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Corinne, or Italy (French: Corinne ou l'Italie), also known as Corinne, is a novel by the Genevan and French writer Germaine de Staël, published in 1807.It relates a love story between an Italian poet, Corinne, and Lord Oswald Nelvil, an English nobleman.
Based on a true story, it tells of the deeds of the Castilian hero and knight in medieval Spain Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar—known as El Cid—and takes place during the eleventh century, an era of conflicts in the Iberian Peninsula between the Kingdom of Castile and various Taifa principalities of Al-Andalus.
The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant. In Don Quixote, there are basically two different types of Castilian: Old Castilian is spoken only by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a contemporary (late 16th century) version of Spanish. The Old Castilian of Don Quixote is a ...
The book opens with a prologue which introduces the characters of the Count and Patronio. The titles in the following list are those given in Keller and Keating's 1977 translation into English. [ 4 ] James York's 1868 translation into English gives a significantly different ordering of the stories and omits the fifty-first.
Old Spanish (roman, romançe, romaz; [3] Spanish: español medieval), also known as Old Castilian or Medieval Spanish, refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance spoken predominantly in Castile and environs during the Middle Ages. The earliest, longest, and most famous literary composition in Old Spanish is the Cantar de mio Cid (c. 1140–1207).
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain.Fighting both with Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid ("the Lord" or "the Master"), which would evolve into El Çid (Spanish: [el ˈθið], Old Spanish: [el ˈts̻id]), and the Spanish honorific El Campeador ("the Champion").
Mostellaria is a play by the Roman author Plautus.Its name translates from Latin as "The Ghost (play)" (with the word fabula understood in the title). [1] [2] The play is believed to be an adaptation of a lost comedy of the Athenian poet Philemon called Phasma (the Ghost). [1]
Germinal is a 1993 French-Belgian epic film based on the 1885 novel by Émile Zola.It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Renaud.At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. [3]