Lingue

He imposed very heavy taxes and confiscated the lands of the nobles.
Britain became very rich during his reign.
In 1509 Henry VII died leaving a very strong and safe crown to his eleven years old son Henry VIII. He was a cruel man and he spent all his father’ s money fighting wars against France. He enjoyed deer hunting, archery and hawking in t

The highest judicial authority is the Supreme Court. Its nine members are appointed by the President and serve on the Court for life.
Governo Federale
Esistono 3 branchie indipendenti di governo: esecutivo, legislativo e giudiziario. Il presidente è il capo della branchia esecutiva e il capo dello stato. E’ eletto dal popolo per un periodo di 4

Feeling and emotion
Free imagination
Exotic places
Search for sensation
The super-natural
Subjective feeling for nature
The Middle-Ages
Pathos
==> A COMMON DISTASTE for the FORMALITY
ELEGANCE
ARTIFICIALITY of the Augustans
NEW AESTHETIC AND SOCIAL THEORIES
YOUNG
==> GENIUS = a divine gift, a produ

When King James of Scotland became king of England too, the two countries agreed to unit their flags into one to form what was called the Union Flag of Great Britain.
The Union Jack was adopted about two hundred years later, when the Parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland joined into a single Parliament. On that occasion the emblem of Ireland's

The Great Exhibition mystery
A mother and her daughter arrived in Paris from Marseilles, where they had disembarked from India. They reached their hotel, which was one of the most famous hotels in Paris, and they had booked two single rooms. They signed the register. The mother took room 342. After the mother feel ill and took to bed. The...

Guardai i serpenti d'acqua:
Loro si muovevano in piste di splendente bianco,
E quando si alzavano, la luce di folletto
Cadeva in fiocchi canescenti.

Fra l'ombra della nave
Guardai il loro abito ricco:
Azzurri, verde lucente, e nero del velluto,
Loro si avvolgevano e nuotavano; e ogni pista
Era un ba

Importance of the Work:
Though not perhaps the best of Poe's short stories, it has achieved its own place as one of the most interesting and hair-raising works of American short fiction. Religious symbolism abounds, as the "wild, sulphurous lustre" of the cell connotes a scene of hellfire and brimstone, and the hand of the French General assumes a l

– A man is considered mad, but he thinks it isn’t so because of his lucidity, his capacity to hear. He is obsessioned by the eye of an old man. For seven days he went at midnight in his house, making no noise. Then he saw his eyes with a ray of light, but they were closed. So he went away. The eight he went there but the old man wake, so he could see th

The novel was the best achievement of the 18th literature because it’s the form which most fully reflects the taste of the time, the new tendency of culture and the exceptions of the reading public . In this century the novel, whose primary criteria were independence from the tradition of past thought and faith only in the individual experience , alway

THEMES

Their first concern was with nature. Poets were filled with pleasure when they contemplated the external natural world. They often regarded nature as a manifestation of a divine power on earth and also sensed a correspondence between landscapes and man’s feelings and values.
The second unifying idea was imagination, a creative f