Content tagged with “italy”

“ It’s Italian for ‘the good life’ or ‘the sweet life.’ However, it most often refers to a 1960 Italian movie about a photographer living among high society in Rome. ”

“A ‘vanity’ is some physical object that’s considered sinful or promoting of sinfulness (e.g. alcohol, pornography). So a ‘bonfire of the vanities’ is a burning of these objects as a symbolic act to promote holiness and rid the world of temptation. The original ‘bonfire of the vanities’ was an…”