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  • Regarding the Salon delle conversazione: in describing the term salon, Alberti alludes to its derivation (he believes) from saltare, to dance, "because that was where the gaiety of weddings and banquets took place."

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • MySpace massimiliana ciaoooo!!!!!! mi chiamo massimiliana è ho un cavalllo di nome GARNET e uno di nome LEONES essi praticano salto ostacoli con me da tempo e con loro sono arrivata a saltare un '1.95 ho falto tantissime gare se siete come me fan dei cavalli contattatemi: massimilianandcavalli@hotmail. it

    Win With WILDFIRE | the TV addict 2007

  • Aprire un festival cinematografico, a volte, è un pochino come saltare nel vuoto…

    No Fat Clips!!! : Festival qualite’ 2008

  • Cercavo di convincermi che non era colpa mia, perché non ero io che avevo fatto fuggire Jim dal suo legittimo proprietario; tutto inutile, la coscienza saltava su e mi diceva: “Ma lo sapevi benissimo che stava scappando, avevi solo da saltare sulla canoa e correre ad avvertire qualcuno”.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Barnes & Noble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2008

  • Graticae deam propitiantes, &c. came in smiling with her gracious graces and exquisite music, as if she had danced, et nonnunquam saltare solis oculis, and which was the main matter of all, she danced with her rolling eyes: they were the brokers and harbingers of her suite.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Mi ricorda quella volta, alla stazione, quando un mio amico mi chiese di saltare sul primo treno in partenza…

    No Fat Clips!!! : Coke Zero: Rooftop 2007

  • The greatest soldiers, as [5160] Quintilianus, [5161] Aemilius Probus, [5162] Coelius Rhodiginus, have proved at large, still use it in Greece, Rome, and the most worthy senators, cantare, saltare.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Turks, &c. solace themselves after supper amongst their queens and concubines, quae jucundioris oblectamenti causa ([3532] saith mine author) coram rege psallere et saltare consueverant, taking great pleasure to see and hear them sing and dance.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Melius est foedere, quam saltare, [3301] saith Austin: but what is that if they delight in it?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Stetimus coram eo, et ipse sedebat in gloria sua et faciebat sonare citharam et saltare coram se.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

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