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Marko Kravos
Marko Kravos (born 16 May 1943) is a Slovene poet, writer, essayist and translator from Trieste, Italy. He was born in Montecalvo Irpino, a small village in the Southern Italian region of Irpinia, where his family was sent to confination by the Italian Fascist regime. He spent his childhood in Trieste, where he attended Slovene language schools. After graduating in Slavic philology at the University of Ljubljana in 1969, in Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), he worked in several publishing houses in Trieste. He also worked as a Slovene language professor at the University of Trieste. Between 1996 and 2000, he served as president of the Slovenian section of the International P.E.N. Kravos writes poetry, essays and children's literature, as well as screenplays for radio. He is most renowned for his lyrical poems, which have been translated into 17 languages. His most famous poem is "Jason's Trace" (''Jazonova sled''). Kravos also translates from Italian, Croatian and Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montecalvo Irpino
Montecalvo Irpino is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Avellino, Campania, southern Italy. Located upon a hill oversighting Ufita Valley, the town is known for its bread (), which is granted PAT quality mark, and DOP olive oil. In the countryside there are the ruins of fortified village, devastated by 1656 plague and since abandoned, and , the widest mudpot field in Southern Italy. Geography Territory Montecalvo Irpino is located in the northern sector of the province of Avellino, on the border with Benevento. The municipality, built at an elevation of 2,044 ft (623 m) MSL, upstream of the confluence between the Miscano stream and the Ufita River, is part of the mountain community of Ufita. Its land is mostly clayey and tuffaceous, and is mainly mountainous. The municipal countryside covers an area of 20.67 sq mi (53.50 km²), with an altitude ranging from 151 to 700 m above sea level, with an excursion of 549 m. Typical of the rural territory of Montecalvo I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scipio Slataper
Scipio Slataper (14 July 1888 – 3 December 1915) was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay '' My Karst''. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste. Biography Slataper was born to a relatively wealthy middle-class family in the city of Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today in Italy). After completing his high school studies in the native city, he moved to Florence in Italy, where he studied Italian philology. In Florence, he collaborated to the literary journal '' La Voce'', edited by Giuseppe Prezzolini and Giovanni Papini. During his stay in Florence, he started writing essays and articles on the literary and cultural situation in Trieste. He maintained a close contact with his native city, collaborating with young Italian intellectuals from the Austrian Littoral, both those who lived in Italy and those who remained in their native region. Slataper's circle included the j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moja Vojna
Moja may refer to: People * Federico Moja (1802–1885), Italian painter * Giuseppe Moja (1915–2009), Salesian priest and missionary in India * Hella Moja (1896–1951), German screenwriter, film producer and film actress Other * Moja (chimpanzee) * Möja, Sweden * Moja TV Moja TV is a Bosnian IPTV provider, subsidiary of the BH Telecom, which provides various thematic channels, HD and Timeshift channels, Video on demand, video recording, the use of an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and other similar services. C ..., Bosnian IPTV provider * Movement for Justice in Africa See also * * Moya (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Peicia
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, an English rock band * L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer * Yung L.A., a rapper * Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel * LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and government agencies * L.A. Screenings, a te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V Tem Strašnem času
V, or v, is the twenty-second and fifth-to-last letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''vee'' (pronounced ), plural ''vees''. History The letter V ultimately comes from the Phoenician letter ''waw'' by way of U. See U for details. During the Late Middle Ages, two minuscule glyphs of U developed which were both used for sounds including and modern . The pointed form "v" was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form "u" was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So whereas "valour" and "excuse" appeared as in modern printing, "have" and "upon" were printed as "haue" and "vpon". The first distinction between the letters "u" and "v" is recorded in a Gothic script from 1386, where "v" preceded "u". By the mid-16th century, the "v" form was used to represent the consonant and "u" the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter V. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Certi Versi – Po Drugi Strani
Per is a Latin preposition which means "through" or "for each", as in per capita. Per or PER may also refer to: Places * IOC country code for Peru * Pér, a village in Hungary * Chapman code for Perthshire, historic county in Scotland Math and statistics * Rate (mathematics), ratio between quantities in different units, described with the word "per" * Price–earnings ratio, in finance, a measure of growth in earnings * Player efficiency rating, a measure of basketball player performance * Partial equivalence relation, class of relations that are symmetric and transitive * Physics education research Science * Perseus (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation * Period (gene) or ''per'' that regulates the biological clock and its corresponding protein PER * Protein efficiency ratio, of food * PER or peregrinibacteria, a candidate bacterial phylum Media and entertainment * PeR (band), a Latvian pop band * ''Per'' (film), a 1975 Danish film Transport * IATA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrica Kerempuh
Petrica Kerempuh is a literary character who appears in a number of Croatian language, Croatian and former Yugoslav works, but is most famous for his appearance in the critically lauded ''Balade Petrice Kerempuha, The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh'' by Croatian people, Croatian author Miroslav Krleža, who wrote in the Kajkavian dialect. Petrica Kerempuh is a prophet of the people and a cynical commentator on contemporary events. The name is derived from the dialectical word ''kerempuh'', meaning "belly" or "abdomen", with a figurative meaning suggesting a person of cunning or a merrymaker. The earliest origins appear to be from Jakob Lovrenčić's printing of the book ''Petrica Kerempuh iliti čini i življenje človeka prokšenoga'' ("Petrica Kerempuh or the Life of a Prodigal Man") in 1834, which is a translation of a German book on the travels and adventures of Till Eulenspiegel. In 1936, Krleža published ''The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh'' in Ljubljana and it was received very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
