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La 'mamma' e il 'babbo,' il 'pappo' e il 'dindi:' Inf. XXXII e Purg. XI

Borsa, Paolo

In: Chroniques italiennes web, 2020, vol. 39, no. 2, p. 80-97

The essay analyzes the meaning of two passages of Dante’s 'Comedy' in which two pairs of 'vocabula puerilia' ('infantile words') are used: 'mamma' and 'babbo' in 'Inferno' 32.9, 'pappo' and 'dindi' in 'Purgatorio' 11.105. In both cases Dante deals with the issue of the development of a literary language: adequate to the new subject in the first case, worthy of glory in the second..

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Giosuè Carducci prosatore : (Gargnano del Garda, 29 settembre - 1° ottobre 2016)

Borsa, Paolo ; Salvadè, Anna Maria ; Spaggiari, William

Milano : Università degli studi di Milano, 2019

(Quaderni di Gargnano ; 3)

ISBN: 9788867056880

The volume collects the contributions presented at the 17th International Conference of Italian Literature "Gennaro Barbarisi", held at Palazzo Feltrinelli (Gargnano del Garda) from 29 September to 1 October 2016

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Foscolo "inglese" e la Grecia, 1826-1827: per l'edizione dell’epistolario

Borsa, Paolo ; Kolónia, Amalia

In: Ugo Foscolo tra Italia e Grecia: esperienza e fortuna di un intellettuale europeo, 2020, p. 249-277

The contribution is a preliminary study for the edition of the last volume of Foscolo’s Epistolary, 1825-1827. It explores one of the most problematic groups of letters of that period, namely that of the letters exchanged with Greek correspondents, or relating to ‘Greek’ issues. Edition and comment of four documents are provided: 1) the ‘memoriale’ known as “Progetto per...

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Origini, Epoche e Caratteri della Lingua Italiana

Borsa, Paolo

In: Per Enrico Fenzi : Saggi di allievi e amici per i suoi ottant'anni, 2020, p. 537-541

After framing the philological problem of the series of articles known as "Epochs of the Italian Language" or "Epochs of the Italian Literature", written by Ugo Foscolo in England between 1824 and 1825 and published only in part in Alexander Walker's "European Review", the article offers the transcription of the writing entitled "Origini, Epoche e Caratteri della Lingua Italiana" ("Origins,...

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Tre lettere di Ugo Foscolo conservate presso la Biblioteca Comunale di Treviso: per l’Epistolario 1825-1827

Borsa, Paolo

In: Geografie e storie letterarie : Studi per William Spaggiari, 2019, p. 257-262

The contribution offers the edition of three epistles of Ugo Foscolo from the period 1826-1827, preserved at the Biblioteca Comunale of Treviso (Biblioteca Borgo Cavour, Raccolta foscoliana). These three letters are important documents for the reconstruction of Foscolo’s activity in the last period of his exile in England; they are addressed to Fortunato Prandi (November 14, 1826), Thomas...