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The coquet. A musical entertainment; sung at Marybone Gardens; translated from the Italian of Signor Goldoni, and adapted to the original music of Signor Galuppi, by Mr. Stephen Storace.
Goldoni, Carlo, 1707-1793.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
A celebration of John Evelyn : proceedings of a conference to mark the tercentenary of his death / edited by Mavis Batey.
Date: 2007- Pictures
Giuseppe Ambrogetti. Stipple engraving by C. Picart, 1824, after A. Wivell.
Wivell, Abraham, 1786-1849.Date: May 1st 1824Reference: 5335i- Books
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Vignola revived; Wherein is shewn The True and most Elegant Proportions of the five orders, As laid down by that Great Master: Illustrated by Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven designs of Palaces and other Magnificent Buildings, Executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere; Neatly Engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates, adapted Not only to the General Use of architecture, but herein Particular Subjects are treated with the greatest Accuracy, viz. The Five Orders; Columns, Symbolical, &c. &c. Doors, Windows, Niches, &c. Cornishes, French and Italian; Ballustrades, Mosaic Work, Mouldings, &c. Sections of Rooms, with Designs for Furniture; Ornamental Iron-Work for various Purposes; Temples, Grotto's, and Summer Retreats, for Parks, Gardens, &c. Plan, Elevations, and Sections of the Castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a Church, Pallaces, &c. With many other Particulars relative to the Art of Building.
Vignola, 1507-1573.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical. Wherein The most reasonable and advantageous Methods of raising and conducting Water, for the watering Noblemens and Gentlemens Seats, Buildings, Gardens, &c. are carefully (and in a Manner not yet publish'd in any Language) laid down. Containing in General A Physico-Mechanical Enquiry into the Original and Rise of Springs, and of all the Hypotheses relating thereto; as also the Principles of Water-Works, and the Draughts and Descriptions of some of the best Engines for raising and distributing Water, for the Supply of Country Seats, Cities, Towns corporate, &c. Deduc'd from the Theory of Archimedes, Gallileo, Torricelli, Boyle, Wallis, Plot, Hook, Marriotte, Desaguliers, Derham, Hawksbee, and others. Reduc'd to Practice by Vitruvius, Bockler, de Caus, and other Architects amongst the ancient Romans, Italians, French, Flemmings, and Dutch, and much improv'd by later Practice and Experience. Illustrated and Explain'd by Sixty Copper Cuts, done by the best Hands, of the Principles which tend to the Explanation of the whole, and of rural Grotesque, and cheap Designs for Reservoirs, Cataracts and Cascades of Water, Canals, Basins, Fountains, &c. Collected from the best of the Italian and French Designs (together with some new ones of the Author's own Invention) few of which have ever appear'd in Books of Hydrostaticks, &c. In Two Volumes. By Stephen Switzer.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]- Books
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Jerusalem delivered; an heroic poem: translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoole. ...
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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A catalogue of the libraries of the Reverend and learned Thomas Brathwaite, D. D. Late Warden of Winchester-College, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. And His Late Nephew, Tho. Brathwaite, Surgeon and Anatomist. Consisting of a Very Large Collection of books and manuscripts, In Theology, Architecture, History, Anatomy, &c. in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, High and Low Dutch, English, &c. and several scarce State Tracts. With a great Number of very curious Drawings, Prints, Views, Prospects, Plans of Cities, Palaces, Gardens, Vistas, Fountains, Cascades, Castles, Colleges, Halls, Obelisks, Pyramids, Mausoleums, Sepulchres, Tombs, Monuments, &c. with Anatomical Preparations and Curiosities, not commonly to be met with, among which are a Hymen, compleat, taken from one Executed at Tyhurn, Aged 22 Years, and a Foetus in Utero, with all the Parts of Generation compleat, of Seven Months Growth; also a Sea Surgeon's Chest, Medicines, and other Furniture, Instruments of Surgery, Midwifry, Anatomy, and several Bandages; Which will be Sold by auction, At John's Coffee-House, in Cursitor's-Alley, beginning on Monday the 21st Day of June 1731, and the following Days, till all are sold. By T. Payne, Bookseller, at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row. For the Benefit of the Widow and Infant Son of the said Thomas Brathwaite late Surgeon. They may be view'd on Tuesday the 15th of June, and every Day after, till the Time of sale, which will begin at Five of the Clock in the Afternoon each Day.
Payne, Thomas, bookseller in Paternoster RowDate: 1731]- Books
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The italian adverbs, particles, prepositions, and adverbial phrases, explained. A work extremely useful to those who learn that language. By Paolo Rolli.
