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posted by [identity profile] ivpiter.livejournal.com at 05:22pm on 08/10/2002
So, what you're saying is... Cacciaguida was a Maori beet farmer who upset a few sacred cows? Maybe you should give a paper at a conference about him. I'm sure it'll get accepted. :)
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:55pm on 08/10/2002
Exactly. Hmm... that's a good idea. Dante would've been delighted to know he was descended from a Maori beet farmer. Imagine the Divine Comedy as a Polynesian farming manual...

Nel mezzo del camin di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai per una selva brilliante
perche la via dritta era piena di bietole...

(Sorry, got carried away there: as this version of the Inferno begins... "In the middle of the path of our life/ I found myself in a brightly-lit forest/ because the correct way was full of beets.")
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posted by [identity profile] ivpiter.livejournal.com at 07:32pm on 08/10/2002
I will not tease literary people.
I will not tease literary people.
I will not tease literary people.
I will not tease literary people.
I will not tease literary people.
I will not tease literary people.
I will not tease literary people.
I will not tease literary people.
I will not tease literary people.
I will not tease literary people.
Especially multilingual ones.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 07:49pm on 08/10/2002
Eeep. It's okay, I don't mind!

I guess you don't want to see the whole 100 canto version of The Maori Turnip Farmer's Divine Comedy? I don't know any Maori, but I could learn some just for this!
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Proof my Italian really isn't all that good

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:44am on 09/10/2002
I realized as I was falling asleep last night that I'd used the wrong word. "brilliante" should be "brillante" and even then doesn't quite communicate the right concept, since it means more shiny/brilliant than well-lit/brilliant. "luminosa" is much tbe better option as far as concept goes.

On the other hand, as far as rhyme scheme goes, "brillante" or some other word entirely fits much better.
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posted by [identity profile] littleowl.livejournal.com at 11:58am on 09/10/2002
I am very pleased that I actually understood all but two words of that. *sparkle*
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