Bøker av Hermann W. Haller

Award-winning author Hermann W. Haller has prepared the first critical edition of A Worlde of Wordes, which features 46,000 Italian entries - among them dialect forms, erotic terminology, colloquial phrases, and proverbs of the Italian language.

Italy possesses two literary canons, one in the Tuscan language and the other made up of the various dialects of its many regions. This book presents for the first time an overview of the principal authors and texts of Italy's literary canon in dialect.