Wikipedia Ven·ice (vĕn′ĭs) 1.AcityofnortheastItalyonisletswithinalagoonintheGulfofVenice,aninletoftheAdriaticSea.Foundedinthe6thcenturyadbyrefugeesfleeingtheLombardinvaderswhohadgainedcontrolofthemainland,itbecameamajormaritimepowerbythe13thcenturyandspreaditsinfluenceovernorthernItalyandtheeasternMediterrane...
Also found in: Thesaurus, Legal, Financial, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. mer·chant (mûr′chənt) n. 1. One whose occupation is the wholesale purchase and retail sale of goods for profit. 2. One who runs a retail business; a shopkeeper. adj. 1. Of or relating to ...
Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred (from Merchant of Venice) Pardon, Goddess of the Night (from Much Ado About Nothing) Sigh No More, Ladies (from Much Ado About Nothing) Tres Estmpas de Ninez (Southern, 1957) voice, piano (text by Reyna Rivas; English translation as Three Sketches from Chil...
the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood. English (wikipedia be) Verb To exist; to have real existence. *1526,Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 2: *:Rachel wepynge ffor her chyldren, and wolde nott be comforted because theywerenot. ...
In The Merchant of Venice, it isn’t just a coincidence that Shylock is a Jew, who just happens to be a resentful money-lender. Shakespeare was making dramatic use of the crudest anti-Semitic stereotypes. We can wonder how Shakespeare would have dealt with Richard if he hadn’t had the...
The Republic of Venice (Venetian: Repùblica Vèneta; Italian: Repubblica di Venezia), traditionally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice (Venetian: Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta; Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia), was a sovereign state and maritime republic in northeastern Italy, whi...
About the Artist, via Wikipedia: [1]John Singer Sargent(January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations ofEdwardian-eraluxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 water...
”). The other sense, of blood relations, appeared in a 1300 manuscript (“He . . . es your aun fless and blod”), and numerous other early sources, as well as in Shakespeare’sThe Merchant of Venice(where Gobbo says to his son, “If thou be Launcelot, thou art mine own flesh ...
Ships sailed to the Red Sea ports of Aden and Mecca with Vijayanagara goods sold as far away as Venice. The empire's principal exports were pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, myrobalan, tamarind timber, anafistula, precious and semi-precious stones, pearls, musk, ambergris, rhubarb, aloe,...
Shakespeare took advantage of this popularity: The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Romeo and Juliet are all from Italian novelle. Romeo and Juliet is a dramatization of Brooke's translation, and Shakespeare follows the poem ...