Inglese

Riser (alzata): Vertical component of a step.
Tread (pedata): Horizontal component of a step.
Landing (pianerottolo): Platform or part of a floor structure at the end of a flight.
Handrail (passamano): Component that provides guidance and support at hand level.

There are several ways of classifying

From an early age he showed an interest in mathematics, mechanics and physics. At nineteen, Training for an engineering career, he attended the Technical University at Graz, Austria and from there went to the University of Prague to study philosophy. At Graz he first saw the Gramme dynamo, which operated as a generator and as electric motor, and he conc

First stanza
In the first stanza, the speaker stands before an ancient Grecian urn and addresses it. He is preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. It is the “still unravish'd bride of quietness,” the “foster-child of silence and slow time.” He also describes the urn as a “historian” that can tell a story. He wonders about the figu

In the second stanza, the speaker looks at another picture on the urn, this time of a young man playing a pipe, lying with his lover beneath a glade of trees. The speaker says that the piper's "unheard" melodies are sweeter than mortal melodies because they are unaffected by time. He tells the youth that, though he can never kiss his lover because

Middle age become the theme (except for some romantics) so there’s a new taste for the love of ruins (such as ancient castles and abbeys), the wild, the irrational, the horrific and the supernatural.
Feelings and imagination are expressed by the poet that has the desire to use simple words in an easy, clear style more understandable by humble peopl

The husband worked at the customs – house on the border. The women had already been worried three times. She was nervus, because she had lost all her 3 children slowly, separately, one by one. Then she got happy again when she gave birth to another child. When their children were born, her husband said that they were small and weak. They baptised all of

WUTHERING HEIGHTS Wuthering Heights is a novel that is told in a series of narratives, which are themselves told to the narrator, a gentleman named Lockwood. Lockwood rents a fine house and park c

When the roman legions left Britain in 454 AD, barbarian tribes invaded the country: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from Germanic territories while the Vikings came from Scandinavia.
Finally, in 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel, defeated Harold, the Saxon King, at the Battle of Hastings, and became king with the name of

The King and the Queen thought that Hamlet was becoming mad because was always so sad and now was always alone so Polonius, a friend of the king thought that the causes of the madness of Hamlet was the love for his daughter Ofelia, because the prince had written her some letters of love. So he organized a meeting between Hamlet and his daughter where H