Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

Category: 17th-century Italian people

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1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French name.

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

Category: 17th-century Italian people

A 17th-century Italian map showing a large " Kingdom of Barantola or Boutan " bordering on Nepal and Tibet, as well as, surprisingly, Yunnan, Sichuan, and the Western Xia | Kingdom of Tanguts

The word was adapted from Italian minuetto and French menuet, and may have been from French menu meaning slender, small, referring to the very small steps, or from the early 17th-century popular group dances called branle à mener or amener.

Pierrot () is a stock character of pantomime and Commedia dell ' Arte whose origins are in the late 17th-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne ; the name is a hypocorism of Pierre ( Peter ), via the suffix-ot.

Category: 17th-century Italian people

In addition, the text uses a Latin form of Leif Ericson's name (" Erissonius ") more consistent with 17th-century norms and with transmission through a French or Italian source.

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In some 17th-century operas still being performed, the name of the librettist was not even recorded.

Before writing Carmina Burana, Orff also edited 17th-century operas.

The English translation by the 17th-century poet John Dryden is another important version.

Although many of the descriptions in this book were written in an exaggerated manner or were plainly inventive fiction or 3rd-source misinterpretation, his notes are widely accepted as a useful guide to the cultural aspects and lifestyle of 17th-century Ottoman Empire.

Prior to the Impressionists, other painters, notably such 17th-century Dutch painters as Jan Steen, had emphasized common subjects, but their methods of composition were traditional.

Many 16th-and 17th-century rabbis were also critical of pilpul.

The problem of discipline was made more difficult by the ad hoc nature of 17th-century military financing ; armies were expected to be largely self-funding, by means of loot taken or tribute extorted from the settlements where they operated.

" He linked 18th-century Whiggism with 17th-century revolutionary Puritanism, arguing that the Whigs of his day were similarly inimical to the established order of church and state.

The O ' Donnells were Ulster's second most powerful clan or ruling-family from the early 13th-century through to the start of the 17th-century.

Folklorists have suggested that the most popular legends about Whittington — that his fortunes were founded on the sale of his cat, who was sent on a merchant vessel to a rat-beset Eastern emperor — originated in a popular 17th-century engraving by Renold Elstracke in which his hand rested on a cat, but the picture only reflects a story already in wide circulation.

One of the centerpieces of the collection is a partial recreation of the 17th-century ostrog ( fortress ) of Ilimsk, which consists of the original Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan transported from the flooded ostrog in the mid-1970s, to which an exact modern copy of another tower of the ostrog and the Southern wall of the fortress were added in the early 2000s.

According to the 17th-century antiquarian Father Richard Hay, the " maidens " were a group of nuns, who were ejected from the castle and replaced by canons, considered " fitter to live among soldiers ".

16th-and 17th-century maps and descriptions indicate that the main islands were Ternate, Tidore, Moti, Makian and Bacan, although the last was often ignored even though it was by far the largest island.

Geoffrey Keating, in his 17th-century History of Ireland, says that during the winter the fianna were quartered and fed by the nobility, during which time they would keep order on their behalf, but during the summer, from Beltaine to Samhain, they were obliged to live by hunting for food and for pelts to sell.

By the late 17th-century, however, the Cherokee — whose ancestors were living in the mountains at the time of the Spaniards ' visit — had become the dominant tribe in the region.

A well-preserved example of this is the Spitalbastei in Rothenburg or the bastions built as part of the 17th-century walls surrounding Derry, a city in Ulster in the north of Ireland ; however, at this stage the cities were still only protected by relatively thin walls which could offer little resistance to the cannons of the time.

Although his family had aristocratic relations, they were minor gentry rather than high-ranking members of the upper echelons of 17th-century society.

In Jewish author Elie Wiesel's play The Trial of God ( 1979 ), the survivors of a pogrom, in which most of the inhabitants of a 17th-century Jewish village were massacred, put God on trial for his cruelty and indifference to their misery.

Such friezes were features of 17th-century Northern Mannerism, especially in subsidiary friezes, and much employed in interior architecture and in furniture.

In the context of the 17th-century scientific revolution, and more specifically that of the " Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns " in England and France, the antiquaries were firmly on the side of the " Moderns ".

His unusual middle name, given to him by his strongly Puritan father, is an example of a hortatory name: religious " slogan names " were often given in Puritan families in 17th-century England.

Barnfield's Lady Pecunia and The Complaint of Poetry were used as sample texts by the early 17th-century phonetician Robert Robinson for his invented phonetic script.

He found that before the 17th-century, children were represented as mini-adults.

Something of its 17th-century origins can be seen today in an inscription at the entrance gate to Bunhill Fields: This church-yard was inclosed with a brick wall at the sole charges of the City of London, in the mayoralty of Sir John Lawrence, Knt., Anno Domini 1665 ; and afterwards the gates thereof were built and finished in the mayoralty of Sir Thomas Bloudworth, Knt., Anno Domini, 1666.