyle ✨ and yes, Italian breakfast is addicting. I live abroad but if there’s one thing I will not change it’s the way I eat my sweet and light breakfast in the morning!

[@albydigiammarco3373]

Yes, Italians have perfected this simple undertaking. The coffee to give you the wake up call and the sweet to give you the energy. Other breakfasts are too heavy in the morning and leads you feeling lathargic.

[@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele]

An Italian language tip for you: when you said that you "can't finish the breakfast" you don't translate it witn "non posso", but with "non riesco". The English "can" has different translations in Italian: "potere" in Italian literally means "being allowed to", not "being able to", that is said with "riuscire", or simply "fare". You could say: "non ci riesco a finirla", or "non ce la faccio a finirla". If you say that "non posso finire la colazione" an Italian thinks that maybe someone stopped you while eating or stole your food! Another example? "I can't remember..." you can say obviously "non ricordo", but you should use "non riesco a ricordare" and not: "non posso ricordare" that is not used.

[@giocodiruolo9187]

non per rompere le scatole ma "non ci riesco a finirla" è scorretto, è ridondante, si dice "non riesco a finirla" ..scusa spero non mi odierai

[@giovannipadova2729]

Sei troppo forte Katie! Ti consiglio: Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo, e Mario Rigoni Stern, Il sergente nella neve, due libri non leggeri ma molto intensi. E poi un capolavoro assoluto (anche se non è di un autore italiano): Novantatre di Victor Hugo. E' fuori stampa ma lo trovi usato. Take care and enjoy our Country!

[@bellogabriella9160]

Io leggerei Rosso Malpelo. E anche il treno ha fischiato di Pirandello

[@ldc0322]

Si! Se questo è un uomo è un must

[@pierizio501]

Grazie per descrivere con sincerità e gioia la tua esperienza nel nostro paese!! Come già altri hanno detto mi scalda il cuore vedere questo genere di video dove noi italiani potremmo e dovremmo capire quanto è bello il nostro paese e smettere di saperci solo criticare. Grazie mille

[@abiagio1]

Drinking to get drunk is virtually unheard of in this country and something that puzzles us when abroad (we have our fair share of drunkards, sure, but getting wasted in public is frowned upon and you don't happen to see it very often).

[@Earth.Crafts.World.Seven.6]

Yes, in Ireland, the drinking to get drunk is a big problem. The alcoholism is horrendous. I admire Italy for how they live.

[@Gorgonath]

Dipende dove vai e in che periodo dell'anno ahahaha

[@AlessandroGenTLe]

In a way. If you go down to 14-22yo people, that happens here quite frequently too. But not just like "grabbin beer in december - when it's cold! - and go getting drunk in a park". It's more about clubbing and partying. And probably it's one of those "needed" passages between childhood and adult ages :)

[@abiagio1]

@@AlessandroGenTLe Personally, I'm well past my prime (you can call me a boomer) and I've only got wasted once. It was more than enough, thanks, and it never happened again. The new generations, those are a mystery wrapped in an enigma...

[@Earth.Crafts.World.Seven.6]

@@AlessandroGenTLe I have lived in Italy off and on for 12 years. Italian youth would rather hang with friends or socialize than drink much at all.

[@TheQKatie]

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[@francescomarchetto4900]

Ora sì che sei italiana se fai quella colazione! E l'Italia ringrazia oltre ad essere una fortuna per noi averti qui. 😊

[@tanilatanila1987]

Almost everything! Italy is an amazing country. So much history, so much beauty everywhere - in nature, in people, in buildings.

[@janow9352]

I strongly recommend the book "l'amica geniale"!!!!!

