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PlayLove! Valour! Compassion!MusicalSunset BoulevardRevival—PlayThe HeiressRevival—MusicalShow BoatActor—PlayRalph Fiennes, HamletActress—PlayCherry Jones, The HeiressMatthew Broderick, How…Brewer's: Night
The celebrated statue of Night, in Florence, is the chef d'oeuvre of Michael Angelo. In the gallery of the Luxembourg. Paris, is the famous picture of Night by Rubens; and at Versailles is…Brewer's: Salt Bread
or Bitter Bread. The bread of affiction or humiliation. Bread too salt is both disagreeable to the taste and indigestible. “Learning how hard it is to get back when once exiled, and how…Brewer's: Questa Cortesissima
(Italian). Most courteous one; a love term used by Dante to Beatrice. “I set myself to think of that most courteous one (questa cortesissima, and thinking of her there fell upon me a sweet…Brewer's: Questa Gentilissima
(Italian). Most gentle one, a love term used by Dante to Beatrice “Common mortals stand and gaze with bated breath while that most gentle one (questa gentilissima) goes on her way” —Mrs.…Brewer's: Quadra
The border round a bas-relief. In the Santa Croce of Florence is a quadra round a bas relief representing the Madonna, in white terracotta. Several other figures are introduced. Source:…1996 NCAA D2 College Football Playoffs Results
First Round(Nov. 18)at Ferris St. (Mich.) 36Millersville (Pa.) 26at Carson-Newman (Tenn.) 37West Georgia 26at New Haven (Conn.) 27Edinboro (Pa.) 12at North Alabama 38Albany St. (Ga.) 28North…Brewer's: Farinata
or Farinata Degli Uberti. A nobleman of Florence, chief of the Ghibelline faction, placed by Dante, in his Inferno, in a red-hot coffin, the lid of which is suspended over him till the day…Brewer's: Filomena
Longfellow calls Florence Nightingale St. Filomena, not only because Filomena resembles the Latin word for a nightingale, but also because this saint, in Sabatelli's picture, is…Brewer's: Emperor of the Mountains
king of the woods, and lord of the highways from Florence to Naples. A title assumed by Peter the Calabrian, a famous bandit-chief (1812). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Trending
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