The use of the printing press ( aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors ; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon ), the development of humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery ( through the wars in Italy and through Henry II ’ s marriage with Catherine de ' Medici ) of the cultivated refinement of the Italian courts ( Baldassare Castiglione ’ s book The Courtier was also particularly important in this respect ) would profoundly modify the French literary landscape and the mental outlook ( or “ mentalité ”) of the period.

Next, Steele turns his attention to the `` Courtier '' he is addressing.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

The Examiner, during Steele's trial a month later, printed an answer from the `` Courtier '' addressed to `` R. S. '' at Button's coffee-house.

Much of Hamlets language is courtly: elaborate, witty discourse, as recommended by Baldassare Castiglione's 1528 etiquette guide, The Courtier.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

The ideal courtier — the chivalrous knight — of Baldassarre Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier became a model of the ideal virtues of nobility.

Baldassare Castiglione, author of Il Cortegiano (" The Courtier "), wrote in 1528: "... Another of the greatest painters in this world looks down on this art in which he is unequalled ..." while the biographer known as " Anonimo Gaddiano " wrote, c. 1540: " His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf ...".

Other characters included Boxers, Chinese Plate Spinners, topical figures, a trick puppet with an extending neck ( the " Courtier ") and a monkey.

It was used only in larger phrases such as smr pr -` 3 ' Courtier of the High House ', with specific reference to the buildings of the court or palace.

The Book of the Courtier () is a courtesy book.

The Book of the Courtier remains the definitive account of Renaissance court life.

The Book of the Courtier was one of the most widely distributed books of the 16th century, with editions printed in six languages and in twenty European centers.

* The Book of the Courtier ( 1959 ), translated by Charles S. Singleton, generally considered the best translation.

* The Book of the Courtier ( 1903 ), English translation by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke.

* The Book of the Courtier ( 1561 ), English translation by Thomas Hoby as edited by Walter Raleigh for David Nutt, Publisher, London, 1900.

* The Book of the Courtier ( 1561 ), Hoby's translation, from Google Books.

Composing Ourselves in Style: The Aesthetics of Literacy in The Courtier.

* Baldassare Castiglione publishes The Book of the Courtier.

Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court by Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528.

Courtier and journalist Dermot Morrah alleged that there was brief speculation as to the desirability of bypassing Albert ( and his children ) and his brother, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in favour of their younger brother Prince George, Duke of Kent.

When Francis comes up in a conversation among characters in Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, it is as the great hope to bring culture to the war-obsessed French nation.

Courtier Lord Hervey called Walpole " the Queen's minister " in recognition of their close relationship.

* The character Pietro Cardinal Bembo also features prominently in Baldassare Castiglione's work The Book of the Courtier where he speaks about the nature of " Platonic " love.

Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet.

The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.

Bede recounts Oswald's generosity to the poor and to strangers, and tells a story highlighting this characteristic: on one occasion, at Easter, Oswald was sitting at dinner with Aidan, and had " a silver dish full of dainties before him ", when a servant, whom Oswald " had appointed to relieve the poor ", came in and told Oswald that a crowd of the poor were in the streets begging alms from the king.

* The Register story: Face recognition useless for crowd surveillance

This book began with a crowd of people trying to keep Americans from seeing " Caligari " because this story of a " madman " didn't serve the purpose of art, morality.

Historian Neville Locker supports this theory, adding that a prior poem had been written about McKeahnie by bush poet Barcroft Boake and that the story had been recounted by a Mrs Hassle to a crowd that included Paterson.

The story of de Torres addressing an Indian crowd, who sometimes smoked tobacco through their noses, in Hebrew after Columbus's first landfall on San Salvador is a product of novelists ' imagination.

In fact, his name was preserved most prominently in a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne titled " My Kinsman, Major Molineux ," set in the 1740s, in which the title character is a victim, not a leader, of a Boston crowd.

Accounts of materialization in Christianity include the biblical story of the multiplication of bread and fish by Jesus to feed a hungry crowd ( John 6: 1-15 & Mark 6: 35-44 ) and Genesis where everything came out of nothing.

The repeated headline " Sixty Lost in Underground Horror ", which makes Doris think of " graveyards, sewers, and flabby-pale, noisome things swarming suddenly out of the tubes themselves, wrapping their arms ( tentacles, maybe ) around the hapless commuters on the platforms, dragging them away to darkness ," evokes the painting " some unknown catacomb through a crack in the floor of the Boston Street subway and attacking a crowd of people on the platform " from Lovecraft's story, " Pickman's Model ".

At the opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Paralympics his story was shown on a huge wraparound screen, before Hansen took the stage and spoke to the crowd.

It was said " that little children delighted to crowd around him and hear from him the wondrous story of our Lord ".

Conversely, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone viewed the film negatively, praising some elements of Branagh's direction while criticizing neglect of the romance, saying, " In his efforts to crowd the screen with character and incident, Branagh cheats on the one element that might have given resonance to the mystery: the love story.

They invite members of the crowd to join them in a story about a boy prince searching for fulfillment (" Magic to Do ").

Writer and historian John D. Lukacs, in a 2009 feature story for ESPN. com, wrote that the crowd was at the time the largest " to witness a southern college football game " and that " Governors from all nine southern states also were in attendance.

In the version of the story told by Ronald Reagan in 1984, the entire crowd left in silence.

It is a story that the crowd loves and they turn against their autocratic leader.

War correspondent Edward Behr recounts the story of a reporter during the Congo Crisis who walked into a crowd of Belgian evacuees and shouted, " Anyone here been raped and speaks English?

Schimmel goes on to relate a story illustrative of such actions: " One of them was hailed by a large crowd when he entered a town ; they tried to accompany the great saint ; but on the road he publicly started urinating in an unlawful way so that all of them left him and no longer believed in his high spiritual rank " ( quoted in Schimmel 86 ).

Bringuier attempted to incite the crowd with his story that Oswald had tried to join his anti-Castro movement and that Oswald was actually a communist and supporter of Castro.

According to one story, walla received its name during the early days of radio, when it was discovered that having several people repeat the sound walla in the background was sufficient to mimic the indistinct chatter of a crowd.

A story in W. Nicholl's History and Traditions of Radcliffe ( 1900 ) tells of a " great crowd " of protesters from Bury who marched on Bealey's Works, demanding that work be halted.

magazine that had been released with Lee's story in it and shouted to the crowd " there's two sides to every story " while Lee stood there and mouthed " Its all true ".

Stampy releases Bart, Milhouse, and Homer, and Krusty is hailed as a hero and his popularity is restored with the town ( though the story of how Krusty saved the kids is relegated to only a paragraph in the local paper while the story of Marge flashing the crowd at the shoe expo received 25 pages with photos ).