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Thread #103967   Message #2128040
Posted By: M.Ted
17-Aug-07 - 01:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: English version of 'Vieni Sul Mar'?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: English version of 'Vieni Sul Mar'?
Lido and Lidi can mean either banks or shores. There are lots of lidi in Venice, of course, but Italy is a penninsula, so the sea and the shore are a part of the collective identity--the phrase "patrii lidi", or "Shores of our Fathers"   is often used poetically for "homeland"--So you can't assume that "lidi" refers to anywhere in specific.

We lived in a palazzo in the hills of Naples, and looked out from our balcony on the bay and its shores. It is one of the most beautiful views I have every seen--for Neopolitans everywhere, those are the "patrii lidi" --