Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria
von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is
engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he
is due--a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray.
In Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Professor Dr von Igelfeld learns to
play tennis, and forces a college chum to enter into a duel that results
in a nipped nose. He also takes a field trip to Ireland where he becomes
acquainted with the rich world of archaic Irishisms, and he develops an
aching infatuation with a Dentist fatale. Along the way, he takes two
ill-fated Italian sojourns, the first merely uncomfortable, the second
definitely dangerous.