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unusual facts about Donne



Ashby de la Zouch Castle

Surviving artworks from the former period include for an altarpiece, The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors, or the Donne Triptych as painted by Hans Memling in circa 1478.

Cleanth Brooks

He argues "A poem by Donne or Marvell does not depend for its success on outside knowledge that we bring to it; it is richly ambiguous yet harmoniously orchestrated, coherent in its own special aesthetic terms" (Leitch 2001).

Concerto delle donne

The singers of the second era of the concerto delle donne were officially ladies-in-waiting of Duchess Margherita Gonzaga d'Este, but were hired primarily as singers.

Dance Umbrella

The 28th festival incorporated the most extensive education and outreach work to date, concentrated around performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Stephen Petronio Company and Déjà Donné.

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Clara Lander, writing in Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, suggests that the typhus may have exacerbated the enteritis Donne had suffered from since childhood.

Easthampstead Park

The archive, which features letters by Stuart kings, Philip II of Spain, Marie de Medici, Bacon, Donne, Dryden, Fenton, Pope and Weckherlin, had been on loan to Berkshire county record office.

Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (originally Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette) is a 1974 Italian horror film directed by Dick Randall that is Loosely based on the Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein.

Giovanni Bertati

La forza delle donne (music by Pasquale Anfossi, also under the title Il trionfo delle donne, 1778; music by Bernardo Ottani under the title Le amazzoni, 1784; music by Peter von Winter under the title Ogus ossia Il trionfo del bel sesso; music by Giuseppe Nicolini under the title Ogus ossia Il trionfo del bel sesso, 1799)

Herbert Léonard

His 1982 album Ça donne envie d’aimer and the sing "Amoureux fous" was done in a duo with Julie Pietri, perpetuating his image as a crooner.

Holcombe Burnell

He married twice, firstly to Anne, widow of Thomas Warley a Treasury official and secondly to Elizabeth Donne, widow of Sir Thomas Murfyn, Lord Mayor of London.

Holy Sonnets

It is thought that theoretical physicist and Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), regarded as the "father of the Atomic Bomb", named the site of the first nuclear weapon test site "Trinity" after a phrase from Donne's Sonnet XIV.

Into Thy Hands

It premiered at Wilton's Music Hall in London from 31 May to 2 July 2011 in a production directed by Holmes himself, to mark the 400th anniversary of the Authorized King James Version, with Donne played by Zubin Varla.

John Donne the Younger

William Laud was vice-chancellor at the time, and Donne was put upon his trial for manslaughter, but acquitted.

Lucrezia Bendidio

Another sister, Taddea, married Giovanni Battista Guarini; their daughter Anna Guarini was a singer in the concerto delle donne during the second period.

Raymond Asso

Catherine Sauvage ("Berceuse pour demain", "Mon coeur battait", "Mon ami m’a donné", "Mais les vrais amoureux")

Scott Pilarz

Pilarz is a member of numerous professional, academic and cultural organizations including the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, the Shakespeare Association of America, the Academy of American Poets, the Modern Language Association, the John Donne Society and The Renaissance Society of America.

Sir John Donne

In the 1470s he commissioned the Donne Triptych, an triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Gallery, London.

The Donne Triptych by Hans Memling would presumably have been made in Bruges, and is believed to date from the 1470s.


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