1. 1  a rigid plate, usually of steel in the shape of an arc of a cylinder, coated on the outside of its curved surface with a friction-producing material and tightened against the inside of a brake drum to produce a braking action.
La vita Ã¨ bella redirects here. For other uses, see La vita Ã¨ bella (disambiguation). Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita Ã¨ bella [la ËviËta É bËbÉlla]) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami.
Giuseppe Benvenuto, I'm Italian, thus an Italian native speaker. Views. In addition to all the other answers, I'd like to point out that la bella (bella accompanied by its matching article) could also refer to (in the appropriate context): 1) The definitive form of a written document (e.g. a short essay composed at school) - opposed to la brutta, litteraly the ugly one, which refers to its intermediate draft;