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The Decameron (/ d ɪ ˈ k æ m ər ə n /; Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn,-ˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto, ˈprɛn-]) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy "Divine"), is a collection of short stories by ...
Nessun dorma. " Nessun dorma " ( Italian: [nesˌsun ˈdɔrma]; English: " Let no one sleep ") [ 1] is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini 's opera Turandot (text by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni) and one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera. It is sung by Calaf, il principe ignoto (the unknown prince), who falls in love at ...
Krákumál. Krákumál or the Lay of Kraka is a skaldic poem, consisting of a monologue in which Ragnar Lodbrok is dying in Ælla 's snake pit and looks back at a life full of heroic deeds. It was composed in the 12th century, almost certainly in the Scottish islands. [1] It is composed in a kind of háttlausa in 29 stanzas, most of them with ...
1959. " De Brevitate Vitae " ( Latin for "On the Shortness of Life"), more commonly known as " Gaudeamus igitur " ("So Let Us Rejoice") or just "Gaudeamus", is a popular academic commercium song in many European countries, mainly sung or performed at university graduation ceremonies. Despite its use as a formal graduation hymn, it is a jocular ...
Media vita in morte sumus ( Latin for "In the midst of life we are in death") is a Gregorian chant, known by its incipit, written in the form of a response, and known as "Antiphona pro Peccatis" or "de Morte". [ 1] The most accepted source is a New Year's Eve religious service in the 1300s. [ 1] Reference has been made to a source originating ...
Bede's Death Song. Bede's tomb in Durham Cathedral. Bede's Death Song is the editorial name given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede. It is, by far, the Old English poem that survives in the largest number of manuscripts — 35 [1] or 45 [2] (mostly later medieval manuscripts copied on the Continent).
Text and music. Portrait of Friedrich Rückert in 1864 by Bertha Froriep [ de] The original Kindertodtenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833–34 [ 1] in an outpouring of grief following the illness ( scarlet fever) and death of two of his children. Karen Painter describes the poems thus: "Rückert's 428 poems on the ...
Dire Wolf (song) " Dire Wolf " is a ballad by the Grateful Dead, released as the third track on their 1970 album Workingman's Dead. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter after watching a film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. The music, containing elements of country and folk music, was composed by Jerry Garcia on the same day.