Italian is the language of humanism, political thought, fashion, design, architecture and cuisine.
Dante Alighieri, father of the Italian language; Giovanni Boccaccio; Francesco Petrarca‘s sonnets, whose lines are a much-needed reading to understand English Renaissance; the strategic guidance in Machiavelli’s political discourses and poems… But also Antonio Gramsci, Luigi Pirandello, and Dario Fo, just to name a few authors.
Knowing Italian allows you to understand, appreciate and analyze this treasury of human expression.
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