Word: vita
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole world has decisively stamped as the best. These would be Homer, Virgil, aeschylus, and Sophocles and. beyond all doubt, Aristophanes; Lucre tires, and Plato. In the middle ages, the Divine Comedy which has most perfectly expressed their thought and their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great is considerable. One might give Chaucer, the freshest and most springlike of all poets; Spenser (though with a certain hesitation). and Milton,- a little...
...Dante prize of $100 has been awarded to G. R. Carpenter, A. B., Rogers Fellow, for an essay on "The interpretation and reconciliation of the different accounts of his experience after the death of Beatrice, given by Dante in the Vita Nuova, and the Convito...
...beginning of the microscope of to-day is traceable to the small, single lens instrument of the sixteenth century, called at the time Vita pulicaria, or flea-glass, because by its aid the true beauty of the flea, in outline and detail, was first brought clearly before the public eye. Aside from the great advantage accruing to mankind from a just appreciation of the flea, the learned men of the time declared that, with this wonderful machine, they had discovered many new monsters; and one savant affirmed that he had seen the devil himself...
...lessons assigned above by Mr. Bendelari are for Tuesday, March 14. He also wishes the following lessons to be assigned for Monday, March 13: Italian 2, rest of "Pilade e Oreste," being in "La Gerusalemme Liberata;" Italian 3, Cantos XV. and XVI. of the "Paradiso," being in "La Vita Nuova...