The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 11Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby Dodd, Mead, 1907 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... period , but under the Roman Empire a wreath of fir was substituted . The games were in charge of the Corinthians , and the contests seem to have been those usual at Olympia ( see OLYMPIC GAMES ) , to which later musical competitions ...
... period , but under the Roman Empire a wreath of fir was substituted . The games were in charge of the Corinthians , and the contests seem to have been those usual at Olympia ( see OLYMPIC GAMES ) , to which later musical competitions ...
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... period of Italian letters , when the great Tuscans , Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch , made their native dialect the predominant one of the Peninsula . The earliest of the three , Dante , stood at the height of a poetic movement which ...
... period of Italian letters , when the great Tuscans , Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch , made their native dialect the predominant one of the Peninsula . The earliest of the three , Dante , stood at the height of a poetic movement which ...
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... period of Tuscan glory in Italian letters closed approximately with 1348. The second Tuscan period stretches from 1348 to about 1375 ( the date of Boccaccio's death ) , and is marked especially by the advent of Petrarch and Boccaccio ...
... period of Tuscan glory in Italian letters closed approximately with 1348. The second Tuscan period stretches from 1348 to about 1375 ( the date of Boccaccio's death ) , and is marked especially by the advent of Petrarch and Boccaccio ...
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... period , but there are now other important centres of learn- ing and literary productivity , such as Naples , where the House of Aragon ruled ; Ferrara , where the Dukes of Este were the patrons of men of letters ; Rome , Mantua ...
... period , but there are now other important centres of learn- ing and literary productivity , such as Naples , where the House of Aragon ruled ; Ferrara , where the Dukes of Este were the patrons of men of letters ; Rome , Mantua ...
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... period opens with the works of Ludovico Ariosto ( 1474-1533 ) , one of its most striking figures , the author of comedies , lyrics , satires , and other poems in Italian and of some Latin verse , but famous for his Orlando furioso ...
... period opens with the works of Ludovico Ariosto ( 1474-1533 ) , one of its most striking figures , the author of comedies , lyrics , satires , and other poems in Italian and of some Latin verse , but famous for his Orlando furioso ...
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