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Dom Denis Chavis
Dom Denis Chavis (as he was known in French) or Dīyūnisūs Shāwīsh (as he called himself in his native language, ) was a Syrian priest and monk who flourished in the 1780s. He was a key contributor to the version of the ''Thousand and One Nights'' published as ''Continuation des Mille et Une Nuits'' in Geneva in 1788–89, which had a lasting influence on conceptions of the contents of the ''Nights''."Chavis, Dom", in ''The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia'', ed. by Ulrich Marzolph, Richard van Leeuwen, and Hassan Wassouf, 2 vols (Santa Barbara (CA): ABC-Clio, 2004), I, 520. Life Little is known about Chavis's biography, and what is known mainly comes from the preface to his ''Continuation des Mille et Une Nuits'', a colophon to his manuscript of the ''Nights'', and occasional details in surviving correspondence; no Eastern sources for his life have been identified. He was from Syria, and described himself as "a former student at the Greek School named after Saint Athanasius in Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Diyab
Antun Yusuf Hanna Diyab (; born ''circa'' 1688) was a Syrian Maronite writer and storyteller. He originated the best-known versions of the tales of ''Aladdin'' and ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' which have been added to the ''One Thousand and One Nights'' since French orientalist Antoine Galland translated and included them, after which they soon became popular across the West. Diyab was long known only from brief mentions in the diary of Antoine Galland, but the translation and publication of his Arabic manuscript autobiography in 2015 expanded knowledge about his life. Reassessments of Diyab's contribution to ''Les mille et une nuits'', Galland's widely influential version of the oriental stories of ''One Thousand and One Nights'', have argued that Diyab is central to the literary history of such famous tales as ''Aladdin'' and ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'', despite Diyab only having been named as "Hanna from Aleppo" in Galland's diary. Literary scholars Ruth B. Bottigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century Male Writers
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Translators Of One Thousand And One Nights
Translation is the communication of the semantics, meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''translating'' (a written text) and ''interpreting'' (oral or Sign language, signed communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community. A translator always risks inadvertently introducing source-language words, grammar, or syntax into the target-language rendering. On the other hand, such "spill-overs" have sometimes imported useful source-language calques and loanwords that have enriched target languages. Translators, including early translators of sacred texts, have helped shape the very languages into which they have translated. Becau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Writers
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Jacques Cazotte
Jacques Cazotte (; 17 October 1719 – 25 September 1792) was a French author and a monarchist. He predicted the Reign of Terror and was guillotined shortly after. Life Born in Dijon, he was educated by the Jesuits. Cazotte then worked for the French Ministry of the Marine and at the age of 27 he obtained a public office at Martinique.''The Arabian nights : A Companion''. by Robert Irwin. London, Allen Lane, 1994, (pp. 260–5). It was not until his return to Paris in 1760 with the rank of commissioner-general that he made his public debut as an author. His first attempts, a mock romance and a coarse song, gained so much popularity, both in the Court and among the people, that he was encouraged to try something more ambitious. He accordingly produced his romance, ''Les Prouesses inimitables d'Ollivier, marquis d'Edesse''. Cazotte wrote a number of fantastic oriental tales, such as his children's fairy tale ''La patte du chat'' (''The Cat's Paw'', 1741) and the humorous ''Mille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabinet Des Fées
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Paul Barde
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Richard Burton
Richard Burton (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s and gave a memorable performance as Richard Burton's Hamlet, Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Laurence Olivier, Olivier" by critic Kenneth Tynan. Burton's perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed some critics and colleagues; his heavy drinking added to his reputation as a great performer who had wasted his talent. Nevertheless, he is widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation. Burton was nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award seven times but never won. He was nominated for his performances in ''My Cousin Rachel (1952 film), My Cousin Rachel'' (1952), ''The Robe (1953 film), The Robe'' (1953), ''Becket (1964 film), Becket'' (1964), ''The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film), The Spy W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques-Antoine Caussin De Perceval
Jean-Jacques-Antoine Caussin de Perceval (24 June 1759 – 29 July 1835) was an 18th–19th-century French orientalist. Biography The son of a cloth merchant of Montdidier, he moved to Paris to reunite with his uncle François Béjot, custodian of manuscripts in the bibliothèque du Roi. He learned Hebrew and Arabic at the Collège de France where he attended the lessons of Cardonne and Deshauterayes whom he succeeded in the chair of Arabic in 1783. In 1787, he replaced his uncle as custodian of manuscripts in the library of the king, a position he held until 1792. Stayed clear of political events, he entered in 1809 at the Institute (Académie des Inscriptions) of which he became president, earning him the honor to deliver the tribute to Louis-Mathieu Langlès. He was Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval's father. Works Translator: * from Greek: **1796: the ''Argonautica'' by Apollonius of Rhodes ; * from Arabic: **1806: la ''Suite des Mille et une Nuits'', Arab and Persi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aladdin
Aladdin ( ; , , ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with '' One Thousand and One Nights'' (often known in English as ''The Arabian Nights''), despite not being part of the original text; it was added by the Frenchman Antoine Galland, based on a folk tale that he heard from the Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab.Razzaque (2017) Sources Known along with Ali Baba as one of the "orphan tales", the story was not part of the original ''Nights'' collection and has no authentic Arabic textual source, but was incorporated into the book '' Les mille et une nuits'' by its French translator, Antoine Galland. John Payne quotes passages from Galland's unpublished diary recording Galland's encounter with a Maronite storyteller from Aleppo, Hanna Diyab. According to Galland's diary, he met with Hanna, who had travelled from Aleppo to Paris with celebrated French traveller Paul Lucas, on March 25, 1709. Galland's diary furthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
