Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A touchstone—that is, stone of comparison.
- noun The black marble of Bergamo: so called on account of the excellence of the polish it receives.
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In this he was continuing the debate of Paragone Italian: paragone, meaning comparison.
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In this he was continuing the debate of Paragone Italian: paragone, meaning comparison.
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She was -- as her husband might have said -- a perfect 'paragone' of 'poor white' womanhood, with all the accomplishments of her class, smoking, chewing, snuff dipping, and whiskey drinking.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Seeing the paintings and sculptures together suggests a kind of rivalry between painters and sculptors in their quest for superheated emotion and religious intensity, an expansion of the famous paragone the intellectual competition for importance between the two art forms.
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-----, 1594-1595, Paralleli militari, ne 'quali si fa paragone delle milizie degli antichi in tutte le parti loro, con le moderne, 2 vols.,
Francesco Patrizi Purnell, Fred 2004
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The "otherness" of visual representation from the standpoint of textuality may be anything from a professional competition (the paragone of poet and painter) to a relation of political, disciplinary, or cultural domination in which the "self" is understood to be an active, speaking, seeing subject, while the "other" is projected as a passive, seen, and (usually) silent object.
Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994
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He also wrote a bitter satire upon the Spanish misrule in Italy, entitled _Pietra del paragone politico_ (1615).
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[Footnote 28: 'Roma a paragone delli tempi degli altri pontefici si poteva riputar come un onesto monasterio di religiosi' (_op.cit. _ p. 41).]
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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Ovviamente, per paragone, si puo 'andare a vedere la
DElyMyth - /dev/null - Quasi Community (by Elena Franco - a.k.a. DElyMyth) 2008
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Molto bella Cheryl e Più e Più brava di Lilly. in italia Poche canzoni SONO conosciute di Lilly e POI SONO ANCHE brutte invece con Cheryl Una canzone e Andata direttamente NELLA classifica dei Singoli Dieci Più Belli e Più ascoltati . non ce paragone Cheryl Meglio .
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