What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. This book was a smash hit when it first came out in 1939, and yet it went out of print, and hasn't been in print in half a century.
Per "letteratura italiana" intendiamo un campo vastissimo di opere, autori, testi e scritti che coprono un larghissimo arco cronologico, che va dal Duecento
LEAD: In Kennebunkport, Me., the Vice President is known to one and all as ''George.'' And why not? George Herbert Walker Bush started hanging out in Kennebunkport before he could spell c-a-t, let alone c-h-a-r-i-s-m-a. They know him up there. But what's the rest of America's reason for turning surnames, complete with Mrs., Mr., Ms.