Pisan
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Pisans
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Pisan pictured a city of women; Lincoln believed in union; King had a dream.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
The peacock dinner is suggested twice in Pound’s Pisan Cantos, which he wrote, accompanied only by his memories, decades later while imprisoned for treason in a six-foot-by-six-foot cage:
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 24, 2015
He wrote his acclaimed Pisan Cantos during his stay.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 25, 2013
“Over the years, he’s adjusted to all these issues, different decades, different players, changing times,” Pisan said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2012
One of the most important of these was the war between the Florentine and the Pisan republics.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
Intruders have been leaving their footprints ever since: Phoenicians, Romans, Pisans, Catalans, billionaire yachtsmen, crabby and indolent writers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
The request was ignored by Pisans, who complained that a reduced water supply would greatly inconvenience the townspeople and local industry in the middle of a hot summer.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the war continued the Pisans suffered more and more.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
Count Guido, the vicar, with the Tuscan league and the forces of the Pisans, marched upon Lucca, whereon the Lucchese made their peace, and drave out the Guelf refugees from Lucca.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
But quarrels broke out with the Pisans, who were his allies, and with Pope Innocent, for whose cause he was fighting, and he finally set out for Germany, without even visiting Rome.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor
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