Search results for "Italian (language)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of European literature. First invented by Italian poets in the thirteenth ... ==The Italian sonnet== The Italian (sometimes called "Petrarchan ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- hence the name "octave," from Italian for eight. In the chromatic ... written." 8va stands for ottava, the Italian word for octave. Sometimes ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- had ruled did fall to Italy, becoming Italian East Africa. After 1935 ... of Wuchale did not say the same thing in Italian and Amharic. The former ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- the translation of the Old Persian language. Grotefend succeeded in ... He continued his career mostly working on Latin and Italian language ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- or more voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins ... Transalpina in 1588, a collection of Italian madrigals with translated ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- determine the philosophic direction of the Italian Renaissance. In 1438 he ... and gave classes about Plato to interested Italian scholars. His work reawakened ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 06:39, 18 April 2024
- A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English language poetry ... The French word villanelle comes from the Italian word villanella, which derives ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time," from ... The plural of tempo in Italian is tempi. Some writers employ this ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian ... di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, an Italian banker and politician, and ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- March 10, 1749 – August 17, 1838) was an Italian librettist and poet born ... languages, including French, German, and Italian. While in Vienna, he also ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including ... '-mente' (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian) or '-ment' (French ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 23:31, 17 December 2022
- considered an indispensable ingredient in Italian and Greek cuisine. It serves ... is particularly widely used in Greek and Italian cuisines. Rogers (2004b ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255 – 1300) was an Italian poet who was one ... to change the very shape of the Italian language which, after Dante and ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
- Francesco Filelfo (July 25, 1398 - July 31, 1481), was an Italian ... Latin, and carried out the duties of an Italian scholar, writing political ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- comparé, German: Rechtsvergleichung, Italian: diritto comparato, Spanish: ... instance, the antithesis between (say) the Italian and the American Law, and ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical ... His father was headmaster of an Italian-language school—the only one ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- word “novella” is derived from the Italian word “novella” (plural: ... In the English language, the earliest well-known example of novella ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- Flower," the translation of his Italian first name, Fiorello, also ... York City to a non-traditional parents of Italian decent. His father, Achille ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian ... In September 1943, after the Italian government under Marshal Pietro ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- and, at times, baffling poetry in the English language. ... Rossetti was born the son of an emigrated Italian scholar named Gabriele ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 22:13, 25 January 2024
