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- 91: Hades
- ... bounded Hades; there were actually five: Styx (River of Oath by which the gods swear), Lethe (River of Forgetfulness), Acheron (River of Woe), Phlegethon (River of Fire), and Cocytus (River of Lament). By the time Dante wrote his Inferno (1307-1321), he placed four of the rivers into his depiction of hell. (http://cgi1.geocities.com/Athens/1044/hades.htm) He is a greedy god who is greatly concerned with increasing ...
- 92: Chaucerian Commentary
- ... were French and Latin examples rather than British works. However it was Chaucer s move to Italy while in service to the British government that brought him in contact with the works of Italian masters, Dante and Boccaccio. It is these two Italian influences, which are most evident in the Canterbury Tales. Although Chaucer never completed his immense plans for the Canterbury Tales, the work illustrates the attitude of the medieval ...
- 93: Essy and Possy
- ... or audience as it may be to different feelings while the passage is being read or spoken. At the start of the speech, words like "divine" are repeated; images of God are juxtaposed with a Dante-esque piece: "...plunged in torment in fire...flames". Other very significant phrases include: "...reasons unknown but time will tell...", "...I resume...", and "...left unfinished...", which, incidentally, ends the speech. Other interesting phrases include "Fartov and ...
- 94: The Country of Italy
- ... of the Sistine Chapel, which was one of his greatest works. Galileo Galilei who was an astrologer made many sky maps, and discovered nebulas and created the theory that the earth rotates around the sun. Dante Alighier who is know for his many great works, and Giacomo Puccini which were the most revered musicians at the time. ITALY IN THE ANCIENT TIMES Ancient Italy was a time of life, death, and ...
- 95: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... old woman's home when neighbors tip off the authorities that she has built an illegal library. The "firemen" squirt their kerosene over the books. Montag later explains to his wife, "We burnt copies of Dante and Swift and Marcus Aurelius." (19) When the "firemen" attempt to drag the old woman from her house, she refuses to cooperate. The woman is too proud to give in to the "firemen" and instead ...
- 96: How Raphael Personifies The Renaissance
- ... workshop in which his masterpieces came to life. The School of Athens and the three companion paintings, illustrate the historical development of theology, poetry, and jurisprudence, constitute a celebration of culture equal in scope to Dante s Paradise and Limbo combined (de Santis, de Vecchi 12). Raphael s later works again focused on the Madonna and Child. Every time the different paintings came into existence, they each held different personalities yet ...
- 97: Allegory
- ... story is that people may pretend the things they cannot have are not worth having. Allegories had their greatest popularity during medieval and Renaissance times in Europe. The Divine Comedy, written by the Italian author Dante Alighieri in the early 1300's, literally tells of a man's journey to heaven through hell and purgatory. Allegorically, the poem describes a Christian soul rising from a state of sin to a state ...
- 98: Nostradamus
- ... is an interesting intellectual exercise, even for skeptics. Some people with adequate grounding in French, Latin, and other languages find Nostradamus to be an interesting diversion. Many people enjoy reading the original words that Caesar, Dante and Chaucer wrote for the same reason. There are also a number of USENET discussion groups that come up with their own interpretations of some of the quatrains, and they try to match them to ...
- 99: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... old woman's home when neighbors tip off the authorities that she has built an illegal library. The "firemen" squirt their kerosene over the books. Montag later explains to his wife, "We burnt copies of Dante and Swift and Marcus Aurelius." (19) When the "firemen" attempt to drag the old woman from her house, she refuses to cooperate. The woman is too proud to give in to the "firemen" and instead ...
- 100: Victorian Literature
- ... to Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), Walter PATER argued that moments of intense sensation are the highest good and that the function of art must be to create such moments. In poetry, Dante Gabriel ROSSETTI and Algernon Charles SWINBURNE expressed their private erotic concerns in terms shocking to the general public. Such preoccupation with sensation led to the literary decadence of the 1890s, epitomized by Oscar WILDE's ...
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