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I just said this to a friend:
Ecce in hac pagina vox Iohannis Ørbergii capitula a primo usque ad decimum Linguae Latinae Per Se Illustratae legentis:
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I've got the genitive Linguae Latinae modifying capitula in between the genitive Iohannis Ørbergii and its modifier legentis. Can you…do that?
If you're asking if you can nest genitives, of course you can. This particular one is a bit extreme, and sounds more poetical to me, but the practice is fine. Compare Cicero's Republic 1.13.10:
unius aetatis clarissimorum ac sapientissimorum nostrae civitatis virorum disputatio repetenda memoria est.
Here, clarissimorum ac sapientissimorum modify virorum, with nostrae civitatis in the middle: "the most distinguished and wisest men of our commonwealth."
In Greek, I've seen the nesting encompass quite a lot, too, and in poetry it's not uncommon to see some examples on the extreme side.