[@fabiofileri2872]

History was my greatest Cultural Shock when I went to North America (Toronto, Montreal an NY) in 2001. The most blatant was traveling from Toronto to Montreal, In a short stop we find a very small group of buildings (no more than 3) inside a wooden defensive palisade. Closing to the settlement reconstruction a men in costume asked us for tickets... at time Coliseum and Imperial Forums was free ... you could just enter as you wish. I don't think he could understand the embarrassed smiles. My mother tell that she discover how beautifull are Imperial Forum a day when the tram was not working and she walk trough them following the same path she does each day. I can tell you that many Italian didn't enjoy our history like you do, they claim the beauty of their cities but doesen't care too much about them, is more about vanity than love. We live in a wonderful country, but to me you can find so much beauty in each country in the world, nothing should feed so much vanity about history. We don't build those monuments and palaces, whe inerited them, I think we should be gratefull not proud. In my case enjoy beauty of Rome and Italy help enjoy beauty everywhere. To enjoy the beauty of the world will help people to live better and peacefully!

[@marcobiagioli3905]

A Bisceglie c'è un bellissimo festival del libro,dove puoi sbizzarrirti nello scoprire nuovi e vecchi autori. Ed il centro storico è bello,Gli autori di canzoni italiane che devi sentire assolutamente Lucio Dalla,Lucio Battisti,De André,Conte ,Giorgio Gaber, Edoardo Bennato,Vasco Rossi,Luciano Ligabue . Poi la miglior cantante italiana,Mina. Una curiosità,ma del fatto che specialmente in Puglia si mangi il cavallo non ne hai mai parlato?

[@johndolewa8451]

Your Italian is so good. I’m so jealous. I love have you move from one language to the other. I’m can’t wait to move to Italy.

[@aris1956]

Ciao ! 👋 Do you want to move to Italy as Katie or just for a vacation ? :)

[@TheQKatie]

Aww thank you! I've been working hard on improving it. It's a great language and Italians are so wonderful when speaking with them. I'm excited for your Italian experience, too!

[@amberrose6978]

Nice to meet you, Katie. I'm studying my Italiano a Americana!

[@damianolanzoni9583]

Suggerimento libri Stefano Benni: "Bar Sport", "Elianto", "La compagnia dei Celestini"

[@B.R.0101]

And 'Saltatempo'

[@claudiofoiadelli8721]

Terra, Il Bar sotto il mare, La grammatica di Dio............... Benni è difficile anche per un italiano ma geniale Terra secondo me è un capolavoro ma tosto da interpretare auguri

[@ChrisTenalach77777]

Wow your italian is really great, love it

[@cohiba320]

Hello Katie. I just discovered your channel, and I am enjoying your videos; so, I have subscribed. I have been to your town, Trani; although not often and not since about 40 years ago. My dad was from Corato, nearby Trani and I stayed there briefly with relatives. My wife and I travel to Salento almost every year, for several years now, and we have decided to retire and move to Lecce sometime next year. I think that your videos really capture the joy of loving in Southern Italy. I am so glad that you are enjoying it. I hope to invite you and Conner “per un caffè” when we have settled in Lecce. BTW I studied medicine at the University of Modena, so my Italian is pretty good; although a little out of practice, and I also just got my dual citizenship Italian passport. Also BTW, your Italian has improved markedly since your earlier videos and is quite good. Congrats.

[@mihaelaclaudiap..2]

My top 6 : food, scenery, people, music, ice cream and the pizza 🍕🤣👍 I adore Italy, hugs from Tuscany!!

[@gixeco]

A book popped out of my head for you! Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, as an American i am sure you will appreciate

[@Tulkash01]

Book suggestions: try anything from Camilleri

[@federicomiceli1344]

While I love Camilleri, I think that's not a good suggestion if her main purpose is learning standard Italian.

[@il-conte]

Il tuo entusiasmo e' commovente, abbiamo davvero un bel Paese, si apprezza molto di piu' dopo aver vissuto a lungo all'estero.

[@jodefilippo]

I love these videos and have learned a lot. One of my favorite towns in Northern Italy is Auronzo in the Dolomites. Beautiful and fun. They have a Fun Bob that is like a Ski Bob but on tracks. Great fun for all ages.