Rolli, Paolo, 1687-1765.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Sonnets, and odes translated from the Italian of Petrarch; With the original text, and some account of his life.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
An Italian voyage, or, A compleat journey through Italy. In two parts. With the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries, pallaces, villa's, gardens, pictures, statues and antiquities. As also, of the interest, goverment, riches, force, &c., of all the princes. With instructions concerning travel / By Richard Lasses [!] gent.
Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668.Date: 1698- Books
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For the benefit of Mr. Hindmarsh and Miss Williams, (and positively the Last Time of their Performing here). Keymer's Pavilion & Vauxhall Gardens On Wednesday, August 4th, will be illuminated, and a concert of Vocal and Instrumental Music. Leader of the Band, Mr. Hindmarsh, from London. Principal Second Violin, Mr. R. Sharp. The Vocal Parts by Miss Williams, (from the Theatre Royal, Bath) Mr. Keymer and Miss Harvey. In the course of the concert. A solo concerto Violin-Mr. Hindmarsh. Songs for the evening. ̀̀golden Treasures''-̀̀the Tuneful Lark,'' and a New Favorite Rondo, (composed by Mr. Hindmarsh) by Miss Williams. Comic Song-̀̀and never want a pretty Girl when I am by,'' (as sung by Mrs. Powell, in the Highland Reel) in Character, by Miss Harvey. (by Desire)-The Greenwich Pensioner, in Character-Mr. Keymer. Bastile. Also, a New Pantomime. As Performed here, in the Assize week, called, The Necromancer; Or, Harlequin Du Bois. Harlequin, by a Gentleman. - Clown, by Signior Martinelli. - And Colombine, Mrs. Martinelli. In the course of the Pantomime, the following interesting Scenes will be exhibited: The Triumph of Liberty; or, Releasement, from the Bastile. Being a Picturesque View of the Outside of the Bastile, and Drawbridge-Inside of the Bastile-The various Instruments of Torture-Gloomy Cells-Skeletons-Wretched Victims chained in a variety of Postures, and liberated by the brave Henry Du Bois. The Whole of the Scenery painted on purpose by Mr. M. H. Keymer. The Machinery by Signior Pietro Martinelli. The much admired skeleton scene, In the Italian Style will be introduced. The whole to conclude with brilliant illuminations. With a Variety of Mechanical Movements, the Designs quite new, By Signior Martinelli. The Proprietor begs leave to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Norwich and its Vicinity, that he has lately built a New Commodious Room, and erected an Orchestra and Large Stage after the manner of the Royal Circus, with a complete set of new scenery, in a superior stile of theatrical elegance to any thing of the kind introduced in a public garden on this side the metropolis, by which improvement, 500 persons may be accommodated in the Rotunda more than in the former state Admittance One Shilling. Tickets of the Performance to be had of the Printers of the Norwich Papers, and at the Gardens. - The Concert will begin at Half past seven O'Clock. - A capital Collection of natural curiosities to be sold cheap.
Date: [1790?]- Books
Science and civic life in the Italian Renaissance / translated by Peter Munz.
Garin, Eugenio, 1909-2004.Date: [1969]- Pictures
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A nobleman and his wife view their garden through a window under the words "kalendarium hortense". Etching.
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The works of Metastasio; translated from the Italian, by John Hoole. ...
Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The amyntas of Tasso. Translated from the original Italian by Percival Stockdale.
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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Jerusalem delivered; an heroic poem: translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoole. ...
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The third book of Tasso's Jerusalem. Written originally in Italian. Attempted in English. By Mr. Bond.
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
An Oak Spring flora : flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time : a selection of the rare books, manuscripts, and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon / by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi ; [translated from the Italian by Lisa Chien ; with bibliographical descriptions by Julia Dupuis Blakely].
Tongiorgi Tomasi, Lucia.Date: 1997- Books
The garden of the Renaissance : botanical symbolism in Italian painting / Mirella Levi D'Ancona.
Levi D'Ancona, Mirella.Date: 1977- Books
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Pausanias and Aurora. Being the conclusion of Prince Titi's history. Done from the italian original.
Date: [1736]- Digital Images
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Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A large renaissance water garden with angels in the clouds above. Etching.
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L'olimpiade, a serious opera, in two acts. As performed at the King's Theatre in the Hay Market. The music entirely new, by the celebrated Signor Domenico Cimarosa. Under the Direction of Mr. Mazzinghi.
Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Pictures
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A gathering of many different animals with a large walled classical Italian-style garden behind and a banner bearing the book title above. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Date: 1674Reference: 24360i