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Brewer's: Morgante Maggiore
A serio-comic romance in verse, by Pulci, of Florence (1494). He was the inventor of this species of poetry, called by the Frenchbernesque, from Berni, who greatly excelled in it.…Comediennes
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The legends and foibles of the Winter Olympics Alpine and Nordic Skiing An Avalanche Named Killy A controversial sweep in alpine skiing Franz Klammer The man who gave himself "…All-Time Top 25 Most Popular Commemorative Stamps
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Boswell: James Boswell (1740–95) is best known for his 1791 book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., considered by many to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. His name is…Brewer's: Belinda
The heroine of Pope's serio-comical poem, entitled the Rape of the Lock. The poem is based on a real incident:- Lord Petre cut off a lock of Miss Fermor's hair, and this liberty gave rise…Brewer's: Lazarillo de Tormes
(1553). A comic romance, something in the Gil Blas style, the object being to satirise all classes of society. Lazarillo, a light, jovial, audacious man-servant, sees his masters in their…Brewer's: Jig
from gigue. A short piece of music much in vogue in olden times, of a very lively character, either six-eight or twelve-eight time, and used for dance-tunes. It consists of two parts,…Brewer's: Aristotelian Unities
Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, laid it down as a rule that every tragedy, properly constructed, should contain but one catastrophe; should be limited to one denoument; and be…Brewer's: Nude
Rabelais wittily says that a person without clothing is dressed in “grey and cold” of a comical cut, being “nothing before, nothing behind, and sleeves of the same.” King Shrovetide,…Trending
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