Does Culture Matter?
Culture is a collection of practices that lie transparently on top of a core humanity that is readable by anyone.
Culture is a collection of practices that lie transparently on top of a core humanity that is readable by anyone.
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.
Who thinks of the Valtellina as the site of the world’s first electrified railway, and supplied with current by an elaborate system of hydroelectric dams, if they think about it at all?
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?
As a Sicilian, I never regard people from Greece as outsiders. Indeed, they were an integral part of the history of Sicily almost from the beginning.
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