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10 Reasons Why You Should Include Ravenna In Your Italy Itinerary

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You know I always try to recommend lesser-known Italian places in my blog.

I always make a point of visiting places that are outside the main tourist routes. I do this because I love discovering new locations and also because I am always on the hunt for places that I think you might find interesting and worth exploring.

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Italians You Should Know: Photographer Lisetta Carmi and Her Many Lives

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Last month I started a new series of blog posts, focusing on the lives of some Italians that are really worth knowing. 

As I stated in the first post of the series, which was about Libereso Guglielmi, the gardener of Italo Calvino, the purpose of the series is to tell you about Italians that deserve to be known outside of Italy and to write about Italian culture from a different perspective.

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[Italian Grammar] How To Use Ne In Italian

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I have written a blog post about the use of the Italian particle ci a while ago, and now it’s time to focus on its friend: the particle ne.

As I said in that blog post about ci, the use of these two particles in Italian can be a bit frustrating, so I am writing these blog posts hoping to help students who struggle with this aspect of Italian grammar.

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