[@TheQKatie]

I can't wait to spend more time up north!

[@bobilardi8503]

Hello Katie my name is Bob Ilardi I am a Italian-American my mom was born in Puglia in Bari in a small town called Rutigliano. I am so impressed with you and your husband and what you are doing. I’ve been to Italy probably 20 times now I’ve visited Bari Yhe at least five. I love the food I love the people I love you vuys and I am a married man for 49 years but I love you and your husband and what you represent. When I look at you you remind me of my young niece Lynne and when you articulate your words you sound just like her and I love your smile. I also appreciate the communicating and sincerity this is very important and I think this is what makes you special. I’ve seen a lot of videos of Italy because I really want to return I began to see if I could become a dual citizen but I stopped during the pandemic maybe in one of my tours we can meet. I am a preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ God bless

[@rafaelflorez6446]

I don't know if it's too late or if you'll ever read this comment, but I love Elena Ferrante's books, obviously those of L'amica geniale saga but all the others too. My native language is Spanish so learning Italian has been super easy for me. Love your channel and would love to see one video about Italian's relationship with Football. Greetings from Colombia!

[@lucajeenotandurella2453]

Hi there! You're amazing guys and I rally love your content. Puglia is such a beautiful region in Italy and discovering it with the eyes of someone who's not italian is such a joy and really beautiful to see. Anyway I wanted to share with you one of the books that I, annd many, consider to be a masterpiece of southern italian culture, expecally neapolitan, and a milestone in my library and in my life. The book is called "Così parlò Bellavista", and it's a novel on the Neapolitan culture and souther italian culture at large, and it really gives you the understandinng on how Neapolitans and southern italian behave and think, and who we are, and what type of culture we have. Hope you manage to give it a try and if you do hope you'll like it. Thanks, much love from Napoli

[@andreareiki1]

Ti consiglio "Il sistema periodico" di Primo Levi. Diviso in episodi e unisce differenti argomenti, quindi è anche utile per arricchire il vocabolario

[@alexbrention4743]

Vivi nella nostra bellissima Puglia e questo è anche un motivo della tua felicità e amore per l'Italia.

[@glori30175]

If you go to Tuscany you should go to where Pinnochio was written in the Town of Collodi vicino Pescia>>You will enjoy this place and get some Souvenirs....Carlo Collodi was the Author!

[@ThePinkus]

Reading books on my own was what really got me into English, after the mandatory course in high school. That was also during the pre-streaming era, so that access to spoken content was far more limited. I was already studying on English books, but I guess math doesn't count... You can almost make a book with thus, hence and yields between the formulas. The one that counted was The Lord of the Rings. And that is a recurrence in my life, it was the first real book that I read in Italian and the first real book I read in English! The first time I read it in Italian I was in elementary school and it took me 2 years. When I brought the rented book back to the library, I struggled to convince them it was theirs. My count is at 3 times in Italian, and 6 times in English now. I've improved! The last time I read it it took me just a couple of days (I am cheating since I am not counting the other two days it took me to recover from the effort...). The only problem, well it's not really a problem, is that reading it in English completely spoiled any Italian translation for me. Since then, I just can't bear any translation of something like: When winter passed she came again And her song released the sudden spring Like raising lark and falling rain And melting water bubbling PS: as I remember it, I didn't check, so it might not be exact. And good luck especially with the last line, just three words (not counting 'and') and You have in front of Your eyes mountains, glaciers and snow thawing, and torrents roaring in their rocky beds. To me, there is a capacity in English of expressing things of nature with immediacy and clarity, a proximity. Tolkien was good at it, but it is not just him. And I love English for it. Sometimes I think that it is not a chance that empiricism was peculiarly strong in the British Islands. Which doesn't mean that I love any less my Italian, of course.

[@TheQKatie]

I love this. There is something so special about a language expressed in its own terms.

