I'm Brazilian but I think monica Dante is 100x better than shakespeare. I think Americans think in this manner:
>We are the best economy in the world therefore anything in English must be the best.
Which is retarded.
A guy with raw intelligence like Ramanujan was born in rural India and still was able to make contributions. and he was messing with mathematics, imagine when it comes to literature.
>>9348066
Did you read it in the original language or a translation? If it was a translation, your opinion doesn't matter
>>9348068
Portuguese is very close to Italian.
>Portuguese (Ela) fecha sempre a janela antes de jantar.
>Italian (Ella/Lei) chiude sempre la finestra prima di cenare.
lol who cares
>>9348066
I'm Wittengstein and I agree. Fuck Shakespeare
>>9348096
No, you don't. Go read your own notes on Shakespeare, you disgusting pleb.
>>9348066
t. José Conçeiçao Cuccittini Bilderberg from Florianopolis
>>9348083
Tolstoy (who hated shakespeare)
I've read it in translation.
I've spent the past two or three years practicing my Italian, but I still feel a long way from tackling Dante.
>>9348066
wow, that's interesting. from the bottom of my heart let me say as some of my Brazilian collegues sometimes do: chupa meu cu Viadinho da porra
>>9348066
>>We are the best economy in the world therefore anything in English must be the best.
Very true. Most English speakers think pic related is a drinking fountain, then will turn around and tell you they've got the best civilization in the history of the world.
>>9348066
Whatafuck has Ramanujan to do with Shakesphere? Have you read Shakesphere in the original at least? You hit me as someone who's being anti-american just for the sake of it. And NO reading poetry in italian or spanish or whatever is not the same as reading in portuguese.
ITT: another brazillian
>>9348293
The Ramanujan example was to show that a country's economic superiority doesn't translate to having the best raw geniuses.
>>9348300
I get it, Ramanujan is based. What I still don't understand is the butthurt with Shakesphere he's not even american and I would argue that the american authors aren't the more talked here. But let me guess, you're a playwriter aren't you?