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Brutal Reasoning by Erica Fudge
epub |eng | 2019-01-04 | Author:Erica Fudge

This cannot be simply understood as instigation to a sporting contest. Rather, there are, I think, three possible readings to be made. First, that the royal party merely wanted to ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2020 )
Stung With Love by Sappho
epub |eng | 2009-07-04 | Author:Sappho [Sappho]

Since I have cast my lot, please, golden-crowned Aphrodite, let me win this round! This song breaks down into the tripartite structure of a kletic hymn (see Introduction, p. xxvi). ...
( Category: Renaissance April 5,2020 )
The Definitive Shakespeare Companion by Joseph Rosenblum
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Rosenblum

EXCERPTS FROM LITERARY SOURCES Anonymous. The History of Titus Andronicus, The Renowned Roman General (ca. 1736–1764) As explained above, this possible source, first discovered in an anonymously authored chapbook in ...
( Category: Renaissance April 2,2020 )
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Ian Caldwell [Caldwell, Ian]

Paul falls asleep quickly, to judge from his breathing. I wish I could do the same, but my mind is too crowded for that. I wonder what my father would’ve ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense April 1,2020 )
The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Katy Simpson Smith

Aldo the lab assistant was eating a bag of chips in the corner. He’d been helping with the mammalian subjects, i ratti, but was weak-stomached; they shifted him to the ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 30,2020 )
Fables of Power: Aesopian Writing and Political History (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Annabel Patterson
epub |eng | 1991-03-25 | Author:Annabel Patterson [Patterson, Annabel]

This wealthy grove, the Royall Cedar grac’d, Whose head was fix’d among the wandring stars, Above loud Meteors and the elements Wars, His root in th’Adamantine Center fast; This all ...
( Category: Renaissance March 28,2020 )
Shakespeare and the Countess by Chris Laoutaris
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Chris Laoutaris

19. In the Name of Love In 1596–7 the Cecils and William Brooke, as representatives of the Privy Council, had come to believe that in seditious hands the theatres could ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2020 )
Recipes for Thought by Wall Wendy
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Wall, Wendy

’Tis the Season Shakespeare’s early seventeenth-century play All’s Well That Ends Well, begins with two powerful men dead and a king gravely ill. In the opening scene, the Countess of ...
( Category: Renaissance March 23,2020 )
Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print by van Orden Kate
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:van Orden, Kate

TABLE 5. Interlocking Textual and Tonal Cycles in Anthoine de Bertrand’s Premier livre des Amours Pinning down the exact nature of Bertrand’s affective scheme is difficult, but at the very ...
( Category: Renaissance March 23,2020 )
Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy by Rebecca Cypess
epub |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Rebecca Cypess [Cypess, Rebecca]

Galileo, Bellarmino, and the Uses of Augustine It was not until the 1660s that Christiaan Huygens, son of the diplomat and amateur musician Constantijn Huygens, developed a portable watch with ...
( Category: Renaissance March 22,2020 )
The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions by Conybeare Catherine;
epub |eng | | Author:Conybeare, Catherine;

But the thought behind this was thorough, and it convinced Augustine for a long time. Although Manicheans believed in a wholly material world of good and bad substances – the ...
( Category: Renaissance March 22,2020 )
The Complete Poetry by George Herbert
epub |eng | 2015-03-22 | Author:George Herbert

DACTYLIC HEXAMETER The hexameter line is the metrical form used in both Greek and Latin epic poems, but also in other long and medium-length forms such as didactic and pastoral. ...
( Category: Renaissance March 22,2020 )
The Philosophy of Literature by Verene Donald Phillip;
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Verene, Donald Phillip; [Verene, Donald Phillip]

50. Throughout this chapter, citations to Finnegans Wake are given in the text, indicating page number and line to the 1939 first edition and its reprintings. Readers may also wish ...
( Category: Renaissance March 22,2020 )
Galileo Galilei, The Tuscan Artist by Pietro Greco
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Pietro Greco

There are a number of writers who praise the instrument which enabled Galileo to watch the sky and discover phenomena which would have otherwise remained “hidden and invisible”. As Andrea ...
( Category: Renaissance March 21,2020 )
A Summer with Montaigne by Antoine Compagnon
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Antoine Compagnon

21 THE SKIN AND THE SHIRT Montaigne was a political man, an involved and engaged man, as I have said. However, he was always careful not to get too caught ...
( Category: Renaissance March 21,2020 )

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