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- A prosopopoeia (Gr****: προσωποποιία, /prɒsoʊpoʊˈpiːə/) is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as...
- Prosopopeia Britanniae is a ten-page poem written by Desiderius Erasmus in Latin. It was written in 1499 for ‘the most illustrious prince, Duke Henry’...
- (according to Jean-Jacques Robrieux, it is, indeed, a form of it). The "prosopopeia of the laws" (Crito, 50 a-c) is one of the oldest examples. The term...
- Prosopopeia (Portuguese Orthographic Formulation of 1943: Prosopopéia) is a 17th-century epic poem written by Portuguese poet Bento Teixeira (1561? –...
- of desire to make more plain what He speaks; to that end employing a prosopopeia of time, after the practice of many in speaking to the rude po****ce;...
- Thummim were the names given to two objects of mystical technology in the Prosopopeia transmedia series, culminating in the International Emmy Award-winning...
- Imperii Romani by German scholars. The word is drawn from the figure of prosopopeia in classical rhetoric, introduced by Quintilian, in which an absent or...
- v t e Erasmus of Rotterdam Original works Prosopopeia Britanniae (1499) Handbook of a Christian Knight (1501) In Praise of Folly (1509) Copia: Foundations...
- taken refuge at the Monastery of São Bento, he wrote his masterpiece Prosopopeia. Another version states that Teixeira's wife accused him of being Jewish...
- Madnesse, which is dated from Low Leyton in Es****, and the religious tract Prosopopeia (if, as seems probable, it was his), in which he repents him of his "lewd...