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Cyprus
Cyprus , Gr. Kypros, Turk. Kubrus, officially Republic of Cyprus, republic (2005 est. pop. 780,000), 3,578 sq mi (9,267 sq km), an island in the E Mediterranean Sea, c.40 mi (60 km) S of Turkey and c.60 mi (100 km) W of Syria. The capital and largest city is Nicosia . In addition to the capital...
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Andreas Georgiou Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou , 1919-96, Greek political leader, premier of Greece (1981-89, 1993-96), son of George Papandreou (1888-1968) and father of George Papandreou (1952-). He was jailed and tortured in 1939 and left for the United States in 1940. He was a naturalized American citizen for ...
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George Papandreou
George Papandreou pä&180;pendrā´oo , 1888-1968, Greek political leader, father of Andreas Papandreou and grandfather of George Papandreou (1952-). As a young man he became involved in antiroyalist politics, serving as a member of parliament, interior minister (1923), and in ...
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Bayard
Bayard , Ital. Baiardo , in chivalric romance, a bay horse, remarkable for his spirit and for his unique ability to fit his size to his rider. He appears in the 12th-century French epic Renaud de Montauban and in later tales of Roland by Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso.
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Thomas Watson
Thomas Watson 1557?-1592, English poet and scholar. He translated into Latin the Antigone of Sophocles and the Aminta of Tasso and wrote The Hecatompathia; or, Passionate Century of Love (1582), one of the earliest collections of sonnets in English.
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Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso , 1544-95, Italian poet, one of the foremost writers and a tragic figure of the Renaissance. Educated in Naples by Jesuits, he later studied law and philosophy (1560-1562) at the Univ. of Padua. Rinaldo (1562), a chivalric poem, brought him fame when he was 18; after completing his ...
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symphonic poem
symphonic poem type of orchestral composition created by Liszt, also called tone poem. Discarding classical principles of form, it begins with a poetic or other literary inspiration. Although it is usually considered program music , no literal following of a program was intended by Liszt. His Tas...
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epic
epic long, exalted narrative poem, usually on a serious subject, centered on a heroic figure. The earliest epics, known as primary, or original, epics, were shaped from the legends of an age when a nation was conquering and expanding; such is the foundation of the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, of t...
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Padua
Padua , Ital. Padova, city (1991 pop. 215,137), capital of Padova prov., in Venetia, NE Italy, connected by canal with the Brenta, Adige, and Po rivers. It is an agricultural, commercial, and major industrial center and a transportation junction. Manufactures include machinery, motor vehicles, lea...
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sonnet
sonnet poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme. There are two prominent types: the Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet, composed of an octave and a sestet (rhyming abbaabba cdecde ), and the Elizabethan, or Shakespearean, sonnet, consisting of three quatrai...
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