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Beginning in the 20th century, several historical novels appeared taking as their subject various episodes in Donne's life. His courtship of Anne More is the subject of Elizabeth Gray Vining's Take Heed of Loving Me: A novel about John Donne (1963) [46] and Maeve Haran's The Lady and the Poet (2010). [47]
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; Pages in category "16th-century Italian poets" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. ...
Bernesque poetry is the clearest reflection of that religious and moral scepticism that was a characteristic of Italian social life in the 16th century, and that showed itself in most of the works of that period—a scepticism [117] that stopped the religious Reformation in Italy, and which in its turn was an effect of historical conditions.
1555 – Polydore Vergil (Polydorus Vergilius), Italian scholar (born c. 1470) 1563 John Bale, English historian, controversialist and bishop (born 1495) Martynas Mažvydas, Lithuanian religious writer (born 1510) 1566 – Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (born 1485?) 30 December 1568 – Roger Ascham, English scholar and didact (born 1515)
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John Florio was born in London in 1552 [1] or 1553 [2] [3] [4] but he grew up and lived in continental Europe until the age of 19. The only portrait of Florio we have, the frontispiece to the New World of Words of 1611, presents him as "Italus ore, Anglus pector" [15] ("Italian in mouth, English in chest"); Manfred Pfister [] glosses this as, "in his native language an Italian, in his heart an ...
Canaäd, an epic poem reconstructing Canaanite mythology, set during the Late Bronze Age. Epic of Bamana Segu, oral epic of the Bambara people, composed in the 19th century and recorded in the 20th century; Epic of Darkness, tales and legends of primeval China; Epic of Jangar, poem of the Oirat people
Portrait of Torquato Tasso, 1590s. Torquato Tasso (/ ˈ t æ s oʊ / TASS-oh, also US: / ˈ t ɑː s oʊ / TAH-soh, Italian: [torˈkwaːto ˈtasso]; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end ...