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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
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition [http://dictionary ... can be exchanged for another foreign language (such as Spanish, Italian ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- of American slavery and the state of Italian politics—and one of Browning ... owed her profound knowledge of the Greek language and much mental stimulus ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- Niphus also spelled Nyphus, was an Italian philosopher and commentator ... *Mahoney, Edward P. 2000. Two Aristotelians of the Italian Renaissance: ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 June 2023
- Madonna is a medieval Italian term for a noble or otherwise important ... to offer blessing. In a fifteenth century Italian variation, a baby John the ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- Pontifical Gregorian University (Italian: Pontificia Università Gregoriana ... the new Kingdom of Italy in 1870, the new Italian government confiscated the ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 16:14, 17 January 2014
- The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance ... The word renaissance in French, (rinascimento in Italian) literally ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- to be the father of the modern Italian language itself. This may be ... purpose, he established that the Italian language was suitable for the ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 22:11, 25 January 2024
- painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. ... The portrait's Italian (La Gioconda) and French (La Joconde) ...18 KB (2,836 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- Many Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of their ... of Angelo Noce, a first generation Italian, in Denver. The first statewide ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth ... * The Italian Girl (1964) * The Red and the Green (1965) ...8 KB (1,094 words) - 13:15, 6 March 2024
- from many of the innovations of the Italian masters such as Petrarch ... that he came into contact with the Italian and French poetry that would ...9 KB (1,558 words) - 22:57, 30 April 2023
- organize and raise the struggle against the Italian occupying force, which on July 12, 1941, proclaimed the fascist puppet entity, the "Independent ...13 KB (1,947 words) - 20:29, 5 January 2024
- the same word is found in Arabic as awar, in Italian as avaria, and in French as avarie. An "average adjuster" is a person who assesses ...14 KB (2,265 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- experience. It also elevated folk art, language and custom, as well as arguing ... Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language, written in the musical ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian ... traditionally one of the most leftist of Italian cities. He was the son of ...27 KB (4,092 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
- House at Covent Garden, where many of his Italian operas premiered. Handel ... After his death, Handel's Italian operas fell into obscurity ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
- of the Venetian school, and to writing on Italian art. On this subject he ... in which he presented in simple layman language the results of his archaeological ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- tactic is work-to-rule (also known as an "Italian strike," in Italian Sciopero bianco), in which workers perform their tasks exactly as they ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 20:58, 26 February 2023
- 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, poet, linguist, ... the finest education then available to an Italian nobleman. From around 1414 ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- teaching his students (initial from a 1385 Italian manuscript of the Consolation ... and Provencal popular poetry, in early Italian poetry, and in Dante Alighieri’s ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- | language = Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | registration = Optional ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- of work at the Venice Biennale now covers Italian and international art, architecture ... During the 1930s, the government and Italian citizens were heavily ...27 KB (3,956 words) - 16:58, 3 May 2023
- 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007) was an Italian modernist film director ... ===English-language films=== Antonioni then signed a deal with producer ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 17:12, 9 November 2022
- Tuscany is known as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, and is best ... Alighieri ("the father of the Italian language"), Leonardo da ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- The kingdom of Aksum had its own written language called Ge'ez ... 36 meters deep, 170 tonnes) looted by the Italian army was returned to Ethiopia ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- is both very European and typical for the Italian Peninsula, and yet helps ... wish to be left out of Garibaldi's Italian unification in the mid-nineteenth ...26 KB (3,871 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- with letters carved into them. In 1547, an Italian doctor named Girolamo Cardano ... an exception to this pattern. The French language did not make use of the ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- The latter half of the fifteenth century saw the seat of the Italian ... Rome became the focus of hopes of Italian reunification when the rest ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... on the status and ideal form of the Italian language, initiated by Dante ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- Italy. However, the ancient Ligurian language, which was apparently not ... the majority of the population was of Italian descent; many of them supported ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Italian language stems from the Florentine ... it is considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo da ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:40, 28 March 2024
- took place, the word was assimilated into Italian as bazzara, before being transferred to English in its current form, bazaar.[http://dictionary ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- of scenes. A number of bronze doors of Italian baptisteries show illustrations ... quot;low relief" but derived from the Italian basso rilievo) is a form ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- Milan one of the leading cities of the Italian Renaissance. ... Milanese-influenced regional variety of the Italian language. ...27 KB (3,967 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- may have evolved into Linear B, a written language that replaced Linear A around ... of ancient Greek. Linear A represents the language of the Minoan people before ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- as Petrus de Apono or Aponensis, was an Italian physician, philosopher, ... in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- replaced with the umbraculum or ombrellino in Italian. This symbolizes both the lack of a Pope and also the governance of the Camerlengo over the temporalities ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- Catania, Messina, Syracuse (Siracusa in Italian), Trapani, Enna, Caltanissetta ... B.C.E. Sicily became Rome's first non-Italian province. ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- are sometimes referred to by the Italian word, maestro ("master ... that singers might use rubato (from the Italian for "stealing time ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- Italian Fascism (in Italian, fascismo) was the authoritarian political ... quot; was not sufficiently embedded in the Italian ethos, or valued as a symbol ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- Rome's first province outside of the Italian peninsula. Finley, Smith ... new Ostrogoth king Totila, drove down the Italian peninsula, plundering and ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- Hebrew word is the French calotte and the Italian calotta, both meaning an ... The zucchetto (Italian for "small gourd") of the Roman Catholic ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- John of Montecorvino, or Giovanni Da/di Montecorvino in Italian, also ... he familiarized himself with the native language, preached in it, and translated ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- Pizza is a dish of Italian origin, made with an oven-baked, flat, ... was a pizza evoking the colors of the Italian flag—green (basil leaves ...33 KB (5,022 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian ... which threatened Laura, who was an Italian of the Jewish faith. ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- considered shocking, the playful use of language belies an almost modern ... was the question of the origin of language. What was the first language ...11 KB (1,822 words) - 09:39, 11 April 2024
- a popular courtly entertainment during the Italian Renaissance, a serious dramatic ... to speak universally across boundaries of language and culture. ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- Guanciale is another kind of unsmoked Italian bacon prepared from pig's jowl or cheeks. The name is derived from guancia, Italian for cheek ...17 KB (2,674 words) - 05:35, 26 August 2023
- development, and one of the first Italian rail tracks, Padua-Venice ... Padua became the command center of the Italian Army. The king, Vittorio ...25 KB (3,594 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- as a translator of French, German, and Italian books. At the age of twenty ... Füssli to Fuseli, because it was more Italian-sounding. He still was inclined ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
