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On Conversation (1756) [ Concepts ]
… have each a particular language to themselves, like different nations. Thus it may be supposed, that the nightingales of Italy have as fine an ear for their own native wood-notes, as any Signor or Signora for an Italian air; that the boars of …
Conversation | Animals | Theatre
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Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) [ Concepts ]
… kingdoms? Which can be ascribed to nothing but the encrease of art and industry. When Charles VIII. of France invaded Italy, he carried with him about 20,000 men: Yet this armament so exhausted the nation, as we learn from Guicciardin, …
Commerce | Refinement | Luxury | Charity | Corruption | Democracy | Disorder | Happiness
Anthology
Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… Agnes (1764-1852), with whom she lived, both remained unmarried and undertook journeys to the continent, especially Italy and France. In contrast to Mary, Agnes remains shadowy. Since the Berry sisters and their father Robert only had a …
Bluestockings | Correspondence | Literature | Travel | Theatre
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Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… social relevance intermingled with the communicative innovations of the time. Especially in England, France, Northern Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, the Enlightenment featured the rise of new forms of sociability. Ahead of the Industrial …
Books | Censorship | Newspapers | Periodicals | Public sphere
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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… Renaissance. 1 In an early explicit reference to this community in the emerging scholarly communities of Renaissance Italy, Francesco Barbaro uses the phrase ‘this Republic of Letters’ or ‘huic litteraria Reipublicae’ in a letter …
Academies | Censorship | Community | Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Networks | Republic of Letters
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English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… importance shows how theatrical networks, sociabilities and traditions, which were already well established in France, Italy and Spain, seem to have taken over any other possible factor of influence on the English stage. 4 . Possible … one, as it draws from both novel sources, which may have been found on site, and autobiographical ones. 12 Spain and Italy (unlike France, despite notable exceptions) are also generally popular locations for theatrical action, as is the …
Audience | Diplomacy | Europe | Opera | Theatre | Translation | Travel
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… sociable practices. Indeed, young Catholic Highlanders were sent to Scots colleges in Holland, France, Spain and Italy to be trained as priests. Those who came back to their native land shared what they learnt in what was then …
Clans | Clubs | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland | Tradition
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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… commerce and cosmopolitan culture. In her Observations and Reflections Made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany (1789) , Hesther Thrale Piozzi is often tempted by picturesque descriptions, yet her narrative … our attention’. 9 9 . Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany (London: A. Strahan, 1789), p. 32. Nowhere is this process of self-definition in relation to social …
Education | French Revolution | Travel | Women
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Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… with pistols. Quite importantly, people would only fight duels with their social equals. 5 In the Renaissance, in Italy or in France, courts of honour were set up to adjudicate in disputes. In sixteenth-century France, duels had been …
Antagonism | Aristocracy | Disorder | Gentleman | Honour | Law | Masculinity | Mundanity | Religion
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