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Ilda Mizzan
Ilda Mizzan (1885 – June 1922) was an Italian irredentist and painter, best known for being interned at the hands of the Austrians during World War I and for being the wife of Italian historian Francesco Salata. During World War I, Mizzan was apprehended and interned by the Austrians, along with her young daughter. During her captivity she contracted tuberculosis and died of it a few years after the end of the war. Biography Ilda Mizzan was born in 1885 in Pisino, Istria, the daughter of a wealthy Trieste, Triestine pharmacist. In 1902, Gabriele D'Annunzio visited Pisino, entering the city under a "pouring of flowers", let down by the population from the windows of the crowded houses, along with colored pieces of paper on which had been written wishes to the poet as well as the titles of his best-known books. As D'Annunzio expressed in a letter to his friend Francesco Salata, he was impressed by the civility of the Italian population living there. In Pisino, a homage, designed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
