The musical tradition of the Greek-speaking populations of Southern Italy remains strong to this day, as do the variations of the language.

Will a Mass celebrated in an Italian dialect pave the way for translation of the Roman Missal into regional dialects? The question was raised April 28, when Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, deputy ...

Despite its relatively small land area, Italy houses a plethora of dialects, many of which are different enough from each other and from the official Italian language to be considered separate ...

A road trip through Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state leads to German and Italian cuisine, dialects and a surprising number of music festivals. The author encountered accordion music and other ...

Italica features original scholarly articles on all aspects of Italian language, literature, and culture as well as studies on language pedagogy. Interdisciplinary and comparative studies related to ...

Daniela Pes, 32, was born in Sardinia, Italy. Growing up in Tempio Pausania, she is fluent in both standard Italian and her Gallurian region’s dialect, Gallurese. On her debut album, 2023’s ‘SPIRA’, ...

As indicated by the hodgepodge of attempted dialects in “House of Gucci,” Nicolas Cage’s strangely nasal intonations in “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” and Chris Pratt’s misguided voiceover in “The ...