Lingue

The number of syllables per line are eleven in the Italian sonnet (hendecasyllable) and ten in the English sonnet (iambic pentameter).
Dante’s and Petrarch’s sonnets were imitated by English poets. The traditional theme of Italian sonnets was not-requited love: the poet loved a woman but he was desperate because she didn’t love him. Only with Shakes

The first important Spanish painter is Velasquez (1599-1660), who is the country’s greatest baroque artist, and who, with Francisco Goya and El Greco, forms the great triumvirate of Spanish painting.
During his student years Velasquez aborted the most popular contemporaneous styles of painting, derived, in part, from both Flemish and Italian realism

The productive activities, after the national Unification, have been developed making Terni the most important industrial city of central Italy in the steel, mechanical, electrical and chemical sectors, thanks to the great resources of water, which also characterize the natural surroundings.
At 6 Km from Terni, the impressive Marmore Waterfall a Rom

Jonh’s my elder brother. (I have one brother older than me).
Sarah’s my eldest sister (I have more than one sister).
Irregular comparison
Good/well – better – best
Bad – worse – worst
Far – farther/further – farthest/furthest
Old – older/elder – oldest/eldest
Little – less – least
Much/many – more – most
Before compar

The social context: Now England was a commercial country because there was a progress of industry, of agricolture and there was also the internal political stability, the towns increased in size. This commercial expansion was good for the merchant class infact this class in this period had the power, but the noble class remained esclused by the power. T

There are different kinds of ballad: the ancient ballad (the popular one written by common people), the romantic ballad (the literary one written by learned poets ) and the modern popular one (that songs set in Australia and US, about the deeds of cowboy and railwaymen, miners, outlaws).
THE ANCIENT BALLAD
ENGLAND-The popular ballad are always

stanzas which traditionally rhyme abab.
We have read The Unquiet Grave; it is a ballad about a young man who doesn’t
accept the death of his woman. The man to sit on her grave and crys for a one
year and a day because he desire one kiss. There is a tragical dialogue between
two lovers: first there is a monologue of man then the voice of

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O Wedding-Guest! this sent both been
Alone on a wide wide sea:
So lonely 'twas, that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
At first the intrusion is resented, but the story is remarkable indeed, and the listener - who, of course, represents you, the reader - soon falls captive to the building suspense, responding at first with f

The demographic revolution

For some years young people leaving school or university have experienced great difficulty in finding a job. In many parts of Britain factories and offices closed down and a lot of people were unemployed.
Every year hundreds of thousands of teenagers left school, all of them looking for a job, and this somet...