allegoria-allegory: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is allegoria? allegoria is allegory

What is allegory?

  • Figura retorica per mezzo della quale l’autore esprime e il lettore ravvisa un sign. riposto, diverso da quello letterale: le a. della Divina Commedia.

    A figure of speech by means of which the author expresses and the reader sees a sign. different from the literal one: the a. of the Divine Comedy.

  • estens. Opera pittorica o plastica raffigurante un concetto astratto: l’a. della musica.

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