Nun'álvares Pereira
Nun'Álvares Pereira , 1360-1431, Portuguese hero, called the Great Constable. He was the friend, counselor, and general of John I of Portugal. As a leader of the popular revolt against Castilian domination, he helped John to gain the throne and was the hero of the decisive Portuguese victory (1385) at Aljubarrota. In 1415 he took part in the conquest of Ceuta in N Africa. An astute statesman and able strategist, Nun'Álvares was also noted for his religious devotion and for his personal virtue. He ended his years as a monk in a Carmelite monastery that he founded in Lisbon and was beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1918; his feast is Nov. 6. His daughter Beatriz married Alfonso, an illegitimate son of John I; from this union came the house of Braganza.
Bibliography: See biography by E. Battaglia (tr. 1962).
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The novelties of Ronald Firbank
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/4/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...man who could take pleasure in Firbank'. That, more or less, was Evelyn...not exact, the sense is). Yet Firbank had, as he admitted , influenced...technical discoveries upon which Ronald Firbank so negligently stumbled'. That...
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'Aggressive, witty & unrelenting': Brigid Brophy and Ronald Firbank.
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Brigid Brophy was reviewing Ronald Firbank's The New Rythum and Other Pieces...Eleven years after bringing Firbank to the public's attention in...Critical Biography in Praise of Ronald Firbank." Once again, it seemed characteristic...
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Obituary: Thomas Firbank
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/11/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...tourist centres of Wales for 60 years. Thomas Firbank was born in 1910 in Quebec city, where his...was well-to-do, his grandfather, Joseph Firbank, a brother of the novelist Ronald Firbank, having been the contractor who built St Pancras...
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A boy's best correspondent is his mother
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 1/26/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...TO HIS MOTHER, 1920-1924 by Ronald Firbank Maggs, 50 Berkeley Square, London...0901953105 The appearance of Roland Firbank's letters to his mother brings...correspondence seem the merest bagatelle. Firbank died three quarters of a century...
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The Triumph of Frivolity
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/16/1990; ; 700+ words
; RONALD FIRBANK Complete Short Stories Edited by Steven...figure closely modeled afer the young Ronald Firbank. "It would be impossible, I feel...Yellow Book." To this day the name Ronald Firbank too often provokes a snicker or a giggle...
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Forgotten authors
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 10/26/2008; ; 543 words
; No. 11 Ronald Firbank In a world that praises commonplace prose for its realism, it's nice to have Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank, a sort of polar opposite to Andy McNab. Firbank, born 1886, had...
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NEW IN PAPERBACK
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/2/1996; 700+ words
; ...writes with welcome vivacity, knowledge and clarity. Ronald Firbank: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials...Steven Moore (Dalkey Archive, $30). Admirers of Ronald Firbank, author of Vainglory, The Flower Beneath the Foot...
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Building a library: Haiti
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 1/11/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Perfect Dear." These words by Ronald Firbank, written on a postcard to Osbert...think of no better writer than Firbank to conjure the island's noontide...bullets strafe the National Palace. Ronald Firbank saw Haitians as brushed by "mauve...
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Gay inscriptions
Magazine article from: Novel; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...chronologically arranged chapters cover Wilde, E.M. Forster, Ronald Firbank, and key nineteenth and twentieth century autobiographical...Bristow's argument gains strength as he turns to Ronald Firbank and the autobiographical narratives covered in his...
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HARDCOVERS IN BRIEF
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/17/1994; 700+ words
; ...Boyle proudly would not stoop." Complete Plays, by Ronald Firbank (Dalkey Archive, $19.95). Critic Brigid Brophy once proclaimed Ronald Firbank's Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli...
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Ronald Firbank
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ronald Firbank (Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank), 1886-1926, English author. Of a delicate and eccentric nature, Firbank lived the life of a leisured aesthete. His novels, which have appealed to a small but appreciative audience, include...
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Firbank, (Arthur Annesley) Ronald
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Firbank, (Arthur Annesley) Ronald (1886–1926), novelist, received little encouragement...homosexual, and habitué of the Café Royal, Firbank succeeded in creating a distinctive ‘Firbankian...
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Hollinghurst, Alan
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...historical characters, such as E.M. Forster and Ronald Firbank, and it draws eclectically upon various alternative...Genet-like encounter with a gang of skinheads, or the Firbank-like thematics found in the novel's racist commodification...
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Moorcock, Michael
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...central character, Jerry Cornelius, was described by Brian Aldiss as the meeting-point of ‘the world of Ronald Firbank and Ian Fleming ’. The Colonel Pyat books (beginning with Byzantium Endures , 1981) explore the development...
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