Ermes Culòs

A short play, written in Friulian, Italian and English, dramatizing the friulian custom of the "pursita"

This short play, in Friulian and English, is based on the experiences of a number of early Friulian immigrants to British Columbia

This past April Ermes engaged ChatGPT in a wide variety of chats, ranging from philosophy to paradoxes to Canadian lit, to name just a few. Artificial intelligence is developing and improving very fast, so that no one should be surprised if a few years down the road one looks back at the ChatGPT responses given in this volume only to be amazed at the primitiveness and inaccuracy of some of the responses. For now, though, what stands out is ChatGPT's impressive ability to comment quickly and succinctly on any one of the given topics.

This is an anthology, in dual language format (Friulian and English), of well-known literary works, or fragments of literary works, that focus on children, or on the concept of childhood. The portrayal of Sissy in Dickens' Hard Times is an example. The anthology is presented in both Friulian and English.

Anthology of Petrarch's poems translated, with comments, in the Friulian language. The anthology also shows the influence of Petrarch outside of Italy, mainly in Elizabethan England.