* Alberti is also now thought to have had an important role in the designing of Pienza, a village that had been called Corsignano, but which was redesigned beginning around 1459.

The town is located to the west of Pienza, close to the Crete Senesi in Val d ' Orcia.

He refurbished his home town which is now by his name called Pienza ( province of Siena, Tuscany ).

One of the most famous is Pienza, close to Siena, a Renaissance city, also called The Ideal Town or Utopia Town.

One of the most famous is Pienza, close to Siena, a Renaissance city, also called The Ideal Town or Utopia Town.

Outside Siena, Vecchietta's chief work is a painting of the Assumption ( 1451 ) at the church in Pienza, created for the Piccolimino Pope Pius II.

Pienza, a town and comune in the province of Siena, in the Val d ' Orcia in Tuscany ( central Italy ), between the towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino, is the " touchstone of Renaissance urbanism.

Pienza was rebuilt from a village called Corsignano, which was the birthplace ( 1405 ) of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini ( Italian: Enea Silvio Piccolomini ), a Renaissance humanist born into an exiled Sienese family, who later became Pope Pius II.

Celebrated for his sculpture ( the Leonardo Bruni Tomb, Empoli Annunciation group ), he achieved particular distinction through his expanding role as an architect, achieving lasting fame for the work done or planned in Rome for Pope Nicholas V and, especially for the rebuilding of the town of Pienza for Pope Pius II.

That would postpone construction of the Rucellai facade to a date after 1461 and, thus, calls into question its primacy over the almost identical design used for the Palazzo Piccolomini ( designed by Bernardo Rossellino 1459-62 ) in Pienza.

* Hometown Pope Makes Good ( Pope Pius II and Pienza ) by Charles T. Downey ( Ionarts, 24 August 2006 )

It sits high on a 605 &# 160 ; m limestone ridge, 13 km E of Pienza, 70 km SE of Siena, 124 km SE of Florence, and 186 km north of Rome by car.

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But he is more interesting than the others, the ones who come from the highroad to watch him, more interesting than Life considered as a cyclist.

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It is hypothesized that fertility is a function of the social system when the population as a whole is considered and a function of the subsystems when the two-fold division of core families and marginal families is considered.

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He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

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Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

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He assures us, early in the Poetics, that all art is `` imitation '' and that all imitation gives pleasure, but he distinguishes between art in general and poetic art on the basis of the means, manner, and the objects of the imitation.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

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.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

His revolutionary anger is apparent in most of his early poems.

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