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classical reminiscences


Alfredo Fraschini, author of Tango: tradition and modernity , traces echoes of authors classics, tango lyrics no less classic revealing readings of authors like Homero Manzi, Enrique Discépolo or Cadícamo.

In an interview published in Clarin , Fraschini quoted phrase "The light of the room also has felt your absence" present in the Anthology III century BC

In Oda XIII of Book IV of Horacio a woman gets drunk not to see his physical deterioration, echoes that come to get drunk tonight of Discépolo Enrique Santos. Homero Expósito

in Makeup cites the poet Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola: "is neither heaven nor blue" , is a verse of the sonnet A woman who was beautiful and shaved.

"Although there is no doubt that many of our writers and essayists had an interesting knowledge of the classics" accurate Fraschini "Early last century, most public libraries were managed by anarcófilos, which were in their shelves to the Greek and Latin classics because they felt they were not contaminated by Christianity ".

The full story on "Clarín"
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/04/14/um/m-01897099.htm