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...nal title: Il Mito di Ulisse e la Bellezza Seconda Translated from Italian by Martha S. Bache-Wiig 2009, authorized by the Author. ... ...yssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I have trans... ...eir titles are also in English. Some are available as of this time only in Italian: these titles have been translated into English and placed in bra... ...efinitions of artistic beauty or of beauty itself. Nevertheless, artists, writers and poets do exist, and we recognize them for what they are. They... ... as well: from the art of the first graffiti, we arrived at the art of the Renaissance; from dialects, we produced languages; from tribes we created...

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...he second of Rome's seven kings (said to have ruled 715-673 BC). Stories during the Renaissance describe "do it yourself" sections by anxious husban... ...cocaineaddiction.com/history-of-cocaine.htm Columbus, Christopher Columbus was an Italian and lived most of his early life in Portugal, not in Spa... ... Sardinia) as late as 50 years ago, during and after the second world war. The Italian folk dance, "Tarantella" is related to tarantism. It was... ...ts H. O. Wood and Frank Neumann from the original Mercalli scale, proposed in 1902 Italian seismologist Giuseppe Mercalli). It measures the impact ... ...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ..., he was unable to read, or write, Latin, the language used by virtually all other Renaissance intellectuals, the lingua franca, akin to English to...

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...ope-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. -- 9. Largest Land Empire Ever-Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and the...

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...erary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk fr... ... and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fe... ...th centuries. Absent those factors, it‘s difficult to imagine Europe‘s Renaissance rising to the heights it reached. The InfoTech trail detours... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. Th... ... no wide ranging social movements, such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from ea... ...als, however, blocked their way to China or India. Similarly, Frankish or Italian merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward fro... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b...

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...erary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk fr... ... and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fe... ...eenth centuries. Absent those factors, it‘s difficult to imagine Europe‘s Renaissance rising to the heights it reached. The InfoTech trail detours... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. The wa... ... no wide ranging social movements, such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from east... ...als, however, blocked their way to China or India. Similarly, Frankish or Italian merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward fro... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b...

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...ng situation. A driver may buckle the shoulder strap because there is always the possibility of an auto accident. I have heardthat 80% of Italia... ...ised by the strength of beliefs based somewhat on religion. Savanorola‘s preaching did much to reduce the artistic and intellectual prowess in Renais... ...hings, like suicide bombings, burning books and defacing art—like was done to Michelangelo‘s Pieta in St. Peter‘s in Rome, like Savonarola in Renais... ...ion in literature and to popular songs and other media. Psychologists have recently separated the real roots of love from the images romantic writer... ...l violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writer... ... If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italia... ...alth, the Norwegians and Americans had more money. It wasn‘t low taxes. Middle income Danes are in the 50% tax bracket. It isn‘t sunshine, the Italia...

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... cosmopolitan - e-publishing is likely to recover and flourish. This renaissance will probably be aided by the gradual decline of print magazine... ...udden were not. Friends told me that in Italy, for example, all the great Italian operas that had entered the public domain are no longer there. . . ... ...nguages as hard as I possibly can. So far we have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portu... ...ialog. For low volumes of messages, this is a good thing. But top-selling writers could not handle email from thousands of dedicated fans. Even in ... ...ed for purposes other than pilfering intellectual property digitally. The Italians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardw... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyroscop... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyrosco...

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...terature, and geological ages and strata: Stone Age, Middle Ages, Crusades, Renaissance, Reforma- tion, Inquisition, Commonwealth (Cromwell's), Comm... ...eral rules: In Latin, capitalize proper nouns and adjec- tives; in French, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish, capitalize only proper nouns; in German a... ... GaUiczcm; Histoire de la lith?rature fraqaise, Novelle e racconti po#olari italiani, Antologia & poetus l&os castdlams, Svemka litteraturem hist&; ... ...y Carpenter. ["English Men of Letters," 111.1 London: Black, 1900. "As the Italian [Englishman] Dante Gabriel Rodsletti has said, . . . ." Deut. 3... ...ury Europe-he must not look outside of manuscript tra- dition." NOTE.-Some writers regard this hyphen as an objectionable Teutonism. 195. A hyphen... ...by running a line across the page, or by using ink of different color. Some writers make a perpendicular fold in the paper, using two-thirds of the... ...d logic included, there is abundant room for differences of opinion. Grant writers the privilege of preferring theirs to yours. Make a study of th...

