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See also:TASSONI, ALESSANDRO (1565-1635) , See also:Italian poet, was a native of See also:Modena, where he was See also:born and died. From 1599 till 16o8 he was secretary to See also:Cardinal Ascanio See also:Colonna, and in this capacity saw some See also:diplomatic service; he was afterwards employed for some 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 in similar occupations by See also:Charles See also:Emmanuel, See also:duke of See also:Savoy. His best-known See also:literary See also:work is a See also:burlesque epic entitled La Secchia Rapita, or " The See also:Rape of the Bucket " (1622), the reference being to a See also:raid of the Modenese upon the See also:people of See also:Bologna in 1325, when a bucket was carried off as a See also:trophy. As in See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler's Hudibras, many of the See also:personal and See also:local allusions in this poem are now very obscure, and are See also:apt to seem somewhat pointless to the See also:general reader, but, in spite of See also:Voltaire's contempt, it cannot be neglected by any systematic student of Italian literature (see See also:Carducci's edition, 1861). Other characteristic See also:works of Tassoni are his Pensieri Diversi (1612), in which he treats philosophical, literary, See also:historical and scientific questions with unusual freedom, and his Considerazioni sopra it Petrarcha (1609), a piece of See also:criticism showing See also:great See also:independence of traditional views.
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