Questions tagged [italian-language]
Questions regarding literature originally written in Italian, regardless of whether they were written or published in Italy or elsewhere.
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Italian "Verismo" story: a farmer knows his wife cheats on him but he pretends he doesn't know it to avoid troubles
I'm trying to find an Italian short story of the "Verismo" literary movement I read a long time ago and now I recall only partially: it's probably by Verga or Capuana or, less likely, ...
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Does Lauretta's rant reflect a real change in the style of jesters in 14th-century Italy?
In Day 1 Story 8 of the Decameron, narrated by Lauretta, she digresses to engage in a long rant about how jesters nowadays aren't what they used to be:
[T]here came to Genoa a jester of good parts, a ...
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Why does Petrarch's sequence of poems to Laura have three different titles?
Petrarch's celebrated sequence of 366 poems to Laura goes by three different titles. As far as I can tell, they're used interchangeably:
Il Canzoniere, The Songbook
Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, ...
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Understanding the technique of "lightening" in Calvino's writing
I'm reading the paper "Erasing the Invisible Cities: Italo Calvino and the
Violence of Representation" by John Welsh (which you can read for free online). I've read and enjoyed Calvino's Invisible ...
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Meaning of the chapter structure in Calvino's Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities is essentially a collection of descriptions of cities.
What I find interesting is that the chapters follow a specific structure. There are ten categories of ...
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What does this mean about the interpretation of Lauretta's song at the end of Day 3?
At the end of Day 3 of the Decameron, Lauretta sings the following song after dinner, at the request of the new "king" Filostrato:
What dame disconsolate
May so lament as I,
That vainly ...
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Do the young women and men of the Decameron represent the Virtues and sections of the soul?
The Wikipedia page on the Decameron claims that:
Many details of the Decameron are infused with a medieval sense of numerological and mystical significance.[9] For example, it is widely believed[by ...
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Exploring heteroglossia in the semiotic novels of Umberto Eco
Heteroglossia is an interesting and thoughtful literary term introduced by the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin in his “Discourse in the Novel” in 1934. Heteroglossia describes the coexistence of ...
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Understanding the ending of "The Name, the Nose"
Calvino's Under the Jaguar Sun was originally intended to be a complete novel about the five senses, but Calvino died before completing the novel, which was published as an incomplete collection of ...
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Has complete Moravia's "Racconti romani" been translated to English?
At Internet Archive one can find a book with the title Roman tales, which is in fact a selection of Moravia's Racconti romani translated to English by Angus Davidson and published in 1959. In words of ...
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Evidences of Manzoni's influence on Dun Karm poems
According to Britannica Online Encyclopedia, Dun Karm is considered the national poet of Malta:
Dun Karm, pseudonym of Carmelo Psaila, (born Oct. 18, 1871, Zebbug, Gozo, Malta—died Oct. 13, 1961, ...
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How do the available annotated version of Discources on Livy differ?
I saw this answer by Tsundoku from 2018. I was interested to learn how the available annotated versions differ.
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How did the "hero mice" gain their powers in the "Geronimo Stilton" series?
How did the "hero mice" in the Geronimo Stilton series of children's books originally gain their powers?
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Social class in medieval Italian literature and its changes during the Renaissance
I'm very interested in how notions of class were reflected in medieval Italian literature and how these archetypes, tropes, motifs or whatever you'd like to call them changed during the Renaissance ...
