Summa
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Summa. Originally a title of reference books on various subjects, the term came to denote a compendium of theology, philosophy, or canon law. These compendia were used as handbooks in the Schools, much like the earlier
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Wotton and His Worlds: Spying, Science and Venetian Intrigues
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Wotton and His Worlds: Spying, Science and Venetian...99 hardcover; $22.99 paperback.) Sir Henry Wotton was one of the multi-talented political...his substantial Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton in two volumes in 1907. But Wotton...
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Wotton quote; LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 9/11/2001; 359 words
; SIR - In the BusinessWales editorial...an ambassador. It was Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to the courts...James I's daughter, was Sir Henry's mistress. I trust that...the same distractions as Sir Henry in carrying out their mission...
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Dr. Donne & Sir Edmund Gosse.(John Donne)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...When it comes to the principal subject of this essay, Sir Edmund Gosse, I know what he meant, and for this reason...that a year after Donne's visit the British diplomat Sir Henry Wotton--former ambassador to Venice now on a special royal...
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Betteridge, Thomas, ed., Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parergon; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...world. Melanie Ord, in looking at Sir Henry Wotton, also sees the traveller as more...exile looking back while away. Wotton's nomination as Provost of Eton...his time as a traveller play in Wotton's later writings. Oddly, she...
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 "Reforma (México D.F., México)")
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Agenda Ciudadana/ El engano y la politica y la politica como engano.(Nacional)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 5/2/2002; 700+ words
; ...nacionales modernos en Europa, Sir Henry Wotton, poeta y diplomtico ingls, defini...mienta en nombre de su pas". A Wotton, como a cientos de miles de diplomticos...no la salva ni el patriotismo. Wotton y Orwell representan dos visiones...
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Shakespeare and Carnival: After Bakhtin.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Gordon McMullan returns to the well-known remarks of Sir Henry Wotton that Henry VIII seemed 'to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous', but uses Wotton's remark to pursue a (rightly Bakhtinian) point...
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Property values
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 9/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...this longing for "a kind of private Princedom", as Sir Henry Wotton put it in 1624 in The Elements of Architecture, quoted...undermine the "comfortablest part of his owne life", as Henry Wotton had it. One should always remember today, too, that...
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Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...interdisciplinary." Mike Pincombe's study of Sir Philip Sidney's contemporary Balint...understanding of diplomat and ambassador Sir Henry Wotton. Though he was well-traveled, Ord argues that Wotton upon his return to England worked...
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Venetian local color at the end of 'Volpone.'
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...the principal routes into Venice. Sir Henry Wotton, who became English ambassador to...support to John D. Rea's idea that Sir Politic Would-be is a satiric representation of Wotton, it does point toward one way in...
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The tawdry truth about Tony's too-tight trews
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 11/13/2005; ; 700+ words
; The publication of Sir Christopher Meyer's memoir 'DC Confidential...flaunted. The most famous example is Sir Henry Wotton's joke, 'An Ambassador is an honest...abroad for the good of his country'. Wotton was sacked by King James I, and there...
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Sir Henry Wotton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Henry Wotton 1568-1639, English poet and diplomat, b. Kent. He was secretary...was first printed with music in East's Sixth Set of Books (1624). Wotton also wrote a number of prose tracts. His biography (1651) was written...
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Wotton, Sir Henry
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639). English diplomat, collector, and writer...and Delight’ (a remark itself derived from Vitruvius). Wotton also described the Roman Corinthian Order as ‘a columne lasciviously...
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Izaak Walton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in 1631, and a mutual friend, Sir Henry Wotton, had asked Walton to collect material...an edition of Donne's sermons. Wotton died before writing the life, and...1651 Walton published a life of Sir Henry Wotton as a preface to Reliquiae...
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George Herbert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...daughter of a landowner, Sir Richard Newport, was left...School. In 1609 she married Sir John Danvers. In that...English deism; another, Henry, was a courtier and parliamentarian...Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George...
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...essays were collected as All Trivia (1933). Other works include writings on the English language, a biography of Sir Henry Wotton (1907), On Reading Shakespeare (1933), Reperusals and Re-collections (1936), and Milton and His Modern...
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