Bonaventure Des Périers
Bonaventure Des Périers , c.1510-1544, French humanist and poet; protégé of Margaret of Navarre. His chief work, Cymbalum mundi (1537), a series of four skeptical prose dialogues in the manner of Lucian, was banned because of its attack on Christianity.
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Le Cynisme a la Renaissance: d'Erasme a Montaigne suivi de 'Les Epistres de Diogenes'.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2006; ; 550 words
; ...contain no references to ancient Cynicism, including the Cymbalum mundi and Le Discours de la servitude volontaire. The first half...attacks on credulity as being in defence of true faith, as in Cymbalum mundi. This book will therefore be of interest to all those who...
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I hear confessions.(Viewpoint)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 8/13/2004; ; 674 words
; I hear confessions at St. Francis of Assisi Church in midtown Manhattan. It is possibly my chief work. The two confessionals are spare, small and often cold. In summer, awful odors can linger, a composite of perfume, cologne or spent...
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Le Dialogue a la Renaissance: histoire et poetique.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 480 words
; ...the methodology adopted is often a long way from close reading: the helpfulness of a discussion of dialogue form in the Cymbalum mundi, which does not contain a single citation from the work which is the purported object of study, is curtailed from the outset...
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Les oeuvres completes de Voltaire.(Les oeuvres completes de Voltaire: Voltaire editeur: oeuvres de 1769-1770, vol. 71A)(Les oeuvres completes de Voltaire: Voltaire editeur: oeuvres de 1769-1770, vol. 71B)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...first volume, Voltaire's contributions are made obvious to the reader by setting them in larger type than the main text. Le 'Cymbalum mundi' en francais, contenant quatre Dialogues, enrichi de Notes interessantes, edited by Nicholas Cronk, presents a work by Bonaventure...
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Point-to-Point: Cosmic Sky leads winners at Ampton meeting.
Newspaper article from: Bury Free Press (Bury St. Edmunds, England); 1/19/2007; 552 words
; ...strongly up the hill, beating the opposition by 15 lengths. Trainer's wife, Jane, is taking some of the credit as the horse's chief work-rider! They hope to take Cosmic Sky Hunter Chasing later in the season. Cameroon, trained by Laura Pomfret, beat a good field...
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Bruce Nauman.(sculpture exhibition)
Magazine article from: Art Monthly; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...anatomise structures of control and confinement, with dead-ends cutting off all ideas of escape. Even more explicit was the chief work in the ground floor gallery, South America Triangle that, with South America Circle, both of 1981, directly suggests torture...
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Origen.(Fathers Of The Church V)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...output is lost or survives only in not always reliable Latin translations. Though Jerome had the original manuscript, his chief work of Biblical scholarship, the Hexapla ( SixFold )--in which the Old Testament in Hebrew (which Origen learned for this purpose...
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Class act MBAs take on Bonny Doon Vineyards.
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...that I have already forgotten, are generally very turned off by hard selling, by all of the branding that seems to be the chief work of highly paid marketers, Grahm e-mailed. It does appear that they are highly attracted to brands that are quirky, real, high-quali...
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A Proud Day.(Heart of a Soldier: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11th)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/30/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...what a precious gift they have been given. Lurking eerily in the background is the other story: the mass-murder plot being painstakingly crafted by the al-Qaeda terrorists. Stewart details how Rescorla, as Morgan Stanley's security chief, work
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Religious orders speak for the voiceless at the U.N.: growing number of congregations share international expertise with world policymakers.(Religious Life)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/27/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Bringing the voices of the least visible of the earth's inhabitants to the briefing rooms of its power brokers is Deacon's chief work as director of the New York office of Franciscans International, a nongovernmental organization that represents at the United...
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