Open AccessL’autobiografia di Liberale Medici Aspetti linguistici, espressioni idiomatiche e metafore
Author(s) -
Sara Sorrentino
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
quaderni veneti
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1724-188X
pISSN - 0394-2694
DOI - 10.30687/qv/1724-188x/2019/01/005
Subject(s) - biography , literal and figurative language , humanities , art , order (exchange) , art history , classics , linguistics , philosophy , finance , economics
This paper aims at providing a first research on the autobiography of the Venetian farmer Liberale Medici (1922-2016). The Medici’s work crossed the boundaries of private writing by winning the Premio Pieve in 1988, and, consequently, with its first publication, entitled Schola cantorum (Rome: Edizioni Live, 1989). Recently, it has been also comprehended in the anthology La vita è sogno (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2016). After highlighting the main linguistic features of this autobiography, the analysis focuses on its metaphorical devices, in order to survey its figurative language.