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159 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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159 months ago

MAGLO   wrote:

it still remained at the highest level of the modern (architectural) rinnovations that was ever done to an old building structure

159 months ago

MAGLO   wrote:

...which remained the greatest expression of modern design every applied to the old residence

My comment:

I think the reference to design (or architecture) must be clear even if it is only implied in the source language .

159 months ago

giulianoscarpa   wrote:

And which settled as the highest expression of modernity the old dwelling ever attained

159 months ago

giulianoscarpa   wrote:

the strongest expression of modernity ever granted to the old dwelling

159 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

the closest the building had ever been to [an expression of] modernity.

My comment:

And which remained the closest the building had ever been to [an expression of] modernity.

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159 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

And which remained the most extensive expression of modernity the old building ever experienced.

My comment:

Translation of th whole sentence, from "E che ... to dimora..."

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159 months ago

   wrote:

buildings can't experience anything, normally. Unless this were poetry. The sentence is passive construction: The grandest expression of modernity that had ever been given to the old [building or dwelling]

159 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

the best expression of modernity the old mansion could achieve

My comment:

Giusto un'idea.