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For writers and composers, the city of Ferrara was an artistic centre where Bembo met the poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533); later, in the 1497–1504 period, Bembo wrote his first work, Gli Asolani (The People of Asolo, 1505), a poetic dialogue about courtly love, which stylistically resembled the writing styles of the humanists Giovanni ...
Richard Lovelace (/ ˈ l ʌ v l ə s /, homophone of "loveless"; [1] 9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of Charles I during the English Civil War.
A modified version of the prayer appears in the song "Prayer" in the musical Come From Away. [54] Beanie Feldstein sings the prayer in the 2017 movie Lady Bird, set at a Catholic girls' school. [55] A shortened version appears in the HBO show Deadwood, episode 11, season one, and in the Showtime series The Affair, episode 8, season one.
Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo La Casa del Petrarca (birthplace) at Vicolo dell'Orto, 28 in Arezzo. Francis Petrarch (/ ˈ p ɛ t r ɑːr k, ˈ p iː t-/; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Latin: Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Italian: Francesco Petrarca [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the ...
Dante was more aware than most early Italian writers of the variety of Italian dialects and of the need to create a literature and a unified literary language beyond the limits of Latin writing at the time; in that sense, he is a forerunner of the Renaissance, with its effort to create vernacular literature in competition with earlier classical ...
Ronald Norman Miller (October 5, 1932 – July 23, 2007) [1] was an American popular songwriter and record producer who wrote for Motown artists in the 1960s and 1970s and attained many Top 10 hits. Some of his songs, such as " For Once in My Life ", have become pop standards.
Hand and signature of Loys Bourgeois (Genève, 1551) Loys "Louis" Bourgeois (French:; c. 1510 – 1559) was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance.He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century.
In 2009, he wrote Walking the Sacred Path – Spiritual Exercises for Today, 2012, God With Us - A Prayer Book For Advent and Christmas and, 2014, From Ashes To Glory - A Prayer Book For Lent and Easter. With the outbreak of COVID-19, he developed a series of virtual spiritual retreats that gained a worldwide audience.