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1unsuccessing — † unsucˈcessing, vbl. n. (See unsuccess, quot. a 1586.) …
2Toscanelli, Paolo — (1397 1482) Florentine astronomer, mathe matician, and cartographer, best known in his own time as an out standing mathematician but most famed in modern times because his geographical ideas and his map depicting non European parts of the… …
3Alexander — 1) (80 49 BCE) Son of Aristobulus II, King of Judea. He was taken captive with his father by the Romans in 63 BCE. He later organized unsuc cessful resistance in Judea. 2) (35 7 BCE) Son of Herod the Great. He and his brother… …
4BEAUMONT, Francis — (c. 1585 1616) Francis Beaumont is best known for his partnership with John Fletcher,* chief dramatist, after William Shakespeare s* retirement, to the King s Men. His satiric wit and sensibility differed markedly from Fletcher s, however, and… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
5DELLA PORTA, Giambattista — (1535 1615) One of the most versatile scholars of the Italian Renaissance, Giambattista Della Porta was well known in his day as both a scientist and a playwright. Born into a noble family in Naples, Della Porta received a broad education in… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
6Held, Heinrich — (1868 1938) politician and journalist; Bavaria s* Prime Minister during 1924 1933. Born to a music* director in the Hessen town of Erbach, he grew up in a devoutly Catholic* and anti Prussian home. Intending to become a violinist, he began… …
7Sternheim, Carl — (1878 1942) dramatist; applauded in the Republic s early years for his plays satirizing bourgeois society. Born in Leipzig to a Jewish banker and theater* critic, he grew up in Berlin* and resolved in his teens to become a writer. After broad… …
8chocolate soldier — n a weak, ineffectual or cowardly person. The phrase was at the centre of a court case in February 2002 when the black model Naomi Campbell alleged unsuc cessfully that the Daily Mirror had used it in a racist slur against her. In fact the… …
