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CORTE , a See also:town of central See also:Corsica, 52 M. N.E. of See also:Ajaccio by the railway between that town and See also:Bastia. Pop. (1906) 4839. The upper town is situated on a precipitous See also:rock overhanging the confluence of the Tavignano and Restonica, the See also:rest of the town lying below it on both See also:banks of the See also:rivers. On the See also:summit of the rock stands a citadel built by Vincentello d'See also:Istria (see CORSICA). Other interesting buildings are the See also:house in which Pasquale See also:Paoli lived while Corte was the seat of his See also:government (1755 to 1769), and the house of another patriot, Giampietro Gaffori, whose wife defended it from the Genoese in 1750. There are statues of Paoli, of See also:General Gaffori, and of General Arrighi di Casanova, See also:duke of See also:Padua (d. 1853). Corte is See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement of the See also:island, has a subprefecture, a tribunal of first instance and a communal See also:college, and manufactures alimentary See also:paste. There are See also:marble quarries in the vicinity, and the town has See also:trade in See also:wine and See also:timber. In the 18th See also:century Corte was the centre of the resistance to the Genoese, and it was the seat of a university erected by Paoli.
CORTE-REAL, JERONYMO (1533-1588), Portuguese epic poet, came of a See also:noble Portuguese stock. Of the same See also:family were Gaspar Corte-Real, who in 1500 and r 5or sailed to Labrador and the See also:Arctic seas; and his See also:brothers See also:Miguel and Vasco. Their voyages opened the way for important Portuguese See also:fisheries on the See also:Newfoundland See also:coast (see See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Has-risse, See also:Les Corte-Real et leurs voyages au Nouveau-Monde, as id Gasper See also:Cork-Real: la date exacte de sa derniere expedition au Nouveau-Monde, See also:Paris, 1883). In his youth Jeronymo fought in See also:Africa and See also:Asia according to the See also:custom of noblemen in that See also:age. There is a tradition that he was See also:present at the affair of See also:Tangier on the 18th of May 1553, when D. Pedro de Menezes met his See also:death. Returning See also:home, it is supposed about 1570, he spent the rest of his days in retirement. In 1578 he placed his See also:sword at the disposal of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Sebastian for the fatal expedition to Africa, but the monarch dispensed him from the See also:journey (it is said) on See also:account of his age, and in 1586 we find him acting as provedor of the Misericordia of See also:Evora. He married D. Luiza da See also:Silva, but See also:left no legitimate issue. Corte-Real was painter as well as soldier and205
poet, and one of his pictures is still preserved in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of S. Antao at Evora. His poetical See also:works are believed to have been, composed in his old age at the See also:mansion on his See also:estate near Evora, known as " See also:Valle de See also:Palma." 0 Segundo cerco de See also:Diu, an epic in 21 cantos, deals with the historic See also:siege of that See also:Indian island-fortress of the Portuguese. First printed in 1574, it had a second edition in 1783, while a See also:Spanish version appeared at See also:Alcala in 1597. Austriada, an epic in 15 cantos celebrating the victory of See also:Don See also:John of See also:Austria over the See also:Turks at See also:Lepanto, was written in Spanish and published in 1578. King See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II. accepted the See also:dedication in flattering terms and visited the poet when he came to See also:Portugal. Naufragio de Sepulveda, an epic in 17 cantos, describes the tragic shipwreck on the See also:South See also:African coast and the death of D. Manoel de Sepulveda with his beautiful wife and See also:young See also:children, a disaster which See also:drew some feeling stanzas from See also:Camoens (Lusiads, v. 46). The poem was published four years after the death of Corte-Real by his heirs, and had two later See also:editions, while a Spanish version appeared in See also:Madrid in 1624 and a See also:French in Paris in 1844. Auto dos quatro novissimos do homem is a See also:short poem printed in 1768. Except the Naufragio de Sepulveda, which is highly considered in Portugal, Corte-Real's See also:poetry has hardly stood the test of See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and critics of later generations have refused to ratify the estimate formed by contemporaries, who considered him the equal, if not the See also:superior, of Camoens. His lengthy epics suffer from a want of sustained See also:inspiration, and are marred by an abuse of epithet, though they contain episodes of considerable merit, vigorous and well-coloured descriptive passages, and exhibit a pure diction.
See Subsidios See also:para a biographia do poeta Jeronymo Corte-Real (Evora, 1899); also Ernesto do See also:Canto's Memoir on the family in Nos. 23 and 24 of the Archivo dos See also:Azores, and Dr See also:Sousa See also:Viterbo's Trabalhos nauticos dos Portuguezes, ii. 153 et seq. (E.
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