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Hello
recently in Britain's Lost Masterpieces I heard the terms colore and disequo (I cannot guarantee that I have spelled them correctly!) but cannot remember what they meant. Does anyone know? I do seem to recall that one of them was related to art schools in Venice and the other in Florence.
Many thanks
Peter
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In Italian colore means colour or complexion.
Disequo is not a common Italian word, I can only find fairly obscure references to it in Italian sites on the internet and nothing in the online dictionary I use for Italian.
Equo means fair or just. See this link:
http://www.wordreference.com/iten/equo
Normally to alter an adjective to be the negative of the original, Italian puts an s in front of the word. For example, comfortable, comodo becomes scomodo, uncomfortable.
Disequo might mean unfair in Italian. I haven't seen the programme you mentioned, so I'm guessing.