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...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...ot love the children of their masters more than their own children? Today: Italians are known as a culturally non-violent Nation… They are now on... ...w one of the most peaceful and fun- loving cultures in Europe. Try to find an Italian raised in Italy who is brave physically… try to find a fighter,... ...ch millionaire hostages for money began in Italy. The kidnappers thought the Italians were such cowards that they would cave in and pay the money w... ...ely… In China it became The Great Wall. In Europe it became Cathedrals. In Renaissance Italy it became Towers. No matter what form it took: wheth... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ... ...d out how modern European corporate greed began: read histories of the Italian Renaissance. Read about the Medici’s. A banking family. That gave f... ...y European Feudal Dynamic of Lord-Vassal. Which slid into the Later European Renaissance Dynamic of Patron-Supplicant. It was a cultural slide into...

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...rof. Rice has placed on exhi- bition in Hopkins Hall some pho- tographs of Italian paintings of the Tuscan school of central Italy. This school includ... ...rof. Rice has placed on exhi- bition,in Hopkins Hall some pho- tographs of Italian paintings of the Tuscan school of central Italy. This school includ... ...l* Graves prize essay, has a subjer of lesser interest, away from tl:^ old Italian monastery. Joachir founded a religious establishment anticipated, i... ... a brilli- ant stylist, and belongs to the decorative, prose-poet order of writers. While it is true that in many of his personal traits he re- minds ... ...nilwr which show increasing ease and creative faculty on the part of thair writers. ""The Gate of Tears'" by Mr. Westerraann, is espuoially sweet, ten... ...ARY 7, 1908 6.00 p. m.—Lecture by M. Luguet on "The Origin, Sur- vival and Renaissance of French Literature," Hoom 4. arlffln Hall. FRroAY, JANUARY 10... ...evival of Latin and Greek classics, wbioh movement in itself was a sort of renaissance. This movement was a sort of con- necting link between the by- ... ... wae pointed out. In the second part of his lecture, M. Lugnat took up the Renaissance proper, treating suo- cossively the court of Francois I, the Pl... ...herbe. Balzac, Descartes. Pascal, the scholar and poet, and the dra- matic writers of the French stage before Oorneille, RUNAWAY GAME WITH RUTGERS Wil...

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...heir readers. Historical independence has shown itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of... ... it with admirable courage and persistency. The reproaches which Calvinist writers have cast upon her are to her glory; she incurred them by reason on... ...ermanent conspiracy.” We admire the anti-social maxims put forth by daring writers; why, then, this disapproval which, in France, attaches to all soci... ... the king. But the persistent craft and dissimulation of the woman and the Italian, which she had never failed to employ, was incompatible with the de... ...l power, may well have been instigated in part by such scenes, of which an Italian girl of nine years of age was assuredly not ignorant. The rise of A... ...reat power are laid. In France we blamed Napoleon when he made use of that Italian genius for craft which was bred in his bone,— though in his case it... ...re, the chateau of Henri II. It is in the style of architecture now called Renaissance, and presents 70 Catherine dé Medici the most fantastic featur... ...a Force mark the transition between what is called the architecture of the Renaissance and that of Henri III., Henri IV ., and Louis XIII. This archae...

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...ith life; he understood the great artists, he understood the spirit of the Renaissance; he understood everything. The scene of one of his earlier nove... ...eturned—doubtless with a due suffisance—”he’s quite the greatest of living writers.” “Of course I can’t judge. Of course he’s very clever,” she said w... ... moved and was “cut,” as to the neck and sleeves, like the garments of old Italians. She suggested a symbolic picture, something akin even to Durer’s ... ...l from the annals of the time that was dear to him beyond all periods, the Italian cinque-cento. It came to me thus that in his books he had uttered b... ... book— which, though unfinished, he had indulged in the luxury, so dear to writers of deliberation, of having “set up,” from chapter to chapter, as he...

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... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...ied among cypresses against a cloudless sky; sometimes they made love by a Renaissance well- head, and sometimes they wandered through the Campagna by... ...hed picture on an easel. I gave a little start. He was painting a group of Italian peas- ants, in the costume of the Campagna, lounging on the steps o... ...resist dis- playing his work. He brought out a picture of two curly-headed Italian urchins playing marbles. “Aren’t they sweet?” said Mrs. Stroeve. An... ... their modest fare. Dirk Stroeve flattered himself on his skill in cooking Italian dishes, and I confess that his spaghetti were very much better than...

