The Creativity Of Independent Booksellers: Mattia Garavaglia
If people can't go to the bookshop, someone's got to bring the books to them.
The Stigma Of Speaking A Dialect: The Case Of Sicilian
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.
The Struggle Of Independent Bookstores
The number of Italian independent bookstores has been — not too slowly — decreasing over the past decade.
Is Sicilian A Language Or A Dialect?
The monolingual approach adopted for the political aim of making Italians speak with one voice has succeeded. But the campaign has been needlessly costly.
Translating Andrea Camilleri Into English
Camilleri writes in a peculiar mixture of Italianized Sicilian and Sicilianized Italian. How do translators handle the constant switching of linguistic codes?