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The queen mother who really ruled Catherine de Medici was mother to three kings of France, and exercised more power than any of them in the religious turmoil of the 16th century, says Blair Worden Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 20, 440 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
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UNHAPPY THE land that is torn apart by religion. In the 100 years
from 1560, the Reformation plunged first France and the Netherlands,
then Germany and Britain, into a long succession of civil wars. The
French wars of religion, which lasted nearly four decades, were the
most murderous of them. As the Crown's authority and the nation's
economy collapsed, massacre and assassination became a way of life.
The most notorious episode, the Massacre of St Bartholomew of
1572, was the one with which posterity identifies Catherine de
Medici, the Queen Mother of France who lived from 1519 to 1589 and is ...
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Women of Letters: A Study of Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim. By MARGARETMARY...period, Caroline Schlegel-Schelling (1763...1833) and Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859...A. W. and Fr. Schlegel u.a. (1871...her marriages with August Wilhelm Schlegel and Friedrich...
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Heine's Aristophanes complex and the ambivalence of Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Vogel', die sind gewiss Das beste von VatersDramen. (2) In a deft...Vogel [...], nemlich die Vogel von Aristophanes'. (His reference...1821.) Heine first castigates August Wilhelm von Schlegel for his superficial judgement that...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...mistress of Lord Nelson, 1765; Justus, Freiherr von Liebig, chemist, discoverer of chloroform, 1803...Deaths: Waldemar the Great, King of Denmark, 1182; August Wilhelm von Schlegel, poet and critic, 1845; Sir Charles Barry, architect...
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Negation's translation
Magazine article from: Artforum
; ...destruction"; she believes that through translation she makes the text her own; and she counts herself, as August Wilhelm von Schlegel put it, a "prisoner of continuous poetic adultery." Ultimately, she finds pleasure in a kind of betrayal...
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#766
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...translators and the famous authors whose works they translated are: (1) Jacques Amyot - (c) Plutarch, (2) August Wilhelm von Schlegel+ (not his brother Friedrich, as several readers correctly pointed out) - (e) Shakespeare, (3) Samuel...
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Chateau de Coppet near Geneva, Switzerland.(history of the chateau)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...de Stael cultivated for her illustrious guests, including such favorites as the writers Benjamin Constant; August Wilhelm von Schlegel, who was her children's German tutor; vicomte Francois Rene de Chateaubriand; and the great beauty Juliette...
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The angelic friar at the Met.(Fra Angelico)
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; ...exemplifying in his life and art those Christian virtues so dear to the Victorian ethos. Most writers, beginning with August Wilhelm von Schlegel, who published the first modern biography of Fra Angelico in 1817, viewed the artist through this lens. It...
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Uwe Henneken
Magazine article from: Artforum
; ...critic, and scholar Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel wrote to his brother August Wilhelm that he could "hardly send...absence of a definition in Schlegel's master term." Perhaps...Laura Owens, and Amelie von Wulffen, to name but a...
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Uwe Henneken: Andrew Kreps Gallery.
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...critic, and scholar Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel wrote to his brother August Wilhelm that he could "hardly send...absence of a definition in Schlegel's master term." Perhaps...Laura Owens, and Amelie von Wulffen, to name but a...
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Witzige Spielgemalde: Tieck und das Drama der Romantik.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...be on the periphery of the movement, such as Wilhelm von Schutz with his Lacrimas and Friedrich Kind of...reference is also made to the dramas of Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, Karoline von Gunderrode, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. It is...
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