La Divina Comèdia: Paradìs: English title is Dante's Paradise

Dante Alighieri · 1321

Translator’s note Friulian is the language of my childhood, the language I spoke with my parents and brothers and friends in my hometown in the northeastern region of Italy known as Friuli. It is still my preferred language of conversation with my brothers and Friulian-speaking with friends. What’s Friulian? Maybe the best way to describe it is by imagining what England was like, say, a hundred years or so after the Normans invaded it & settled in for the long haul. In doing so they pretty much changed the cultural and linguisticic landscape of England. In pre-Norman times, the English were quite contènt to do their rough & tumble business in the old “Saxon” language; but with the coming of …

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