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1521 edition of Convivio, retitled to Lo amoroso Convivio di Dante [1]. Convivio (Italian pronunciation: [koɱˈviːvjo];) ("The Banquet") [2] is an unfinished work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307.
Founded in 1692 by Jesuit priests, it was the center of culture in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Italian Republic. Cicognini National Boarding School remains a cultural and training centre for Italy, with significant influence in Tuscany and the metropolitan area of Prato-Florence-Pistoia.
Buonconvento (from the Latin bonus conventus, "happy place") is mentioned for the first time in 1100.In 1313 the German emperor Henry VII died here.. It was surrounded by a line of walls starting from 1371, carried on by the Republic of Siena to which it belonged until 1559, when it became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Lauro de Bosis was born in 1901. His mother was Lillian Vernon, a New Englander, and his father, Adolfo, a minor poet and editor of the review, Convito. Their home was a type of intellectual salon. His father translated Shelley, while Lauro himself translated tragedies by Aeschylus and Sophocles, and Frazer's Golden Bough. At university he ...
The virgins of the rocks, initially published in installments on the Convito, [2] was to constitute the first book of a cycle (I romanzi del giglio) that D'Annunzio would later give up completing, despite having already sketched the main themes of the other two works he had designed, whose titles should have been: The Grace and The Annunciation ...
View of the Convitto Cutelli from across the piazza. The Palazzo Cutelli is a historic palace, once housing the Collegio Cutelli, now the semiprivate Convitto Cutelli, a boarding school from primary to lyceum grades, located on Via Vittorio Emanuele #56 in central Catania, region of Sicily, Italy.
An insalata caprese, a cold dish which might be consumed at a lunch in Italy during the hot summer. Lunch (pranzo) is generally considered the most important meal of the day. The full version is composed of four courses: [18] [19] a first course (primo), usually a dish based on pasta, risotto, rice, polenta, legumes, or a soup; [20] [21] [22]
Convito musicale nel quale si contengono vari soggetti et capricci a 3-8 voci, cioè madrigali, canzonette, villotte, iustiniane et dialoghi Le veglie di Siena overo i vari umori della musica moderna a 3-6 voci, composte e divise in due piacevole e grave ( 1604 )