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Nope. Not too interested in the literature of the area. Not enough to learn the language The Shrike Send a noteboard - 20/09/2013 04:17:46 PM

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You've got Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Boiardo, Torquato Tasso, Pietro Aretino, the poets of the Sicilian school, and other minor authors, and then after an admittedly long lacuna, you have Manzoni, Leopardi, Lampedusa and Verga, and then you have the modern authors like Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, not to mention all the opera libretti in Italian.

Besides, it's so easy.


Reading it in translation is enough for me. I have my German, my English, and my Russian. I guess I have/had Czech too. And now I am learning French. I'd be more interested in reading English literature in depth before exploring Renaissance literature in its original languages.

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There isn't enough Renaissance-era literature that you want to read? Tom - 20/09/2013 03:53:17 PM 976 Views
Nope. Not too interested in the literature of the area. Not enough to learn the language The Shrike - 20/09/2013 04:17:46 PM 942 Views
A quick question. Stephen - 20/09/2013 05:48:18 PM 953 Views
I think that is a very subjective question. Tom - 20/09/2013 06:36:50 PM 920 Views
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I will have to look in my copy of the Zibaldone on that one. Tom - 22/09/2013 04:26:11 AM 944 Views
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It's not too high on my priority list either, like I said. Legolas - 20/09/2013 06:17:24 PM 912 Views
It is... Aeryn - 20/09/2013 03:12:11 PM 1023 Views
True The Shrike - 20/09/2013 04:14:32 PM 916 Views
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