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Word: cavalcanti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mulberry trees, tapping rubber, raising coffee. In 1933, 23,152 entered the country. A bill is now before the Brazilian Congress to amend the Constitution, limiting annual Japanese immigration to 2% of the present Japanese population. Foreign Minister Hirota wrote thus to Acting Foreign Minister Felix de Barros Cavalcanti de Lacerda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Japan Around the World | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...mention my having written two operas, i.e. the music. That is more important than my written criticism. I mean to say I have "set to music" a great deal of the best poetry of Villon and Cavalcanti with the intention of getting it out of books and to the consumer or recipient. When I can sit in the electrician's kitchen in Rapallo and hear the words (I mean understand which word is which not merely hear a blurr of melodious noise) of Maitland. Marquesita, Ferrari and R. Collignon singing Villon's poems in London I have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...universe. 9. Dante and Cecco d'Ascoli. 10. A study of the decline of Dante's influence in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 11. Modern traits in Dante. 12. Dante in the anecdotic literature of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. 13. The influence of Guido Cavalcanti on Dante. 14. A criticism of Torraca's edition of the Divina Comedia. Other subjects that those above listed may be submitted for approval to Professor Weston

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANTE PRIZE CONTEST SUBJECTS ANNOUNCED | 3/14/1930 | See Source »

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