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BL
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782811
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b602824
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| Main Entry
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Dianne Hales.
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| Title & Author
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La bella lingua : : my love affair with Italian, the world's most enchanting language\ Dianne Hales.
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| Edition Statement
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1st pbk. ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York: Broadway Books, [2010?], ©2009.
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xx, 314 pages ; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0767927702
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: 9780767927703
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| Notes
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Originally published: 2009.; Includes "Reader's guide" (p. [312]-314).
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| Contents
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My Italian brain and how it grew --; Confessions of an Innamorata --; The unlikely rise of a vulgar tongue --; To hell and back with Dante Alighieri --; Italian's literary lions --; The baking of a masterpiece --; How Italian civilized the West --; La storia dell'arte --; On golden wings --; Eating Italian --; So many ways to say "I love you" --; Marcello and me --; Irreverent Italian --; Mother tongue.
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| Abstract
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Follows the author's quest to learn Italian over twenty-five years and her study of the ties between the language and Italy's culture, literature, history and food.
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| Subject
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Italian language -- Social aspects.
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Language and culture -- Italy.
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Language and culture.
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| LC Classification
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PC1074.75D536 9999
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| Added Entry
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Dianne R Hales
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