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17 lug 2024 · “Il Castello d’Otranto” è definito il primo romanzo di genere gotico scritto da Horace Walpole di cui la prima edizione risale al 24 dicembre 1764 ma il libro di cui dispongo fu pubblicato nel 1999 da Superbur classici.
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15 ore fa · di Davide Tommasi OTRANTO – Lunedì 22 luglio, alle ore 19 si è tenuta sulla terrazza del Municipio di Otranto, la presentazione del il libro “Il Barone di Otranto” di Voltaire che Renato Giordano ha…
15 lug 2024 · Horace Walpole, właśc. Horatio Walpole 4. hrabia Orford (ur. 24 września 1717 w Londynie, zm. 2 marca 1797 tamże) – angielski pisarz i arystokrata, syn Roberta Walpole’a, pierwszego premiera Wielkiej Brytanii. Był jednym z twórców gotycyzmu. Od 1791 był hrabią Orford. Od 1741 zasiadał w brytyjskim parlamencie.
5 giorni fa · Introduction. Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto,” published in 1764, is referred to as the pioneer of Gothic fiction. Despite laying the foundation of a new literary genre, the novel summarized the ideal elements that define Gothic literature. It is a foundational text that explores the darker facets of human experience.
10 lug 2024 · The objects on the table are a print of the Roman eagle at Strawberry Hill, which Walpole considered 'one of the finest pieces of Greek sculpture in the world' (see Description of Strawberry Hill, Works, v. ii, p. 463), an ink pot and quill; a roll of manuscript, and three books
2 giorni fa · No. 45, on the west side of the square, was the house of the great Lord Clive, the founder of our Indian Empire—"that second Kouli Khan," as Horace Walpole styles him. Sated with success and honours, his restless spirit seems to have enfeebled his nervous system, and there is too much reason to fear that he fell by his own hand, in ...
3 lug 2024 · Lewis Walpole Library > A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill at Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c.
