The best ebook reader app! After downloading & testing & disliking & uninstalling tons of apps and software, I have at last found one ebook reader app that might be just perfect for you. Ta daaam! Here comes… Readest! Readest runs Cross platform This program can run on almost any platform imaginable: You have and Read More …
Gianbatista Basile – Il Pentamerone Giovanni Battista Basile (1566-1632) A short evocation of Basile: Lo cunto de li cunti / The Tale of Tales / Il Pentamerone Published between 1634-6,… …is a collection of fairy tales in Neapoletan dialect (which is very different from Italian…). It was a small-size bookelet: …with decorative chapter pages: Source Read More …
Gianfrancesco Straparola The Pleasant nights Venetian by birth, Giovan Francesco Straparola, or Gianfrancesco Straparola, is the author of one of the oldest surviving collections of fairy tales. Its original title was Le piacevolli notte , and it was published in 1551 (vol.1) and 1553 (vol.2), in Venice. The stories are written in a vernacular that Read More …
Rules for seminars As I have explained in class, I am dumping the system of ”class PowerPoint presentations” for two reasons: I am trying to engage more students in each seminar, by adding a number of questions that would encourage them to come up with small morsels (îmbucături) or snippets (bucățele) of info. Here are Read More …
Seminar 1: A. Pirates Here are several questions that invite a short (90-second) oral answer in class. RULES see RULES FOR SEMINARS: PIRACY QUESTIONS: This is not your Hollywood pirate! It’s an old engraving (gravură) from 1724. representing ”Bartholomew Roberts Shown With His Ships Royal Fortune And Ranger And The 11 Ships They Captured Off Read More …
Seminar 1, 2, 3: B. Goodies from the colonies This is a theme that will begin on Oct 15, and will continue on Oct 24 and 31. So we can only take 3-4 items each seminar! We will be trying to figure out what were the „goodies” that attracted the interest of British traders to Read More …