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Carved on stone, painted on canvas, wood or porcelain, stitched on fabric, written on parchment or printed on paper, the 109 inscriptions in this unique collection preserve the surviving public writing of Venice's individuals and collectivities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They celebrate the completion, authorship or sponsorship of buildings, sculptures, paintings, reliquaries and shrines. They caption the splendid mappa mundi of Fra Ma...

Carved on stone, painted on canvas, wood or porcelain, stitched on fabric, written on parchment or printed on paper, the 109 inscriptions in this unique collection preserve the surviving public writing of Venice's individuals and collectivities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They celebrate the completion, authorship or sponsorship of buildings, sculptures, paintings, reliquaries and shrines. They caption the splendid mappa mundi of Fra Ma...

Il volume affronta sistematicamente lo studio delle iscrizioni in volgare prodotte nel XIV e nel XV secolo dalle scuole grandi e dalle scuole piccole di Venezia e della laguna, fornendo un'edizione commentata di questo compatto corpus bisecolare della scripta veneziana non-cancelleresca e non-letteraria. La raccolta, che consta di 23 iscrizioni, è preceduta da una ricca introduzione epigrafica, storica e linguistica.

Italian words that resemble words in English but have different meanings are the cause of student bafflement and some hilariously mistaken usage. Examples of falsi amici that continue to amuse teachers of Italian include casino, which is a brothel or mess, not a gambling place, and intossicazione, which is food poisoning, not intoxication. Ronnie Ferguson has confronted the much-neglected problem of 'false friends, ' or deceptive cognates, wit...