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Bella Figura is a contemporary ballet choreographed by Jiří Kylián to music by Lukas Foss, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Alessandro Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi and Giuseppe Torelli. The ballet was made for the Nederlands Dans Theater , and premiered on 12 October 1995, at AT&T Danstheater [ nl ] , The Hague.
Figura may refer to: Bella Figura, one act ballet by Jiří Kylián; Fgura, town in the south of Malta; Figura etymologica, rhetorical figure; Figura Serpentinata, style in painting and sculpture; Oliva figura, species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae (olives) translation of figure in some languages
She founded and edited the journal la bella figura, which promoted the work of Italian-Americans. After a brief but successful run, she folded the journal when she decided to live in Italy. Before leaving the United States, she edited an anthology of poems that had appeared in the journal.
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The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), first published by Longman in 1978, [1] is an advanced learner's dictionary, providing definitions using a restricted vocabulary, helping non-native English speakers understand meanings easily. It is available in four configurations:
All are ultimately derived from the Hebrew Elisheba, meaning God is my oath. Isabella has been in wide use in the Anglosphere since the 1700s and has been a popular name in recent years. [1] It is particularly well used for Hispanic girls in the United States. [2] A common diminutive form is Bella. [3] It may refer to:
Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men"). During the Renaissance, scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech.
Publius Cornelius Dolabella (c. 85/69 – 43 BC, also known by his adoptive name Lentulus) [5] was a Roman politician and general under the dictator Julius Caesar.He was by far the most important of the patrician Cornelii Dolabellae [6] but he arranged for himself to be adopted into the plebeian Cornelii Lentuli so that he could become a plebeian tribune. [7]