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fionnchu's review
5.0
One of the best in this VSI series that I've found. I liked the pair's take on Dante in the same enterprise. Thematically rather than strictly chronological chapters show how skilled lecturers can take a few phrases from samples texts to guide newcomers into literary style, political controversy, refined styles, regional distinctions, and which until at least the ebbing of momentum in the 1990s as the language stabilized by television weakened dialects and themes directly tackling Italian issues and legacies, preoccupied six centuries of poets, dramatists, and eventually novelists. Too bad, as Tim Parks has also noted, that today's writers in Italian tend to have lost interest.
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