ItalianPoetry

Shameless plug to my own version, https://dedications.fyi/ , and my favorite dedication: https://dedications.fyi/dedication/linear-graphs-and-electri...

I don't know about Ancient Romans, but I do know a few Italian men with numbered names. In particular a Decimo (tenth), who was indeed the tenth (and I wouldn't swear the last).

They are all, unsurprisingly, old :)

Should be better now :)

I hope the player is not better on Safari!

Thank you!

It's all in the initial HTML payload. Each word in Italian, its translation in English, and the corresponding sidenote, if any, all have a common `data-id`. When the mouse hovers on a word, the corresponding note gets a `.visible` class via JS.

Never mind, it was La sera del dì di festa. But here it is :)

https://italianpoetry.it/poems/la-sera-del-d%C3%AC-di-festa/

Greek is sadly out of my reach, but I'm very curious about this Discord you mentioned.

Could you, here or by email, point it out to me? After this website has "settled" a bit, it might be fun to look into that Latin :)

> I would add the year of composition in the list: 'Oct 10, Tacciono i boschi e i fiumi (1591), by Torquato Tasso'

There's a list-by-composition date page, but indeed, that makes a lot of sense. Will add!

> How will we submit requests?

Awwww please do :)

I assumed an email would be best (see Contact link in the footer), but maybe something more social? I made accounts for mastodon [1], twitter (@italian_poetry) and reddit [2] (plus BuyMeACoffee [3], for the most adventurous ^_^), which I should put somewhere on the website.

What do you think would be best? When trying to put this website out there I had to realize the hard way that I suck at social media...

[1] https://zirk.us/@italianpoetry

[2] https://old.reddit.com/user/italianpoetry/

[3] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/italianpoetry

Thanks!

I should have tested it on Apple stuff :/ Thanks for reporting, I'll check it out

> still around in English but archaic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peradventure

Wow I didn't know that. Totally worth an update :)

Thanks!

Yes, I was thinking of cleaning up the repo and make it public in a while, though honestly it's not too pretty ^^

And yes, Leopardi is coming: I have Il Sabato del villaggio almost ready to go :)

I'll admit it's not an obvious choice at all, but it's documented in the Guide ;)

Your idea is worth considering, but since it's at a lower granularity, I'll try and see if I there's a better way to trigger the word-level feature.

It should already be implemented: middle button click.

Let me know if it doesn't work!

Eventually, yes, it's a must :)

The question is, which pieces. The whole thing is impossibly too long.

So far I have one request for the Paolo and Francesca episode. Feel free to suggest other parts!

Thanks!

Make sense, I'll look into that.

Sure!

https://italianpoetry.it/podcast/index.xml

It should also be available on fydd[1], Google podcast[2], Amazon[3] and Spotify.

I don't have an Apple device, and I'm having trouble activating my Apple account, but I hope to put it on iTunes soon too.

[1] https://fyyd.de/podcast/italian-poetry/0

[2] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9pdGFsaWFucG9ldHJ...

[3] https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/0f2c452e-f4fe-4e64-bbe4-e9...

I was actually thinking of doing the same for Latin...

Now the infrastructure is built, so the effort should be much smaller (but I'd need of course much more support from an expert ^^ ).

Do you think it might have an audience?

Thank for the suggestions!

My voice is terrible, so I'll definitely follow your latter point.

I hadn't even thought about playback speed, especially since those are all pretty quick, but I'll think about it for sure.

Thanks!

I'd say a mix of

1. What I like,

2. Lesser-known stuff, not just the usual classics

3. A wider range of topics besides the usual love stuff, including the occasional obscenities

4. Sampling across the centuries

5. Try to showcase female authors, which you rarely study at school, but I was happy to find there's plenty of to choose from, and not only in modern times

I plan to add one per week, and requests are welcome

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