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22/07/2024

Dialogo delle lingue

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Pubblicato nel 1542, questo dialogo espone le teorie sulla lingua italiana che, già dal secolo precedente, presero forma, cercando di trasformare il volgare italiano, ancora instabile grammaticalmente, in una vera e propria lingua regolata da norme. I protagonisti del dialogo sono: Bembo (Pietro Bembo), sostenitore del volgare colto e che prende come modelli il Decameron del Boccaccio e il Canzoniere del Petrarca; Lazaro (Lazzaro Bonamico), cultore del latino e spregiatore dell’uso colto del volgare; un Cortegiano, portavoce della teoria di Baldassarre Castiglione, che propone di aprire il volgare di base toscana alle influenze di altre regioni e lingue; uno Scolare che riporta un dialogo tra Lascari (Giano Lascaris), professore di greco, sostenitore dell’indissolubilità tra concetto e parola, e Peretto (Pietro Pomponazzi – detto Peretto per la bassa statura), filosofo aristotelico, che auspica l’utilizzo del dialetto nell’esercizio dell’attività speculativa, per non perdere tempo inutile nello studio delle parole a scapito delle “cose”.(Summary by Riccardo Fasol)     [chương_files]  

22/07/2024

Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences

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This is Mark Twain’s vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper’s literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain’s essay, Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses (often spelled “Offences”) (1895), particularly criticized The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder. Twain wrote at the beginning of the essay: ‘In one place in Deerslayer, and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.’ Twain listed 19 rules ‘governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction’, 18 of which Cooper violates in The Deerslayer. (Introduction by Wikipedia and John Greenman)     [chương_files]  

22/07/2024
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Christmas in Poetry – Carols and Poems

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This is a volume of Christmas poems and carols, by various authors and from various times. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

22/07/2024
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Poems of Cheer

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This is another volume in Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s series. This time, the topic is “Cheer”. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

22/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 143

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This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2015.     [chương_files]  

22/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 162

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This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2016.     [chương_files]  

22/07/2024
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Short Poetry Collection 156

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This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2016.     [chương_files]  

22/07/2024
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Memorial Verses and L’Envoi

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This is the third part of the collected poems of James Russell Lowell, comprising his Memorial Verses and his celebrated poem L’Envoi. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

22/07/2024
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Poetry of Sa’di – A Selection

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Shaikh Sa’di, also known as Saadi Shirazi, the nightingale of Shiraz, as Jami poetically calls this gifted poet, was born at Shiraz, the capital of Persia, near the end of the twelfth century. By turns, a student, a water-carrier, a traveller, a soldier fighting against the Christians in the Crusades, a prisoner employed to dig trenches before Tripoli. and an honored poet in his protracted old age at home, — his varied and severe experience took away all provincial tone, and gave him a facility of speaking to all conditions. But the commanding reason of his wider popularity is his deeper sense, which, in his treatment, expands the local forms and tints to a cosmopolitan breadth. This dervish wit and linguist the Mohammedans worshipped as a saint, even attributing miracles to him. His body now lies entombed in the valley of Shiraz, and is daily visited by devout pilgrims who say of him, in true Oriental fashion, that he “perforated with the diamond of his soul the precious stones of his experiences, and, after gathering them on the string of eloquence, hung them for a talisman round the neck of posterity.” Among Sa’di’s best known works are the Gulistan, or Rose Garden, and the Bustan, or the Garden of Perfume. The Gulistan is a collection of short pithy stories, based on Sa’di’s own varied experiences, and read, it is said, from the middle of China to the extreme corners of Africa, forming as it does the basis of instruction in […]

22/07/2024
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Chinese Poetry in English Verse (古今詩選)

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_Dear Land of Flowers, forgive me! — that I took These snatches from thy glittering wealth of song, And twisted to the uses of a book Strains that to alien harps can na’er belong. Thy gems shine purer in their native bed Concealed, beyond the pry of vulgar eyes; And there, through labyrinths of language led, The patient student grasps the glowing prize. Yet many, in their race toward other goals, May joy to feel, albeit at second-hand, Some far faint heart-throb of poetic souls Whose breath makes incense in the flowery Land. Introductory poem by H.A.G._     [chương_files]