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| x Hernán Cortés |
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La conquista | Baritone |
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca (Spanish pronunciation: [erˈnan korˈtes]; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large...
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| x Charlotte Corday |
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Charlotte Corday | Soprano |
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known to history as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul...
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| x Salvatore Giuliano |
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Salvatore Giuliano | Tenor |
Salvatore Giuliano (November 16, 1922 – July 5, 1950) was a Sicilian peasant. The subjugated social status of his class led him to become a bandit and separatist who has been mythologised during his life and after his death. He is commonly compared...
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| x Marilyn Monroe |
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Marilyn | Soprano |
Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer, and model.
After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led...
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| x Arthur Rimbaud |
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Rimbaud, ou le fils du soleil |
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (pronounced /ræmˈboʊ/; French pronunciation: [aʁtyʁ ʁɛ̃ˈbo]) (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville, Ardennes. As part of the decadent movement, his influence on modern literature,...
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| x Douglas MacArthur |
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Marilyn | Baritone |
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general, United Nations general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played...
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| x Wilhelm Reich |
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Marilyn | Tenor |
Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. He was the author of several notable textbooks, including The Mass...
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| x Allen Ginsberg |
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Marilyn | Tenor |
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (pronounced /ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" (1956), in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the...
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| x Jean-Paul Marat |
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Charlotte Corday | Bass-Baritone |
Jean-Paul Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a Swiss-born physician, political theorist and scientist better known as a radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. His journalism was renowned for its fiery character and...
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| x Seneca the Younger |
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (c. 4 BC – AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to...
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| x Socrates |
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Der geduldige Socrates |
Socrates (pronounced /ˈsɒkrətiːz/; Greek: Σωκράτης, Sōkrátēs; c. 469 BC–399 BC) was a Classical Greek philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known only through the classical accounts of his...
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| x Anacreon |
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Anacréon |
Anacreon (Greek Ἀνακρέων) (570 BC – 488 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.
Anacreon was born at Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor....
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| x André Chénier |
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Andrea Chénier |
André Marie Chénier (30 October 1762 – 8 July 1794) was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement. His career...
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| x Anne Boleyn |
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Anna Bolena |
Anne Boleyn (pronounced /ˈbʊlɪn/ or /bʊˈlɪn/; 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII, the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to...
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| x Attila the Hun |
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Attila |
Attila (pronounced /ˈætɨlə/ or /əˈtɪlə/; 406 – 453), widely known as Attila the Hun, was the Emperor of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River...
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| x Benvenuto Cellini |
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Benvenuto Cellini |
Benvenuto Cellini (3 November 1500 – 13 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician , who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism.
Benvenuto Cellini was born in...
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| x Giovanni Boccaccio |
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Boccaccio |
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) (Italian pronunciation: [bokˈkattʃo]) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works...
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| x Castor and Pollux |
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Castor et Pollux |
In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux (in Greek, Kástōr and Polydeúkēs - Κάστωρ καὶ Πολυδεύκης) were the twin sons of Lēda and Zeus/Tyndareus (Pollux's father was Zeus, Castor's was Tyndareus), the brothers of Helen of Troy and...
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| x Christopher Columbus |
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Christophe Colomb |
Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration...
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| Cristoforo Colombo | |||||
| x Titus |
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La clemenza di Tito |
Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Titus (December 30, 39 – September 13, 81), was the tenth Roman Emperor, who reigned from 79 until his death in 81. Titus was the second emperor of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire...
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| x Cleopatra VII of Egypt |
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Cléopâtre |
Cleopatra VII Philopator (in Greek, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ; (Early October 69 BC – August 12, 30 BC) was the last effective pharaoh of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty. She originally shared power with her father Ptolemy XII Auletes and later with her...
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| Giulio Cesare | |||||
| La Cleopatra | |||||
| x Mark Antony |
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Cléopâtre |
Marcus Antonius (in Latin: M·ANTONIVS·M·F·M·N) (c. January 14, 83 BC–August 1, 30 BC), known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and General. He was an important supporter and the loyal friend of Gaius Julius Caesar as a military...
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| x Don Juan |
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Don Giovanni |
Don Juan (Spanish, or Don Giovanni in Italian) is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina...
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| x Nero |
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Nerone |
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted...