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...o led me to understand the marvelous framework of ideas on which the great Italian poet built his poem, the only work which the moderns can place by t... ...rms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in his love of dress, had overlaid the coats of all his servants wi... ... Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had never invented more strangely twining monsters than these t... ...t Robert le Diable was to be given at the Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the French Opera, was to take the part o... ...n it has now reached, allowing it to hold its own against Florence and the Renaissance— Stidmann was in Chanor’s private room when the army lace manuf... ...e a house-warming in the Rue Chauchat, with some artists, and players, and writers.—She took me in! But I can forgive her, for Heloise amuses me. She ... ...ects of Socialist doctrines diffused among the lower classes by incendiary writers? In every household the plague of servants is nowadays the worst of... ...norant poverty and mis- ery driven to bay, flourish the last public letter-writers who are to be found in Paris. Wherever you see the two words “Ecriv...

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...iver, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the Renaissance. The Loire gives a great “style” to a landscape of which the fe... ...ich is the work of Michel Colomb, one of the earlier glories of the French Renaissance; it is really a lesson in good taste. Originally placed in the ... ... of the exquisite. Such a piece of work is the purest flower of the French Renaissance; there is nothing more delicate in all Touraine. There is anoth... ...aving designed this splendid residence has been claimed for several of the Italian artists who early in the sixteenth century came to seek patronage i... ...rk (in this state of mind) is almost as soft a sensation as descending the Italian side, of the Alps; and to go from New York to Philadelphia is to en... ...place d’armes, which looked for all the world like the piazza of some dead Italian town, empty, sunny, grass-grown, with a row of yellow houses overha... ...d. I was unable to trace the configuration of the castle as plainly as the writers who have described it in the guide-books, and I am ashamed to say t...

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...mediaevalist. She was also interested in any treasures that dated from the Renaissance, and employed her allies as so many devoted commission agents. ... ...ry; on Clodion, the carver of wood, on Venetian mirrors, on Brustolone, an Italian tenor who was the Michael- Angelo of boxwood and holm oak; on the t... ...souls in three departments of France is enough to revive the enthusiasm of writers as to the Furia Francese, which nowadays is more apt to expend itse... ...onor as a journalist, I have launched above a hundred articles against the writers you speak of; but I confess that in attacking them it was to attemp... ...h a tragedy. It was told me—and how delight- fully!—by one of our greatest writers, the finest literary mu- sician of our day, Charles Nodier.” “Well,... ...; but, while combining his plans of campaign with the insinuating charm of Italian diplo- macy, he also set the Machiavelian springs of the police in ... ...acy, Rinaldo strikes me as a man of spirit, and his appeal to God is quite Italian. There must have been a touch of local color in this romance. Why, ... ...e to overlook the value of the personality which completed this gem of the Renaissance. So by the time the visitors from Sancerre had taken their leav...

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...ese pages. Though Frenchmen are taxed with incon- stancy, you will find me Italian in faithfulness and memory. While writing the name of “Eugenie,” my... ...e this. Felix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed both the w... ...eceived illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only after subjecting them to so rigid an examination that the... ...r salon, brought there by one of the wittiest, but also one of the laziest writers of that epoch, Emile Blondet, celebrated behind closed doors, highl... ... which is in the royal palace of Vienna. On either side were candelabra of Renaissance de- sign. A clock, by Boule, on a tortoise-shell stand, inlaid ... ...mpletely duped by the purchased applause. “You did not bid farewell to the Italian opera,” said Lady Dudley, to whose house she went after the perform...

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... text of French operas sung by Swed- ish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer un- derstanding of English-speaking audiences. This... ...er rev- erence for her abysmal purity. “We’ll read Faust together … by the Italian lakes …” he thought, somewhat hazily confusing the scene of his pro... ...the wealthy Mingott line, married two of her daughters to “foreigners” (an Italian mar- quis and an English banker), and put the crowning touch to her... ...nflicting it; and by the uniform wording of the notes, in all of which the writers “regretted that they were unable to accept,” without the mitigating... ...,” the essays of P . G. Hamerton, and a won- derful new volume called “The Renaissance” by Walter Pater. He talked easily of Botticelli, and spoke of ...

