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A stocky, thick volume with a cover photo whose naughty bits were not entirely covered up by the title Commedia Sexy All'Italiana - the 'Sexy' in extra-large, raised letters - sat on top of a few boxes on the store's always-sorta-cluttered checkout counter. "
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Andriessen and Hartley's La Commedia is just that - something to think about.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Andriessen and Hartley's La Commedia is just that - something to think about.
No Laughing Matter 2008
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The biting social satires of Dino Risi occupied a central place in the school that became known as Commedia all'Italia in the late 1950s and early '60s.
NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2010
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The occasion was the new opera from Louis Andriessen, La Commedia, which is in its last few performances under the auspices of De Nederlandse Opera at the Carré Theater in Amesterdam.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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The occasion was the new opera from Louis Andriessen, La Commedia, which is in its last few performances under the auspices of De Nederlandse Opera at the Carré Theater in Amesterdam.
No Laughing Matter 2008
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The people who brought you Journopalooza — an odd quasi-battle of the bands-of-journalists that my band played to entertain such Washington eminences as then-CIA Director Mike Hayden — are at it again with a laff-a-thon called Commedia dell Media tonight at the National Press Club.
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Dante labels his Commedia “digressive,” while typically the medieval commentator ringed his text with marginalia.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968
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And how truly the Commedia, which is justly called
The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861
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His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called Commedia and later called Divina ( "divine") by Boccaccio), is often considered one of the greatest literary works composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
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