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Pellico, Silvio
(Encyclopedia) Pellico, SilvioPellico, Silviosēlˈvyō pĕlˈlēkō [key], 1789–1854, Italian dramatic poet. His principal work is Francesca da Rimini (1815, tr. 1856). Imprisoned for eight years by the…Riley, Bridget
(Encyclopedia) Riley, Bridget, 1931–, English painter. Associated with the pop art movement, Riley covers large canvases with interlocking bands, undulating curves, scattered discs, or repeated…intelligent design
(Encyclopedia) intelligent design, theory that some complex biological structures and other aspects of nature show evidence of having been designed by an intelligence. Such biological structures are…Lollardry
(Encyclopedia) LollardryLollardrylŏlˈy&oobreve;rdrē [key] or Lollardy, medieval English movement for ecclesiastical reform, led by John Wyclif, whose “poor priests” spread his ideas about the…Deloria, Vine Victor Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Deloria, Vine, Jr., 1933–2005, American author, theologian, historian, and activist, b. Marin, S.Dak. Considered by some to be the…Candide: What Happened to Cunegund, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew
Cunegund's Story In What Distress Candide, Cun... What Happened to Cunegund, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew This same Issachar was the most choleric little Hebrew that…Brewer's: Guyon
(Sir). The impersonation of Temperance or Self-government. He destroyed the witch Acrasia, and her bower, called the “Bower of Bliss.” His companion was Prudence. (Spenser: Faërie Queene,…Brewer's: Jib
A triangular sail borne in front of the foremast. It has the bowsprit for a base in small vessels, and the jib-boom in larger ones, and exerts an important effect, when the wind is abeam,…Brewer's: Cross-patch
A disagreeable, ill-tempered person, male or female. Patch means a fool or gossip; so called from his parti-coloured or patched dress. A cross-patch is an ill-tempered fool or gossip.…Brewer's: Temora
One of the principal poems of Ossian, in eight books, so called from the royal residence of the kings of Connaught. Cairbar had usurped the throne, having killed Cormac, a distant relative…Trending
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