Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Vitangelo Moscarda is the main character of which Luigi Pirandello novel?
2. Who are the poets who created the "Dolce Stil Novo"?
3. What's the name of Machiavelli's most notable piece of work?
4. Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron of Italy, is most famous as a preacher, but some people know that he was also a skilled writer. Which is his most famous poem?
5. Who was the first Italian Nobel Prize laureate in literature?
6. In which region is Manzoni's novel "The Betrothed" mostly set?
7. "Romeo and Juliet" is undoubtedly one of the most famous tragedies written by the Bard... however, few people know that it was inspired by short stories by an Italian writer, which had been translated into French. Who was this writer?
8. A famous 20th century Italian writer wrote a book which was about a reader trying to read many different books, but never succeeding. The book's title is "If on a winter night a traveler"... who is the author?
9. This worldwide-known Italian writer was born in Recanati in 1798 and is renowned for his pessimism:
10. "I've always loved this single little hill,
this hedgerow too, that holds so huge a part
of the world's flung horizon from my view.
But as I sit and gaze, interminable
spaces beyond that hedge, a silence more
than man's and feelings delved from deepest peace
I conjure into mind until the heart
is all but daunted."
Which poem do these verses come from?
Source: Author
cadmie
This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor
LadyCaitriona before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.
