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Tartaglia ( Italian for 'Stutterer') is a dainty character in the commedia dell'arte. He is farsighted and with a minor stutter (hence his name; cf. Spanish tartamudear ), he is usually classed as one of the group of old characters ( vecchio) who appears in many scenarios as one of the lovers ( innamorati ).
Nicolo Tartaglia. Nicolo, known as Tartaglia ( Italian: [tarˈtaʎʎa]; 1499/1500 – 13 December 1557), was an Italian mathematician, engineer (designing fortifications), a surveyor (of topography, seeking the best means of defense or offense) and a bookkeeper from the then Republic of Venice. He published many books, including the first ...
Commedia dell'arte ( / kɒˈmeɪdiə dɛlˈɑːrteɪ, kə -, - ˈmɛdiə, - ˈɑːrtiː / kom-AY-dee-ə del-AR-tay, kəm-, -ED-ee-ə, -AR-tee, [1] [2] Italian: [komˈmɛːdja delˈlarte]; lit. 'comedy of the profession') [3] was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe ...
Childe. In the Middle Ages, a childe or child (from Old English: Cild "Young Lord") was a nobleman 's son who had not yet attained knighthood or had not yet won his spurs. As a rank in chivalry it was used as a title, e.g. Child Horn in King Horn, whilst a male progressed through the positions of squire and then knight.
A handful of news outlets still describe it as “X, the platform formerly known as Twitter,” or some variation thereof. Last month, when X CEO Linda Yaccarino spoke at a US Senate hearing about ...
Childe can be a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Elias Childe, English painter. Henry Langdon Childe, English entertainer. James Warren Childe, English painter. Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist and archaeologist. Wilfred Rowland Childe, British poet and critic. As a given name it may refer to:
At 6:44 PM on 26 November 2010, Yara Gambirasio left the Brembate di Sopra, Italy sport center alone, but never reached her home 700 meters away.Her family soon called the Carabinieri, [4] but despite a search involving hundreds of volunteers, her body was not found until 26 February 2011 in Chignolo d'Isola, 10 kilometers from Brembate.
Gerolamo Cardano (Italian: [dʒeˈrɔːlamo karˈdaːno]; also Girolamo [1] or Geronimo; [2] French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. [3]