Search results for "Italian (language)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • by several figures including the prominent Italian Matteo Ricci, Jesuits once ... calendar accepted in 1582 and the Italian theologian Robert Bellarmine ...
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  • the course of the following century many Italian cities established an Academy ... body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially ...
    16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
  • of the Tristan story in a Slavic language. Lacy (1991), 106-08. ... large parts of the Serbo-Croatian language area, engendering a more ...
    29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
  • Acrobatics was an integral part of the Italian commedia dell'arte of the Renaissance when acrobatic stunts were tests of strength and agility. ...
    10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
  • early sixteenth centuries, represented by the Italian faience called Majolica. "Majolica" derives from Majorca, an early depot for the ...
    10 KB (1,425 words) - 00:28, 25 March 2024
  • First World War in 1915, and served on the Italian Front, where he was hit ... and acclaim and we traveled down the Italian boot until we came to that ...
    21 KB (3,355 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2022
  • to accept Esperanto as their working language. Ten delegates accepted ... to settle the issue. The Council appointed Italian general Enrico Tellini to ...
    54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
  • who taught the boy to speak French and Italian. Swinburne's intimate ... of ancient Greek drama in the English language. The poem rocketed Swinburne ...
    19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
  • mastery of German, French, Latin, and Italian languages. Czech language ... to his rule and satisfied his hunger for Italian and Dutch work, in particular ...
    30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
  • === Race, ancestry, and language === As of 2004, 11.4 percent of the ... 8.42 percent spoke Spanish, followed by Italian, French, and Polish. ...
    36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
  • The modern name Eritrea was first employed by Italian colonialists ... preceded and was partly repulsed by Italian colonialists. In these areas ...
    41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
  • eschewed antiquated "poetic" language in hopes of inventing a ... began to cast off archaic, overtly poetic language and forms in an attempt ...
    34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
  • population by percent, the fourth highest Italian-American population by percent ... The five largest ancestry groups are: Italian (17.9 percent), Irish ...
    34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
  • Pisa, Naples, Reggio, and many other Italian cities. Many Conversos also ... thrown into the prisons of the new Italian Inquisition which he had ...
    22 KB (3,432 words) - 16:11, 6 November 2022
  • but was subsequently occupied by the Italian Army and became a matter ... the respondents' ethnicity, but only language (whether it was "native ...
    23 KB (3,342 words) - 14:59, 2 May 2023
  • of modern life. His experimental use of language and frank exploration of ... and episodic. His experiments with language, use of puns and foreign ...
    32 KB (5,105 words) - 21:18, 20 March 2024
  • Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate ... in Oceania. Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and ...
    28 KB (3,844 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
  • the greatest epic poem in the English language, Paradise Lost (1667). An ... in May of the same year, meeting with the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei ...
    27 KB (4,256 words) - 03:00, 2 May 2024
  • Controversy has arisen surrounding the Greek and Italian governments ... A second demand was delayed by an Italian postal strike. John Paul ...
    17 KB (2,774 words) - 08:23, 13 March 2024
  • taste in clothing. She spoke French, Spanish, and Italian fluently. She had a strong preference for French haute couture clothes designers, but these ...
    21 KB (3,354 words) - 08:15, 18 March 2024

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