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12 unusual facts about Italian Literature


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Meanwhile, Incanto, a translator of medieval Italian literature, receives a package while talking to Monica and her blind daughter, Jessie.

Allen Mandelbaum

Allen Mandelbaum (May 4, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator.

Anelida and Arcite

This influence of Italian literature is a point of transition from Chaucer's earlier works which were mainly influenced by French poetry.

Antoinette Fouque

She became a teacher, married René Fouque, and developed an interest in Latin culture and Italian literature.

Esteban de Luca

De Luca's columns advocated at length for the westward expansion into the pampas, and he became known also for his translations of works by Italian dramatist Vittorio Alfieri (numerous of whose plays were then produced in Buenos Aires).

Eugenio Montale

Franco Fortini judged Montale's Ossi di seppia and Le occasioni the high-water mark of 20th century Italian poetry.

Joseph Forsyth

Forsyth had solaced his captivity by further study of Italian literature and art.

Juraj Dobrila University of Pula

Study of educational sciences does not have only teacher training study, which had the longest tradition, but also new studies that appeared recently (Croatian language and literature, Italian language and literature, History, Latin language and Roman literature).

Natan Gamedze

In an Italian literature class at Wits, he noticed someone writing backwards in his notebook and found out that the language was Hebrew.

Notes on Novelists

The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding two decades on French, Italian, English and American writers.

P. M. Forni

Forni received his undergraduate degree in Letters and Philosophy from the University of Pavia and his Ph.D. in Italian literature from UCLA.

Raymond Rosenthal

Raymond Rosenthal (1915 – 1995) was a well-known American translator of Italian literature into the English language.


Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art

The order has three classes, gold, silver and bronze, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Italian art, literature or culture.

Jakub Bart-Ćišinski

Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (20 August 1856 in Kuckau – 16 October 1909 in Panschwitz), also known as Łužičan, Jakub Bart Kukowski, was Sorbian poet, writer and playwrighter, translator of Czech, Polish, Italian and German literature.

Johann Caspar von Orelli

From 1807 to 1814 Orelli worked as preacher in the reformed community of Bergamo, where he acquired the taste for Italian literature which led to the publication of Contributions to the History of Italian Poetry (1810) and a biography (1812) of Vittorino da Feltre, his ideal of a teacher.

Luigi Ballerini

Luigi Ballerini, born in Milan in 1940, currently living in New York and Los Angeles, is an Italian poet, professor of modern and contemporary Italian Literature at UCLA and a historian of gastronomy.

Matilda Koen-Sarano

Matilda studied in the Jewish Community School of Milan, and also studied Languages at the Bocconi University in Milan and also Italian Literature and Judaeo-Spanish literature and Judaeo-Spanish folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.