The Devine Comedy

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in May, 1265, and died in Ravenna on September 14, 1321. He was the first important, at the same time the greatest, of all Italian poets. An eager student of the classics and of theology, he was also an active participant in the political life of his city. He took part in the victory over the Ghibellines at Campaldino in 1289, became alderman in 1296…

The Odyssey

Come out and play around are common things now a day. Many people are doing that just to see the world and found their story. Odyssey is a story of soldier who join a war and then he was lost in the unknown islands. From this story we also find mythological creatures from the ancient.

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POLITICS POETICS

Aristotle was born of Greek parentage in 384 B.C., at stagira, a small town in chalcidice, the peninsular section of Macedonia on the upper Agean, or Thracian, Sea. Because of the birthplace he frequently was called the Stagirite. Aristotle's scientific and philosophical inclinations were largely determined by three prominent foactors in his life. First, his father, Nicomachus, a member of the…

Autobiografi

This autobiography consists of three parts, PRINTER which records Benjamin's life in 1706-1730, CITIZEN which record his life in 1730-1756, STATESMAN which records his life in 1756-1790, and THE CONSTITUTION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S LIFE in 1760-1790.

Classical Literature of Asia

This book consists of Parable such as Panchatantra, Gulistan, dan Mathnawi of Rumi, Prose Fiction such as The thousand and One Nights, An Anonymous Chinese Tale, and The Tale of Genji, Epic such as Mahabharat and Shahnamah of Firdausi, Drama in Shakuntala by Kalidasa and Atsumori by Seami Motokiyo,Song from Chinese and Japanese Poets about man and nature, The Meditation of Ma'arri about Man and…

Autobiography

Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith, a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at different times experienced both papal persecution and imprisonment, and the adulation of the royal …

Essays

This book consists of two parts, the first is about history, self-reliance, compensation, spiritual laws, love, friendship, love, prudence, heroism, the over-soul, circles, intellect, and art. The second is about the poet, experience, character, manners, gifts, nature, politics, nominalist and realist, New England Reformers-Lecture at Amory Hall.

THE REPUBLIC

Plato was born in Athens about 428 or 427 B.C. and died there in 348 or 347 B.C. One of the most brilliant figures in the history of Western philosophy, he was the son of Ariston and Perictione, both of whom belonged to old and important Athenian families. His father died when he was young. Perictione remarried, and Plato's stepfather, Pyrilampes, played an active part in the political and cult…

The Age of Fable

One of the eleven children of Charles Bulfinch, Thomas was born on July 15, 1796, at Newton, Massachusetts. After graduating Harvard in 1814, he taught in the Boston Latin School for a year. From 1818 to 1825, he lived his family in Washington D.C., where his father had been appointed architect of the Capitol. After his return to Boston in 1825, he engaged in several business enterprises, none …