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Reviewing my past mistakes.

I do not understand the rule around 'gli'. Duo explains nothing.

Also, what a weird sentence.
And why is receipt = scontrino? (Random question, I know.)

Tonight's aha moment: I like saying 'Buona sera.'

#LearningItalian #duolingo

(Check this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/alla-sera/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

Here is a beautiful classic that I hardly can stand anymore, having been force fed it innumerable times in school and in all sorts of anthologies.

Evening is the image of death, the eternal quiet and nothingness that promises peace.

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Grrr.
When do you use Scusate vs Scusa?

Is this a formal/informal situation?

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Not sure what the very best way to start a year might be, but one can’t go wrong starting with a smile.

https://italianpoetry.it/poems/rinovazione-del-buon-capo-danno-a-d.-ciccio-per-lingresso-del-1683/

So let me wish everyone an excellent 2025 using the same verses that our friend Lazzarelli employed to wish a great 1683 to his nemesis, Don Ciccio: may all the planets bring you joy, bless you and conserve you!

Well... all verses, except the last one :)

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Haha! Take that, Sixto. I was knocked out of the top 3, but I'm back!! #2!!

You're mine. Tomorrow.

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Christmas happens every year, even when we are at war. This poem by Ungaretti is introduced by the indication "Napoli il 26 dicembre 1916": he was on temporary leave from the front of WW1, and visiting his friend's house in Naples.

Check out https://italianpoetry.it/poems/natale/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.

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In this sonnet, Leon Battista Alberti explores the mismatch between human desire and things as they turn out, and in particular the frustrating effect of wanting something *too much*, and for that reason, losing it. As he pithily puts it in the last verse, *troppo voler mal corrisponde*: "too much willing is a bad match."

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Two young lovers are looking for a place where they can "make one life out of two." All the afternoon they wander around under the sun, surrounded by the noise and the comings and goings of adult, everyday life.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/caro-luogo/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

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Complaining about technology is not something exclusively modern.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/lorologio-da-rote/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

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A satirically-rustic take on a love poem. Probably written by Lorenzo il Magnifico (?).

Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/la-nencia-di-barberino/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.

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Michelangelo is known mostly for art you can see with your eyes, but he also catered to ears. This is a love sonnet to Vittoria Colonna, from his Canzoniere.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/non-ha-lottimo-artista/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

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A young, smart girl in the early 1500's is abandoned by her previously doting father, left to suffer under her brothers' iron grip, with only poetry to console her.

Here she waits for a ship bringing her father back.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/dun-alto-monte-onde-si-scorge-il-mare/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

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An ode to the awakening of desire. And a warning that it might not end up being what you were hoping for.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/presagio/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

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(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/sia-pace-ai-frati/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

A small anticlerical epigram: priests, stay in your place!

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I prepared this ("Aging Beauty") before remembering what day tomorrow is... But maybe moms of the age of my own might appreciate this simple, funny epigram from the 1600s :)

(Check out this poem on the Italian Poetry website https://italianpoetry.it/poems/bella-chinvecchia/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

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A divertissement, albeit a bit of a sad one: Chi sono? by Aldo Palazzeschi.

Please check out Italian Poetry website (https://italianpoetry.it/poems/chi-sono) for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.

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Some Dante was long overdue. This is not stuff for a beginner, or even intermediate learner, I'd say, but it is such a staple that I had to do it https://italianpoetry.it/poems/paolo-e-francesca .

I followed the tradition of calling the episode "Paolo e Francesca", even if Paolo never speaks and we aren't even told his name. That's centuries of male tradition for you :)

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An extract from a wonderful libretto, adapting a novel from the Decameron.

For help with the translation, to listen to the reading out loud, and some more notes, you can go to https://italianpoetry.it/poems/care-selve-a-voi-ritorno .

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From Metastasio's first opera, a conflicted Aeneas.

For help with the translation, to listen to the reading out loud, and some more notes, you can go to https://italianpoetry.it/poems/didone-abbandonata .

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An older, more difficult, and #feminist poem.

For help with the translation, to listen to the reading out loud, and some more notes, you can go to https://italianpoetry.it/poems/sdegna-clorinda-a-i-femminili-uffici .

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A muted, nostalgic poem about a father, a daughter and memory of war.

For help with the translation, to listen to the reading out loud, and some more notes, you can go to https://italianpoetry.it/poems/sventatezza/ .

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A small poem looking back on sunny days.

For help with the translation, to listen to the reading out loud, and some more notes, you can go to https://italianpoetry.it/poems/eri-dritta-e-felice .

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For the New Year, I really wanted an upbeat and optimistic poem, but couldn't find one I liked. So here instead please enjoy this depressing, but beautiful, work by Eugenio Montale.

For help with the translation, to listen to the reading out loud, and some more notes, you can go to https://italianpoetry.it/poems/fine-del-68/

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