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Questions regarding literature originally written in Italian, regardless of whether they were written or published in Italy or elsewhere.
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Did Augusto del Noce coin the phrase "the crisis of modernity"?
The book The Crisis of Modernity (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015) is a translation of Secolarizzazione e crisi della modernità, which was published in 1989. If that is the first publication in …
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What was the first picaresque novel in Italian literature?
Contrary to what I hoped or expected when I posted the question, the picaresque novel didn't have much of an impact on Italian literature. Matthias Bauer's monograph Der Schelmenroman (Stuttgart: Metz …
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Free will in Dante's Divine Comedy
The following lines in Canto III of Paradiso appear to discuss this (quoted from the translation provided by WorldOfDante):
The essence of this blessed life consists
in keeping to the boundaries of …
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Have any of Angelo Beolco's works ever been translated into English or French?
In addition to the volume edited by Eric Bentley that Benjamin Godfrey's answer already mentioned (The Servant of Two Masters And Other Italian Classics. Republished by Rowman & Littlefield in 2000; I …
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What does the poet's introduction in Dante's Inferno mean?
The passage contains a number of curious anachronisms. It seems that Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua. Mantua is now the capital of Lombardy, but that name did not come into existe …
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Reference for Dante Quote
If the quote comes from Dante, its most likely origin would be the first part, Inferno, from the Divine Comedy. The Italian text of the Divine Comedy or Divina Commedia is available online (also in se …
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What was wrong with becchini?
There are two reasons why the becchini might have been looked upon negatively.
Some professions benefited financially from the plague. Bergdolt mentions, among others, pharmacists and gravediggers wh …
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What does Machiavelli mean on page 29 of The Prince?
The context is a paragraph discussing conspiracy against a prince (i.e. ruler). When a conspirator looks for support from other people, anyone who gets involved in the conspiracy is constantly at risk …
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Dante Alleghieri's Divine Comedy "has been translated into the most languages in the world &...
The "[second] most translated book after the Bible" apparently depends on whom you ask.
According to Professor Alfredo Moro, the 17th-century noel “Don Quijote de la Mancha is the second most transla …
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Why are "Ser" and "San" left untranslated to "Sir" and "Saint"?
The introduction to Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation (W. W. Norton, 2016) contains an explanation about "Titles and Form of Address" on pages xlvi–xlvii of the introduction. This includes an explanation …
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What's the significance of Emilia's song at the end of Day 1 of the Decameron?
A key phrase in the song is "which doth my mind content". In the Italian text, the relevant line is (quoted from Decameron on Wikisource)
quel ben che fa contento lo ’ntelletto:
Wayne A. Rebhorn (Th …
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What is the context and origin of this Dante quote?
The quote comes from Dante's Divine Comedy, more specifically Canto 17 in Paradiso. Dante tells Beatrice that while traversing Inferno and Purgatorio in the presence of Virgil, he had heard grievous t …
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Should I read the original text or the guide to the text first?
Steve Ellis is a poet and a literary scholar who published about Dante before producing a translation of the Divine Comedy. His translation for Vintage / PenguinRandomHouse contains a considerable amo …
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Why is Dante's Magnum Opus Called a 'Divine Comedy'?
The question can be broken down into two subquestions: one about the term "comedy" and one about the adjective "divine". Dante never referred to his own work as the "Divine Comedy", so where does the …
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When was Machiavelli's Art of War first translated into Chinese?
The DuckDuckGo search 马基雅维利 兵法 翻译 (literally: Machiavelli Art of War translation) gave the following page as the first search result: 兵法 - 尼科洛•马基雅维里.pdf. The page contains a preview of a Chinese trans …
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