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... and Michael Angelo. Effec- tual criticism was absolutely silent until the Renaissance, and then for a time was but a matter of scattered utterances h... ...ts; classes entirely analogous, from the point of view of evidence, to the writers of history and memoirs. I question profoundly whether the word “sci... ... transparent device, and one is surprised to find thoughtful and reputable writers off their guard against such bad analogy. But indeed it is impossib... ...xample, has turned in upon itself again and again; but for all we know one Italian proselyte in the first year of the Christian era may have made by t... ... I may perhaps call specialist fatigue and impatience. It is very easy for writers like myself to deal in the broad generalities of Socialism and urge...

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...tating interest of others would have seemed quite poetic. Nowadays romance-writers arrange such effects; and it is quite within their province to do s... ...ears which, it is said, were lacking in those of the wittiest of En- glish writers. Modeste existed for some time on a comprehension, not only of the ... ...tter as yours addressed to a poet of whom you know nothing personally. All writers are not angels; they have many defects. Some are frivolous, heedles... ...luminous. It’s arched roof, brilliant with gold and azure like those of an Italian cathedral, sparkled above my head. Melodies such as the angels sang... ...y a series of fluted pilasters surmounted by an entablature which hides an Italian roof, from which rise several stone chimneys masked by carved troph... ...ved fame,—well, he sold his pictures to buy armor and old furniture of the Renaissance and Louis XV.; just now he is seeking political power. Admit th...

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... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ... who, like Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissa... ...wed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissance literature, which took root and flourished and even threatened ... ...d Laura, and in another in the grotesque idolatry which found exponents in writers like Feliciano de Silva. This is what Cervantes deals with in Don Q... ...o encounter some one at once upon whom to try the might of his strong arm. Writers there are who say the first adventure he met with was that of Puert... ...e speaks his own tongue I will put him upon my head.” “Well, I have him in Italian,” said the barber, “but I do not un- derstand him.” “Nor would it b... ...against Spanish poetry, but against those poets who are mere Spanish verse writers, without any knowledge of other languages or sciences to adorn and ...

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... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ... who, like Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissa... ...wed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissance literature, which took root and flourished and even threatened ... ...d Laura, and in another in the grotesque idolatry which found exponents in writers like Feliciano de Silva. This is what Cervantes deals with in Don Q... ...o encounter some one at once upon whom to try the might of his strong arm. Writers there are who say the first adventure he met with was that of Puert... ...e speaks his own tongue I will put him upon my head.” “Well, I have him in Italian,” said the barber, “but I do not un- derstand him.” “Nor would it b...

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...g than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used these crumbs in showing the mod... ...ell; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that constitutes the education of a well-brought- u... ...XIII., coming singularly, as it did, between the bad taste of the expiring renaissance and the heavy grandeur of Louis XIV., at its dawn. This transi-... ...“Was one of my first lodgers. It was there she made ac- quaintance with an Italian, a handsome man, and rich, a political refugee, but one of the loft... ...pot of money for madame, for she managed to get im- mense sums out of that Italian. Well, would you believe that when—being just then in great need—I ...

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... the relatively straightforward, unornamented mode known as the plain style. C. S. Lewis considered Raleigh one of the era's silver poets, a group of writers who resisted the Italian Renaissance influence of dense classical reference and elaborate poetic devices. In poems such as What is Our Life and The Lie, Raleigh expresses a contemptus mundi (contempt of the world) att...

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...of Florence. His youth was concurrent with the greatness of Florence as an Italian power under the guidance of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Il Magnifico. The d... ...old them both. It is impossible to follow here the varying fortunes of the Italian states, which in 1507 were controlled by France, Spain, and Germany... ... his works, Italy found in them the idea of her unity and the germs of her renaissance among the nations of Eu- rope. Whilst it is idle to protest aga... ...in those times the genius of the English more nearly resembled that of the Italian language; to the Englishman of to-day it is not so simple. To take ... ...advantage. Philopoemen,* Prince of the Achaeans, among other praises which writers have bestowed on him, is com- mended because in time of peace he ne... ...ther virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. And short-sighted writers admire his deeds from one point of view and from another condemn th... ...ast and the man. This has been figura- tively taught to princes by ancient writers, who describe how Achilles and many other princes of old were given...

