Word of the Day
for Sunday,
July 14, 2013
Rifacimento \ri-fah-chi-MEN-toh; It. ree-fah-chee-MEN-taw\, noun:
a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
It is not a rifacimento
of compliments; such is not the style with which I am saluted by the Duke of
Doze and the Earl of Leatherdale!
-- Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey, 1906
-- Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey, 1906
Nevertheless, he
shared the impression of unlikeness that certain parts of the play had left on
many minds, and thought them best explained by the hypothesis of intermediate
work, Shakespeare's rifacimento
of which was not so thorough but that he accepted much structure and a good
deal of actual verse from its author...
-- William Shakespeare, with introduction by Brian Morris, The Taming of the Shrew,
1981
Rifacimento entered English in the late 1700s from the Italian word rifare meaning "to
make over."
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