Re: constructed romance languages
| From: | John Fisher <john@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 23, 1999, 17:41 |
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In message <36A96A89.13E4@...>, vardi <vardi@...>
writes
>I
>know that in Italy poems were written in alternating lines of Hebrew and
>Italian, and I have a book with similar examples from Greece.
The other songs are written in quatrains, the last line of which is a
Biblical quote in Hebrew. The songs are in two pairs, one of each pair
addressed to the bride and the other to the bridegroom. Each song
starts with a refrain in Hebrew, which was apparently to be sung after
each quatrain by the guests at the wedding. One pair was written by
"the learned Rabbi Natan, of blessed memory", and the other by "Master
Bonafos". Riera says it's tempting to imagine that Rabbi Natan could be
the poet Mosse' Nac,an of Tarragona who died in 1361, of whom two poems
in Hebrew survive.
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John Fisher john@drummond.demon.co.uk johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk
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