- A
pasquinade or
pasquil is a form of satire,
usually an
anonymous brief lampoon in
verse or prose, and can also be seen as a form of
literary caricature...
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attaching anonymous criticisms to its base. The
satirical literary form
pasquinade (or "pasquil")
takes its name from this tradition. The
actual subject...
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Concerning this, an
anonymous contemporary Roman satirist quipped in a
pasquinade (a
publicly posted poem) that quod non
fecerunt barbari fecerunt Barberini...
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construction of the fountain, the city
murmured and talk of riot was in the air.
Pasquinade writers protested against the
construction of the
fountain in September...
- post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high
official in the play
styled it, "a
pasquinade on Moscow." The play,
written in 1823 in the
countryside and in Tiflis...
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behind a mask of urbanity.
Scabrous verse libels of the type
known as
pasquinades were
particularly abundant during the
conclave which followed Leo's death...
- as the
Council of Four Lands. It was
during this
period that a
rueful pasquinade claiming that
Poland was a "paradise for the Jews" gave
birth to a proverb...
- Judaeorum" is the
opening line of an
anonymous 1606
Latin pasquil, or
pasquinade (satire),
which can be
rendered in
English as "The
Kingdom of
Poland is...
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Weinberg near Halle. In 1789, he was
arrested partly on
account of a
pasquinade he had
written concerning a
religious edict p****ed by
Prussia the year...
- most
prominent rival, Pasquin. As at the
other five "talking statues",
pasquinades—irreverent
satires poking fun at
public figures—were
posted beside Marforio...
