Italian influence on English
Italian influence on English, an article that explains the influence of the Italian language, culture and authors on the English language through the centuries. The Italian language is a Romance language spoken …
Architecture through history
Architecture through history and its styles, a synthetic article to almost summarize the whole panorama of this great human artistic activity. We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together …
The greatness of Shakespeare
The greatness of Shakespeare, his literary originality shortly explained thanks to some authors quotes and a brief analysis of his style and two of his works. Malvolio, the parody of puritan behaviour …
The English Renaissance
The English Renaissance, literature, thoughts, ideas, innovations and authors of this great golden age with references to the different European movements. How can anyone be silly enough to think himself better than …
100 famous proverbs
Proverbs where largely collected and used by my old friend John Florio, but of course they were created and employed much earlier from a lot of other different writers all around the …
Grammar history
Grammar history and structure, an encyclopedic synthetic article that describes the importance of grammar for the usage and the literature of a language. The minimum grammar is no grammar at all. Giuseppe …
George Mikes on Italy
George Mikes on Italy, some quotes, ideas, thoughts and humorous remarks on the Italian nation and its funny people plus some other useful resources. What can possibily happen in the world at …