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Welcome to this weekend's edition of your About.com Italian Language Newsletter. If learning Italian were as common as ordering a pizza, then the Italian language would have the largest number of speakers in the world. In the U.S., as well as in many other countries, pizza is the number one most popular food.
In the About.com Italian Language forums a community member from Australia seeks a penpal, and a discussion about language schools in Lucca and Pisa. Plus the twenty-fourth canto of Purgatorio in Dante's The Divine Comedy in both Italian and English, in which the poet encounters Bonagiunta Orbicciani degli Overardi, a poet from Lucca who followed the earlier lyric style of Italian poetry (in contrast to the dolce stil novo developed by Dante and the Florentines). Lastly, there are Italian abbreviations and acronyms beginning with the letter E. | |
Pazza For Pizza
If learning Italian were as common as ordering a pizza, then the Italian language would have the largest number of speakers in the world. In the U.S., as well as in many other countries, pizza is the number one most popular food.
| The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio: Canto XXIV
"Né 'l dir l'andar, né l'andar lui più lento / facea, ma ragionando andavam forte, / sì come nave pinta da buon vento..."
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