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Examples
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His work reflects the typical Italian "grandezza" and draws from those images (like the neo-classicistic ornaments in his prints), pushing them to the limits.
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Gregorio Barbarigo studiò e vide tutto con grandezza di proporzioni.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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I sadly have to agree about the ill-advised appearance of Mme Steber at the Continental Baths; Mr Delos is quite right -- the comments are terrible, her faux grandezza just so vulgar etc.
Salvati dunque e scolpati Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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In this instance, however, art becomes the vehicle for imperial grandezza, passing the torch of empire from one nation to the next, thus quickening the birth of another great civilization.
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006
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By meditating upon the nation's ruins, the narrator is able to precipitate a spell of imaginative reconstruction whereby imperial Athens is delivered from decay and presented at the height of its grandezza.
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006
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In this sense, our restless Romantic enthusiast is also an imperialist agent, culturally expropriating Grecian territory and artifacts based on a presumed commonality of sensibility and shared historical experience of imperial and civilizational grandezza.
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006
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Discorsi, where he too remarks on the dilemma of sustaining liberty or pursuing imperial greatness or grandezza.
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006
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Mi sembrano ben rappresentativi della grandezza tipica delle cose qui, tutto e' fin troppo enorme.
All set! Ra 2008
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To paraphrase, better that Britain, heir to the legacy of imperial and civilizational grandezza, recover these fragments than that they be lost to the ignorance and obscurity of an orientalized and debased "second race" whose only claim to them is that they happen to be squatting upon the lands once occupied by a "nobler race" of antique Greeks.
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006
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In Modern Greece, one finds a peculiar sentimentalism towards the quest for imperial grandezza.
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006
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