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  • 41pas|quil — «PAS kwuhl», noun. = pasquinade. (Cf. ↑pasquinade) …

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  • 42Pasquin — Pas quin, n. [It. pasquino a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against the wall of the place of the Orsini; so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this statue it was customary to paste satiric papers.]… …

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  • 43Satire — Sat ire (?; in Eng. often ?; 277), n. [L. satira, satura, fr. satura (sc. lanx) a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F.… …

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  • 44Pope Adrian VI — Infobox Pope English name = Adrian VI Latin name = Adrianus VI birth name = Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens term start = January 9, 1522 term end = September 14, 1523 predecessor = Leo X successor = Clement VII birth date = birth date|1459|3|2… …

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  • 45List of anonymously published works — Throughout history, various works have been published anonymously, often due to their political or controversial nature. This is a list of works published anonymously, either attributed to Anonymous , or with no specific author s name given. For… …

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  • 46Pietro Aretino — Pietro Aretino, in Titian s first portrait of him Pietro Aretino (20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate… …

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  • 47Augusto Roa Bastos — Infobox writer name = Augusto Roa Bastos imagesize = 200px caption = birthdate = birth date|mf=yes|1917|06|13 birthplace = Asunción, Paraguay deathdate = death date and age|mf=yes|2005|04|26|1917|06|13 deathplace = Asunción, Paraguay occupation …

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  • 48Alexandr Griboyedov — Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov ( ru. Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов, alternative transcription: Griboedov) (January 15, 1795 – February 11, 1829) was a Russian diplomat, playwright, and composer. He is recognized as homo unius libri , a writer… …

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  • 49Woe from Wit — (Russian: Горе от ума, also translated as The Woes of Wit , Wit Works Woe , and so forth) is Aleksandr Griboyedov s comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, a pasquinade on… …

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  • 50John Foulds — A successful composer of light music and theatre scores, his principal creative energies went into more ambitious and exploratory works that were particularly influenced by Indian music. Suffering a setback after the decline in popularity of his… …

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