[@Rosmooth3]

love your energy and passion about Italy!

[@fabriziamaggi169]

Bello il tuo entusiasmo. Grazie.

[@bigplanett]

I actually lived in Bari and Taranto for a bit in your neck of the woods. Since you're in Puglia, you really need to get into the focaccia. Bari has some of the best at Casa di Focaccia. I'd eat a half wheel by myself. Chocolate bread is also amazing there. What the Puglia is probably best at though is their mozzarella. Get plenty of it and try and buffalo mozzarella. Some is so good you should really eat it within the first 3 hours after it's made for the best flavor. Book recommendations- a classic is I Promessi Sposi by Manzoni. It's actually timely as well since it deals with a story that happens during the Black Plague. Really great book. Obviously Dante's Divina Comedia, but some of his other work is great too. One more is Primo Levi - Se Questo E' Un Uomo. Sad book about his time in Auschwitz, but really well written and educational. Auguri!

[@luzka5422]

I've been watching several videos about foregneirs coming over and making their own top 5-10 list of fav things about Italy, but in the end they all look pretty much alike. However, I have to say that this one is possibly the most genuine I've ever heard :) Happy to see you're enjoying your time here! Ti consiglio tantissimo la quatrilogia di Elena Ferrante - L'amica geniale

[@sandrasantangelo4699]

Ciao Katie, quardo spesso i tuoi video, sono divettenti.Sono italiana e da un'anno vivo in Uk, col mio partner.E' stata una scelta voluta e stiamo imparando piano piano la cultura inglese, adoro vivere qui, soprattutto per il tempo, fresco e mi godo la campagna e villaggi.. Il tuo video mi ha fatto emozionare😊e ho realizzato che le cose che tu ami dell'Italia, sono le cose che un poco mi mancano..un grosso bacio

[@carlolarena3469]

stai bene ? il tempo ,la cultura inglese ? mia sorella e' scappata dopo 9 anni nn ce la faceva + solo per il tempo .state fuori voi .lasciate l.itakia per il tempo ed i villaggi inglesi ..😂😂😂😂 curatevi !!!

[@alexbattiston2879]

"L'incontro" di Omar Battiston. Such a great book

[@alicetwain]

A couple book suggestions. First an early XX century classic, Fontamara by Ignazio Silone, which describes with a slightly grotesque vein the life in a village in Southern Italy in the years of the Fascist dictatorship. The other suggestion is Massimo Carlotto, a contemporary writer. He mainly writes mysteries/thrillers. Start with Il mistero di mangiabarche.

[@Daniel3NT]

Regarding wine, try Salice Salentino, its my favorite Italian wine, and its from Lecce, which is next door to you.

[@tomdavies8945]

I see lots of recommendations for classic literature here. Which is all well and good, but if you're anything like me you might prefer something more modern and contemporary. Gianrico Carofiglio is an author and lawyer from Bari. His debut novel, 'Testimonio Inconsapevole' (2002) is set in Bari and Monopoli and gives great insight into the Italian judicial system (as well as the racism that is so prevalent in the South). Speaking of the judicial system, I recently read Raffaele Sollecito's 'Un Passo Fuori Della Notte' (2015), which I found very easy to read and interesting (basically because I found the whole Amanda Knox case fascinating). Sollecito is also from the province of Bari. Perhaps my favourite contemporary-ish Italian novel is Andrea De Carlo's 'Due Di Due' (1989). It tells you a lot about what it was like to grow up in Italy in the 70s.

