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	Lorenzo de' Medici - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (January 1, 1449, Florence – 8 April 1492, Carregio) was an Italian statesman and ruler of the Florentine Republic during the height of the Italian Renaissance.
		Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (il Magnifico) by his contemporary Florentines, he was a glittery individual who loved to enter tournaments, compose poetry and songs, play games, hunt, and indulge the Florentine love of practical jokes.
		The Florentines promptly excommunicated the Pope, and Lorenzo rallied the citizens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorenzo_de'_Medici (1031 words)

	Florentine practical jokes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Practical Jokes A small collection of pranks and practical jokes.
		Lil Prankstar Jokes Practical jokes are separated by category.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Florentine_practical_jokes.html (327 words)

	ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
		The Florentine painters of the last half of the fifteenth century, or Quattrocento, turned away from the severe and noble art of Masaccio to a striving for sweetness and charm, and expressed themselves in terms of line rather than mass or light and shade.
		Florentine painting culminated in the work of Michelangelo, to whom the concluding section of this chapter is devoted.
		This practice of representing one's self among the figures in a painting or a work of sculpture became quite common among Renaissance artists; it was a sort of signature and an expression of the artist's own conception of his importance.
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	Practical Automation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Florentine practical jokes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Practical jokes made by Florentines during the height of the Italian Renaissance, could be said to be made famous by Lorenzo de' Medici (the Magnificent), were often outrageous and "took things too far." Later generations found these practical jokes to be often downright cruel.
		A somewhat famous example was of a practical joke that Lorenzo "the Magnificent" and his friends played on a doctor friend of theirs.
		They took the doctor, got him drunk, and shipped him off to the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florentine_practical_jokes (164 words)

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		In the case of the Florentine Simoni, it may be ascribed to the period when Buonarrota di Simone Simoni held office as a captain of the Guelf party (1392).
		The supreme Florentine sculptor being dead and buried, Vasari felt that he was safe in giving the lie direct to this humble rival biographer.
		The Florentine envoys to France had already written in June 1501 from Lyons, saying that Pierre de Rohan, Marechal de Gie, who stood high in favour at the court of Louis XII., greatly desired a copy of the bronze David by Donatello in the courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio.
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	Book Of Practical Cats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Practcal joke 1: e a mild and light-hearted fashion.
		Prectical equine psychology 1: '''Practical equine psychology''' refers to the Practkcal study of horse psychology.
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	www.super8filmmaking.com /tail/48573-book-of-practical-cats.html (1128 words)

	Anecdote - Jim Florentine - Terrorising The Telemarketers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Comedian Jim Florentine scored a huge hit when Comedy Central picked up his crank-calling puppet show "Crank Yankers." Among the show's classic bits: Florentine posed as a horny priest taking up an extra collection to pay for a telemarketing dating service.
		Florentine also had fun with telemarketers who unwittingly called his home.
		He was once asked whether he had to get permission to use such calls on the show (and on such compilations as Terrorising The Telemarketers).
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=14516 (206 words)

	travel Florence,vacation rentals Florence villas,hotels, bed & breakfast Florence accommodation
		The inhabitants are enterprising and introvert, but love practical jokes and are proud of their past and their town.
		Consolidated the power of the Guelph faction, the Florentine Republic was founded which let the consoles together with a citizen council and a Parliament govern the city, one of the first examples of civil and democratic institutions in Europe.
		In the 14th century the Florentine power was reduced by Lucca at Altopascio and by Pisa at the battle of Montecatini, but during the following century the supremacy of Florence reached its highest peak, thanks to the arrival and consolidation of a new governing class.
	www.portale-toscana.com /florence.php (833 words)

	Anecdotage.com - Practical Jokes anecdotes. Anecdotes From Yeats to Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was a standing joke among Wolfgang Pauli's colleagues that the famed theoreti...
		As a practical joke one of Richard Porson's Eton classmates borrowed his copy of...
		Mike Myers, the youngest of three boys, was often the victim of practical jokes....
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	Practical Nurse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Practicl equine psychology 1: '''Practical equine psychology''' refers to the Practixal study of horse psychology.
		Nursi s are responsible (with others) for the safety andrecovery of acutely ill or injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatening emergencies in awide range of health care settings.
		In the United States, advanced practice Nurss s (APN's), such as clinical Nurss specialists and Nurde practitioners, diagnose problems and prescribe drugs or therapies.Nurses may help coordinate the patient care performed by other members of a health care team (eg therapists, medicalpractitioners, dietitians, etc).
	www.musicians-resource.com /site/23513-practical-nurse.html (560 words)

