Friday, April 04, 2008
RANDOM EB POST
CAVOUR, Count- 1810-1861. camillo Benso de Cavour. regenerator of italy. great 'modern' statesman. Bensi ancient family. 1st saxon warrior named hubert, who followed barbarossa and made pilgramage to holy land. marrried a piedmontese heiress in mid 12c, settling in santena. more family history. intimate w/ napoleon family. (hyperactive?) at 10 sent to military school as that was to be his life. loved math(georgee?!?). Fr revolution of 1830, tired of the military blah blah blah blah blah more blah became well versed in agriculture(idiotocracy). died of fever. 273-276
CAXTON, William- 1422-1491. introducer of printing to england in 1438. apprenticed to robert large. 1449, his master died. sent to bruges. prospered before 1450. much sagacity. a 1465 treaty w/ duke of burgandy, about wool, trade , and export and appointed by king to sir richard whitehall and extend it. blah blah edward IV driven to bruges. brother in law, duke of burgundy. court in bruges. caxton had retired from wool. at this time learning printing.1470's brings printmaking to england. worked for more kings.
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CAYENNE PEPPER/GUINEA PEPPER/SPANISH PEPPER/CHILLY- preparation from dried fruit of various capsicum. native to brazil, indies, and china.
CEBES of Thebes- deciple of socrates. mentioned by plato and xenophon for his virtue and love of truth.
CECCO D'ASCOLLI- pop name of francesco Degli Stabili, medieval encyclopaedist and poet. devoted to study of mathmatics and astrology and in 1322 made professor of the latter at u of bologna. acquainted w/dante. codemned in 1324. to elude sentence, betook himself to florence. his freethinking and plain-speaking created enemies. tried and sentenced to the stake. burned in florence on the day after sentenced. understood 'dew'. left many books, but not much printed. said to have understood blood circulation too.
