Giovanni Sforza

Literature and fiction can be dangerous to use alone as a historical source. However, in looking at it with an analytical and open mind and incorporating it with textbooks, readers can gain tremendous knowledge from literature. Looking at the portrayal of a topic by an author is important. All authors write with specific audiences in mind, and with an intention or point. Understanding the point that authors strive to convey can reveal a great deal about opinions and perspectives of the time period

The Decameron was named after one of Songsong’s favorite books written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the mid-14th century that consisted of a collection of 100 stories told by 10 different characters over 10 days. The significances of this stories are that they all surround the similar theme. Songsong used Boccaccio’s concept and applied

In his opera buffa, Don Giovanni, Mozart depicts Don Giovanni as a libertine and philanderer. At the start of Act I, Scene III of the opera, there is a festive peasant wedding, an ensemble between the bride, Zerlina, the groom, Masetto, and the chorus, which consists of the other peasants, all singing about the joys of marriage. Don Giovanni, a nobleman, and his manservant, Leporello, interrupts the wedding, and invites everyone to his villa. He even forces Masetto to go the villa too, leaving Zerlina

Opera buffas break the stereotype that other operas had set. The plots follow common folk rather than heroes and noblemen. They incorporated comedy as an essential element to the plot and connotation of the opera. At first, intellectuals hated this. They believed it broke tradition and made opera look impractical. As time went on, critics and general audiences began to accept opera buffas. There was a lot more depth to comic operas than some would believe. I aim to look at the opera buffa and how

Professor Heywood MUSC 131 1 December 2017 W.A. Mozart – Don Giovanni Produced by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787, Don Giovanni is regarded as one the best operas ever made. The piece is based on the legend of Don Juan, an illusory libertine and seducer of women (Kerns, 2010). At first, Mozart’s opera seems more like a story of the romantic adventures of a dissolute nobleman and his disgrace. However, there is much more to Don Giovanni than just a series of events and serious laughs, just as the

Nicola Pisano’s son, Giovanni, designed the Duomo’s Facade. The Marble facade, on the southwest side or the main entrance, has the most controversy over how, when, and even who, build it. Scholars have agreed that the lower facade under the direct supervision of Giovanni was built between 1284 to 1296, but the “perceived flaw in design of the facade: namely, the vertical misalignment of the piers

Other Sister was released in 1999, by Touchstone Pictures. It was directed by Garry Marshall, and featured Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi. The Other Sister is a heart-warming and humorous movie about two young adult’s journey to find their independence. It also happens to feature two main characters that have intellectual disabilities. The Other Sister is a movie about a young woman, Carla Tate, who has an intellectual disability. The movie begins with Carla’s father, Radley, picking her up

The Black Death Plaques Florence: Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Analysis The notorious Black Death in the fourteenth century is often described as the “great mortality” for its fatal infestation into Asia and Europe. The true impacts it had on the western civilization in one mere day is best described in the first excerpt “Day the First” in the historical text, The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio greatly emphasizes the resulting civil disorder as an entire civilization

Name: MD HOSSIN Prof. Name: MARK ADAMS Course: Music 101 Date: 10/31/2017 Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro The main purpose to write this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the opera “The Marriage of Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The plot of this comic opera all revolves around love triangles and misplaced affections. The main characters of the play are the Count Almaviva and Countess Rosina, and Figaro, and his bride-to-be Susanna are the other couple in the affair. The Count wants

“The Magic Flute” was the opera Mozart did, the opera premiered in Vienna, Italy where Mozart called home. The date of what “The Magic Flute premiered was September 30, 1791, three months after the death of Wolfgang Mozart. The opera is in two acts and it has a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The opera is a fairy tale, like when the prince saves the princess and they fall madly in love. The music for the opera was drama like and was in different music styles. The cast was very small, it had only