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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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
This rifacimento of Arion's story is not mere mythological twaddle.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
It is quite as great a miracle in its way as the rifacimento of Berni.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 by William Hickling Prescott
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
The curious discrepancies between the Trattato della Famiglia as written by Alberti273 and as ascribed to Pandolfini can only be explained upon the hypothesis of such rifacimento.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots 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
‘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
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
The self-imposed function of most ballad editors appears to have been the compilation xii of rifacimenti in accordance with their private ideas of what a ballad should be.
From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Frank Sidgwick
A good fourth of the Codex Vaticanus consists of repetitions and rifacimenti.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
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