Perhaps you did not know that an Italian pupil (i.e., a small child in
elementary school) spends a great deal of time in class reciting what s/he
has memorized: long swallows of terza rima from Dante's Divina Commedia,
sonnets by Petrach, entire sections of The Decameron by Boccaccio, etc.
There are thousands of famous Italian poets, poets who lived before the 18th
century, and by the time a high school student would be ready to graduate,
that student would know more poetry by heart than you may have realized.
Italians love the poetry of the Romantics, too. For example, Shelley loved
Italy and Italians love Shelley.
Domenico Procaccio has graduated from a university in Rome. Therefore, yes,
he does know Italian and European and some British poetry because poetry is
still revered and part of the "core" curriculum in Italy.
NonStop NY
> Since he has more than 25 films to his credit, it is likely that Procaccio
>is familiar with the 18th century British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge who
>called drama ěthat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which
>constitutes poetic faith.î
I have to suspend disbelief to think that producing 25 films necessarily
makes a producer familiar with the critical writings of poets, 18th or 19th
century (STC was 19C) - but perhaps they breed'em different elsewhere -
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