I don't know about Ancient Romans, but I do know a few Italian men with numbered names. In particular a Decimo (tenth), who was indeed the tenth (and I wouldn't swear the last).
It's all in the initial HTML payload. Each word in Italian, its translation in English, and the corresponding sidenote, if any, all have a common `data-id`. When the mouse hovers on a word, the corresponding note gets a `.visible` class via JS.
> I would add the year of composition in the list: 'Oct 10, Tacciono i boschi e i fiumi (1591), by Torquato Tasso'
There's a list-by-composition date page, but indeed, that makes a lot of sense. Will add!
> How will we submit requests?
Awwww please do :)
I assumed an email would be best (see Contact link in the footer), but maybe something more social? I made accounts for mastodon [1], twitter (@italian_poetry) and reddit [2] (plus BuyMeACoffee [3], for the most adventurous ^_^), which I should put somewhere on the website.
What do you think would be best? When trying to put this website out there I had to realize the hard way that I suck at social media...
So I've studied German a little. I have no conversational skills and little facility reading it. But I really enjoy German poetry in the original language. My theory is that it's like the Guitar Hero version of speaking the language - it lets me play along with an expert, even though I am a rank neophyte. I would love to see this in German.
One thing that bothers me is that the cultural context is lost. I am completely oblivious to things that would be obvious to a native speaker. For instance, I like some poems by Christian Morgenstern, but is that like saying I like a Hallmark card or a Thomas Kincaid painting? I suspect it's a little bit like the latter, which is fine. The Germans I have spoken with had no interest in poetry, good or bad, so they couldn't offer any feedback.
I, conversely, lack the knowledge to quite get the allusion to a Hallmark card or a Thomas Kincaid painting.
I guess that Kincaid paintings are considered subpar by connoisseurs. That wouldnʼt be the thing with Morgenstern. He is popular, but not that popular, and was sufficiently unconventional at his time to be seen as a genuine creative artist.
That is a comparison in terms of connoisseurship (or snobbery). If I had to make a comparison in terms of how the workʼs nature, Iʼd say that the shorter poems are like Roger Price droodles.
Doesn't work for me (in Chrome for Windows) as middle mouse toggles mouse scroll mode. Although to be fair, even if it did work, I'd never have thought to try middle mouse! If you added a button at the start of each line / paragraph, it'd be obvious the functionality exists as well as not relying on extra mouse buttons.
They are all, unsurprisingly, old :)