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
- in many Romance languages, such as French (phare), Italian (faro), Portuguese (farol), Spanish (faro), Romanian (far), and Greek (φάρος). ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- of music was generally called a Serenata (Italian—since it occurred most ... who wrote one for string quartet (the Italian Serenade). Other composers ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
- University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di ... * Centro Ricerche Aerospaziali, responsible for the Italian rocket ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- mermaid in Spanish, Siren, French, Sirène, Italian, Sirena, Polish, Syrena, and Portuguese, Sereia, show the connection between the Siren and mermaids ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- of the Holy See that are located in Italian territory, most notably ... Papal States, ruled a large portion of the Italian peninsula for more than ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- 13, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet best known for his ... to be appreciated so long as the Italian language lasts. ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- The piccolo (Italian for 'small') url= http://www.merriam ... ), by which the instrument is called in Italian url= https://web.library ...12 KB (1,743 words) - 20:24, 26 December 2023
- humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance, an astrologer ... Medici. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Italian humanist philosopher and ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- in Spanish and as Giuseppe Ribera in Italian. He was also called by his ... were Spanish influenced in content and Italian inspired in technique. He ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian ... of the most lyrical poetry in the Italian language. During the course of ...15 KB (2,382 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- however, that a full understanding of Italian opera was essential for ... earlier Feldlager in Schlesien, revised in Italian, London, Covent Garden, ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- Giulio Pomponio Leto, (1425 - 1498) was an Italian humanist, archaeologist ... Laetus is one of the best representatives of Italian humanism, the ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar and poet, most famous ... #039;s expectation with a sudden shift (in Italian, the "volta") ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- focused on modern languages, including (French, Italian and English). Nevertheless, Büchner studied medicine in Strasbourg. In 1828 he became ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- maiden in the tower are described in quite bawdy language. ... Italo Calvino included in his Italian Folktales a similar tale of ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 00:39, 8 December 2022
- century only briefly succumbing to Italian occupation from 1935 until ... In 1935 Italian soldiers commanded by Marshal Emilio De Bono invaded ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- who did the fourth book. Translations appeared in Italian (Venice, 1488; Milan 1489), Spanish (Seville, 1536), Arabic (Rome, 1663), Armenian (Rome, 1674 ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- 9, 1879 – Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, ... Gregorian Chant into the compositional language (e.g., Pini di Roma, Vetrate ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- Dr. John Willinsky in the Department of Language and Literacy EducationThe ... with Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian ...14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
- Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, ... a collection of short stories in radiant language about the peasant life of ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- Commedia dell'Arte (Italian: "The art of comedy") is ... Commedia dell'arte appeal to the masses, without regard for language ...16 KB (2,341 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- A dictionary is basically a list words in a specific language, with ... a valuable source of information about a language, allowing members of the ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- The Codex was originally solely pictorial in nature. Nahuatl language ... European paper, with drawings and Spanish language text on both sides of each page. ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- (fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and of course ... Tyndale introduced new words into the English language: ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- (December 11, 1712–3 May, 1764) was an Italian philosopher and art critic ... themes and a series of treatises on language (Sopra la necessità di ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- but also, often of the English language itself. Chaucer's writings ... Chaucer came into contact with medieval Italian poetry, the forms and stories ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- Unlike most other countries, the Guaraní language is still spoken by 90 percent ... === Language === Rioplatense Spanish or River Plate Spanish (in Spanish ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- Arabic, and the Ancient Egyptian writing language of hieroglyphs. The coins ... The museum became an experiment of the Italian government in privatization ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- highlands, Italy occupied Asmara in 1889. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ... Asmera, which means, in the Tigrinya language, the four united, was adopted ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
- Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 – 1342) was an Italian medieval scholar, physician, philosopher, and political ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
