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Italian to English Poetry & Literature Translation Glossary

Italian term English translation
un tempo buono che si fa da parte good times giving ground (like an indulgent father)
Entered by: Maria Burnett
un tempo leggere nelle passeggiate (the contact of our hands) once lighly laced as we strolled,
Entered by: Maria Burnett
un thriller a tinte forti a hard-boiled thriller
un uomo/giornalista/libro contro. dissenter/of dissent
una città gentile e umana a gracious and friendly town/city
Una maestrina d’altri tempi an old time teacher
una nuova pagina, a tratti distorcente a new, and at times distorted, interpretation/view
Entered by: Lara Barnett
una sensazione d’acqua e tatto the sensation of water and touching something
Entered by: Maria Burnett
una specie di grande bomboniera guardaroba a wedding cake of a vestibule
una via un po\' defilata hidden side street / hidden back alley
Entered by: Maria Burnett
un’unità sopra le righe an unbelievable single one thing
Entered by: Maria Burnett
unite in genere united in gender
uomini pastori shepherds of souls; men of the countryside
Entered by: Maria Burnett
uscire dal mondo (see context) leave this world
Entered by: Raffaella Panigada
varesino native of Varese
Vedo e non vedo Peek-a-boo
veggio I see
Venezia è un imbroglio che riempie la testa soltanto di fatalità things meant to happen
vestendoci delle sue stesse rabbia experiencing his same anger
vestirsi di musica to eat, sleep and breathe music
vetrine d'antan store windows of a bygone age
vi farà il funerale will bury you
vi sia stata una sola incomprensione nor even a single misunderstanding
Entered by: Tom in London
vignanelle peasant girl, countrywoman
vino novello new wine
Visione scenica scenic direction
Entered by: Raffaella Panigada
visita pastorale pastoral/bishop's visit
volentieri auspico I gladly/willingly wish you.../and it's with great pleasure that I wish you...
volgare vulgate
volgetele turn them over
Entered by: Tom in London
volume collettaneo anthology
voluminosi apparati critici Lengthy articles by literary critics
Entered by: Lara Barnett
voluttà del piacere voluptuous pleasures
Vuie partite a momento, leave right away
xxx ha calpestato e sorriso sui campi di molti continenti: olimpiadi, campionati xxx has played and won on the basketball courts of many continents
zeppeliane echoing Led Zeppelin-infused memories
Entered by: Maria Burnett
[VENETIAN DIALECT] A mi no ti me tol par el culo [LITERALLY] you don\'t pull my \"ass\"
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