le Garzantine - Letteratura app for iPhone and iPad


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Reference Education
Developer: Edigeo S.r.l.
9.99 USD
Current version: 2.0.2, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 18 Mar 2016
App size: 53.82 Mb

Spanning from Homer to Dan Brown, the app “le Garzantine – Letteratura” is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of the literature of every period and all countries, and an up-to-date tool to discover worldwide authors and works from the beginning to the present day. You will find every information about poets and novelists, movements and currents - from baroque to futurism - genres from science-fiction to thriller, together with rhetorical figures, basical metrics, the summary of 600 masterpieces (from Dantes Comedy to Anna Karenina, from Hamlet to Moby Dick), and the winners of the most famous literary awards, including the Nobel prize.

The apps interface has been redesigned to provide a simpler and more intuitive experience. Each definition can be shared using the features available in the device, such as social media, e-mail, SMS, cloud. A main menu that can be activated via an icon available at the top right of the screen enables all the features of the app:

• Index search: displays in alphabetical order the headwords that match the characters typed in the search box
• Advanced search: lets you search for entries, and in full text
• Settings: allows you to choose the font size of the definitions and the language of the interface
• History: keeps a record of the searches performed
• Abbreviations: displays a table with an explanation of the abbreviations used within the definitions
• Feedback: use it to provide suggestions, and notify errors, missing entries or other comments
• Our apps: displays an updated and detailed catalog of our offer
• Privacy and Credits: view legal notices about the app

Features
• Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod using iOS 11.x and later versions
• Check for updates online and use of the dictionary offline
• User interface in Italian and English
• More than 10.000 entries written by specialists
• Places and dates of birth for each figure
• Dating of works
•Special pages with thematic widenings
• 600 summaries of literary masterpieces
• The Nobel prize and the most important literary awards, with their winners
• A circuit of 2500 cross-references between entries
• Clear graphic presentation and easy consultation
• In Portrait mode, ability to scroll the definitions to the right to return to the list of entries or search results
• Sharing the definitions using the features available in the device, such as social media, e-mail, SMS, etc.

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