lesson 18

Question 1

Sain Martin of Tours

Answer 1

cut his cloak in half to share it with a beggar during a snowstorm – sun begins to shing

Question 2

the “Summer of St. Martin”

Answer 2

period of unseasonably warm weather - traditionally end of harvest and beginning of winter

also day of relocations

Question 3

“fare San Martino”

Answer 3

to move house

Question 4

giosue carducci (1907) san Martino - martinmas

Answer 4

place us in a village – zooming us from sight, smell fo wine fermenting, hearing on threshold of house

only character is hunter

sight comes into foreground again and we look into sky with hunter and end with black birds like thoughts flying as a metaphor

Question 5

giosue carducci (1907) san Martino - martinmas - poem mood

Answer 5

spirit and hope; slowing down with weather/seaon with zooming in of poem – no more to do… somber – at the end, can rest, malancholy, nostolgia

Question 6

what are the red hues in giosue carducci (1907) san Martino - martinmas

Answer 6

sunset

Question 7

singer floreno puts poem to music

Answer 7

as parody of practice of having kids commit to memory this beautiful but old-fashioned and not kid-friendly poem

Question 8

what role did wine play in the fascist era?

Answer 8

ambiguous role

Question 9

how was alcohol stigmatized during the fascist era

Answer 9

as incompatible with fascist idea of masculinity – leaders known for abstinence

Question 10

why was wine important during the fascist era?

Answer 10

because important symbol of Italian economy and culture – became central to fascist “ruralistic ideology”

Question 11

what did wine being important during the fascist era result in

Answer 11

wine promoted as distinctly italian, affordable, rustic and “popular” – invented “grape festivals” (festa dell’uva)

Question 12

grape festivals (festa dell’uva)

Answer 12

ritualized forms of mass mobilization and celebration, which often persisted even after fall of fascist regime

Question 13

what happened in 1950 - 1960

Answer 13

unprecedented period of economic growth

Question 14

after WW2 and fall of fascism

Answer 14

experienced impressive industrial expansion = global leader and social change

Question 15

what did italian products become in 1950/60s

Answer 15

symbols of modernity, style and quality

Question 16

when was the DOC system established

Answer 16

1963 and further developed in 1992)

Question 17

what happened in 1960s

Answer 17

economic blood –> production process of wine became more and more industrialized

Question 18

how did they combat the production process of wine becoming more and more industrialized?

Answer 18

production areas adhered to DOC to protect identify of product and promote it on local and international market

Question 19

Mario Soldati, Vino al Vino

Answer 19

first publish in book form (1971)

collection of reports from a series of trips through the Italian peninsula looking for “genuine wines”

Question 20

what does vino al vino do

Answer 20

1. is an anticipator of “oenoturism”
   and adversely
2. a nostalgic clergy for gradual disappearance of an older way of making and consuming wine

Question 21

“oenoturism”

Answer 21

wine tourism (tasting/consumption/purchase of wine near/at the source)

Question 22

libero de libero - convegno con brindisi (rendevouz with a toast)

Answer 22

drinking with moon, enjoying presence in courtyard - moon is destroying him/he’s dying and “with nothing left to toast to”

Question 23

giorgio gaber, barbera e champagne

Answer 23

two people of much contrast sitting apart for 3 hours at a bar – should join to drink and sing and forget their love pains –> bartender kicks them out