Inglese

His English phase is best represented by “The Canterbury Tales”. Chaucer took it over from Boccaccio’s “Decameron”. He presented his tales told by a group of pilgrims travelling to Canterbury.
Chaucer’s pilgrims cover the middle strata of society. He gives a portrait of middle class England in the late 14 century. A fine irony is the main characteri

The Faerie Queen is Spenser’s masterpiece . It is an epic poem in six book’s dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.
It combines elements from different tradition:
1)Medieval Romans.
2)Epic elements from Ariosto and Tasso.
3)The works of Chaucer.
4)Christian legends, medieval allegory, Bible.
This poem, destined to noblemen, celebrated in

Pronomi riflessivi
I pronomi riflessivi sono usati:
a. Quando l’azione si riflette sul soggetto
b. Per mettere in evidenza qualcosa o qualcuno
c. Nell’espressione by oneself per indicare “da solo”, “senza l’aiuto di nessuno”.
Quando il complemento oggetto è dato da una parte del corpo o un articolo di vestiario si usa l’aggettivo po

The hell is the place farthest and profoundest. Satan asks hell to receive his new guest (Satan and the other fallen angels), which are person who has a beautiful mind (the same of God). Their mind cannot be change by the place or by the time where there are, so Satan can change heaven into hell and hell into heaven. The hell is a place so ugly and terr

Le domande sono spesso formulate con How long? (=da quando/da quanto tempo?) oppure ponendo (for) long in fine di frase.
In frasi affermative “da molto tempo”, è espresso con (for) a long time o, più informale, for ages.
Duration form or conclude action
Nella forma di durata il passato prossimo segnala che un’azione dura ancora nel presente.

1) clock time and physical setting began to be used. Time and place ceased to be vague concepts but were made tangible through the use of precise details.
2) Certain communicating qualities such as colour size extension became of primary importance
3) Attention was focused not only on outdoor settings but more and more frequently on “interiors”.

Gulliver’s travels

Gulliver’s travels was published anonymously in 1726, under the full title : ‘Lemuel Gulliver’s travels into several remote nations of the world. Swift’s purpose, who had begun the work in 1720, was to denounce the emptiness and corruption of the society and to attack institutions and man in general.

Plot
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He was a disturbed person but he was also capable of profound and harmonious feelings. In fact he defended the Irish poor in many of his works, He also devoted a part of his money to charity and he found the St Patrick’s hospital for imbeciles.
Works
The battle of the books: Swift defended the ancients and he took the opprtunity to mock his m