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MS Orazio
MS ''Orazio'' was an Italian ocean liner of the interwar period, owned by Navigazione Generale Italiana and later the Italian Line. She was destroyed by a fire off Toulon in January 1940, with the loss of 108 lives; in terms of loss of life this is the fourth greatest peacetime maritime disaster in Italian history, after those of SS Principessa Mafalda, ''Principessa Mafalda'', SS Sirio, ''Sirio'', and Moby Prince disaster, ''Moby Prince''. It was however quickly forgotten due to Italy entering World War II a few months later. History ''Orazio'' was built in 1927 by Cantieri ed Officine Meridionali of Bacoli, Baia for Navigazione Generale Italiana of Genoa. She had a sistership, MS Virgilio, ''Virgilio''; she was 506 feet long and 61 feet 9 inches wide, with a gross tonnage of 11,669 GRT. Two 6,600 BHP Burmeister & Wain diesel engines with two screws allowed a service speed of 14 knot (unit), knots. Accommodation was provided for 640 passengers (110 in first class, 190 in second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace (poet)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman Lyric poetry, lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ''Odes (Horace), Odes'' as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96. The only other lyrical poet Quintilian thought comparable with Horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, Caesius Bassus (R. Tarrant, ''Ancient Receptions of Horace'', 280) Horace also crafted elegant Prosody (Latin), hexameter verses (''Satires (Horace), Satires'' and ''Epistles (Horace), Epistles'') and caustic Iambus (genre), iambic poetry (''Epodes (Horace), Epodes''). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satiri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
