canoscenza

Italian

Etymology

Compare Sicilian canuscenza.

Noun

canoscenza f (plural canoscenze)

  1. 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
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