And she was deeply thankful that she could see her now, out there in the midst of a gay, youthful circle, skipping and singing, `` Farmer in the dell, Farmer in the dell, Heigh-ho the dairy-oh, the farmer in the dell ''.

He died in Castel dell ' Ovo in 1458, while he was planning the conquest of Genoa.

The 15th century Venetian navigator Alvise Cadamosto made note of what was probably the Southern Cross on exiting the Gambia River in 1455, calling it the carro dell ' ostro (" southern chariot ").

Francesco Andreini ( c. 1548 – 1624 ) was an Italian actor mainly of commedia dell ' arte plays.

He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell ' arte style to France.

This house was designed by colonial architect William Buckland and modeled on the Villa Pisani at Montagnana, Italy as depicted in Andrea Palladio's I quattro libri dell ' architettura (" Four Books Of Architecture ").

In addition to tabletop role-playing, LARP was preceded and possibly influenced by the Society for Creative Anachronism, childhood games of make believe, play fighting, costume parties, roleplay simulations, Commedia dell ' arte, improvisational theatre, psychodrama, military simulations, and historical reenactment groups.

Castagno's was the first study to define a theatrical form as Mannerist, employing the vocabulary of Mannerism and maniera to discuss the typification, exaggerated, and effetto meraviglioso of the comici dell ' arte.

Ferdinand II had his fiefs confiscated and imprisoned him in Castel dell ' Ovo, where he was poisoned in 1497.

* Commedia dell ' arte – a form of theatre characterized by masked " types " which began in Italy in the 16th century, and was responsible for the advent of the actress and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios.

** Commedia dell ' arte – a form of theatre characterized by masked " types " which began in Italy in the 16th century, and was responsible for the advent of the actress and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios.

He was chosen to design the Palio ( Drappellone or banner ) at the Palio dell ' Assunta in August 2007.

In the Commedia dell ' arte it was an outline of entrances, exits, and action describing the plot of a play that was literally pinned to the back of the scenery.

Told it was no longer safe, he attempted to escape to Genoa, but was arrested and imprisoned in the Castel dell ' Ovo in Naples.

With the Decline of the Roman Empire, its last emperor, Romulus Augustus, was put in a manor house prison near Castel dell ' Ovo, Naples, in 467, ushering in the beginning of the Dark Ages and a period of uncertainty in regards to the future of the area.

High-flown language was generally avoided in favor of dialogue that the lower class would relate to, often in the local dialect, and the stock characters were often derived from those of the Italian commedia dell ' arte.

His figure kneeling in prayer to St Mark figured over the portal to the Doge's Palace until it was dismantled by order of the revolutionary government, 1797 ; the head was preserved and is conserved in the Museo dell ' Opera di Palazzo Ducale.

Villefranche and Montalban were stormed by Conti on 20 April, a desperate fight took place at Peyre-Longue on 18 July ( second Battle of Casteldelfino ) and the King of Sardinia was defeated in a great Battle at Madonna dell ' Olmo ( 30 September ) near Coni ( Cuneo ).

Genoa held out against a second Austrian siege and after the plan of campaign had as usual been referred to Paris and Madrid, it was relieved, though a picked corps of the French army under the Chevalier de Belle-Isle ( 1684 – 1747 ), brother of the marshal, was defeated in the attempt ( 10 July ) to storm the entrenched pass of Exilles ( Colle dell ' Assietta ), the chevalier, and with him much of the elite of the French nobility, being killed at the barricades.

The site on which the ground was built was described in Philip Brannon's Picture of Southampton, published in 1850, as " a lovely dell with a gurgling stream and lofty aspens "; the stream is the Rollsbrook which flows out of Southampton Common, running parallel to Hill Lane before now disappearing under Commercial Road and the Central Station, from where it is conduited under Southampton Docks into Southampton Water.

The dell had been drained with 13, 000 ft of pipe being laid, all draining into the central culvert formed from the Rollsbrook stream.

There was an old mill that really did grind corn with two millers, a great big pond with swans on it, a sandpit, a wonderful dell with flowers, a few old-fashioned village houses and, further away, a stream with another mill.

It is one of the oldest characters in Commedia dell ' arte but over the course of time became subdivided into a number of similar characters with specific traits.

Education in Italy is compulsory from 6 to 18 years of age, and is divided into five stages: kindergarten ( Scuola dell ' Infanzia ), elementary school ( Scuola Primaria ), middle school ( Scuola Secondaria di Primo Grado ), secondary school ( Scuola Secondaria di Secondo Grado ) and university ( Università ).

