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Introducing Francesco Petrarca

Gaia Zol — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:12:54 +0000

The life of Petrarca.

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My Brilliant Friend: when literature turns into successful tv

Francesca Bezzone — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 04:53:00 +0000

My Brilliant Friend (L’Amica Geniale) is the show based on the homonymous Elena Ferrante‘s first Neapolitan Novel. A success of public and critics. In the United States, the show aired in 2018. Later, the second season aired on HBO and it was just as successful. In fact, My Brilliant Friend became the […]

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Time to meet Dante Alighieri, Italy’s poet

Admin — Thu, 07 May 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Let’s find out more about Dante Alighieri’s books and his life. Which still inspires today. His life Dante Alighieri was born in 1268 in Florence, to a prestigious and powerful family. While still young his mother died. His father taught him the meaning of duty and honor, leaning on a family […]

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Authors you can’t miss: Ludovico Ariosto and Vittorio Alfieri

Gaia Zol — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:35:50 +0000

Two Italian writers worth knowing.

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Boccaccio

Admin — Thu, 03 May 2018 07:08:25 +0000

The Influences of Shakespeare and Chaucer Before William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer, there was the man who both inspired and influenced much of their work: Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio composed ground-breaking literary works during his lifetime that built the foundation for literature today. His poems and epics written in Italian and […]