Uno, nessuno e centomila- Luigi Pirandello (1924) I read one of Pirandello’s novels earlier this year (Il fu Mattia Pascal- The Late Mattia Pascal) and
I’m reading Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray, and he makes some interesting comments about strife in marriage: “In houses where, in place of that
“La sensibilità de’ suoi nervi era così acuta che ogni minima sensazione a lui data dalle cose esteriori pareva una ferita profonda. Egli aveva tutto
This Italian book was written as a series of letters from Jacopo to his friend Lorenzo. Jacopo is a young patriot who flees his hometown
Reading through a modern Italian version of Orlando furioso right now. There is a wild scenario in Canto 27, where Discord and Pride, embodied as
Reading through a modern Italian version of Orlando furioso right now. In Canto 20, the female warrior Marfisa meets a knight errant, Zerbino, who challenges
Reading through Orlando Furioso right now. The 8th canto starts off: Oh quante sono incantatrici, oh quantiincantator tra noi, che non si sanno!Che con lor
I’ve been reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace and found this little passage from Part 9, Chapter XVI when Natasha is sick through shame. They [doctors] were
I just finished rereading The Prince, by Niccolò Macchiavelli. I’d read it years ago, probably just out of college, but wanted to reread it, this
The latest volume of the Harvard Classics series I’ve been reading is the second of two volumes covering “Sacred Writings”- Selections from the Bible, the