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Title La bella lingua : my love affair with Italian, the world's most enchanting language / Dianne Hales.
Publisher New York : Broadway Books, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Description xx, 314 pages ; 21 cm


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 HM-Main Level  914.5 HAL Nearby on shelf  31248006811853 09-10-20  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-311).
Contents My Italian brain and how it grew -- Confessions of an Innamorata -- The unlikely rise of a vulgar tongue -- To hell and back with Dante Alighieri -- Italian's literary lions -- The baking of a masterpiece -- How Italian civilized the West -- La storia dell'arte -- On golden wings -- Eating Italian -- So many ways to say "I love you" -- Marcello and me -- Irreverent Italian -- Mother tongue.
Summary Follows the author's quest to learn Italian over twenty-five years and her study of the ties between the language and Italy's culture, literature, history and food.
Subject Italian language -- Social aspects.
Language and culture -- Italy.
Other title My love affair with Italian, the world's most enchanting language
ISBN 9780767927703
0767927702
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