...c. Rhetorica: A summary by T . Hobbes, 1655 (?), new edition, 1759; by the translators of the Art of Thinking, 1686, 1816; by D. M. Crimmin, 1812; J. ... ... king of Ænotria., from whom the people, changing their names, were called Italians instead of AEnotrians, and that part of Eu- rope was called Italy ...

...m in- sensible to all the deep sanctities of beauty that sleep amongst the Italian varieties of the Madonna face), is not without its appropriate trut... ...bility of an effectual searching by very unlearned persons. Our authorized translators of the Bible in the Shakspearian age were not in any exquisite ... ...f the philosophy may be stated. It has been computed (see Duclos) that the Italian opera has not above six hundred words in its whole vocabulary: so n... ...ves, as a private slanderer (diabolos), proceeds, through the intermediate Italian diavolo, our own grotesque vulgar- ism of the devil;* an idea whic... ...solute mastery over certain modern lan- guages, especially the French, the Italian, the modern Greek, and the T urkish.* Not content, however, with th... ..., and printed at Venice in 1815. This work was immediately translated into Italian, by Gherardini, an Italian officer of Milan; and, ten years ago, wi...

... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. Th... ... no wide ranging social movements, such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from ea... ...als, however, blocked their way to China or India. Similarly, Frankish or Italian merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward fro... ...erals such as IX or XVII. Double-entry bookkeeping spurs world trade Italians took Arabic numerals another step forward when they used them to i... ...had peaked near the middle of the fourteenth century just before the first Italian paper mills opened. In the aftermath of the plague‘s killing s... ...ing places for scholars, artists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced learning. ...