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See also:CASTI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1721–1803) , See also:Italian poet, was See also:born of humble parents at See also:Montefiascone, in the states of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, in 1721. He See also:rose to the dignity of See also:canon in the See also:cathedral of his native See also:place, but gave up his See also:chance of church preferment to satisfy his See also:gay and restless spirit by visiting most of the capitals of See also:Europe. In 1782, on the See also:death of See also:Metastasio, he was appointed Poeta Cesario, or poet-See also:laureate of See also:Austria, in which capacity he applied himself with See also:great success to the See also:opera bouffe; but in 1796 he resigned this See also:post, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order that he might not be hampered by See also:political relations; and he spent the See also:close of his See also:life as a private See also:gentleman at See also:Paris, where he died in 1803. Casti is best known as the author of the Novelle galanti, and of Gli Animali parlanti, a poetical See also:allegory, over which he spent eight years (1794–1802), and which, notwithstanding its tedious length, excited so much See also:interest that it was translated into See also:French, See also:German and See also:Spanish, and (very freely and with additions) into See also:English, in W. S. Rose's See also:Court and See also:Parliament of Beasts (Lond., 1819). Written during the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the Revolution in See also:France, it was intended to exhibit the feelings and hopes of the See also:people and the defects and absurdities of various political systems. The Novelle Galanti is a See also:series of poetical tales, in the ottava rima—a See also:metre largely used by Italian poets for that class of compositions. The See also:sole merit of these poems consists in the See also:harmony and purity of the See also:style, and the liveliness and sarcastic See also:power of many passages. They are, however, characterized by the grossest licentiousness; and there is no originality of plot—that, according to the See also:custom of Italian novelists, being taken from classical See also:mythology or other See also:ancient legends. Among the other See also:works of Casti is the Poema Tartaro, a See also:mock-heroic See also:satire on the court of See also:Catherine II., with which he was personally acquainted.
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