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| Nerone | |||||
| L'Incoronazione di Poppea | |||||
| Agrippina | |||||
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| x Dionysus |
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Bacchus |
In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos (pronounced /ˌdaɪ.ɵˈnaɪsəs/; Greek: Διόνυσος or Διώνυσος) is the god of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, amongst...
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| L'abandon d'Ariane | |||||
| x Merlin |
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Merlin |
Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of...
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| x Gustav III of Sweden |
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Gustave III |
Gustav III (Stockholm, 24 January [O.S. 13 January] 1746 – Stockholm, 29 March 1792) was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great.
A...
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| Un ballo in maschera | |||||
| x Faust |
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Faust |
Faust or Faustus (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky", but also German for "fist") is the protagonist of a classic German legend who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic,...
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| Doktor Faust | |||||
| The Damnation of Faust | |||||
| Mephistopheles, or Faust and Marguerite | |||||
| Mefistofele | |||||
| x Mephistopheles |
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The Damnation of Faust |
Mephistopheles (also Mephistophilus, Mephistophilis, Mephostopheles, Mephisto and variants) is the name of the demon in the Faust legend. The character has since appeared in other works as a stock character version of the devil.
The name is...
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| Doktor Faust | |||||
| Mefistofele | |||||
| Le petit Faust | |||||
| x Orpheus |
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The Mask of Orpheus |
Orpheus (Greek: Ὀρφεύς; in English pronounced /ˈɔrfiəs/ or /ˈɔrfjuːs/) is an important figure from Greek mythology, the inspiration for subsequent Orphic cults, much of the literature, poetry and drama of ancient Greece and Rome and, due to his...
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| La nascita di Orfeo | |||||
| Orfeo ed Euridice | |||||
| Orpheus in the Underworld | |||||
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| x Venus |
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Venus and Adonis |
Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths. From the third century BC, the increasing Hellenization of Roman upper classes identified her...
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| Venus und Adonis | |||||
| Thésée | |||||
| x Adonis |
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Venus and Adonis |
Adonis (Greek Ἄδωνις, Adonis, from the Northwest Semitic 'A-D-N) is a figure of West Semitic origin, where he is a central cult figure in various mystery religions, who entered Greek mythology. He is closely related to the Egyptian Osiris, the...
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| x Xerxes I of Persia |
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Xerse |
Xerxes the Great, also known as Xerxes I of Persia, (Old Persian: ; Xšayāršā) (reigned 485–465 BC) was a Zoroastrian Persian Shahanshah (Emperor) of the Achaemenid Empire.
Xerxes was the son of Darius the Great and his wife Atossa. He succeeded his...
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| Serse | |||||
| x Scipio Africanus |
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Scipione affricano |
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus also known as Scipio Africanus, Scipio the Elder, and Africanus the Elder (235–183 BC) was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic. He was best known for defeating Hannibal at the...
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| x Actaeon |
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Actéon |
In Greek mythology, Actaeon (pronounced /ækˈtiən/) (Greek: Ακταίων), son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero, trained by the centaur Cheiron, who suffered the fatal wrath of Artemis; (later his myth...
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| x Medea |
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Médée |
Medea (Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia) is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
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| Médée | |||||
| Medea in Corinto | |||||
| Teseo | |||||
| x King Arthur |
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Le roi Arthus |
King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary...
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| x Edward Ratcliff | William Ratcliff |
Edward Ratcliff (February 8, 1835 – March 10, 1915) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm.
By September 29,...
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| x Lucrezia Borgia |
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Lucrezia Borgia |
Lucrezia Borgia (18 April 1480 - 24 June 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included Cesare Borgia, Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre...
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| x Torquato Tasso |
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Torquato Tasso |
Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Freed, 1580), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and...
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| x Mary I of Scotland |
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Maria Stuarda |
Mary I (popularly known in the English-speaking world as Mary, Queen of Scots and, in France, as Marie Stuart) (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587) was Queen of Scots from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567. She was the only surviving legitimate child...
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| x Zeus |
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Semele |
In Greek mythology, Zeus (pronounced /ˈzjuːs/) () is the King of the Gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the...
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| La Calisto | |||||
| Semele | |||||
| Die Liebe der Danae | |||||
| Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe | |||||
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| x Thetis |
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Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo |
Silver-footed Thetis (ancient Greek Θέτις), disposer or "placer" (the one who places), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who...
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| x Oedipus |
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Oedipe |
Oedipus (pronounced /ˈɛdɨpəs/ in American English and /ˈiːdɨpəs/ in British English; Greek: Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen-footed") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his...
