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The Lusiads begins in medias res. Vasco da Gama and his Portuguese crewmen are in the East African kingdom of Malindi, having survived rough weather and an ambush. The local king encourages Gama to recite the history of the Portuguese people, he recites it going back all the way to ancient times. Gama tells the story of the Roman general Quintus Sertorius, who had successful rebellion that drove a repressive regime out of Hispania (now Portugal and Spain). Gama then describes the growth of Portugal

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’ depicts the story of a little girl, Ofelia, and her adventures in a world that is intertwined with both reality and fantasy. The film is set five years after the Spanish Civil War, during Franco’s dictatorship of Spain. Franco’s dictatorship was a period of mass repression on all scales of society; any political opposition was immediately crushed. Guillermo del Toro uses the monsters in ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’ to reflect and criticize aspects of Francoist

Vasco da Gama is the chief character in The Lusiads, but he is not its hero. The poem’s title derives from Lusitania, the Roman name for the province that roughly encompasses present-day Portugal. The nation of Portugal and all of its people are the true heroes of this patriotic epic. The Lusiads is written in ottava rima, a rhyme scheme of Italian origin that was commonly used in Renaissance epic poetry. An ottava rima stanza has eight lines with three rhymes, following the rhyme scheme abababcc

Much Ado About Nothing:  A Comedy with Deep Meaning      Much Ado About Nothing--the title sounds, to a modern ear, offhand and self-effacing; we might expect the play that follows such a beginning to be a marvelous piece of fluff and not much more. However, the play and the title itself are weightier than they initially seem. Shakespeare used two other such titles--Twelfth Night, or What You Will and As You Like It--both of which send unexpected reverberations of meaning throughout their

knowledge not only of the Latin and some of the Greek classics but also of the Italian, French, and English Literature of his own and earlier times. Without the Roman epic poet Virgil’s Aeneid, the 15th-century Italian Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, and, later, Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581), Spenser could not have written his heroic, or epic, poem The Faerie Queene. The corpus of Spenser can be discussed in the context of the works of William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney

Ariosto, exercised their poetic licensee to variation and individuality as well. Vergil effectively combined Roman epic attributes with tragic, pastoral, satiric, and political sub genres in The Aeneid, and Ariosto combined romance with epic in Orlando Furioso. With this in mind, Milton merely exercised a preexisting practice of altering traditional epic form by integrating an allegory into his work. Even readers who are skeptical about the allegory’s valid placement must realize that without these accumulated

The fourteenth to the sixteenth century was an incredible time to be in Europe. This marked the beginning of The Renaissance. The Renaissance started in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe. To understand how this spark of “rebirth” came about, it is important to know what was going on in history prior to this. The Black Death swept across Europe, a plague that severely damaged the European population. Political and economical instability were major conflicts that were tearing the continent apart

Carlos Andrade October 26, 2015 Art 111 Northern Renaissance and Italian Renaissance Differences between the Italian and Northern Renaissance The Renaissance was a period of great cultural and technological changes which swept Europe from the end of the 13 century. It was integral in developing Europe into a powerhouse. Although, each part of Europe was subjected to different changes, there were two primary renaissances which were most notable. They were the Italian and the Northern renaissance

The Artistry of G.F.Handel (1685-1759) First Part Halle - Hamburg - Rome 1690-1712 It's hard today to speak about Handel's life and works without mentioning the similarities between him and Bach; first of all they were born in the same year:1685, even if it's not a case than the most geniuses of the late baroque era (Couperin, Telemann Scarlatti ) would have almost been all co-aged.Neverhless unlike Bach, Handel immortalised the name of a family of cheesemakers or of the Prince of Saxony's barber/surgeon

Comparison of Federico García Lorca's Poems, Romance de la Pena Negra and La Aurora Romance de la Pena Negra (Ballad of the Black Sorrow) was written by Lorca on the 30. July 1924 (Catedra:80). It was one of a collection of poems he entitled the Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads) that, when published, was a huge success, among academics and the general public alike, making this book one of his most well known pieces of work. There are many reasons why the poems received such wide acclaim in