[@cono73]

dal tuo video si capisce che hai compreso buona parte della cultura italiana del vivere. In particolare l'aver notato la cultura della piazza mi ha sorpreso, perché questa cosa sfugge alla maggior parte degli stranieri e anche a qualche italiano. Piazze esistono in tutto il mondo, anche a New York e a Londra, ma la maniera di viverle credo che sia tipicamente italiana. C'è però da dire che tra il Nord e il Sud Italia ci sono differenze. Nel Sud Italia, la piazza dove si riunisce e cresce la comunità è un'eredità delle antiche civiltà romana e greca, favorita anche dal clima benevolo. In realtà, molto della cultura del vivere del Sud discende dalle tradizioni della Magna Graecia, che non per caso aveva occupato moltissime località costiere di Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria e Sicilia. Questo modo di concepire la vita sociale fu poi in parte ripreso dai Romani e diffuso nel resto d'Italia, ma gli eventi della storia hanno modificato le cose per cui dal profondo Nord al profondo Sud si incontra un'infinità di sfumature di tutto ciò che riguarda il vivere (mangiare, bere, parlare, stare insieme, ecc.), ma con una base che ci accomuna tutti. L'Italia è il paese, credo, che pur piccolo, ha la più grande varietà di elementi socio-culturali e gastronomici del mondo. Buona permanenza.

[@alemassa6632]

Ciao Katie, ovviamente l'amore è ricambiato. Io ti consiglio Italo Calvino 'Il barone rampante', 'Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno', 'Il cavaliere inesistente', solo per citarne alcuni. Utile l'abbonamento alla Biblioteca Comunale (tante sono gratis), quasi tutti i Comuni italiani ne hanno una... leggi un po' di libri e se qualcuno ti piace puoi sempre comprarlo per tenertelo.

[@luciabentivoglio5005]

Anche io volevo consigliarle Italo Calvino

[@gretchenbooth7669]

That’s interesting about the wine - it’s the community lifeblood!

[@TheQKatie]

🍷 🥂 💕

[@ClaudioMaggio]

If you like italian language, you must read Giorgio Faletti and specifically "Io uccido". That book is written with an amazing style.

[@voxpopuli5546]

Semmai un giorno ritornerai in America di sicuro ci sarà una cosa che non farai più : bere un cappuccino con il ghiaccio. Io vivo in America e ancora mi chiedo perché le persone qui adorano così tanto l’autolesionismo

[@federicomingarelli6071]

Sono felicissimo del tuo amore per il nostro paese. L'italia è speciale.

[@dade2706]

Margaret Mazzantini "Non ti muovere"... Ed anche tutti I libri di Camilleri,piacere puro

[@davidebassini2044]

Hi Katie, I love your videos! Here a tip for three books you must read. The author is Italo Calvino who is probably the most important italian writer of the past century. Here the titles: "il cavaliere inesistente" "il barone rampante" "Il visconte dimezzato". It's called the trilogy of our ancestors. Three wonderful, unusual, ironic yet historically precise stories that take place in the italian middle age. You will love them, I'm sure!

[@TheQKatie]

Ciao Davide! Thanks for these tips, I've heard so much about Italo Calvino. Thanks for your thoughts on what I should read first!

[@gaetanoc.delauro338]

The best Italian breakfast is coffee and pasticciotto 😍😋 while, if you like crime novel, I suggest you read Camilleri

[@Daniel3NT]

You probably know of this one but just in case - Il Gattopardo is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento. Published posthumously in 1958, it became the top-selling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature.

[@GalbertReloaded]

Ciao Katie, seguo con piacere il tuo canale da un paio d'anni e sono davvero felice della maniera in cui ti sei integrata in Puglia e hai imparato ad apprezzare lo stile di vita locale! Per quanto riguarda i libri, se non li avessi ancora letti credo siano d'obbligo "Se questo è un uomo" e "La tregua" di Primo Levi: letture un po' pesanti, ma che sono state fondamentali per il mio percorso di crescita. Se ti piace il genere del romanzo storico, "L'uomo che cambiò i cieli" di F. Ongaro è davvero bello, e narra la storia di Tycho Brahe, agli albori della Rivoluzione Copernicana. Un caro saluto, Fabio =)

[@TheQKatie]

Awww grazie mille. E grazie per i consiglio sui libri . Le cercherò!

