#thelogicofthetrance

[wejustvibing]

Hi! Another italian here 👋🏻

I’ve watched the video a couple of times and I’m pretty sure at the start he’s saying “grazie per il caloroso benvenuto” which means “thank you for the warm welcome”, nothing about red. But he pronounces the second part of the word “caloroso” a bit like “rosso” (red) so maybe that’s what people hear.

Anyway I would die if I had to do a speech like that in a language I don’t know with so many people filming 😭 he’s so cute and brave, I’ll never understand how people always need to find something negative

hey! yes that's what caused the confusion. tbh i initially heard "roscoe" 😭 but thank you 🙏🏾

he was being so shy about it too bless 🥺🫶🏾

[liberalartssociety]

It's interesting to see the thoughts of a foreign reader on Dante. I'm Italian so during the last three years of high school I studied one part per year (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso). I recognize The Devine Comedy as one of the most fine work in literature but its main themes are deeply connected to Christianity/the Italian political situation in XIII-XIV centuries: I think people from other countries and cultures may find it difficult to approach the reading at first. What do you think?

I didn’t come across Dante until I studied the Renaissance in my degree. At school we focused on Shakespeare (as is to be expected in an English school). I found it difficult to read until I began to pick up on the main themes and references to different areas of the Catholic faith. It definitely helped that I’d already read the Bible and Paradise Lost. 

I’ve often said to @nealc25 that I wish I could read Dante in the original Italian. I can tell that something is lost in the translation when I read it in English and I’d like to know what. There is also this Clive James translation which I saw in a bookshop recently which takes a modern approach to translating the text in a similar way to Seamus Heaney.

It’s interesting though, I get asked about The Divine Comedy more than any other book. It certainly has a following!

[italian-law-student]

Hi, I found your blog last week and it's really amazing! I really like your agenda/planner, can I ask you where you got it?

Thank you so much! it’s a Filofax Adelphi in the Personal size :)