This included changing Ladin place names into the Italian pronunciation according to Tolomei's Prontuario dei nomi locali dell ' Alto Adige.

His physical insularity ; his poignant muteness, the legacy of the great mime Deburau ; his white face and costume, suggesting not only innocence but the pallor of the dead ; his often frustrated pursuit of Columbine, coupled with his never-to-be vanquished unworldly naïveté — all conspired to lift him out of the circumscribed world of the Commedia dell ' Arte and into the larger realm of myth.

Ludwig Tieck's The Topsy-Turvy World ( 1798 ) is an early — and highly successful — example of the introduction of the Commedia dell ' Arte characters into parodic metatheater.

) in Rome, seeks to take over the world by reconstructing " La Macchina dell ' Oro ", a machine purportedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci ( Stefano Molinari ) which converts lead into gold.

A few years later the acclaimed French baritone Victor Maurel persuaded him to turn his cantata The Light of Asia, based on the life of Buddha, into an Italian opera, La luce dell ' Asia, which was produced at Covent Garden in 1892.

The great clown Joseph Grimaldi was responsible for building the character up from the country bumpkin fool of the Commedia dell ' arte into the central figure of the harlequinade.

A 1581 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Giovanni Andrea dell ' Anguillara, printed in Venice in quarto form transforms the fatal discus game between Apollo and Hyacinth into a fatal game of real tennis, or " racchetta.

Like most of south central and southeastern Piedmont, the zone experiences a continental climate tempered by the Tanaro river and its tributaries-the Tallòria dell ' Annunziata and Tallòria di Castiglione-that split the region into three main zones.

There are important remains of a temple near the north gate, of a theatre built into modern houses in the ( misnamed ) via dell ' Anfiteatro, lesser remains of a second temple in the church of S. Vincenzo near the east gate, mosaics belonging to midsized baths in the via Porta Guelfa, and very scanty remains of an amphitheatre at some distance from the modern town.

In that year five principal painters, including Tintoretto and Paolo Veronese, were invited to send in trial-designs for the centre-piece in the smaller hall named Sala dell ' Albergo, the subject being S. Rocco received into Heaven.

The Fontana dell ' Ovato (" Oval Fountain ") cascades from its egg-shaped basin into a pool set against a rustic nymphaeum.

The Museo della Civiltà dell ' Olivo provides an educational look at the olive industry, from the planting of the olive through its processing into oil ; the Flash Art Museum houses contemporary art exhibits.

Renzo Rossellini, the brother of film director Roberto Rossellini, was the first to adapt the play into an opera with his Uno sguardo dal ponte, which premiered at the Teatro dell ' Opera di Roma in 1961.

In May 2006, the Frescobaldi family merged their Tenuta dell ' Ornellaia, Castel Giocondo and Luce della Vite wine holdings into a new venture partnership, Tenute di Toscana, with Stolichnaya Vodka and Michael Mondavi.

In the late 15th century, the French invasion of Italy and the proximity of the vibrant Burgundy court ( with its Flemish connections ) brought the French into contact with the goods, paintings, and the creative spirit of the Northern and Italian Renaissance, and the initial artistic changes in France were often carried out by Italian and Flemish artists, such as Jean Clouet and his son François Clouet and the Italians Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolò dell ' Abbate of the ( so-called ) first School of Fontainebleau ( from 1531 ).

For into your dull gray lives have come i Sebastiani, the greatest commedia dell arte troupe in the entire world ..." Since then, the troupe has begun every show with a " Buon Giorno ..." where one member, usually the director, introduces the show and invites the audience to participate by hissing at the villains and sighing with the lovers.

These shows placed figures from Mother Goose stories in wildly varied settings, always finding an excuse to transform them into the clown characters of traditional commedia dell ' arte ( Harlequin, Columbina, etc .).

Education in Italy is compulsory from 6 to 16 years of age, and is divided into five stages: kindergarten ( scuola dell ' infanzia ), primary school ( scuola primaria ), lower secondary school ( scuola secondaria di primo grado ), upper secondary school ( scuola secondaria di secondo grado ) and university ( università ).

In the mid-1960s the group started to rely less on the direct Commedia dell ' Arte format and transitioned into a more rambunctious, satirical style.

Sometimes erroneously referred to as Loggia dell ' Orcagna because it was once thought to be designed by that artist, it was built between 1376 and 1382 by Benci di Cione and Simone di Francesco Talenti, possibly following a design by Jacopo di Sione, to house the assemblies of the people and hold public ceremonies, such as the swearing into office of the Gonfaloniers and the Priors.