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Convivio (Italian pronunciation: [koɱˈviːvjo];) ("The Banquet") [2] is an unfinished work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. It consists of four books, or, " tratatti": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a prose allegorical interpretation or commentary of the poem that ...
The poet Bertoni [3] was born to Modena and since 1993 has been teaching Italian literature at Bologna University. [4] He is the author of Dai simbolisti al Novecento.Le origini del verso libero italiano (il Mulino: Bologna 1995), Una geografia letteraria tra Emilia e Romagna (CLUEB: Bologna 1997); Partiture critiche (Pacini: Pisa 2000); Una distratta venerazione.
Italian prosody is accentual and syllabic, much like English. However, in Italian all syllables are perceived as having the same length, while in English that role is played by feet. [1] The most common metrical line is the hendecasyllable, which is very similar to English iambic pentameter. Shorter lines like the settenario are used as well. [2]
The historians of Italian literature are in doubt whether Torquato Tasso should be placed in the period of the highest development of the Renaissance, or whether he should form a period by himself, intermediate between that and the one following. [107] In Rinaldo, he tried to reconcile the Aristotelian rules with the variety of Ariosto.
Mario Andrew Pei (February 16, 1901 – March 2, 1978) was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professional background in linguistics.
cannella (literary form in Standard Italian) for rubinetto (tap), widespread in Central and Southern Italy; capo (literary form in Standard Italian) and chiorba for testa (head) cencio for straccio (rag, tatters) (but also straccio is widely used in Tuscany) chetarsi (literary form in Standard Italian) or chetassi for fare silenzio (to be silent)
This is a list of notable Italian writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, and other people whose primary artistic output was literature. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Silvio Pellico was born in Saluzzo, Piedmont.He spent the earlier portion of his life at Pinerolo and Turin, under the tuition of a priest named Manavella.At the age of ten, he composed a tragedy inspired by a translation of the Ossianic poems.