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  • 121strambotto — ▪ verse form plural  strambotti        one of the oldest Italian verse forms, composed of a single stanza of either six or eight hendecasyllabic (11 syllable) lines. Strambotti were particularly popular in Renaissance Sicily and Tuscany, and the… …

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  • 122Giovanni Boccaccio —     Giovanni Boccaccio     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Giovanni Boccaccio     Italian novelist, b. in Paris, 1313; d. in Certaldo, 21 December, 1375. His father, a merchant from Certaldo and a man of some prominence in Florence, had gone into… …

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  • 123eighth — Synonyms and related words: contraoctave, double contraoctave, eightfold, four foot octave, four line octave, great octave, octadic, octagonal, octahedral, octal, octan, octaploid, octastyle, octave, octofid, octonary, octosyllabic, octuple, one… …

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  • 124otto — òt·to agg.num.card.inv., s.m.inv., s.f.pl. FO 1. agg.num.card.inv., che è pari a sette unità più una (nella numerazione araba rappresentato con 8, in quella romana con VIII): lavorare otto ore, camminare per otto chilometri | come componente di… …

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  • 125Ottawa — 1 Original name in latin Ottawa Name in other language Gorad Atava, Otava, Otavo, Otawa, Ottaba, Ottahua, Ottava, Ottavae, Ottawa, YOW, atawa, atoya, attava, awtawa, otava, otawa, ottava, wo tai hua, xxttawa, џAA¬±, Горад Атава, Отава, Оттав… …

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  • 126PROSODY, HEBREW — This article is a survey of the history of Hebrew poetic forms from the Bible to the present time. The entry is arranged according to the following outline: introduction the variety of formal systems the specific nature of hebrew literary history …

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  • 127YIDDISH LITERATURE — This articles is arranged according to the following outline: introduction UNTIL THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY the bible in yiddish literature epic homiletic prose drama liturgy ethical literature Historical Songs and Writings transcriptions of… …

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  • 128Orlando Furioso — For the opera by Vivaldi, see Orlando furioso (Vivaldi). For other uses, see Furioso (disambiguation). Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica by Gustave Doré. Orlando Furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando, more literally Mad Orlando; in Italian furioso is seldom… …

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