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Giovanni Gentile
Giovanni Gentile , 1875-1944, Italian philosopher and educator. He taught philosophy in several Italian universities and for many years contributed to the magazine of Benedetto Croce. In 1920 he founded the Giornale critico della filosofia italiana. An early supporter of the Fascist movement, he h...
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Port-Gentil
Port-Gentil , city (1993 est. pop. 80,041), W Gabon, a seaport on Cape Lopez Bay (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean). Timber and locally manufactured plywood are exported. Petroleum is produced and refined nearby.
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Gentile da Fabriano
Gentile da Fabriano , c.1370-1427, Italian painter, one of the outstanding exponents of the elegant international Gothic style. In 1409 he worked in the Doge's Palace, Venice, painting historical frescoes that subsequently perished. In 1422 he was in Florence where he created his most celebrated pai...
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Cornelius
Cornelius in the New Testament, centurion of an Italian cohort stationed at Caesarea, one of the first Gentile converts and traditionally first bishop of Caesarea.
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Japheth
Japheth , in the Bible, son of Noah and ancestor of those who were to occupy the isles of the Gentiles. This has been supposed to mean the Mediterranean lands of Europe and Asia Minor.
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Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury
Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury , 1812-80, English novelist. She is remembered as much for her friendship with the Carlyles and other literary people as for her novels, which include Zoe (1845) and The Sorrows of Gentility (1856).
Bibliography: See biography by S. Howe (1935).
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Candlemas
Candlemas , Feb. 2, Christian festival commemorating the Purification of the Blessed Virgin and the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. The name Candlemas is derived from the procession of candles, inspired by the words of Simeon "a light to lighten the Gentiles" (Luke 2.32). In the Roman Catho...
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Saint Luke
Saint Luke [Gr. Lucas ], traditional author of the third Gospel (see Luke, Gospel according to Saint ) and of its sequel, the Acts of the Apostles . Paul's letter to the Colossians identifies him as "the beloved physician" and implies that he was a Gentile. Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical Hi...
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Bellini
Bellini , illustrious family of Venetian painters of the Renaissance. Jacopo Bellini , c.1400-1470, was a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano. He worked in Padua, Verona, Ferrara, and Venice. Many of his greatest paintings, including the enormous Crucifixion for the Cathedral of Verona, have disappeared...
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Joel
Joel prophetic book of the Bible. It is a collection of the oracles of an otherwise unknown prophet, dated variously from the 9th to the 3d cent. BC, though a date in c.400 BC is likely. A locust plague gives the prophet the prextext for summoning the whole nation to repentance; the people, on repe...
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