Feb 5, 2009 08:38
15 yrs ago
Italian term
Italy
ghirigori letterari
Italian to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
biography of a writer
Context: La sua letteratura ne ha avuto giovamento, proprio per la continua aderenza alla realtà sociale, visibile non solo nei temi trattati ma anche nella scrittura stessa, priva di quei “ghirigori letterari” che spesso “impoveriscono” le opere letterarie.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +7 | literary flourishes/embellishments |
Giles Watson
|
| 4 +1 | (literary) flights of fancy |
Angela Arnone
|
| 3 +1 | literary embellishments |
languagelear (X)
|
| 3 +1 | literary/stylistic embellishments |
Felicity Raikes (X)
|
| 4 | literary curlicues |
Michael Korovkin
|
| 3 | literary doodles |
Arusha Topazzini (X)
|
| 3 | literary squiggles |
Sele
|
| 2 | literary frills |
Katia DG
|
Proposed translations
+7
11 mins
Selected
literary flourishes/embellishments
You could use one of these if you want to keep the plural in the English or you could opt for an uncountable noun like "embroidery".
HTH
Giles
HTH
Giles
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
9 mins
literary doodles
'literary doodles' or 'literary flourishes' (but not meant in a positive way, I feel, more to indicate redundant overbearing writing)
+1
10 mins
literary embellishments
an idea that might work
Reference:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Moneybags-Must-Be-so-Lucky/Robert-Paul-Wolff/e/9780870236150/
+1
29 mins
Angela Arnone
Native in English
Works in field
Italian by name ... English by nature!
Native in: English 
Works in: Italian to English, English, Italian
Related KudoZ points
:
54
(literary) flights of fancy
I'd probably use something a bit different.
HTH
Angela
HTH
Angela
+1
35 mins
literary/stylistic embellishments
In my opinion they mean that this writer's content is even more accessible because his writing style is more clean-cut and 'free from cumbersome stylistic embellishments' or something like that. I'm just paraphrasing though: I don't know any specific term for 'ghirigori'.
Example sentence:
free from cumbersome stylistic embellishments
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Arusha Topazzini (X)
7 mins
|
58 mins
1 hr
literary squiggles
.
5 hrs
Michael Korovkin
Italy
Italy
Native in English
Specializes in field
Italy
Native in: English 
, Russian
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian, Italian to Russian, and 2 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
36
literary curlicues
ghirigori are very baroque... and so are the curlicues
What fun!
What fun!
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