Word: classics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Musique at Paris, who has furnished a copy of the original manuscript, now in the Paris archives, that is possible to reproduce the exact musical environment of this play. The orchestra will include an historic harpsichord, lent for the occasion from the Chickering collection. In vivid contrast to this classic comedy will be the extremely lively and amusing farce, "L'Anglais Tel Qu'on le Parle," an example of the modern French realistic school...
...fact that the Advocate begins the year with a welcome innovation--a new cover and smoother paper--the same conservative merits remain. The usual shortcoming of the paper, its ultra "literary" tone, is not so noticeable as of old. If the Advocate is to do its best, let the classic Pegasus continue to be enlivened for the "average undergraduate" by the common oats and bran of stories that are local and present and by poems whose subjects are tangible...
...enter Venice, the portal through which Greek literature passed from the East to the West, and crossing back to the mainland, we proceed to the stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones of Livy. From here we turn southward to Mantua with its undying memories of Virgil, and thence to Ferrara, celebrated for the massive towers of its moated castle. Dr. Sandys then touched upon Naples, where...
...academies of the classic type, Dr. Sandys said, included primarily those of Florence, Venice, Naples, and Rome. The founding of the Academy of Florence by Cosimo dei Medici was one of the incidental and unexpected consequences of the Council of Florence, held in 1439. Foremost among the members of the academy was Politian, the general purport of whose poems may be gathered from a rendering of a single couplet: "O happy violets, which that hand hath prest...
...began, cannot be separated in the mind of the mature admirer of Germany's classic age in literature. In spite of the close connection between the two men, however, their views of life were very different. Yet, at times, we find them apparently exchanging their roles, "When Goethe philosophizes, while Schiller's pure genius sings unreflectingly into the beauty of the Universe." They first met in a formal way. Intimacy quickly resulted, however, and under that comradeship the two gave their finest works to the world. Theirs was a friendship to whose inner nobility and inspiration, to whose fruitfulness...