Parnasso

Commenting in Parnasso on the book's portrayal of the clash between media and politics, Jarmo Papinniemi quotes one passage where the central character ruminates on the nature of political reporting:

Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

” Adams amused himself for a day or two by searching Rafael’s works for the figure, which he found at last in the Parnasso, the figure of Horace, of which, as it happened—though Adams did not know it—the British Museum owned a much finer drawing.

Dilettantism (1865–1866) 1918

Some of these were new, but many were adapted from other works of Handel's, chiefly from Parnasso in Festa, and there are also borrowings from Lotti and Graun.

Handel Edward J. Dent 1916

"Allgemeine und Generalreforation der ganzen weiten Welt", a translation of Fr. Boccalini's "Dei Ragguagli di Parnasso", 1612.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

_Ragguagli di Parnasso_ (1612), which was most successful.

Books Fatal to Their Authors 1892

“Ye sacred _imps_ that on Parnasso dwell”; and ‘imp’ was especially used of the scions of royal or illustrious houses.

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

[15] This beautiful and high-spirited lady, whose fate has led Boccalini, in his whimsical satire of the "Ragguaglí dí Parnasso," to call her the most unfortunate female on record, had seen her father, Alfonso II., and her husband, Galeazzo Sforza, driven from their thrones by the French, while her son still remained in captivity in their hands.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

Hic ante Apollinem ex oraculo in monte Parnasso responsa dare solitus est.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759

Eccotí, benigno Lettore, un Parto dí poche Sere, che se ben nato dí Notte, non è però aborto di Tenebre, mà sí farà conoscere Figlio d'Apollo con qualche Raggio dí Parnasso.

Spectator, March 6, 1711 1711

His Ragguagli di Parnasso and la Secretaria di Parnasso, in which Apollo heard the complaints of the world, and dispensed justice in his court on Parnassus, were received with delight.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700