Athenæum. J. Lection.
789 (1842): 1062
Lorenzo de Medici
Standard Name: Medici, Lorenzo de
Used Form: Lorenzo the Magnificent
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Jevons | Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe
, the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Sandbach | She probably used her grandfather
's The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici (1796) as a historical source. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Roscoe |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sally Purcell | SP
's masterful use of early writers and mythical belief-systems is exemplified in Seven Horizon Poems. Each of the poems snatches a separate grain of meaning, pressing into service to do so a wide... |
| Literary Setting | George Eliot | This novel opens at the time of the death of Lorenzo de Medici
, when the Florence that he ruled was riven by conflict among the various political intellectual groupings that supported the new learning... |
| Textual Features | Ellen Mary Clerke | The remaining third of the volume comprises translations of authors ranging from Lorenzo de Medici
to Goethe
. Clerke, Ellen Mary. The Flying Dutchman, and Other Poems. W. Satchell, 1881. prelims |
| Textual Features | Isabella Neil Harwood | The theme of Andrea the Painter is jealousy of artistic ambitions; “Plays by Ross Neil”. The Times, No. 30824, 19 May 1883, p. 5. |
| Textual Production | Hannah Lynch | In 1892 HL
published with Methuen
a translation of The History of Florence from the Domination of the Medici to the Fall of the Republic by François Tommy Perrens
(whose title is also given as... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Watts | SW
published with her initials Original Poems, and Translations, Particularly Ambra, from Lorenzo de'Medici
. Watts, Susanna. Original Poems, and Translations. 1802. title-page |
Timeline
1495: In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence,...
Writing climate item
1495
In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola
destroyed texts by Ovid
, Dante
, Boccaccio
and others.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
319
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Editorial Materials”. Casa Guidi Windows, edited by Julia Markus, Browning Institute, 1977, p. Various pages.
78
Texts
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