HOMOGRAPH
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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HOMOGRAPH. A kind of
HOMONYM: one of two or more words that are identical in
SPELLING but different in origin, meaning, and
PRONUNCIATION, such as
entrance (noun: stress on first syllable) a door, gate, etc., and
entrance (verb: stress on second syllable) to put in a trance;
lead (verb: rhyming with ‘deed’) to take, conduct, guide, etc., and
lead (noun: rhyming with ‘dead’) a metal.
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IN FAIR VERONA
Magazine article from: Opera News; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Italy's tourist attractions (after Rome, Venice and Florence), produced the poet Catullus, the architect Michele Sanmicheli and the painter Paolo Caliari, better known as Veronese. Yet its most famous natives were Romeo and Juliet - or...
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"Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time".
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...masters Antonio Badile and Giovanni Caroto. Then, according to chronicler Giorgio Vasari, architect and engineer Michele Sanmicheli took him under his wing and "treated him like a son" (2). He painted his first works in Verona and Mantua...
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Venice's mythmaker and illusionist
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 3/19/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...feel that he had better acquire one. His gifts had become evident early, and the Veronese architect and engineer Michele Sanmicheli, according to the contemporary Florentine art historian Vasari, took him under his wing and ''treated him like...
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Michele Sanmicheli
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Michele Sanmicheli The Italian architect and military engineer Michele Sanmicheli (ca. 1484-1559) introduced to...military interests. Born in Verona, Michele Sanmicheli went to Rome about 1500. With the...
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Sanmicheli, Michele
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Sanmicheli, Michele ( c. 1487–1559). Italian...Verona (1547–59). Sanmicheli's early palazzi show influences from...and then 3 windows, demonstrating Sanmicheli's ability to surprise. Bibliography...
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Venice, Architecture in
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...together with the Veronese Michele Sanmicheli and the Bolognese Sebastiano...architects like Mauro Codussi (St. Michele in Isola and the clock tower...as those by his contemporary Michele Sanmicheli (1484 – 1559...
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Andrea Palladio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...classicism in the work of Donato Bramante and his followers. With the sack of Rome in 1527 young architects, such as Michele Sanmicheli and Jacopo Sansovino, brought the style to northern Italy. Andrea Palladio with further study of ancient Roman...
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Military
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...workshops in fortifications design were those of Antonio da San Gallo the Younger (1485 – 1546) and Michele Sanmicheli (1484 – 1559). In the context of the decades-long Italian wars (1494 – 1559), in which...
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