Readings in English and American LiteratureF. S. Crofts & Company, 1945 - 687 pages |
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... Italy for the first time in 1372 , when he was sent to Genoa on a com- mission to negotiate about commercial affairs . About 1378 he was in Milan again on official business . Of the three Italian poets Petrarch had in his own day the ...
... Italy for the first time in 1372 , when he was sent to Genoa on a com- mission to negotiate about commercial affairs . About 1378 he was in Milan again on official business . Of the three Italian poets Petrarch had in his own day the ...
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... Italy in 1838 re- vealed to him a country whose cultural history and atmosphere became so great an inspiration for his poems on the Italian Renaissance . The first of these poems , Sordello , is extremely dif- ficult because of its ...
... Italy in 1838 re- vealed to him a country whose cultural history and atmosphere became so great an inspiration for his poems on the Italian Renaissance . The first of these poems , Sordello , is extremely dif- ficult because of its ...
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... Italian belles lettres is not to know Italy , and to know English belles lettres is not to know England . Into knowing Italy and England there comes a great deal more , Galileo and Newton 10 carbonic acid and water , as a man may tell ...
... Italian belles lettres is not to know Italy , and to know English belles lettres is not to know England . Into knowing Italy and England there comes a great deal more , Galileo and Newton 10 carbonic acid and water , as a man may tell ...
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