From vtodisco@libero.it Tue Mar 7 16:50:12 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA46224 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:50:10 -0800 Received: from smtp3.libero.it ([193.70.192.53]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA29609 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:50:09 -0800 Received: from master (151.21.159.44) by smtp3.libero.it; 8 Mar 2000 01:50:05 +0100 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000308014647.00a2b3c0@popmail.libero.it> X-Sender: vtodisco@popmail.libero.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 01:50:02 +0100 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Vittorio Todisco Subject: Re: Divas In-Reply-To: References: < <38C51816.5A6D9F26@gwtc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_2319240==_.ALT" --=====================_2319240==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 11.03 07/03/00 -0600, you wrote: > >On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Keely Lake wrote: > > > >> Is anyone able to make more sense of this than I? My Italian is not > >> beyond stumbling, so I am wondering if there is indeed something more > >> than a confused journalist at heart here: > >> > >> Verena Dobnik in the Denver Post, Sunday Feb. 27th, in an article about > >> Jessye Norman: > >> "To fans, however, she is a diva in the true sense of the word's Italian > >> meaning, which describes an ancient goddess praising Achilles in Homer's > >>'Iliad'." > > > >Must be Black Athena. > > > >EJTh > >The basic meaning of 'diva' in Italian is simply 'goddess'. The rest here >is journalistic fluff. > >PMG Dear friends, As an italian teacher I agree in toto with PMG's explanation. Regards, Vittorio Todisco *************************************************************************** Vittorio Todisco home address: 318, Viale Magna Grecia - 74100, Taranto (Italy) telefax: +39 099 377138 e-mail: vtodisco@libero.it website: http://taras66.tripod.com *************************************************************************** --=====================_2319240==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" At 11.03 07/03/00 -0600, you wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Keely Lake wrote:
>
>> Is anyone able to make more sense of this than I?  My Italian is not
>> beyond stumbling, so I am wondering if there is indeed something more
>> than a confused journalist at heart here:
>>
>> Verena Dobnik in the Denver Post, Sunday Feb. 27th, in an article about
>> Jessye Norman:
>> "To fans, however, she is a diva in the true sense of the word's Italian
>> meaning, which describes an ancient goddess praising Achilles in Homer's
>>'Iliad'."
>
>Must be Black Athena.
>
>EJTh

The basic meaning of 'diva' in Italian is simply 'goddess'. The rest here
is journalistic fluff.

PMG
Dear friends,

As an italian teacher I agree in toto with PMG's explanation.

Regards,

Vittorio Todisco
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