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"I have taken care of everything in life, only not for death—and now I have to die completely unprepared." [76] — Cesare Borgia, Italian politician and condottiero (12 March 1507) "We heartily desire our executors to consider how behoofful it is to be prayed for." [17] — Henry VII of England (21 April 1509) "I believe." [8]
The lyrics often looked at life as a necessary and God-given vale of tears with death as a ransom, and they reminded people to lead sinless lives to stand a chance at Judgment Day. The following two Latin stanzas (with their English translations) are typical of memento mori in medieval music; they are from the virelai Ad Mortem Festinamus of ...
The Decameron (/ d ɪ ˈ k æ m ər ə n /; Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn,-ˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto, ˈprɛn-]) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy "Divine"), is a collection of short stories by ...
Cesare Pavese (UK: / p æ ˈ v eɪ z eɪ,-z i / pav-AY-zay, -zee, [1] Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare paˈveːse, ˈtʃɛː-,-eːze]; 9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time.
He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and in its political life from 1914 to 1924. He was often referred to by the epithets il Vate ("the Poet"; the Italian vate directly stems from Latin vates, and its meaning is a poet with special emphasis on prophetic, inspiring, or divining qualities) and il Profeta ("the ...
Italo Calvino (/ k æ l ˈ v iː n oʊ /, [1] [2] also US: / k ɑː l ˈ-/, [3] Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; [4] 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible ...
A fragmentary biography of the marchesa by Pellico was published in Italian and English after her death. [1] He died in 1854 at Turin. He was buried in the Camposanto, Turin. The late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing read the work, in Italian, whilst staying in Naples in November 1888. [2]
Madrigal (Italian: madrigale) is the name of a form of poetry, the exact nature of which has never been decided in English. [1] Definition and Characteristics. The New English Dictionary defines a madrigal as "a short lyrical poem of amatory character," but this definition is broad and not entirely accurate. Madrigals can be long, and often ...