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  • Note 30: Annales Scheftlarienses maiores, ed.P. Jaffé, MGH SS 17.338: "Eodem anno quidam puer nomine Nicolaus surrexit, qui multitudinem puerorum et mulierum sibi aggregavit, cum quibus Ierusalem, crucem dominicam liberaturus, iussu angelico adire debere, mare sicut quondam populo Israelitico siccum iter prebere, asserebat." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • We get the noblest form of these aspirations in the ideal imperialism of Dante's "De Monarchia", on the one hand; and, on the other, in the conception of the ideal pope, the papa angelico of St. Bernard's "De Consideratione" and the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • After dinner there was a long and somewhat tedious interval of smoking and story-telling in the dark, and we called upon Lacaita to recite Italian poetry, which he did with much effect, pouring out sonnet after sonnet of Petrarch, including that which my father thinks the most beautiful in the Italian language, that which has in it the 'Campeggiar del angelico riso.'

    The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

  • The best manuscripts, however, sanction M. Witte's reading: -- "Danzando al loro angelico carribo."

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

  • Here Mr. Longfellow has apparently followed the authority of the Crusca, reading "Cantando al loro angelico carribo," and translating carribo by saraband, a kind of Moorish dance.

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

  • "Cantando al loro angelico carribo," and translating carribo by saraband, a kind of Moorish dance.

    The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871

  • At times it wore an expression of seriousness, -- of sorrow even; and then seemed to make the very air bright with what the Italian poets so beautifully call the lampeggiar dell 'angelico riso, -- the lightning of the angelic smile.

    Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

  • At times it wore an expression of seriousness, — of sorrow even; and then seemed to make the very air bright with what the Italian poets so beautifully call the lampeggiar dell 'angelico riso, — the lightning of the angelic smile.

    Hyperion 1839

  • Before his eye there rose the lovely landscape -- the palace by the borders of the waveless lake -- the vineyards in the valley -- the dark forests waving from the hill -- and that home, the resort and refuge of all the minstrelsy and love of Italy, brightened by the "Lampeggiar dell 'angelico riso," that makes a paradise in the face we love.

    Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Born in Bari, Italy, as Giuseppe Dangelico, Pino is one of the mos more pino giuseppe dangelico angelico painter fine art figurative painting italian american popular sucess successful more

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