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... Italy and Spain . As can be seen from the poetry of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick , the classical revival often made use of pagan and Roman motifs and used mythology to celebrate the royal family ; it associa- ted the classical pagan ...
... Italy and Spain . As can be seen from the poetry of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick , the classical revival often made use of pagan and Roman motifs and used mythology to celebrate the royal family ; it associa- ted the classical pagan ...
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... Italy he studied Renaissance art , theatre and acquired a copy of I Quattro Libri del ' Architettura by Palladio ( 1518-80 ) , the influential late Renaissance Italian architect who followed Greek and Roman models . Working with Jonson ...
... Italy he studied Renaissance art , theatre and acquired a copy of I Quattro Libri del ' Architettura by Palladio ( 1518-80 ) , the influential late Renaissance Italian architect who followed Greek and Roman models . Working with Jonson ...
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... Italian experiments in stanzaic form , especially the Canzone with its lines of varied length , Milton's poem , with its verse paragraphs of unequal lengths , its varied rhymes and ten unrhymed lines , its digressions on fame and on the ...
... Italian experiments in stanzaic form , especially the Canzone with its lines of varied length , Milton's poem , with its verse paragraphs of unequal lengths , its varied rhymes and ten unrhymed lines , its digressions on fame and on the ...
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