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    Mario Praz (Italian: [ˈmaːrjo prats]; 6 September 1896, Rome – 23 March 1982, Rome) was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of...
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    ISSN 0021-8758. JSTOR 40464308. S2CID 145788781. Retrieved 5 May 2022. Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony, ch. IV, p. 199: La Belle Dame sans Merci (The Beautiful...
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    held that "nature abhors an empty space". Italian art critic and scholar Mario Praz used this term to describe the excessive use of ornament in design during...
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    (1936). "Reviewed Work: The Romantic Agony. by Mario Praz, Angus Davidson". Modern Language Notes. Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony, 1930 ISBN 0-19-281061-8...
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    lasting friendships with the painter Telemaco Signorini and the learned Mario Praz, and she encouraged his love of learning and English literature. An engaged...
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  • Courchevel, Savoie, France, Präz, Graubünden, Switzerland Les Praz, Chamonix, France Mario Praz (1896–1982), Italian-born critic of art and literature, and...
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    also spent outside England contributed to making him, in the eyes of Mario Praz, "the greatest exponent of the Baroque style in any language". Crashaw...
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    poles of anticipation and anticlimax, citing a statement expressed by Mario Praz in 1930: "The very ideas of Decadence, [...] of the 'cupio dissolvi',...
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    floor, and the third floor is occupied by the Museo Mario Praz, the former residence of Mario Praz. Also located in the palazzo is the Fondazione Primoli...
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    Eliot herself invites the comparison in chapter 17 of Adam Bede, and Mario Praz applies it to all her works in his study of The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian...
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