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sancta simplicitas: holy innocence: Or "sacred simplicity". sancte et sapienter: in a holy and wise way: Also sancte sapienter (holiness, wisdom), motto of several institutions, notably King's College London: sanctum sanctorum: Holy of Holies: referring to a more sacred and/or guarded place, within a lesser guarded, yet also holy location ...
The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when the Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in Milan to document Italian oral culture and traditional music. Today, Italy's folk music is often divided into several spheres of geographic influence, a classification system proposed by Alan Lomax in 1956 and often repeated since.
Their debauchery was adopted by the larger Roman society over time, and the term Osci loqui or Obsci loqui came to mean licentious or lewd language. Another vestige of the Oscans at Rome was the Atellan Farce , also known as the Oscan Games, which were masked improvised farces in Ancient Rome . [ 18 ]
Annalena Altarpiece with predella by Fra Angelico, c. 1438–40 (frame removed), sometimes considered the "first" instance of the sacra conversazione format [1]. In art, a sacra conversazione (Italian: [ˈsaːkra koɱversatˈtsjoːne]; plural: sacre conversazioni), meaning "holy (or sacred) conversation", is a genre developed in Italian Renaissance painting, with a depiction of the Virgin and ...
The original meaning was similar to "the game is afoot", but its modern meaning, like that of the phrase "crossing the Rubicon", denotes passing the point of no return on a momentous decision and entering into a risky endeavor where the outcome is left to chance. alenda lux ubi orta libertas: Let light be nourished where liberty has arisen
O sacrum convivium" is a Latin prose text honoring the Blessed Sacrament. It is included as an antiphon to the Magnificat in the vespers of the liturgical office on the feast of Corpus Christi . The text of the office has been attributed to Saint Thomas Aquinas .
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore, Roman mythology may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period.
The Fama tells the story of the "Father C.R." (later referred to in the text as "C.R.C.") and his ill-fated pilgrimage to Jerusalem; his subsequent tutelage by the secret sages of the East, the wise men of Damcar [citation needed] in Arabia, from whom he learned the ancient esoteric knowledge which included the study of physics, mathematics, magic and kabbalah; his return through Egypt and Fes ...