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Merlini and was
In the same year the Saint Karol Boromeusz Church, designed by Dominik Merlini, was built at the cemetery.
His book Prophetiae Merlini was intended to be a collection of the prophecies of the Welsh figure of Myrddin, whom he called Merlin.
Geoffrey later wrote the Vita Merlini, an account based more closely on the earlier Welsh stories about Myrddin and his experiences at Arfderyd, and explained that the action was taking place long after Merlin's involvement with Arthur.
One of them, Miracles for Sale ( 1939 ), was based on Death from a Top Hat but had no character named Merlini — instead, Robert Young played " The Great Morgan ".
The 1942 movie The Man Who Wouldn't Die, starring Lloyd Nolan, was based on No Coffin for the Corpse, but the Merlini character was replaced by Michael Shayne, a popular fictional private eye at the time, created by the writer Brett Halliday.
The Transparent Man, written by Rawson, starred Jerome Thor as The Great Merlini — who in this incarnation was a stage magician — with Barbara Cook as his assistant Julie and featuring E. G. Marshall as a criminal.
* Prophetiae Merlini: Geoffrey presented a series of apocalyptic narratives as the work of the earlier Merlin who, until Geoffrey's book came out, was known as " Myrddin ".
The first work about this legendary prophet in a language other than Welsh, it was widely read — and believed — much as the prophecies of Nostradamus were centuries later ; John Jay Parry and Robert Caldwell note that the Prophetiae Merlini " were taken most seriously, even by the learned and worldly wise, in many nations ", and list examples of this credulity as late as 1445.
Merlini was a native of Spoleto and a friend of Pius IX, who had been elected in 1846, and whose exile at Gaeta he had shared when Pius fled from the Roman Republic in November 1848.
Is subsequently was chosen by Pierfrancesco Pingitore for the movie Il tifoso, l ' arbitro e il calciatore with Pippo Franco, Alvaro Vitali, Marisa Merlini and Daniela Poggi and then for Giovani, belle ... probabilmente ricche with Gianfranco D ' Angelo, Nadia Cassini and Edwige Fenech.
The park-and-palace complex was designed by Domenico Merlini, Johann Christian Kammsetzer and landscape gardener Jan Chrystian Schuch.
Between 1772 and 1793 it was remodeled by Domenico Merlini for King Stanisław August Poniatowski, who made it his residence.
Named after the village of Myślewice, the little palace ( in Polish Pałac Myślewicki ) was built for King Stanisław August Poniatowski in 1775 – 79 to an early-classicist design by Domenico Merlini.

Merlini and where
The apparent context is the battle of Arfderydd, where Myrddin fought as one of Gwenddolau's warriors, went mad from terror and in this way, acquired the gift of prophecy ( see also Vita Merlini below ).

Merlini and played
The film simplifies the complex plot and replaces the character of Merlini with the Great Morgan ( Mike ), played by Young.

Merlini and by
* The Great Merlini, created by author Clayton Rawson.
Morgan first appears by name in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini, written about 1150.
* The Vita Merlini ; translated by John Jay Parry
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson.
The Audience Rooms are also designed by Merlini, with four paintings by Marcello Bacciarelli on display.
* Tutti i colori del rosso ( edited by Lorenzo Scheggi Merlini ).
The Little White House ( Biały Domek ) is a garden villa built in 1774-76 by Domenico Merlini.

Merlini and .
Morgan first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini ( The Life of Merlin ) in the 12th century.
Geoffrey had this individual in mind when he wrote his earliest surviving work, the Prophetiae Merlini ( Prophecies of Merlin ), which he claimed were the actual words of the legendary madman.
Geoffrey dealt with Merlin again in his third work, Vita Merlini.
At this point Geoffrey inserts a long section of Merlin's prophecies, taken from his earlier Prophetiae Merlini.
He worked with other famous actors and directors: Dario Niccodemi ( 1924-1927 ); Luigi Almirante and Giuditta Rissone ( 1927-1930 ), Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Evi Maltagliati, Gino Cervi etc.
Geoffrey dealt with Avalon in more detail in Vita Merlini, in which he describes for the first time in Arthurian legend the enchantress Morgan le Fay as the chief of nine sisters ( Moronoe, Mazoe, Gliten, Glitonea, Gliton, Tyronoe, Thiten and Thiton ) who live on Avalon.
In the Vita Merlini, he describes this island in more detail and names " Morgen " as the chief of nine magical sisters who dwell there.
His four novels frequently invoke his great knowledge of stage magic and feature as their fictional detective The Great Merlini, a professional magician who runs a shop selling magic supplies.
He also wrote four short stories in 1940 about a stage magician named Don Diavolo, who appears as a principal character in one of the novels featuring The Great Merlini.
It is the first of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage magician and Rawson's favorite protagonist.
When a magician is found dead inside his locked and ( thoroughly ) sealed apartment, the police call in Merlini to help explain the impossible, " perhaps on the theory that it takes a magician to catch one.
After a number of breakneck chases from one scene to the next, Merlini and his assistant are a couple of steps ahead of the police and provide a far-fetched but logical solution to the impossible crimes.
In between, Merlini and other characters deliver great chunks of informative conversation mixed with paragraphs of information about entirely unrelated but fascinating topics, like yogic bilocation, making the keys of a typewriter move without touching them, and even posing a tricky problem in geometry.
The action also stops for a while when Merlini quotes a well-known passage from John Dickson Carr's The Three Coffins about the nature of locked-room mystery novels, and adds some flourishes of his own in relation to the problems at hand.
However, the Vita Merlini did not prove popular enough to counter the version of Merlin in the Historia, which went on to influence most later accounts of the character.
* Prophetiae Merlini or Merlini prophetia cum expositione.
" His chronicler, free-lance writer Ross Harte, notes that Merlini hates the New York City subway system, beer, inactivity, opera, golf, and sleep.

was and shown
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.
A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.
It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.
He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.
The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown.
When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen.
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Milman Parry rigorously defended the observation that the extant Homeric poems are largely formulaic, and was led to postulate that they could be shown entirely formulaic if the complete corpus of Greek epic survived ; ;
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