rifacimento
Americannoun
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rifacimenti
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Etymology
Origin of rifacimento
1765–75; < Italian, derivative of rifare to make over, equivalent to ri- re- + fare (≪ Latin facere to do 1 ) + -mento -ment
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This rifacimento was published in 1541, after his death.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
This rifacimento of Arion's story is not mere mythological twaddle.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
In 1799 he had made a rifacimento of a melodrama entitles "Der Heilige Vehme" in Veit Weber's "Sagen der Vorzeit."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
It is not a rifacimento of compliments; such is not the style with which I am saluted by the Duke of Doze and the Earl of Leatherdale!
From Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Such is the tale of which the party story of Kirk appeared to Ritson to have been a rifacimento; but it is rather the foundation than the superstructure.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
‘What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti, harmonies, abridgments, expurgated editions?’
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
But it is an integral part of the Italian romances, a fixed point in all rifacimenti of the pseudo-Turpin.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti, harmonies, abridgments, expurgated editions?
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
A good fourth of the Codex Vaticanus consists of repetitions and rifacimenti.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
Yet there is one prominent characteristic which distinguishes the Italian rifacimenti.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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