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Thanks friends.
Have either of you read anything by Ugo Tarchetti?

Being married is like holding a wolf by the ears: It may not be the optimun situation, but you mustn't let go. Being old myself and remarkably well preserved, I've had the experiences women tend to...

Thanks tay Golden and Tudwell -
I've heard Azkaban bandied about as the holder of the laurels but I'm green to Potter, so I appreciate any input. What about the latest installment?

Thank you Virgil! Most kind. I do indeed like it here. As you know, its hard to get passionate about Cecco d'Ascoli and Propertius at dinner parties!

If someone (God forbid) murdered someone close to you, could you kill them with your bare hands?

Excellent book!!! Have you read Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann?

Favorites or best movies you've seen?

I just finished a dissertation so I've read enough through the past year but precious little for pleasure -
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Einstein by Walter Isaacson
Legends of the Grail -...

You guys are awesome! Having the poems at the ready isn't possible but there are so many! Robert Hayden's Those Winter Sundays, Leopardi's l'Infinito, Eliot's Waste Land, Wordsworth's Intimations of...

Dear botkin-
I agree about the prose, but I can't see how English can accomodate the Italian. It''s not about richness of language either. It's about music. Cadence in the Italian gives the emotive...

I'd recommend Durling & Martinez, Hollander, or Musa. This is because of the corresponding Italian. You will always lose a world in translating Dante, so it's six of one, a half dozen of the other. I...