Lingue

It was taken by the Romans in 254 BC. It subsequently passed into the hands of the Goths (AD 440),
the Byzantines (535), the Saracens (831), the Normans (1072), and the Holy Roman emperors
(1194).The economy isn’t very good, because there are small-medium factories and the
unemployment is very diffuse.
It is a trading centre for the

After twenty long years in the Bastille Mr. Deferage liberated him. Mr. Deferage and his wife owned a wine-shop in the center of Paris.
Mr. Lorry and Miss Manette brought Mr. Manette back to England. Some months later Miss Manette married Charles Marquise of Evrémonde, the man whose father had killed the boy that Mr. Manette tried to rescue. But no

Moreover, Southern Ireland seemed at this moment, more than at any other in her history, loyal to the British Crown. The British government was in fact in the process of passing Home Rule for all Ireland, in spite of strong opposition from Ulster. But to the most nationalist Irishmen this seemed unimportant, and so a few weeks after the First World

WORKS
His literary production may be divided into four parts: poetry, essays and articles, tales of imagination, tales of ratiocination.
His most famous and successful book was Tale of the Grotesque and of the Arabesque (1839). Poe is the father of that school of exotic literature of Wild, Boudlaire, Rimbaud.

THEMES AND STYLE~~~

romances of Ariosto and Tasso.
In 1594 he married Elizabeh Boyle, whose love
He had celebrated in a collection of Petrarchan love
Sonnets,Amoretti.
He went back to London where he died in poverty in 1599 and was buried in Westminster.
For The faeria Queene Spencer invented a new stanza, called Spencerian stanza wh

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Charles promoted art and culture, and during his reign were organised lots of military expeditions, like the ones against France and Spain, and because of the great failures, he had to accept the Petition of Rights, a document that avoided him to:
1. Impose taxes without Parliament’s consent
2. Imprison someone without a trial
3. Introduce

The setting is a large one, often national as in “Beowulf”.
The time is usually a distant past which is often described as a golden or at least heroic age.
The style is elevated.

THE BALLAD

The traditional ballad is an anonymous poem dating back to the late Middle Ages originally intended for singing and dancing. Ballads were p

• The 40’s
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THE STORY FROM XVI C. TO THE 20’s
From XVI c. to XVIII c.
In the XVI c. European clothes were conditioned by Italy and Spain.
From Italy arrived, for men, the low-necked doublet; from Spain, for women, the vertugade, a very ample skirt. In the upper part of clothes

The plot of Frankenstein is quite simple: Robert Walton, an explorer that wants to arrive to the North Pole, stopped ny mountains of ice, meets Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who seems exhausted and near death. Walton helps Frankenstein. They become friends, and when the explorer reveals his dreams to the scientist, Frankenstein becomes sad and tells