How To Use Avignon In A Sentence
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During the Great Schism from 1378 to 1417 one reason for Scotland's recognition of the Avignon popes was that the English were supporting the rival popes at Rome.
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Hereafter no remittances shall be made for annates or for any other purpose to the court of Rome, the vice legation at Avignon, or to the nunciature at Lucerne.
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The return of the popes to Rome after their exile in Avignon in the second decade of the century probably encouraged a new internationalism, as Dufay's career in Rome and his relations with Florence, Ferrara, and Rimini show.
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A 79 inf.), reso splendido e commovente da una miniatura di Simone Martini (su progetto iconofrafico dello stesso Petrarca) e dalla nota che registra la data di morte di molti amici, dell'unica amata (Avignone 6 aprile 1348), e poi, volando il tempo, del figlio Giovanni (1361); di quei vecchissimi volumi scovati nelle Biblioteche («inque bibliothecam ... velut in arcem fugio», Fam.
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, ed & comm. Rosanna Bettarini (Turin, 2005)
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IN the time of Louis XII., the legate at Avignon being then a lord of the house of Amboise, nephew to the Legate of France, whose name was George, there was a lady in Languedoc who had an income of more than four thousand ducats.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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Not but that when the duc de Crequi, the French ambassador, was insulted at Rome in the year 1662, the parliament of Provence passed an arret, declaring the city of Avignon, and the county Venaiss in part of the ancient domain of Provence; and therefore reunited it to the crown of France, which accordingly took possession; though it was afterwards restored to the Roman see at the peace of Pisa.
Travels through France and Italy
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the antipopes resided in Avignon during the Great Schism
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Lazarus became the first Bishop of Marseilles, and Saint Martha ascended the Rhone as far as Avignon and built near the site of the present
Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
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Olivier Messiaen was born in Avignon, France in 1908 into a highly scholarly family and showed precocious musical talent.
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THE letters which I had expected reached me at Avignon, and the result of their perusal was the information, that my presence was necessary in
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
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The emperor himself gave Pope Miltiades the ancient palace of the Laterani family, and the basilica, the baptistery, and the patriarchate, that is, the Bishop of Rome’s residence -- where the Popes lived until the Avignon period -- were all built there.
B16: On the Lateran Basilica
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During the Avignonian captivity and the Great Schism, Italy developed intellectual and confederative unity, imposing her laws of culture and of state-craft even on the Papacy when it returned to Rome.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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In 1309, a French pope moved the papacy (office of the pope) from Rome to Avignon in what is now France.
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In 1347 the famous Joanna of Naples founded (æt. 23), in her town of Avignon, a bordel whose in-mates were to be medically inspected a measure to which England (proh pudor!) still objects.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He saw Picasso's Demoiselles d' Avignon in the artist's studio in 1907, and soon began carving heads with elongated faces, long thin noses, slitty eyes and tiny mouths.
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Avignon, where by one of the strange coincidences of travel he met his old voiturier Joseph “so embrowned by the sun that he might have passed for an Iroquois.”
Travels through France and Italy
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My Thursday was drawing to a close; I had to return to Avignon, to resume my lessons on the electrophorus and the
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
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Pope John of Avignon issued a decree condemning the Ars Nova in 1324, forbidding a practice that, according to him, had given rise to an excess of virtuosity; the abuse of the hocket technique had made the sung texts incomprehensible and was also very little suited to calm meditation.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Rome, the other at Avignon, yea, when he reads of three contestants for papal honors, and beholds the Church as a tricephalous monster, he must stop thinking.
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
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In the case of convents in university towns, especially Paris and the Roman Curia (Avignon, afterwards Rome) the nomination belonged to the general or the general chapter; and there appears to have been an unwritten law that at Cambridge, Louvain, and other universities the priorship should be filled by the bachelor who in the course of the year was to take his degree as Master in Divinity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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From his harvest, Mr. Salahi made red and white wines, including a riesling, cabernet savignon and gewurztraminer.
Dirgham Salahi, Virginia winery owner and Montessori school founder, dies at 81
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The rest of the town of Avignon, placed as it is on a low level, affords no striking coup d'oeil, from the direction in which we approached it: the ancient walls, however, which inclose its whole circumference, unbroken and perfect, and beautifully crenated in every part, are a very remarkable feature.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
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I shall annex a statement of the proceedings of the M.ssion at Avignon, during the Lent of 1819, copied and abridged from a short pamphlet, written by a M. Fransoy, a lawyer of that city; which being published by
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
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The "Pont d'Avignon" is known to every French-speaking child, and with many variants the old "ronde" is sung and danced from the remotest plains of Canada to the valleys of the Swiss Alps. The good folk of Avignon, however, protest that their "rondes" were not danced perilously on the narrow Pont St. Benezet, but under its arches on the green meadows of the
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
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It was particularly popular in Sienese painting during the fourteenth century and in particular in the work of Simone Martini at Avignon.
The Long Lost Diptych
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As early as 1398 he had left Avignon as a silent protest against the unapostolic spirit of that court.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The residents of Avignon had been invaded by hostile violence: at the head of thirty thousand robbers, a hero had extorted ransom and absolution from the vicar of Christ and the sacred college; and the maxim of the French warriors, to spare the people and plunder the church, was a new heresy of the most dangerous import.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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There lay before us, that same afternoon, the broken bridge of Avignon, and all the city baking in the sun; yet with an under-done-pie-crust, battlemented wall, that never will be brown, though it bake for centuries.
Pictures from Italy
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_Brown Stil de Grain_, _Citrine Lake_, or _Quercitron Lake_ is usually prepared from the berries of Avignon (ramnus infectorius), better known as French, Persian, or Turkey berries; but a more durable and quicker drying species is obtained from the quercitron bark.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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We need only read the celebrated memorial already mentioned, entitled “It is Time to Speak Out,” printed at Avignon in 1763, under the assumed name of Anvers.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Powers writes that a week later the teller read an Associated Press story datelined Havana in which Fidel Castro damned the CIA for its plots against Cuba and specifically mentioned funds that had come from Arthur Avignon.
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Two popes, Clement VII and successors in Avignon and Urban VI and successors in Rome.
Has It Really Been 617 Years?
