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Italian
Noun
canoscenza f (plural canoscenze)
- Alternative form of conoscenza (“knowledge”)
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 118–120; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.- Consider your seed:
you were not made to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.
References
- canoscenza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana