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De vita solitaria ("Of Solitary Life" or "On the Solitary Life"; translated as The Life of Solitude) is a philosophical treatise composed in Latin and written between 1346 and 1356 (mainly in Lent of 1346) by Italian Renaissance humanist Petrarch. It constitutes an apology of solitude dedicated to his friend Philippe de Cabassoles. [1] [2]
In 1346, Petrarch declared in his De vita solitaria that Celestine's refusal was a virtuous example of solitary life. [34] Pope Celestine V is referenced in Chapter 88 of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, where he is controversially referenced as an example of a murdered pope. Brown writes that an X-ray of his tomb "revealed a ten-inch nail driven ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) $11.32 at amazon.com A decade of war passes and peace is finally brought back to Macondo under the rule of General José Raquel ...
Solitude traces the rise and fall of a family, a house, a town—and, in its most conspicuous layer of symbolism, a civilization—over the course of, yes, 100 years.In the early 19th century ...
The Solitude of Latin America" (Spanish: La Soledad de América Latina) is the title of the speech given by Gabriel García Márquez on 8 December 1982 upon being awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] The Nobel Prize was presented to García Márquez by Professor Lars Gyllensten of the Swedish Academy. [2]
That was the task facing the production team of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (or “Cien Años de Soledad”), the long-awaited Netflix adaptation of a novel widely lauded as being among ...
First page of the De vita from a 15th-century illuminated manuscript from Milan. De vita et moribus philosophorum ('Lives and Manners of the Philosophers') [1] is an anonymous Latin biographical dictionary of 132 ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and other luminaries from Thales of Miletus in the 6th century BC to Priscian in the 6th century AD. [2]
Get ready to meet seven generations of the Buendía family in Macondo as Netflix releases its first-look at the first-ever adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's award-winning tale, One Hundred ...