Inglese

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At 9.00 a.m. we go to visit the Church of S.Francesco in the historical centre of the town.
The church has been constructed on the beginnings of the XIV° century, in Gothic style and to Latin cross to a single one is “navata”

As a young man, he had been married to Catherine of Aragon, his brother’s widow, who some years later had given him a daughter, Mary, but was now unlikely to bear him a son.
He had fallen in love with Anne Boleyn, a lady-in-waiting, and asked the Pope for a divorce in order to marry her.
But the Pope would not declare his first marriage invali

The young protesters wanted to establish the culture of youth and using the raw, colloquial language really spoken by average people.
John Osborne was the most famous name of this movement.
(Arden, Wain, Wesker, Richardson…)
John Osborne
John Osborne was born in London in 1929, to a lower-middle class family.
He soon developed great

Livingston returned to Africa as head of the Zambesi Expedition. While Livingstone was exploring the Zambesi river, the missions sent to central and east Africa at his urgings ended in disaster, with nearly every missionary dying of malaria or other ailments. The Zambesi river turned out to be completely unnaviagable past the Kabrabasa rapids, a series

The sphere reflects everything in the room on its surface. The “Hand with reflecting sphere” could be considered a self-portrait indeed the man who is reflected could be Escher when drew the picture.
It is very realistic. The hand that is holding the sphere has the creases and the cracks that a real hand would have. The room that is shown inside t

When he returned to Europe, he spent a period of 18 months in Paris, where he lived in almost absolute poverty.
When he left Paris for England, he continued to live in the same style for a few years and in 1933 wrote Down and Out in Paris and London, a fascinating account of the period he had spent as an outcast in Paris and in London. The book was

There was an urgency to represent the variety of modem urban life. One way of trying to create order out of the chaos of the modern world was the recourse to primitive myths. However, this kind of interpretation did not have the character of absolute truth. It also took place not through a rational process, but through single and intense moments of illu

He died in 1870 and was burier in Westminster Abbey.
Dickens can be considered the proper Victorian writer; he believes in Victorian values (work, retribution, good and evil…) and for this reason he embodies the Victorian writer. He faces the major problems of his age and believes in progress that could solve these problems. His style is also very r

Rather than = piuttosto che
Business – Finance - Marketing
To Borrow = prendere in prestito
Loan = mutuo, prestito
To make a profit = fare profitti
To make a loss = fare perdite
Sales rise, increase = le vendite salgono
Sales down, decrease = le vendite scendono
Strong economy = economia forte
Political stability = st

➢ He is still influenced in his poetry by classical and early English poetry
➢ Neoclassical elements and pre-romantic elements are mixed in his poetry: There are pre-romantic themes, but the language is still connected to neoclassical literature.
Elegy written in Country Churchyard
➢ 1751
➢ This poem can be divided into three parts: ~~~