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...or speculation or practice, than the more unexcitable. The French, and the Italians, are undoubt edly by nature more nervously excitable than the Teu... ... French compared with the English, the Irish with the Swiss, the Greeks or Italians compared with the German races, so women compared with men may be ... ...r’s. Who can tell how many of the most original thoughts put forth by male writers, belong to a woman by sugges tion, to themselves only by verifying... .... If there had been no suspension of the knowledge of antiquity, or if the Renaissance had oc curred before the Gothic cathedrals were built, they ne... ...n after it had commenced. All women who write are pupils of the great male writers. A painter’s early pictures, even if he be a Raffaello, are undisti... ...plied themselves to the art. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the Italian paint ers were the most accomplished men of their age. The greates... ... the influence of priests over women is attacked by Protestant and Liberal writers, less for being bad in itself, than because it is a rival authority...

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...g forgotten how to throb, even when a woman’s dowry was the stake. A young Italian, olive- hued and dark-haired, sat at one end, with his elbows on th... ...it? The jaded elders, the fossilized waiters, the onlookers, the fanatical Italian him- self, felt an indefinable dread at sight of the stranger. Is h... ...wakened was so great that the old gamesters laid nothing upon it; only the Italian, inspired by a gambler’s enthusiasm, smiled suddenly at some though... ...The Magic Skin Cairo, some inlaid pottery, and some carved ebony—genu- ine Renaissance work, just come in, and of perfect beauty.” In the stranger’s f... ...at scoundrels,” and there was an ingenuousness in his tones that set these writers, the hope of young France, in a roar. “So far our blasphemies have ... ...young politician who had just fallen quite unhurt, from his rostrum. Young writers who lacked style stood beside other young writers who lacked ideas,...

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... By the way, that is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to ke... ...a really admirable appear- ance of offended dignity, she said something in Italian which made everybody laugh much. It was explained to me that she ha... ... of genius, that makes one rather sorry for one’s own generation of better writers, and – I don’t know what to say; I was going to say ‘smaller men’; ... ... me out; the story is to be called When the Devil W as Well: scene, Italy, Renaissance; colour, purely imaginary of course, my own unregenerate idea o... ...e been still in the house since I wrote, and I have worked. I finished the Italian story; not well, but as well as I can just now; I must go all over ... ...re to look for more. One pleasant feature is the vast number of delightful writers I shall have to deal with: Burt, Johnson, Boswell, Mrs. Grant of La... ...etails:– 1. I love the occasional trochaic line; and so did many excellent writers before me. 2. If you don’t like ‘A Good Boy,’ I do. 3. In ‘Escape a...

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...d ignorance among the monks of that age, the encyclopaedic movement of the Renaissance was attracting all the lofty minds. Rabelais threw himself into... ...y dragged after them in this direction not a few of the Latin poets of the Renaissance, who believed themselves bound to imitate them. Is Italy withou... ...ing success of Aretino must not be forgotten, nor the licence of the whole Italian comic theatre of the sixteenth century. The Calandra of Bibbiena, w... ...uct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expression, ... ...th ordinary French. It would have been easier in Italy than anywhere else. Italian, from its flexibility and its analogy to French, would have lent it... ...g fashion. The Pleiad School he evidently knew nothing of, but kept to the writers of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. Thus ... ... J. Tenhoorn. The name attached to it, Claudio Gallitalo (Claudius French- Italian) must certainly be a pseudonym. Only a Dutch scholar could identify... ... Aristophanes and of Lucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more pe...

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...e Abbe was not only a musician, he was well and widely read, and knew both Italian and German; so Mlle. de Negrepelise received instruction in those t... ...unterpoint. He explained the great masterpieces of the French, German, and Italian literatures, and deciphered with her the music of the great compose... ...f a man of the Imperial school, who scarcely could make out what the young writers meant. Not so Mme. de Bargeton; she waxed enthusiastic over the ren... ...ng writers meant. Not so Mme. de Bargeton; she waxed enthusiastic over the renaissance, due to the return of the Bourbon Lilies; she loved M. de Chate... ...en was a great man, and she meant to form him; she thought of teaching him Italian and German and per- fecting his manners. That would be pretext suff... ...culture by wholesale plunder of newspaper articles and pillage of previous writers. It was believed all over the department that 75 Balzac M. Saintot...

