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  • 121Brunetto Latini — (c. 1220 ndash;1294) (signed his name Burnectus Latinus in Latin and Burnecto Latino in Italian) was an Italian philosopher, scholar and statesman.LifeBrunetto Latini was born in Florence in 1220, the son of Buonaccorso Latini. He belonged to the …

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  • 122Rende — Infobox CityIT img coa = Tretorri Rende.jpg official name = Comune di Rende region = Calabria province = Cosenza (CS) elevation m = 480 area total km2 = 54 population as of = 2004 population total = 35221 name=Rende mapx=39.25 mapy=16.3… …

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  • 123Volpone — or The Fox (in Italian: Big Fox ), is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and animal fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson s most performed play, and it is amon …

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  • 124Whitelaw Reid — Infobox Ambassador name=Whitelaw Reid order=28th ambassador from=United States country=France term start=March 23, 1889 term end=March 25, 1892 predecessor=Robert M. McLane successor=T. Jefferson Coolidge order2=35th ambassador from2=United… …

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  • 125Eastward Hoe — or Eastward Ho , is an early Jacobean era stage play, a satire and city comedy written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, printed in 1605. The play was written in response to Westward Ho, an earlier satire by Thomas Dekker and John… …

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  • 126Nathan Field — Portrait of Nathan Field, unknown artist, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, c. 1615. Nathan Field (also spelled Feild occasionally) (17 October 1587–1620) was an English dramatist and actor; his father was the Puritan preacher John Field and his… …

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  • 127James Mabbe — or Mab (1572 ndash; 1642) was an English scholar and poet, and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was involved in translations from Spanish, in particular of some of the work of Cervantes. He made a translation, in 1623, of the Picaresque… …

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  • 128Comenda — For the Portuguese parish of the municipality of Gaviao, see Comenda (Gavião) In Portugal, a comenda is a benefit that was previously granted to knights in military orders, but now describes a purely honorary distinction. In the past, comenda… …

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