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Eiichiro Oda (Japanese: 尾田 栄一郎, Hepburn: Oda Eiichirō, born January 1, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece.With more than 516.6 million tankōbon copies in circulation worldwide, One Piece is both the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume, in turn making Oda one of the best-selling fiction authors.
Portrait by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450. The details of Boccaccio's birth are uncertain. He was born in Florence or in a village near Certaldo where his family was from. [5] [6] He was the son of Florentine merchant Boccaccino di Chellino and an unknown woman; he was likely born out of wedlock. [7]
One Thousand and One Nights influenced The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, by Jan Potocki. A Polish noble of the late 18th century, he travelled the Orient looking for an original edition of The Nights, but never found it. Upon returning to Europe, he wrote his masterpiece, a multi-levelled frame tale.
Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]
Renaissance literature writers (c.14th−16th centuries) — active during the Renaissance period in Europe. See also the preceding Category:Medieval writers and the succeeding Category:Baroque writers
A group of Romantic poets from the English Lake District who wrote about nature and the sublime [37] William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey: Pre-Raphaelites: Founded in 1848, primarily English movement based ostensibly on undoing innovations by the painter Raphael. Many were both painters and poets [38]
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Scotsman George Buchanan (1506–1582) was the Renaissance writer from Britain (and Ireland) who had the greatest international reputation, being considered the finest Latin poet since classical times. [29] As he wrote mostly in Latin, his works travelled across Europe as did he himself.