	The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
		The inventors and retailers of jokes soon became inevitable figures, and among them there must have been some who were classical-- far superior to all the mere court-jesters, to whom competition, a changing public, and the quick apprehension of the audience, all advantages of life in Florence, were wanting.
		Some Florentine wits went starring among the despotic courts of Lombardy and Romagna, and found themselves much better rewarded than at home, where their talent was cheap and plentiful.
		This prince, whose taste for the most refined intellectual pleasures was insatiable, endured and desired at his table a number of witty buffoons and jack-puddings, among them two monks and a cripple; at public feasts he treated them with deliberate scorn as parasites, setting before them monkeys and crows in the place of savory meats.
	www.boisestate.edu /courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/2-3.html (2748 words)

	Wednesday University Lecture 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Probably the reason is that, unlike the later Florentine merchant Pegolotti, he was not compiling a merchant handbook as such.
		The monument and tomb complex () you see today are modern, but what is of particular interest to us is that Kashgari placed his home town practically* in the center of his world map (*) when he compiled his very famous dictionary of the Turkic languages and culture in the eleventh century.
		Practically no action in China was undertaken without making sure first that the heavenly signs were propitious.
	www.staff.washington.edu /uwch/silkroad/lectures/wulec4a.html (8076 words)

	JS Online: Florentine to debut opera classic in Milwaukee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dennis Hanthorn, general director of the Florentine Opera, is billing next season's run of the classic Viennese comedy as a local premiere.
		A typical Florentine production costs about $600,000; the estimated budget for the four-hour "Rosenkavalier" is $750,000, with most of the extra expense for extra rehearsal.
		Her dalliance with a teenage lover, Octavian, leads to a tangle of plot twists involving disguise, intrigue, misidentified gender and practical jokes.
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	Christopher Columbus - free pictures, posters, history, jokes, movies, music and video downloads of the discovery of ...
		After five centuries, Columbus remains a mysterious and controversial figure who has been variously described as one of the greatest mariners in history, a visionary genius, a mystic, a national hero, a failed administrator, a naive entrepreneur, and a ruthless and greedy imperialist.
		Columbus's enterprise to find a westward route to Asia grew out of the practical experience of a long and varied maritime career, as well as out of his considerable reading in geographical and theological literature.
		His idea was furthered by the suggestions of the Florentine cosmographer Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli.
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	directors.ca - Harmless Practical Jokes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Here are some easy (and relatively harmless) practical jokes you can teach your nieces and nephews to play on their friends and family.
		Another harmless practical joke to be played on people living in multiple story apartment buildings is as...
		Have fun with your friends with hilarious and harmless practical jokes from Vermont Country Store - 100% Guaranteed Satisfaction - since 1946.
	www.directors.ca /Harmless-Practical-Jokes/all/search (110 words)

	directors.ca - Funny Practical Jokes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Needless to say things got pretty rowdy sometimes and many were victims of some pretty funny jokes.
		Blonde jokes, men jokes, women jokes, politics jokes, all kinds of jokes, games, music and lyrics.
		The Fourth Wall, Playwright A.R. Gurney is a courteous, upper-crust kind of guy, so when he found himself enraged by national politics, he didn't respond with agitprop or searing realism.
	www.directors.ca /Funny-Practical-Jokes/all/search (358 words)

	Renaissance Society of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Less well known is his attempt to reform the practice of fasting and abstinence by his careful study of its place in the New Testament and church fathers.
		Although the word "surveillance" was not coined in English until 1799, the act of surveillance was already widespread in several practices during the reign of Elizabeth I. The many eyes and ears embroidered on Elizabeth's cloak in the famous "Rainbow Portrait" subtly reminded her subjects that nothing went unobserved in her realm.
		Certain mapping practices contributed to the fervor of surveillance: map indexes, for example, tended to prescribe and proscribe certain behaviors.
	www.rsa.org /rnn10-1-r-t.htm (8849 words)

	Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the contrary, they are strikingly practical, and teach us not only the general rule, but the mode of applying it to solve particular cases.
		His whole practice, from the day on which he sold himself to the court, was in strict conformity to his theory.
		Now the practice of taking the severity of the penalty into consideration, when the question is about the mode of procedure and the rules of evidence, is no doubt sufficiently common.
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	MarksFriggin.com - Night of Comedy with Beetlejuice, Bob Levy And Jim Florentine
		Jim Florentine (the voice of Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher on Comedy Central's Crank Yankers) showed up a little while after I had my conversation with Beet.
		Michelle said the funniest parts of the jokes were the looks on Jim's face as he waited for the punch lines.
		Jim Florentine went in and did his set which was great as usual.
	www.marksfriggin.com /millenn3.htm (1509 words)

