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    A pasquinade or pasquil is a form of satire, usually an anonymous brief lampoon in verse or prose, and can also be seen as a form of literary caricature...
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    Jews." The proverb's earliest attestation is an anonymous 1606 Latin pasquinade that begins, "Regnum Polonorum est" ("The Kingdom of Poland is"). Stanisław...
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    attaching anonymous criticisms to its base. The satirical literary form pasquinade (or "pasquil") takes its name from this tradition. The actual subject...
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    post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow." The play, written in 1823 in the countryside and in Tiflis...
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    Concerning this, an anonymous contemporary Roman satirist quipped in a pasquinade (a publicly posted poem) that quod non fecerunt barbari fecerunt Barberini...
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    construction of the fountain, the city murmured and talk of riot was in the air. Pasquinade writers protested against the construction of the fountain in September...
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    behind a mask of urbanity. Scabrous verse libels of the type known as pasquinades were particularly abundant during the conclave which followed Leo's death...
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    lifetime, Elizabeth was the subject of several satirical pamphlets. A pasquinade entitled The Cuckoo's Nest at Westminster (1648) included ludicrous dialogue...
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  • Lady of Escalot One Thousand and One Nights The Book of Dede Korkut The pasquinades (satirical poems) glued to the Talking Statues of Rome. They still appear...
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    as the Council of Four Lands. It was during this period that a rueful pasquinade claiming that Poland was a "paradise for the Jews" gave birth to a proverb...
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  • congratulate Zelda and direct her to the Shrine of Illusion where she faces Pasquinade to earn the second celestial sign. Guided by the inhabitants of Tolemac...
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    Test Ferrante's jest Gismondi's wage The Snare The Lust of Conquest The pasquinade The Banner of the Bull (1915) Turbulent Tales (1946) Saga of the Sea (omnibus...
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    in the Letters of Junius or Voltaire's Candide, or scurrilous as in pasquinades. In the tradition of anonymous British political criticism, The Federalist...
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    gossip of politics and the Papal Curia, and turning the coarse Roman pasquinade into a rapier weapon of satire, until his sixteen ribald Sonetti Lussuriosi...
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    Józef Szujski notes that the literature became "infested with pleonasms, pasquinades and moral sermon". Consequently, regional councils imposed censorship...
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    the American Revolution. Canards, the successors of the 16th-century pasquinade, were sold in Paris on the street for two centuries, starting in the 17th...
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  • McLaughlin may be: J. Fairfax McLaughlin (author), American author; see Pasquinade J. Fairfax McLaughlin (politician), New York politician; see 143rd New...
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    performed during the carnival of Venice and other such festivals as well as pasquinades. Both cities' avvisi became more diversified over time, eventually anticipating...
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    aristocratic society. As a high official in the play puts it, this work is "a pasquinade on Moscow". The play depicts certain social and official stereotypes in...
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    Gregorio Leti the epigram was written on the door of his cabinet and was a pasquinade referring to the unusual natures of both Elizabeth and James. The Puritan...
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  • safe and can easily be usurped as is demonstrated by the incident of the pasquinade. Language, as powerful as it is, can never be controlled and can just...
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    letter: A pasquinade of Peccant predictions". Communications of the ACM. 24 (12): 793–794. doi:10.1145/358800.358801. S2CID 7302785. A Pasquinade of Peccant...
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    Pasquino became so famous that his name was turned into an English word, pasquinade, which means a satirical protest in poetry. A number of popes, who were...
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  • satirists is as one of the authors of the Satire Ménippée, the famous pasquinade in the interest of his old pupil, Henry IV, in which the harangue put...
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  • special treat) the construction of a heaven/hell/afterlife enabled one. 8. Pasquinade on Evolution Biological evolution did a rather lousy job designing humans...
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    French pasquil, from the Italian pasquinata (as does the English term "pasquinade" for a satire or lampoon). The term has also been explained as a Yiddish...
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    Cortellesi, actress Zerocalcare, comics author The anonymous writers of the Pasquinades posted on the talking statues of Rome use Italian, Romanesco or a mixture...
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    Weinberg near Halle. In 1789, he was arrested partly on account of a pasquinade he had written concerning a religious edict passed by Prussia the year...
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    considered Suny's Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History as being a pasquinade. In 1997, after an appearance at a conference at the American University...
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  • calme du soir, Mélodie Fleur novelle, Romance Radotages Douce Rencontre Pasquinade for various instrumentations: cello (or violin, or viola, or mandolin...
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