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Cornell University
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......ecology, and industrial and labor relations are divisions of the State Univ. of New York. See M. G. Bishop, A History of Cornell (1962); K. C. Parsons, The Cornell Campus (1968); R. F. Howes, A Cornell Notebook (1971)....
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Leopardi, Giacomo
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......thinkers, and writers of his time. His pessimistic view of the world, which he expressed in detail in his huge Zibaldone (or notebook), became increasingly uncompromising. His masterpiece, Canti [songs] (1816–37, tr. 2012), composed of 36 poems......
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Maitland, Frederic William
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......the Selden Society for the publication of early English documents and edited many texts himself, such as Henry de Bracton's notebook and the Year Books of Edward II (completed by G. J. Turner, 4 vol., 1903–7). The History of English Law before the......
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Piero della Francesca
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......in his later years. Devoting himself to works of a more theoretical nature, he wrote Libellus de V Corporibus regularibus [notebook on the five regular bodies] (MS in Vatican Library) and De Prospectiva pingendi [on perspectives in painting] (MS in Ambrosian......
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Blake, William
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......BibliographySee his complete writings, ed. by G. Keynes (rev. ed. 1966); his letters, ed. by G. Keynes (2d ed. 1968); his notebook, ed. by D. V. Erdman (1973); his complete illuminated books, ed. by D. Bindman (2000); biographies by M. Wilson......
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Bracton, Henry de
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......others used the work in their legal arguments against the king in the English civil war. See edition of De legibus by G. E. Woodbine (4 vol., 1915–42); edition of Bracton's notebook by F. W. Maitland (3 vol., 1887)....
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Brooks, Van Wyck
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......Among Brooks's innumerable other books are such autobiographical works as Days of Phoenix (1957), From a Writer's Notebook (1958), and An Autobiography (1965). See The Van Wyck Brooks–Lewis Mumford Letters, ed. by R. E. Spiller (1970......
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Penry, John
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......secretly in 1592. He was arrested, tried on the doubtful charge of writing with intent to excite rebellion, and hanged. See his Notebook (ed. by A. Peel, 1944); D. J. McGinn, John Penry and the Marprelate Controversy (1966)....
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Schweitzer, Albert
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......his early years at Lambaréné, supplemented later by More from the Primeval Forest (1925, tr.1931) and From My African Notebook (1936, tr. 1938). Schweitzer's philosophy is developed in Philosophy of Civilization (The Decay and the Restoration......
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Howe, Irving
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......1957), The Critical Point (1974), World of Our Fathers (1978), Socialism and America (1985), and A Critic's Notebook (1994). Howe, who was a professor at the City Univ. of New York, also played a key role in introducing Yiddish literature......