letteratura
English meaning: Literature
Italian Definition
(Italiano)Opere scritte di merito artistico.
English Definition
Written works of artistic merit. Italian literature spans from Dante's Divine Comedy and Boccaccio's Decameron through Petrarch's sonnets, Machiavelli's political works, Manzoni's 'The Betrothed' (Italy's first great national novel), to 20th-century masters Pirandello (Nobel 1934), Quasimodo (Nobel 1959), Montale (Nobel 1975), Calvino, and Eco.
Example
“L'Italia ha prodotto tre premi Nobel per la Letteratura nel XX secolo: Pirandello, Quasimodo e Montale.”
In English: “Italy produced three Nobel Prizes for Literature in the 20th century: Pirandello, Quasimodo, and Montale.”
Synonyms
- lettere
- belles-lettres
Literary Heritage
“Stai per cominciare a leggere il nuovo romanzo di Italo Calvino, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore.”
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
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- Language
- Italiano
- Italian
- Script
- Latin
- Family
- Romance
- Speakers
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