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 | Caro Lettore,
Welcome to this weekend's edition of your About.com Italian Language Newsletter! It sounds like a joke, but in fact it's deplorable. Short on funds, the Italian government is searching for private sponsors willing to help pay for the restoration of Rome's ancient Colosseum in exchange for advertising rights.
In the About.com Italian Language forums a community member wants to know how to use the term mica, and a discussion about excusing oneself (scusarsi). Plus the eighth canto of Paradiso in Dante's The Divine Comedy in both Italian and English, in which the Poet ascends with Beatrice to the Third Sphere (the planet Venus) and meets Charles Martel of Anjou, who had been Dante's friend on earth. Lastly, there are double entendres and malaproprisms starting with the letter B in the alternative Italian dictionary. | |
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It sounds like a joke, but in fact it's deplorable. Short on funds, the Italian government is searching for private sponsors willing to help pay for the restoration of Rome's ancient Colosseum in exchange for advertising rights.
| The Divine Comedy: Paradiso: Canto VIII
"Solea creder lo mondo in suo periclo / che la bella Ciprigna il folle amore / raggiasse, volta nel terzo epiciclo;"
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