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| Oedipus rex | |||||
| Oedipe à Colone | |||||
| x Penelope |
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Pénélope |
In Homer's Odyssey, Penelópē (Πηνελόπεια/Πηνελόπη) is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually rejoined with him. Her name has traditionally been associated with faithfulness, and so it was...
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| Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria | |||||
| x Prometheus |
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Promethee |
In Greek mythology, Prometheus (Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, "forethought") is a Titan, the son of Iapetus and Themis, and brother to Atlas, Epimetheus and Menoetius. He was a champion of human-kind known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from...
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| x Daphne |
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Dafne |
According to Greek myth, Apollo chased the nymph Daphne (Greek: Δάφνη, meaning "laurel"), daughter either of Peneus and Creusa in Thessaly, or of the river Ladon in Arcadia. The pursuit of a local nymph by an Olympian god, part of the archaic...
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| Dafne | |||||
| Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne | |||||
| x Mahatma Gandhi |
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Satyagraha |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, pronounced [moːɦənˈdaːs kəɾəmˈtʂənd ˈɡaːndʱiː] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence...
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| x Apollo |
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Le jugement de Midas |
In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Ἀπόλλων—Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων—Apellōn), is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of...
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| Dafne | |||||
| Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne | |||||
| Dafne | |||||
| Apollo et Hyacinthus | |||||
| x Queen of Sheba |
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Die Königin von Saba |
The Queen of Sheba (Hebrew: מלכת שבא, Malkat Shva; Ge'ez: ንግሥተ ሳባ, Nigist Saba; Arabic: ملكة سبأ, Malikat Sabaʾ) was the woman who ruled the ancient kingdom of Sheba and is referred to in Habeshan history, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and...
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| La reine de Saba | |||||
| x Pan |
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Le jugement de Midas |
Pan (Greek Πάν, genitive Πανός), in Greek religion and mythology, is the companion of the nymphs, god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music. His name originates within the Greek language, from the word paein, meaning ...
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| x Richard I of England |
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Richard Coeur-de-lion |
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death in 1199.
He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Ireland, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count...
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| Riccardo Primo | |||||
| x Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor |
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Ottone |
Otto II (955 – December 7, 983, Rome), called the Red, was the third ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty, the son of Otto the Great and Adelaide of Italy.
He received a good education under the care of his uncle, Bruno, archbishop of Cologne, and...
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| x Julius Caesar |
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Giulio Cesare |
Gaius Julius Caesar (pronounced [ˈɡaː.i.us ˈjuːli.us ˈkaɪsar] in Classical Latin; conventionally /ˈɡaɪ.əs ˈdʒuːli.əs ˈsiːzər/ in English), (13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader. He played a critical role in the...
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| x Alexander the Great |
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Alessandro |
Alexander III of Macedon (356–323 BC), popularly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, Mégas Aléxandros), was a Greek king (basileus) of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Born in Pella in 356 BC,...
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| Poro | |||||
| Alessandro nelle Indie | |||||
| x Dido |
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Didone abbandonata |
Dido was, according to ancient Greek and Roman sources, the founder and first Queen of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia). She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid. In some sources she is also known as Elissa....
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| Dido and Aeneas | |||||
| Didon | |||||
| Didone | |||||
| x Orestes |
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Leben des Orest |
In Greek mythology, Orestes (pronounced /ɔˈrɛstiːz/; Greek: Ὀρέστης) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness and purification, which retain obscure...
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| Elektra | |||||
| Oreste | |||||
| x Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor |
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Karl V |
Charles V (German: Karl V, Spanish: Carlos I or Carlos V, Dutch: Karel V, 24 February 1500 — 21 September 1558) was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I of Spain, of the Spanish realms from 1506 until his abdication in 1556. On...
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| x Proserpina |
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Proserpine |
Proserpina (sometimes spelt Proserpine, Prosperine or Prosperina) is an ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of Springtime. Her Greek goddess' equivalent is Persephone. The probable origin of her name comes from the Latin, ...
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| Orfeo | |||||
| x Cupid |
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Psyché |
In Roman mythology, Cupid (Latin cupido) is the god of erotic love and beauty. He is also known by another one of his Latin names, Amor (cognate with Kama). He is the son of goddess Venus.
In popular culture Cupid is frequently shown shooting his...
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