[@danstoye3902]

The name of the Rose/Il nome della rosa......Umberto Eco........My suggestion Katie is to buy the same book in Italian and English, then read them at the same time...side by side, I would read 1 or 2 pages....and make notes on the pages and any new word I would try and use in conversation the next day, to "stick" it in my vocabulary! Since you found my comment about being stationed in Italy on another video interesting (crazy). You might as a an American be interested in some of the military history of Americans during WW 2. The fore runners of the Green Berets were the 1st Special Service Force (an American/Canadian) unit known as the the Black Devils, who fought their way up the boot of Italy, and whose graves are still there. As an American I find it important to remember that it was our soldiers along with English/India/Polish/Canadian/New Zealand/South Africa/Australia/France and of course the Italian Partisans etc who liberated Italy.

[@emiliano74]

Cara Katie, come libri ti suggerirei i grandi classici: 1 - i Promessi Sposi, 2 - i Malavoglia (soprattutto per chi ha vissuto al sud), 3 - Se Questo è un Uomo, 4 - La Coscienza di Zeno, 5 - il Nome della Rosa. Poi anche Calvino e ovviamente, quando te la sentirai, almeno l'inizio dell'Inferno di Dante. Ti suggerirei anche Pasolini, ma sono libri spesso in dialetto romano che non sono facili, né rappresentativi della tua esperienza al sud

[@TheQKatie]

Ah sì, i libri in dialetto sarebbe difficile!!! Grazie per i tuoi consigli!

[@emiliano74]

@@TheQKatie prego! e complimenti per i tuoi video, li seguo sempre :)

[@albertorizzotti6244]

Ciao Katie, hai letto il libro di Severgnini "Un italiano in America"? Te lo consiglio, e' divertentissimo! I commend you on your command of the language!!

[@Zirumaio]

Marcovaldo, by Italo Calvino, absolute lovely 🙂

[@pamlaenger6870]

I’ve been to Italy only twice. There is no bad wine in Italy!!!! I know this because I went to the grocery store and would buy the least expensive wine. It was still good!!!! Amo Italia!!!!

[@alexgiancaterino2333]

If you love challenges, i recommend you "Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana" by Carlo Emilio Gadda, really unique style and definitely one of the greatest books in italian literature.

[@Earth.Crafts.World.Seven.6]

You have an incredible flair for Italy ...

[@charlesmorello5641]

Hi Katie... apulian guy from Salento! I don't know if you have done it already but If you like and enjoy wine you do a sommelier course in Puglia.. Here they do it even directly in the wine cellar!

[@Pomoscorzo]

I am currently reading "L'architettrice" by Melania Mazzucco, a very good book.

[@claudiorugiero3372]

Wow! Hai un buon gusto in fatto di letture, bisogna dirlo. Se ti piace la Ginzburg, ti consiglio anche Lessico famigliare

[@albydigiammarco3373]

Hi, you pasted a comment concerning the history and of the church built in 1099. That is what boggles many peoples minds. Italy has so so much if it and the fact that you can walk amongst such beauty in todays modern world is such a privilege. To all Italians, please protect that beautiful country.

[@InCercaDiFortuna]

Three of the greatest italian authors: Calvino, Pratolini, Buzzati. But my suggestion is L'Amica Geniale by Elena Ferrante

[@pile333]

Andrea Pazienza or Magnus comic books. Like "Zanardi" for Pazienza or "Lo Sconosciuto" for Magnus. Pretty classic but amazing. Pretty engaging for his dated italian slang as well.

[@ugaasfoodey3470]

To be sincerely speaking in my humble opinion without being sentimental and of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my opinion but rather looking into this serious matter with perspective distinction and without condemning anyone's point of view, i honestly think and believe that i have nothing to say. Thank you.....

