Excerpt from Delancey Place Today's encore selection -- from  The Pursuit of Italy  by David Gilmour.  In 1861, when the Italian...

[Note: A much better map of Italian dialects has been supplied by our friend Peter D'Epiro (thanks Pete!). A few minor changes to the t...

From A.S. Kline's online Horace: Bk I Ep V:1-31 An invitation to dinner If you can bear to recline at dinner on a couch By  Archias ,...

Latin is back, according to the NYT : The resurgence of a language once rejected as outdated and irrelevant is reflected across the country ...