When Planning A Bridge Is No Small Decision
Why a bridge over the Strait of Messina is such a dilemma for Italian lawmakers and of little pressing interest to Italians.
Why a bridge over the Strait of Messina is such a dilemma for Italian lawmakers and of little pressing interest to Italians.
The monolingual approach adopted for the political aim of making Italians speak with one voice has succeeded. But the campaign has been needlessly costly.
With the establishment of Florentine as the literary language of choice, all the other regional languages came to be regarded as dialects, creating a unique situation that Italians have struggled with to this day.
Great courage, an unshakable faith in the codes of chivalry, madness, are the traits that one normally associated with Don Quijote. However, when Pirandello refers to specific events in the life of the Knight, a problem arises.
Camilleri writes in a peculiar mixture of Italianized Sicilian and Sicilianized Italian. How do translators handle the constant switching of linguistic codes?
Carlo Masi helped Italian migrants cross the oceans to the US and Australia. Yet, he remained in Calabria.
A small but vibrant arts collective is reviving Sicily's rich tradition of myth and legend.
The works of Giovanni Meli illustrate some of the problems translators meet when they are asked to translate from one language into another.
Now, it seems, being buried in the ground is coming to be something of a privilege.
While visiting Palermo in the past week, I have followed al-Idrisi’s steps around the city, trying to better understand how the city holds on to its diverse and pluralistic tradition.
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