[@TheQKatie]

😂

[@francescaaiello9427]

Almost I forgot says sta sera bevo in vino PRIMITIVO CHE AMO ED UN PEZZO DI PARMIGIANO 24 MESI SOOOOO GOOOODDDDD

[@Federico-vb7xs]

Libri da non perdere. Di Beppe Severgnini: un italiano in America e la testa degli italiani

[@serwolf2443]

...Io direi TUTTI i libri di Severgnini...

[@Federico-vb7xs]

@@serwolf2443 sicuramente. Ma quei due calzano perfettamente. Legge delle vicissitudini e degli shock culturali al contrario, e tramite la testa degli italiani riesce a comprenderci ancora meglio. Il tutto divertendosi

[@pedrofelix5854]

Sei davvero entusiasta! Mi piacciono molto i tuoi video e devo dire che sono d'accordo: Il vino e la colazione sono i migliori! Continua così!!

[@mauriziotorrani9412]

so che è un off topic, ma il tuo viso è bellissimo! 😍

[@GhostFS]

Books: "Il nome della rosa" if you want a classic an historical thriller. Well written and with a very vast vocabulary, I think is a good intermediate/advanced book that was natively written in Italian.

[@GhostFS]

And you can cheat watching the movie with sean connery if you get stuck... as is quite heavy read :D

[@davide1980BoIT]

Hello. It's difficult to recommend some books in Italian because the most beautiful are the classics and they don't always have a "modern" Italian (a bit like Shakespeare, I think) and also because tastes are subjective. However I can say, without a doubt, "I promessi sposi" ("The betrothed") by Alessandro Manzoni (it's studied in all Italian high schools) and "Se questo è un uomo" ("If this is a man") by Primo Levi. Obviously number 1 is Dante Alighieri's "Divina Commedia" ("Divine comedy"), but it's difficult even for native Italians ... Another very famous one is "Il nome della rosa" ("The name of the rose") by Umberto Eco. They also made a movie about it in 1986 with Sean Connery and Christian Slater. Bye bye 🖐😊

[@pmax3d]

Camilleri is one of my favourites italian authors, you might have heard about him as the creator of "il Commissario Montalbano" character and stories. His writing is very engaging from my perspective :) (btw, I am Italian, but I live in the UK :) )

[@TheQKatie]

Grazie per la dritta!

[@ilarialafortezza4552]

"grazie per le dritte".. damn, u got that language proficiency already. Brava 😄😄

[@TheQKatie]

☺️☺️☺️🤌🇮🇹

[@locandieretay3000]

Italian Books: Novecento and Oceano Mare, both written by Alessandro Baricco. If you like murder-mistery: Io Uccido, by Giorgio Faletti or the Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. Anything written by Italo Calvino, and last but not least: Il Nome della Rosa by Umberto Eco.

[@paologranelli5336]

Talking about breackfast I would like to say that having it with cornetto, bisquits, sweets in general is a relative recent habit: not more than 50-60 years.

[@TheMooCowReturns]

My friend learned Italian like this: he had a book on Machiavelli in English, and the exact same one published in Italian, and he read the whole book one page at a time in English, then Italian, which I thought was a great idea. I have a bad facility for languages, so I am going to try this method sometime - btw I assume any book in Italian and English would work, not just Machiavelli... ;=8)

[@marcoamadori1317]

Ti consiglio "il fu Mattia Pascal" di Pirandello! :)

[@filipporubino4163]

I suggest you read anything you can find by Luigi Pirandello (both theater and novels), a true genius

[@brittanyjones5007]

Nice to see a fellow American living in Puglia! I’m from California and now living in Bari. Where are you from ?

[@TheQKatie]

Ohio->NYC->London->Puglia 👋

[@VHEmpress]

Katie, what about the cheeses? What is the video where you go to where they make the mozzarella?

[@Whippets]

I would suggest Alberto Moravia. Love your enthusiasm. ... and if any of you are interested in a youtuber that likes to provide a little history of some of the smaller cities and towns in Italy, check out *Dramatically Expatic* ... she's equally enthusiastic and does a great job as well.