bragia
Italian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbragia f (plural bragie or brage) (regional or archaic)
- Alternative form of brace
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 109–111; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Caron dimonio, con occhi di bragia
loro accennando, tutte le raccoglie;
batte col remo qualunque s'adagia.- Charon the demon, with eyes of ember, by signaling to them [the souls of the damned], gathers them all; he hits with the oar any one [of them] who rests.
- 1790s, Giuseppe Parini, Notte [Night]; collected in Opere dell’abate Giuseppe Parini[3], Venice: Giacomo Storti, 1803, page 34:
- […] All’un de’ lati
crepitar s’odon le fiammanti brage- On one side, you can hear the flaming embers crackle
Further reading
edit- bragia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- bragia in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa