si rifà liberamente ad alcuni precedenti

English translation: borrows freely from earlier works

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Italian term or phrase:	si rifà liberamente ad alcuni precedenti
English translation:	borrows freely from earlier works
Entered by:	Lisa Jane

19:51 May 13, 2018

Italian to English translations [PRO]
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Italian term or phrase: si rifà liberamente ad alcuni precedenti

Contesto (with regard to I Triomphi):

Tra i personaggi figurano il poeta stesso, che è anche l’ "io" narrante, Laura, un’anonima guida, e una folla di personaggi storici e mitico-romanzeschi.

Anche in questo caso Petrarca si rifà liberamente ad alcuni precedenti, quali le "visioni" e i poemi allegorico-didattici del Medioevo, e soprattutto la Commedia di Dante, assunta nella sua struttura progressiva, nelle situazioni più allegorizzanti (specie gli ultimi canti del Purgatorio), oltre che nella forma metrica: la terzina incatenata.

Molte Grazie,

Barbara

Barbara Cochran, MFA KudoZ activity Questions: 1895 (7 open) (3 without valid answers) (233 closed without grading) Answers: 3899 United States
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borrows freely from earlier works

Explanation:
In short

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Note added at 9 hrs (2018-05-14 05:08:57 GMT)
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https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/borro...

INTRANSITIVE/TRANSITIVE] to use an idea, method, phrase etc that was first used by another person or in another place or situation
borrow something from someone/something: His speech was, to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare, ‘full of sound and fury’.
English is full of words that have been borrowed from other languages.
borrow freely/heavily: His designs borrow freely from ancient Egyptian art.

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Lisa Jane
Italy
Local time: 20:42

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borrows freely from earlier works

Lisa Jane

4 +1

Draws free inspiration from some previous (literary works)

Alessandra Rizzo

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23 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Draws free inspiration from some previous (literary works)

Explanation:
This is an option.

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http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/rifare/ here you will find the meaning of "rifarsi" (meaning 2.b, "riallacciarsi, prendere spunto").

Alessandra Rizzo
Italy
Local time: 20:42
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Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 12

9 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

borrows freely from earlier works

Lisa Jane
Italy
Local time: 20:42
Native speaker of:

English,

Italian
PRO pts in category: 496

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