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111Livy — Titus Livius (traditionally 59 BC ndash; AD 17 [Ronald Syme, following G. M. Hirst, has argued for 64 BC ndash;AD 12] ), known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita , from its founding… …
112Footnote — A footnote (or bootnote [ [http://www.translatebritish.com/dictionary.php British to American Translator] ] ) is a note of text placed at the bottom of a page in a book or document. The note comments on and may cite a reference for part of the… …
113The Battle of the Books — is the name of a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It depicts a literal battle between books in the King s Library (housed in St. James s Palace at the time of the… …
114Lennie Tristano — Leonard Joseph Tristano (19 March1919 18 November1978) was a jazz pianist and composer. He performed in the Cool jazz, bebop, post bop and Avant garde jazz genres. He remains a somewhat overlooked figure in jazz history, but his enormous… …
115Mind-wandering — See also: Daydreaming and Attention Mind wandering (sometimes referred to as task unrelated thought) is the experience of thoughts not remaining on a single topic for a long period of time, particularly when people are not engaged in an… …
116A Memoir of Jane Austen — Victorianized portrait of Jane Austen produced for the Memoir A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which… …
117Peter Bowler — is an Australian lexicographer and author of The Superior Person s Book of Words , The Superior Person s Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words , and The Superior Person s Third Book of Well Bred Words . He specializes in esoteric, arcane,… …
118Hero and Leander (poem) — Hero and Leander is a mythological poem by Christopher Marlowe. After Marlowe s death it was completed by George Chapman. Henry Petowe published an alternate completion to the poem.PublicationTwo editions of the poem were issued in quarto in… …
119Hudibras — is a mock heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler.PurposeThe work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War. The work was written… …
120Filocolo, Il — by Giovanni Boccaccio (ca. 1336) One of BOCCACCIO’s earliest works, composed during the young writer’s first years of independence in Naples between 1336 and 1338, the lengthy prose ROMANCE Il Filocolo (Love’s labor) has been called the… …
