Long live Latin : the pleasures of a useless language /
Gardini shares his deep love for Latin and encourages us to engage with a civilization that has never ceased to exist, because it's here with us now, whether we know it or not. Even readers without a single lick of Latin grammar can discover how this language is still capable of restoring our s...
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Viva il latino |l English. |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Long live Latin : |b the pleasures of a useless language / |c Nicola Gardini ; translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz |
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| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2019 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2019 | |
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| 500 | |a "Originally published in Italian by Garzanti, Italy, as Viva il latino"--Title page verso | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-240) and index | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Ode to a useless language -- A home -- What is Latin? -- Which Latin? -- A divine alphabet -- Understanding Latin with Catullus -- Cicero's star-studded sky -- Ennius's ghost -- Caesar, or the measures of reality -- The power of clarity : Lucretius -- The meaning of sex : back to Catullus -- Syntactic goose bumps, or Virgil's shivering sentences -- The master of diffraction, Tacitus, and Sallust's brevity -- Ovid, of the end of identity -- Breathing and creaking : reflection of Livy -- The work umbra : Virgil's Eclogues -- Seneca, or the serenity of saying it all -- Deviances and dental care : Apuleius and Petronius -- Brambles, chasms, and memories : Augustine's linguistic reformation -- The duty of self-improvement : Juvenal and satire -- The loneliness of love : Propertius -- More on happiness : the lesson of Horace -- Conclusion and exhortation : study Latin! | |
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