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Article: Made in Italy.(Review)
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- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo. Boston: David R. Godine, 1999 (first published 1970), 276 pp., $15.95 paper. An Umbrian War by Romana Petri, translated by Sharon Wood. London, UK: The Toby Press, 2000, 253 pp., $15.95 paper.
I wish that girls might study Latin as boys do. Latin is good because it teaches you how to be bored," Stendhal observed in On Love. He was all in favor of education for women. Writing in 1820, he was also a hundred years ahead of his time.
Iris Origo began to study Latin privately in Florence in 1914. She was twelve years old. Her teacher, professor Solone Monti, was "a dark, stocky little man, with dandruff on his ...