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Pliny's Panegyricus model is familiar to the authors of panegyrics 5, 6, 7, [18] 11, and especially 10, in which there are several verbal likenesses. Sallust's Bellum Catilinae is echoed in the panegyrics 10 and 12, and his Jugurthine War in 6, 5, and 12. [19] Livy seems to have been of some use in panegyric 12 [20] and Panegyric 8. [21]
Title page of the Panegyric of Leonardo Loredan (1503), created in honour of Leonardo Loredan, 75th Doge of Venice, now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. A panegyric (US: / ˌ p æ n ɪ ˈ dʒ ɪ r ɪ k / or UK: / ˌ p æ n ɪ ˈ dʒ aɪ r ɪ k /) is a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing. [1]
The Panegyricus Serenissimo Principi Leonardo Lauredano, anglicised as Panegyric to the Most Serene Prince Leonardo Loredan is an early 16th-century manuscript written in Latin in honour of Leonardo Loredan, who reigned as the 75th Doge of Venice from 1501 until his death in 1521.
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Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.
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Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, better known as Sidonius Apollinaris (5 November, [1] c. 430 – 481/490 AD), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop.Born into the Gallo-Roman aristocracy, he was son-in-law to Emperor Avitus and was appointed Urban prefect of Rome by Emperor Anthemius in 468.
The use of religious themes is typical of the heraldic art of Sigismund III's reign. According to S. V. Dumin, the composition, which represents the victory over the forces of evil, was intended to symbolise the return of the city to the Polish-Lithuanian state. This is the first reliably known description of the coat of arms of Smolensk.