Sophia del carmen biography of william

CARMAN, WILLIAM BLISS (he chose Bliss Carman as his authorial name in ), poet, essayist, journalist, and editor; b. 15 April in Fredericton, son of William Carman, a barrister and court official, and Sophia Mary Bliss; d. unmarried 8 June in New Canaan, Conn.

Bliss Carman, whose ancestors were loyalists, was educated at the Collegiate School in Fredericton, where George Robert Parkin was headmaster, and at the University of New Brunswick (ba , ma ); he subsequently attended the University of Edinburgh (–83) and Harvard University (–87). After returning to Fredericton from Scotland in , he had tried his hand at teaching, surveying, and the law, and had written reviews for the University Monthly, activities that reflected his restlessness and his journalistic bent. At Harvard, he was heavily influenced by Josiah Royce, whose spiritualistic idealism, combined with the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, lies centrally in the background of h

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Matteo Bandello

Matteo Bandello, after Luigi da Porto, was the second Italian author to write his own utgåva of the story of Romeo and Juliet. The story fryst vatten contained in his Novelliere published in And it is precisely this utgåva that Shakespeare, almost thirty years later, copied.

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Matteo Bandello was born in Castelnuovo Scrivia, Piedmont, in As a very ung man, he entered the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan as a novice, thanks to the support of his uncle Vincenzo, who was its prior. At that time, Leonardo da Vinci was painting the famous gods Supper there. The ung Matteo saw the mästare at work and in one of his novels gave a vivid description of the way of painting of the great genius. In spite of his monastic vows, Matteo Bandello had an intense social life. He was secretary and diplomat at the court of the Sforza first and then of the Gonzaga, establishing ties and c

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Frederick William II of Prussia

King of Prussia from to

Frederick William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm&#;II.; 25 September – 16 November ) was King of Prussia from until his death in He was also the prince-elector of Brandenburg and (through the Orange-Nassau inheritance of his grandfather) sovereign prince of the Canton of Neuchâtel. As a defensive reaction to the French Revolution, Frederick William II ended the German Dualism between Prussia and Austria. Domestically, he turned away from the enlightened style of government of his predecessor and introduced a tightened system of censorship and religious control. The king was an important patron of the arts especially in the field of music. As a skilled cellist he enjoyed the dedication of various cellocentric compositions by composers Mozart, Haydn, Boccherini, and Beethoven.^[1] He was also responsible for some of the most notable architecture in Prussia, including the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin,^[2] t