Italienische Lieblichkeit vs. Englische Einsilbigkeit:

»The percussive monosyllables and/or double final consonants of cock, balls, shit, dick, buttocks, jerk-off, prick, cunt, and fuck have a blunt, expletive force that isn’t rendered by (and betrays the puckish delicacy of) cazzo, potta, culo, fica, scopare, merda, coglioni, and cacca. The verbs incazzare and inculare, especially used reflexively, are certainly rude, but hardly so heavy-handed as "to take it up the ass." It’s the difference, perhaps, between Ariel’s nimble tongue and Caliban’s thick one.«

Wunderbar am Ende diese Shakespearesche Veredelung des klanglichen Übersetzungsproblems. Der New Yorker zitiert in der Rezension von "La Cazzaria", einer Satire von Antonio Vignali aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, den Übersetzer Ian Frederick Moulton.