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  2. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    Italian profanity (bestemmia, pl. bestemmie, when referred to religious topics; parolaccia, pl. parolacce, when not) are profanities that are blasphemous or inflammatory in the Italian language. The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and ...

  3. The Crying Boy - Wikipedia

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    The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin [ 1 ] (1911–1981). This was the pen-name of the painter Bruno Amarillo. It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards. There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful young boys or girls. [ 1 ] In addition to being widely known ...

  4. Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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    Inferno(Italian:[iɱˈfɛrno]; Italianfor 'Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poemThe Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorioand Paradiso. The Infernodescribes the journey of a fictionalised version of Dante himself through Hell, guided by the ancient Romanpoet Virgil.

  5. Italic script - Wikipedia

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    Italic script, also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand, is a semi- cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed during the Renaissance in Italy. It is one of the most popular styles used in contemporary Western calligraphy.

  6. Italian language - Wikipedia

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    Italian is a Romance language, a descendant of Vulgar Latin (colloquial spoken Latin). Standard Italian is based on Tuscan, especially its Florentine dialect, and is, therefore, an Italo-Dalmatian language, a classification that includes most other central and southern Italian languages and the extinct Dalmatian.

  7. Gesticulation in Italian - Wikipedia

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    Gesticulation in Italian. Hand gestures are used in regions of Italy and in the Italian language as a form of nonverbal communication and expression. The gestures within the Italian lexicon are dominated by movements of the hands and fingers, but may also include movements of facial features such as eyebrows, the mouth and the cheeks. [1]

  8. Othello - Wikipedia

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    The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello (/ ɒˈθɛloʊ /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulated by his ensign, Iago, into suspecting his wife Desdemona of infidelity.

  9. Italian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Italian grammar is the body of rules describing the properties of the Italian language. Italian words can be divided into the following lexical categories: articles, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.