He was born in Naples on 3 October 1827, and had already become known as a historian when he published Archivo Storico Italiano in 1856.
The Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. XXVIII, 1920, p. 91.
under Pasquale Villari
He was a professor of history at...
Literary Setting
Eliza Ogilvy
The End of 1854 exemplifies EO
's political awareness ('Twas a soldier year / We are burying here),
Ogilvy, Eliza. Poems of Ten Years. Thomas Bosworth, 1856.
301
but her sense of politics is rooted in history. Many of these poems relate...
Publishing
Linda Villari
Throughout her career, LV
contributed dozens of articles to a number of outlets including among others The National Review, Macmillan's Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, and the English Illustrated Magazine.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.
Many of these...
Textual Features
George Eliot
This novel opens at the time of the death of Lorenzo de Medici
, when the Florence that he ruled was riven by conflict among the various political intellectual groupings that supported the new learning...
Textual Production
Katherine Parr
KP
is now believed to have translated from SavonarolaA Goodly Exposition, after the manner of a contemplation upon the [fifty-first] psalm: the psalm which begins, Have mercy on me, O God (the same...
Textual Production
Margaret Oliphant
MO
published The Makers of Florence: Dante
, Giotto
, Savonarola
; and Their City.
“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996.
159: 251
Textual Production
Linda Villari
LV
issued the first of her many translations into English of books by her learned and prolific husband, Pasquale Villari
: The Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola. The publisher for all of these...
Timeline
1495: In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence,...
Writing climate item
1495
In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola
destroyed texts by Ovid
, Dante
, Boccaccio
and others.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
319
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Editorial Materials”. Casa Guidi Windows, edited by Julia Markus, Browning Institute, 1977, p. Various pages.