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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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