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The following is a sample from the cento Sacra Aeneis (1618), by Etienne de Pleure, on the adoration of the Magi.The lines of Vergil used, from his Aeneid and Georgics, are indicated on the left (e.g. 6.255 points to book 6, line 255); or, if changed in the middle of a line, an asterisk separates the new quotation with its source indicated on the right.
In September 1919 he gathered together his 'legions' and captured the disputed seaport of Fiume. He held it for over a year and it was he who popularised the black shirts, the balcony speeches, the promulgation of ambitious charters and the entire choreography of street parades and ceremonies. He even planned a march on Rome.
Book of Sketches is a collection of spontaneous prose poetry by the American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, published posthumously in 2006.The poems, written in 1952 and 1953 in a notebook carried in his breast pocket, describe Kerouac's travels through the U.S. states of New York, North Carolina and Kansas, and the cities of San Francisco, California; Denver, Colorado; Mexico City, Mexico ...
The Wars of the City of Paris was written in the 890s. The poem narrates events taking place over an eleven-year period from 885 to 896. It was first composed around 890 and later extended up to 896. The entire poem consists of 1,393 lines in three books: 660 lines in the first book, 618 in the second, and 115 in the third.
Poetical Sketches is the first collection of poetry and prose by William Blake, written between 1769 and 1777. Forty copies were printed in 1783 with the help of Blake's friends, the artist John Flaxman and the Reverend Anthony Stephen Mathew , at the request of his wife Harriet Mathew .
The earliest version of Sketches by Boz was published by John Macrone in two series: the first as a two-volume set in February 1836, just a month before the publication of the first number of The Pickwick Papers (1836–37), and then a "Second Series" in August 1836. After Dickens's fame skyrocketed, he purchased the rights to the material from ...
Michael, who raised the children on his own (Debbie Rowe gave birth to Paris and Prince, an unidentified surrogate had Bigi), died in 2009 of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication. At the ...
Cento may refer to: The Italian word for "hundred", which is used in compound words as a designation for centuries in Italian culture: Duecento (1200s) [13th century] Trecento (1300s) [in English, the 14th century] Quattrocento (1400s) [15th century] Cinquecento (1500s) [16th century] Seicento (1600s) [17th century] Settecento (1700s) [18th ...