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Percy Edward Pinkerton
Percy Edward Pinkerton (19 June 1855 – 31 August 1946) was an English translator and poet. His translations included two novels by Émile Zola and a Puccini libretto. Early life Pinkerton was born at Stamford Hill, Middlesex, the third child of metal broker George Pinkerton (1823-1899), son of the missionary and linguist Rev. Robert Pinkerton, DD, and Mary (née Easum; 1823-1868). His siblings included the architect Godfrey Pinkerton. Writing Pinkerton published some volumes of poetry: ''Galeazzo, a Venetian Episode: with other Poems'' (Venice and London, 1886), which was praised by John Addington Symonds, ''Adriatica'' (1894), ''At Hazebro (1909), and ''Nerina, a lyrical drama in three acts'' (Cambridge, 1927). He also wrote for the ''Magazine of Art'', and in 1889 edited Christopher Marlowe's plays. However most of his literary work consisted of English translations of European songs and literature. He was a member of the late Victorian Lutetian Society, dedicated to unexpu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Symons
Arthur William Symons (28 February 186522 January 1945) was a British poet, critic and magazine editor. Life Born in Milford Haven, Wales, to Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy. In 1884–1886, he edited four of Bernard Quaritch's ''Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles'', and in 1888–1889 seven plays of the ''"Henry Irving" Shakespeare''. He became a member of the staff of the ''Athenaeum'' in 1891, and of the '' Saturday Review'' in 1894, but his major editorial feat was his work with the short-lived '' Savoy''. His first volume of verse, ''Days and Nights'' (1889), consisted of dramatic monologues. His later verse is influenced by a close study of modern French writers, of Charles Baudelaire, and especially of Paul Verlaine. He reflects French tendencies both in the subject-matter and style of his poems, in their eroticism and their vividness of description. Symons contributed poems and essays to ''The Yellow Book'', includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niccola Spinelli
Niccola Spinelli (29 July 1865 – 17 October 1909) was an Italian composer of operas. Born in Turin, the son of a jurist, he studied composition at the Naples Conservatory under Paolo Serrao.''The Guitar and Mandolin – Biographies of Celebrated Players and Composers for these Instruments'' Philip J. Bone, London: Schott and Co., 1914, pp. 287–288. His opera ''Labilia'' won the second-place prize in an 1890 opera competition organized by Milanese music publisher Edoardo Sonzogno, and premiered in Rome on 9 May 1890; the first prize went to Pietro Mascagni for ''Cavalleria rusticana''. His most well-known work is ''A basso porto'' (''At the Lower Harbor''), which premiered in Cologne on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Villi
''Le Villi'' (''The Willis'' or ''The Fairies'') is an opera–ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story "Les Willis" by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr's story was in turn based in the Central European legend of the Vila, also used in the ballet ''Giselle''. The opera, in its original one-act version, was first performed at the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, on 31 May 1884. ''Le Villi'' is Puccini's first stage work. It was written for an 1883 competition of one-act operas by the publisher Sonzogno in his periodical ''Il teatro illustrato'', but did not even earn an honourable mention. According to Mosco Carner, this may have been because it was written in such haste that the score was all but illegible. His supporters, who included Arrigo Boito, funded the first production, whose favorable reception led to publication by Giulio Ricordi. Puccini's mother received the following telegram on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bohème
''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions ''quadri'', ''tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on ''Scènes de la vie de bohème'' (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle (known in French as "") of a poor seamstress and her artist friends. The world premiere of ''La bohème'' was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio, conducted by the 28-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Since then, ''La bohème'' has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide. In 1946, fifty years after the opera's premiere, Toscanini conducted a commemorative performance of it on radio with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. A recording of the performance was later released by RCA Victor on vinyl record, tape and compact disc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanin (novel)
''Sanin'' (russian: Санин) is a novel by the Russian writer Mikhail Artsybashev. It has an interesting history being written in 1907 – at the peak of the various changes in Russian society (democratic activities, first democratically elected Duma in 1906, as well as the Russian Revolution of 1905). It was published and criticized in 1907, the year of one of the most horrific political reactions in Russian history. In the early 1900s Russia society was heavily influenced by religions, primarily the Russian Orthodox Church. Though there were many other religions such as Catholics, Judaism, and Muslims, none of them condoned an open expression of sexuality. By 1908 the novel was no longer being produced due to censorship. It was banned as a "work of pornography" ( Otto Boele). When Artsybashev emigrated to Poland after the Russian Revolution of 1917, he was condemned by the Soviet authorities and his books were banned from publication, only to be revealed afresh to readers in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Artsybashev
