He visited Constantinople in 1611 to 1612 before moving to Italy, where he lived from 1613 to 1627. He was mostly in Rome where the Baroque style was emerging during these years. The use of dramatic contrasts of light and shade seen in such early works as his 'Two Lovers' indicates that he began in Rome as a follower of Caravaggio. Even though he was successful in Rome he returned to France in 1627. His new style was without any doubt Italian, it showed an individual talent and a profound study of Italian painters.
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature,[1] and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. [2] The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. [3] It is divided into three parts, the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
When English sonnets were introduced by Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century, his sonnets and those of his contemporary the Earl of Surrey were chiefly translations from the Italian of Petrarch and the French of Ronsard and others. While Wyatt introduced the sonnet into English, it was Surrey who gave it a rhyming meter, and a structural division into quatrains of a kind that now characterizes the typical English sonnet. Having previously circulated in manuscripts only, both poets' sonnets were first published in Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonnetts, better known as Tottel's Miscellany (1557). It was, however, Sir Philip Sidney's sequence Astrophel and Stella (1591) that started the English vogue for sonnet sequences: the next two decades saw sonnet sequences by William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, Fulke Greville, William Drummond of Hawthornden, and many others. This literature is often attributed
Certain late-medieval Italian sculptors including Nicola Pissano and his son Giovanni Pissano also seemed to have left an impression on him. They were the chief intermediaries through whom Giotto first came in contact with the world of Northern Gothic art, which remains one of the most important of all the elements that entered into Giotto’s style. (Janson &
In contrast, ‘Sonnet 43’ is set out like a typical Shakespearean sonnet, 14 lines in a metre called ‘iambic pentameter’ which is when the first syllable is unstressed, followed by a stressed syllable, this pattern repeated five times making up the line. A sonnet comes from the italian word sonetto meaning ‘little song’, reinforcing the light-hearted feel of the poem. Both poems share the strong theme of love and admiration. In ‘To His Coy Mistress’, the persona uses comparisons and extremes to show the extent of his admiration for his ‘coy mistress’. By comparing his lover to the ‘Indian Ganges’, and himself to the ‘Humber’, a considerably less desirable river, he attempts to win her over with flattery, creating an entertaining image for the reader.
He was for many years an official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is renowned in the Italian language. He was secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. He wrote his most renowned work The Prince in 1513 after the Medici had recovered power and he no longer held a position of responsibility in Florence.
Maureen Murray Hist 306 April 18, 2011 Catullus: One of the first great Roman poets Of all the influential poets of the Ancient Rome, Catullus changed the way poetry was thought of and written. He brought the quality of Hellenistic poems to Rome and gave the writing style and quality a breath of fresh air. Of course, at the time he had his critics, but now he is considered one of the best known poets of ancient Rome. This is due in part because of his attitude about writing, which was that of poetry and the written word were better than reality. Catullus was born in 84 BC in Verona, Italy.
While Shakespeare in Love was released in 1998, directed by John Madden. Although it’s not the complete adaptation of the original play, the movie is basically about the fictional Shakespeare’s love affair that inspired him to put the ideas in his play Romeo & Juliet. In Shakespeare in Love, there’s a scene where Shakespeare fell in love with the daughter of a wealthy trader, Viola de Lesseps, when he unexpectedly saw her for the first time at a dance. This really connects well to Romeo & Juliet, because in the original play, Romeo Montague was spying at a Capulet family’s dance when he accidentally saw Juliet. In both movies, the main protagonists have affection to each other in a situation where everything isn’t there to support and agree with them.
"Throughout all of the vicissitudes and convulsions of twentieth-century political life, Pareto remains "a scholar of universal reputation." Pareto is additionally important for us today because he is a towering figure in one of Europe's most distinguished, and yet widely suppressed, intellectual currents. A better understanding of the post modern society through Life, Work and Contributions of Pareto Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was born in Paris in 1848.4 in the year of people's revolutions of mixed Italian-French ancestry aristocratic family; he was the only son of the Marquis Raffaele Pareto, an Italian exiled from his native Genoa because of his political views, and Marie Mattenier. Pareto was reared in a middle-class
Italy was the birthplace of opera and for generations the language of opera was Italian, irrespective of the nationality of the composer. Popular tastes in drama