Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

laceri cartigli

English translation:

ragged scrolls

Added to glossary by Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche
Oct 5, 2008 13:01
16 yrs ago
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Italian term

laceri cartigli

Italian to English Other Architecture architecture
it is about palazzo Valguarnera in Palermo and the sentence is: "la vicina scala dei musici, concepita come un organico movimento di laceri cartigli".
don't really understand what cartiglio here refers to
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Oct 19, 2008 05:05: Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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ragged scrolls

the vision I get is of flying pieces of torn scrolls set up as a staircase...A poetic description of a beautiful staircase
Peer comment(s):

agree Alessandra Renna
3 mins
Grazie Alessandra!
agree Olga Buongiorno
4 hrs
Thanks Olga!
agree lucinda byatt
7 hrs
Thanks Lucinda!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
6 mins

Torn banderoles

My suggestion:

cartiglio

s.m.

1 cartouche, banderol, banderole.

2 (Archeol) (nell'arte egiziana) cartouche.
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1 day 7 hrs

threadbare scrolls

http://www.wowhead.com/?object=177667 Ho trovato questa spiegazione con cartina..
sono come papiri , rotoli come elementi decorativi in architettura
ragged mi sa più di cencioso
lacero= usura, logorio,
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/ragged
http://www.wordreference.com/enit/threadbare
http://www.zazzle.com/threadbare gifts

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