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Арцыба́шев, pl, Michał Arcybaszew; November 5, 1878 – March 3, 1927) was a Ukrainian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator. Following the Russian Revolution, in 1923 Artsybashev emigrated to Poland, where he died in 1927. Biography Early life Artsybashev was born in khutir Dubroslavivka, Okhtyrka county, Government of Kharkov (currently Sumy Oblast, Ukraine). His father was a small landowner and a former officer. His mother, who was Polish, died of tuberculosis when he was only 3 years old.Biographical note by Artsybashev, from The Millionaire, B.W. Hubsch, 1915. His other ethnic roots included French, Georgian and Tatar. He attended school in Okhtyrka until the age of 16. From 1895 to 1897 he was an office worker.Reference Guide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pot-Bouille
''Pot-Bouille'' is the tenth novel in the '' Rougon-Macquart'' series by Émile Zola. It was serialized between January and April 1882 in the periodical '' Le Gaulois'' before being published in book form by Charpentier in 1883. The novel is an indictment of the mores of the bourgeoisie of the Second French Empire. It is set in a Parisian apartment building, a relatively new housing arrangement at the time and its title (roughly translating as ''stew pot'') reflects the disparate and sometimes unpleasant elements lurking behind the building's new façade. Explanation of the novel's title Like Zola's earlier novel ''L'Assommoir'' (1877), the title is extremely difficult to render in English. The word ''pot-bouille'' is a 19th-century French slang term for a large cooking pot or cauldron used for preparing stews and casseroles and also the foods prepared in it. The title is intended to convey a sense of disparate ingredients, the various inhabitants of the building mixed together, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Bandello
Matteo Bandello ( 1480 – 1562) was an Italian writer, soldier, monk, and, later, a Bishop mostly known for his novellas. His collection of 214 novellas made him the most popular short-story writer of his day. Biography Matteo Bandello was born at Castelnuovo Scrivia, near Tortona (current Piedmont), 1480. He received a good education, and entered the church, but does not seem to have been very interested in theology. For many years he lived at Mantua and Castel Goffredo, and superintended the education of the celebrated Lucrezia Gonzaga, in whose honour he composed a long poem. The decisive Battle of Pavia, as a result of which Lombardy was taken by the emperor, compelled Bandello to flee; his house at Milan was burnt and his property confiscated. He took refuge with Cesare Fregoso, an Italian general in the French service, whom he accompanied into France. He was later raised to the bishopric of Agen, a town in which he resided for many years before his death in 1562. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works that he had left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on ''Xenien'', a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents of their philosophical vision. Early life and career Friedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759, in Marbach, Württemberg, as the only son of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller (1733–1796) and Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller (1732–1802). They also had five daughters, including Christophine, the eldest. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer
Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer (July 12, 1813 – December 16, 1901) was a German philologist and historian of literature. Biography He was born at Cologne. After studying philology and especially ancient classics and Sanskrit at Bonn and Berlin (1830–1835), he took the degree of doctor of philosophy and established himself in 1837 at Bonn as ''privatdozent'' for classical philology.Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800 - 1950, Volume 1 edited by Christoph König He had already, in his ''Goethes Faust in seiner Einheit und Ganzheit'' (1836) and ''Goethe als Dramatiker'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder
Helmuth is both a masculine German given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name; *Helmuth Theodor Bossert (1889–1961), German art historian, philologist and archaeologist *Helmuth Duckadam (born 1959), Romanian former footballer *Helmuth Ehrhardt, German psychiatrist *Helmuth Hübener (1925–1942), German opponent of the Third Reich *Helmuth Koinigg (1948–1974), Austrian racing driver *Helmuth Lehner (born 1968), Austrian musician *Helmuth Lohner (1933–2015), Austrian actor and theatre director * Helmuth Markov (born 1952), German politician * Helmuth von Moltke (other), several people *Helmuth Nyborg (born 1937), Danish professor at Aarhus University * Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898–1947), German SS Cossack Cavalry Corps officer executed for war crimes *Helmuth Plessner (1892–1985), German philosopher and sociologist *Helmuth Rilling (born 1933), German conductor *Helmuth von Ruckteschell (1890–1948), German navy officer *Helmuth Schne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
