...being is thus pervaded. Thus, the tragic poets of the age of Pericles; the Italian revivers of ancient learning; those mighty intellects of our own co... ...e mighty intellects of our own country that succeeded the Reformation, the translators of the Bible, Shakespeare, Spenser, the Dramatists of the reign... ...eep despondency by the radiant visions disclosed by the sudden burst of an Italian sunrise in autumn on the highest peak of those delightful mountains... ... _585 HELEN: HELEN: HELEN: HELEN: HELEN: Alas! Italian winds are mild, But my bosom is cold—wintry cold— When the warm air... ...oreseeing, With eyes—Oh speak not of her eyes!—which seem T win mirrors of Italian Heaven, yet gleam With such deep meaning, as we never see But in th... ...heerful and pleasant; a vine-trellised walk, a pergola, as it is called in Italian, led from the hall-door to a summer-house at the end of the garden,...

... 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. ...