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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In general, the beginnings of modern civilization in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; more especially, this commencement as influenced by the revival of interest in classic literature and art.

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  • Though he did not coin it, gotico, like rinascimento Renaissance, was popularised in the mid-16th century by Giorgio Vasari – urbanist, architect and eloquent champion of the classical aesthetic derived from Greece and Rome.

    Gothic buildings: pillars of faith 2011

  • Battista Sforza Montefeltro, una "principessa" nel rinascimento italiano.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • L™etica del rinascimento tra Platone e Aristotele.

    Giacomo Zabarella Mikkeli, Heikki 2005

  • Florence: Istituto nazionale di studi sul rinascimento.

    Francesco Patrizi Purnell, Fred 2004

  • First to inaugurate the revival, or rinascimento, in painting was the Paduan Guardiento (1365), a pupil of Giotto.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Tuscolo (Rome, 1836); GROSSI-GONDI, Le ville tusculane del rinascimento (Rome, 1901); IDEM, Le ville tusculane dell'età classica

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Il Felibrigio, rinascimento delle lettere provenzali, Concordia.

    Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

  • Please kindly register at: www. rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009-registration

    ArchivesBlogs 2009

  • For more information on the Conference and Tutorials: www. rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009

    ArchivesBlogs 2009

  • Song of the Loon was a radical change; set in the American Northwest in the 19th century, it’s a romantic-erotic fantasy of a land populated exclusively by men in which, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor, the men are all handsome, the trappers are literate improvising poetry, dropping foreign words like “rinascimento” and intellectually sophisticated, and the penises are all above average.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Will 2009

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