The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 11Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby Dodd, Mead, 1907 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... writers to have been founded by some of the Jews who were led into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar . It was a trad- ing town of importance , and the capital of Irak , under the caliphs of Bagdad . It was taken by Timur in 1392 , when 70,000 ...
... writers to have been founded by some of the Jews who were led into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar . It was a trad- ing town of importance , and the capital of Irak , under the caliphs of Bagdad . It was taken by Timur in 1392 , when 70,000 ...
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... writers to designate the Renais- sance style of architecture because it originated in Italy . See RENAISSANCE ART . ITALIAN BAND . See AUGUSTUS'S BAND . ITALIAN LANGUAGE . That one of the Romance languages , or modern descendants of ...
... writers to designate the Renais- sance style of architecture because it originated in Italy . See RENAISSANCE ART . ITALIAN BAND . See AUGUSTUS'S BAND . ITALIAN LANGUAGE . That one of the Romance languages , or modern descendants of ...
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... writers , and the best of all these was Guido Guinizelli ( c.1230-76 ) , who was the first true poet in Italian . In his better canzoni and sonnets he applies Guittone's innovations to much better purpose , and in verses combining ...
... writers , and the best of all these was Guido Guinizelli ( c.1230-76 ) , who was the first true poet in Italian . In his better canzoni and sonnets he applies Guittone's innovations to much better purpose , and in verses combining ...
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... French known as the Libro di Fioravante . Di- dactic compilations and treatises are frequent enough at this time , many of them being due equally important with the tale , and the writers of ITALIAN LITERATURE . ITALIAN LITERATURE . 20.
... French known as the Libro di Fioravante . Di- dactic compilations and treatises are frequent enough at this time , many of them being due equally important with the tale , and the writers of ITALIAN LITERATURE . ITALIAN LITERATURE . 20.
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... writers . a prose work which tells over again the old French story of Floire and Blanchefleur ; the Teseide , a poem from which Chaucer derived the subject matter of his Knight's Tale , and in which was made the first notable use of ...
... writers . a prose work which tells over again the old French story of Floire and Blanchefleur ; the Teseide , a poem from which Chaucer derived the subject matter of his Knight's Tale , and in which was made the first notable use of ...
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