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They came from Italy, and the early 17th century correspondence of Thomas Coryat cite the new discovery as almost as important as the discover of America, and causing far more discussion.
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Coryat synthesized the discussion mid-way through the meeting and the group agreed that the major themes were: 1.
Beth Borzone: Obama Platform Meetings - Nassau Citizens Discuss Health Care 2008
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Alison Jordan, the volunteer note-taker, handed the notes to Coryat.
Beth Borzone: Obama Platform Meetings - Nassau Citizens Discuss Health Care 2008
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At the meeting's close, attendees enthusiastically thanked and congratulated Coryat.
Beth Borzone: Obama Platform Meetings - Nassau Citizens Discuss Health Care 2008
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English writer Thomas Coryat claimed that there were 20,000 prostitutes there in 1608, outnumbering nuns and patrician women better than 10 to 1.
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The prejudice against the fork in England remained very steadfast actual centuries after its first introduction; forks are particularised among the treasures of kings, as if they had been crown jewels, in the same manner as the iron spits, pots, and frying-pans of his Majesty Edward III.; and even so late as the seventeeth century, Coryat, who employed one after his visit to
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Coryat the traveller saw it among the Italians, and deemed it a luxury and a notable fact.
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English writer Thomas Coryat claimed that there were 20,000 prostitutes there in 1608, outnumbering nuns and patrician women better than 10 to 1.
Veniceblog: 2004
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Hermann Kirchner, Professor of History and Poetry at Marburg, as cited by Jöcher, though the other "Oratio de Germaniæ perlustratione omnibus aliis peregrinationibus anteferenda," also translated by Coryat, is there listed.
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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The romantic traveller, Coryat, writing well within the seventeenth century in praise of the luxuries of Italy (among which he numbers forks for table use), is as enthusiastic as the authors who began the imitation of Italian metres in Tottel's _Miscellany_, and
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906
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