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...; it will take longer to appreciate the moral bias of Carlyle. So with all writers who insist on forc- ing some significance from all that comes befor... ...- ciple of growth that carried his first book beyond the books of previous writers, carries his last book beyond his first. And just as the most imbec... ...f accent on the different syllables, almost as in French, the vowels as in Italian, but the consonants in the English manner – except the J, which has... ..., and the coun- try at large was keen for the new learning. But though the renaissance had begun, it was impeded and dangerously threatened by the pow... ...ary majority would prefer to remain where they were. Many would choose the Renaissance; many some stately and simple period of Grecian life; and still... ... of them are drawing-room exercises and the rest seem made by habit. Great writers are struck with something in nature or society, with which they bec...

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...the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. OF THE FRENCH WRITERS OF ROMANCE of the latter part of the nineteenth century no one made... ...ay the most ingenuous, pae- ans, perhaps, that have been written since the Renaissance: “At the Water’s Edge” (Au Bord de l’Eau) and the “Rustic Venus... ...the phase of literature mentioned he would not be distinguished from other writers of the group called “naturalists.” His true glory is in the extraor... ...m and lear, so gorgeous yet so sober, so supple and so firm, he equals the writers of the seventeenth century. His method, so deeply and simply French... ...t brought her a letter from him, which contained the amount of his debt in Italian hundred-lire notes, accompa- nied by a very cool excuse. Wanda was ...

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...ancy I must have been impressed by the écriture artiste which the French writers of the time had not yet entirely aban doned, and unwisely sought t... ...ith water. They were made in five weeks, by the Count von Küffstein and an Italian mystic and rosicrucian, the Abbé Geloni. The bottles were closed wi... ...as burdened with the decadence of Rome and with the passionate vice of the Renaissance; and it was tortured, too, by all the introspec tion of this l...

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... not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed... ...ers. CHAPTER VII “Piacer e popone Vuol la sua stagione.” —Italian Proverb. MR. CASAUBON, as might be expected, spent a great deal of ... ...at one time. To poor Dorothea these severe classical nudities and smirking Renaissance-Correggiosities were pain- fully inexplicable, staring into the... ...r, and bowed his thanks for Mr. Brooke’s invitation. “We will turn over my Italian engravings together,” contin- ued that good-natured man. “I have no... ...would be wounded. Young Mr. Ladislaw was not at all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement is required in order to pity another m... ...lessington and L. E. L.” Rosamond herself was not without relish for these writers, but she did not readily commit herself by admiration, and was aliv... ...n’t want a man—they only want a vote.” “That is the way with you political writers, Ladislaw—cry- ing up a measure as if it were a universal cure, and...

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... not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed ... ...—not to hurt others. Chapter VII. “Piacer e popone Vuol la sua stagione.” —Italian Proverb. M r. Casaubon, as might be expected, spent a great deal of... ...at one time. To poor Dorothea these severe classical nudities and smirking Renaissance Correggiosities were painfully inexplicable, staring into the m... ...r, and bowed his thanks for Mr. Brooke’s invitation. “We will turn over my Italian engravings together,” continued that good natured man. “I have no e... ...would be wounded. Young Mr. Ladislaw was not at all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement is required in order to pity another m... ...’t want a man— they only want a vote.” “That is the way with you political writers, Ladislaw—crying up a measure as if it were a universal cure, and c...

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...hematics, as- tronomy, and like sciences, for several centuries before the Renaissance, was, roughly speaking, all derived from Latin treatises ultima... ...); Selections with introduction and explanatory notes (from Sale and other writers), by J. Murdock (Sacred Books of the East), 2nd ed., 1902; The Reli... ... Ommeyads and Abbâsides. It was under the 5th Caliph, Al-Mâmûn, that three writers (mentioned below) on whom we mainly depend for all really reliable ... ...o died A.H. 124, aged 72; but his works, though abundantly quoted by later writers, are no longer extant. Much of his information was derived from Orw... ...owever, is full of difficulties. The Arabic is a lan- guage in which, like Italian, it is almost impossible not to rhyme.” Pilgr. ii. 78. 31 The Kora...