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This is one of the type known as the Macaronic carols in which there are occasional lines of Latin interspersed.
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[102] The correct opposition of this term (Latin or Greek words vernacularised) to "Macaronic" (vernacular words turned into Latin or
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Yet first I must call for your aid, oh Muses, you who ladle out the Macaronic arts.
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Folengi, who published a collection of Latin Macaronic verses, under the fictitious name of Merlinus Coccaius, has given, in strange and almost unintelligible language, a singular picture of his incantations.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831 Various
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The _Journal of Education_ commends this ingenious poem, written in seven languages -- English, French, German, Greek, Latin, Spanish, and Italian -- as one of the best specimens of Macaronic verse in existence, and worthy of preservation by all collectors.
A Handbook for Latin Clubs Susan Paxson
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Italian, and Macaronic speech, sets forth allegorically the anthor's own previous heretical leanings and finally states his confession of faith and the "Moschaea", which in three books of Macaronic distichs relates, somewhat after the fashion of the "Batrachiomachia" as well as of the chivalrous romances, the victory of the ants over the flies, and preludes the Italian mock-heroic poem of the seventeenth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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He has been fathered upon the Cingar of Folengo, which is too much of a compliment to that creation of the great Macaronic, and
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Macaronic called _Polemo-Middinia_, which is perhaps not his.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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May I here venture to mention that he always declared that my later poem of "Breitmann and the Pope" was the best Macaronic poem which he had ever read?
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Macaronic style, a ludicrous mixture of Latin and Italian, introduced by
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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