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 | Caro Lettore,
Welcome to this weekend's edition of your About.com Italian Language Newsletter! Once upon a time, a bachelor who lived with his parents was called a mammone. Lately, though, the term bamboccione has entered the the public discourse when referring to Italian men who remain at home after the age of 30.
In the About.com Italian Language forums community members discuss the difference between mattino and mattina, and a question about how to pronounce the term gli. Plus the third canto of Paradiso in Dante's The Divine Comedy in both Italian and English, in which Dante encounters Piccarda Donati, the sister of Corso (placed in Inferno) and Forese (placed in Purgatorio). Lastly, there are Italian abbreviations and acronyms beginning with the letter T. | |
Che Bamboccione!
Once upon a time, a bachelor who lived with his parents was called a mammone. Lately, though, the term bamboccione has entered the the public discourse when referring to Italian men who remain at home after the age of 30.
| The Divine Comedy: Paradiso: Canto III
"Quel sol che pria d'amor mi scaldò 'l petto, / di bella verità m'avea scoverto, / provando e riprovando, il dolce aspetto"
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