The Day

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The Day

work by Parini

Also known as: “Il giorno”

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Giuseppe Parini
…Horatian odes and particularly for Il giorno, (4 books, 1763–1801; The Day), a satiric poem on the selfishness and superficiality of the Milanese aristocracy.
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…Horatian odes and particularly for Il giorno, (4 books, 1763–1801; The Day), a satiric poem on the selfishness and superficiality of the Milanese aristocracy.
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Italian literature
The Enlightenment (Illuminismo)
In Il giorno (published in four parts, 1763–1801; “The Day”), an ambitious but unfinished social satire of inherited wealth and nobility, he described a day in the life of a young Milanese patrician and revealed, with masterly irony, the irresponsibility and futility of a whole way…
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In Il giorno (published in four parts, 1763–1801; “The Day”), an ambitious but unfinished social satire of inherited wealth and nobility, he described a day in the life of a young Milanese patrician and revealed, with masterly irony, the irresponsibility and futility of a whole way…
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