terminology - What is a proem, and why was this word used in the . . . the proem to Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata In these examples, the basic characteristics of a proem are (according to the Italian Wikipedia): the invocation of the muse, the "protasi", i e the initial part that presents the epic's topics, "the first word (generally in accusative) that indicates the object of the proem "
What is meant by traffic in this list of mens activities? -- The Decameron, proem (Rigg translation) I already learned a new English word dumpish from this passage, but what does traffic mean as a verb in this context? Surely it doesn't refer to illegal trade, but perhaps there is another older meaning of this word in English?
What do you call the message written before a poem? From Re Judicial by Baticuling (Jesús Balmori) in El libro de mis vidas manileñas Before the first stanza, the author begins with a little message: "Antonio Manipula, juez y falsificación
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