	The Devilfinder Search Engine - Practical Jokes - Finding Stuff Since 1979.
		The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing...
		Practical jokes are the most obvious sign of a lack of sense of humour.
		A practical joke I was witness to at Lancaster involved moving the entire...
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	Opera Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This period saw the birth of opera through the efforts of the Florentine Camerata and the works of Monteverdi.The best known late baroque operas are those of G.F. Handel.
		- the practice used by many singers to save their voices in rehearsals; singers will sing in what seems to be a mere whisper, or transpose the vocal lines so that they don't have to sing extremely high or low notes.
		- a member of the musical staff of many large opera houses; the prompter sits in a small box practically invisible to the audience, under the apron of the stage, and gives singers and choristers the vocal cues seconds before they are required to sing them.
	patriciagray.net /operahtmls/terms.html (4278 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Bernardine of Siena
		Pius II, who as a youth had been a spellbound auditor of Bernardine, records that the saint was listened to as another Paul, and Vespasiano da Bisticci, a well-known Florentine biographer, says that by his sermons Bernardine "cleansed all Italy from sins of every kind in which she abounded".
		The penitents, we are told, flocked to confession "like ants", and in several cities the reforms urged by the saint were embodied in the laws under the name of Riformazioni di frate Bernardino.
		The saint often resorted to mimicry and was much given to making jokes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02505b.htm (2344 words)

	Lorenzo De Medici - abook4all.com
		orenzo De Medici was born on January 1, 1449, an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic.
		His contemporary Florentines call him Lorenzo the Magnificent (il Magnifico), Lorenzo likes to participate in tournaments, compose songs and poetry, play games, hunt and indulge in love of Florentine practical jokes.
		Lorenzo was fascinated by technology and an avid patron of arts with an attractive life style, he was also a religious man who deeply loved his motherland (Italy).
	www.abook4all.com /lorenzo-de-medici.php (353 words)

	Honore De Balzac - A Bachelor's Establishment (1843)
		She was fond of cooking dainty dishes, loved the theater, and spent a great deal of money in dress, was attractive by reason of her gentle and contagious cheerfulness and she understood a joke; but Madame Descoings indulged one vice which she wrapped in the deepest mystery—she put money into the lottery.
		He paid Florentine the five hundred francs he owed her, and after a splendid supper returned to the tables and played for an hour.
		In 1816 they formed a society—the "Knights of Idlesse "—for playing practical jokes; and in 1823 all Issoudun lived in terror of them.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles22/honore-de-balzac-16.shtml (3882 words)

	Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture - Ross King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At first denounced as a madman, Brunelleschi literally reinvented the field of architecture amid plagues, wars, and political feuds to raise seventy million pounds of metal, wood, and marble hundreds of feet in the air.
		Ross King's captivating narrative brings to life the personalities and intrigue surrounding the twenty-eight-year-long construction of the dome, opening a window onto Florentine life during one of history's most fascinating eras.
		We get a good sense of Brunelleschi's peppery personality (he enjoyed devising elaborate, rather spiteful, practical jokes), his rivalry with the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti and the exciting, tumultuous world of the quattrocento Florentine republic.
	www.bookfinder.us /review4/0142000159.html (1586 words)

	Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - Saint Philip Neri
		After thanking his cousin, he went to Rome in 1533 where he was the live-in tutor of the sons of a fellow Florentine.
		One church, for Florentines in Rome, had practically forced him to bring the Oratory to their church.
		Some of his lessons in humility seem cruel, but they were tinged with humor like practical jokes and were related with gratitude by the people they helped.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=97 (1357 words)

	75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Florentine there gave Philip the attic in his house to live in.
		Philip gained his reputation of humor from his various practical jokes.
		One time he shaved the beard on half his face, sat outside the church and greeted the people as they went in.
	www.monksofadoration.org /75.html (918 words)

	Chapter 49 - The Pyramid of Vanities
		And already by Carnival time, a little after mid-February, her presentiment was confirmed by the signs of a very decided change: the Mediceans had ceased to be passive, and were openly exerting themselves to procure the election of Bernardo del Nero as the new Gonfaloniere.
		The mass of the Florentine boyhood and youth was no longer left to its own genial promptings towards street mischief and crude dissoluteness.
		It was for them that the ranges of seats had been raised high against the walls of the Duomo; and they had been used to hear Savonarola appeal to them as the future glory of a city specially appointed to do the work of God.
	www.princeton.edu /~batke/eliot/romola/rom_49.html (1628 words)

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