Why Dantes Italian Isnt Italian: Reading the Commedia in Its Original Medieval Tuscan
I made a discovery last month that shook my confidence in my Italian reading skills. My university’s facing-page edition of the Divine Comedy had footnotes on nearly every third line. Not historical footnotes. Linguistic ones. Words I didn’t recognize. Grammar that looked wrong. Spellings that seemed like typos. My first thought: had I wasted those … Read more