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  Rossetti - MSN Encarta
He was born Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti in London, son of the Italian-born poet Gabriele Rossetti and brother of the poet Christina Rossetti.
Rossetti was strongly attracted to the dramatic and the supernatural, both of which are represented in his work.
Rossetti's rebuttal was published as “The Stealthy School of Criticism” in the Athenaeum in December 1871.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761555274   (400 words)

  
 Victorian Art in Britain
Rossetti was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and was the soul and main intellectual force of the whole movement.
Rossetti gradually recovered from the death of his wife, but in truth this recovery was never complete and he suffered agonies of guilt which compounded his problems by causing insomnia.
Rossetti, that I am insensible to the charm of a life as recluded as yours is, from the dust of the arena, from the mire of the market-place.
www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk /biog/rossetti.htm   (3558 words)

  
 Dr. Karen Droisen, ENG 435: Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, an exiled Italian patriot, was a scholar and poet and was obsessed with the work of the great Italian poet, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), author of The Divine Comedy.
Rossetti spent the last 15 years of her life as a semi-recluse, dedicating herself to writing, study, and spiritual contemplation.
Gabriel Rossetti married a milliner, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (“Lizzie”), in 1860.
www.unlv.edu /faculty/droisen/rossettis.htm   (1689 words)

  
 The Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Rossetti found school to be inhibiting and left in 1847 to concentrate his activities on his art.
Rossetti, himself suffering from emotional distress, buried his manuscripts with her and moved to 16 Cheyne Walk in Chelsea where he resided with Swinburne.
Rossetti was remembered after his death by several works of literature including a sonnet by his sister Christina, "Birchington Churchyard"; "In Russet and Silver", by Edmund Gosse; and "A Death on Easter Day", by Swinburne.
swc2.hccs.cc.tx.us /htmls/rowhtml/rossetti/Rossetti.htm   (1015 words)

  
 LitWeb.net
Rossetti's poems are distinguished by fantasy, leading the reader to ages past, to medieval colour, Arthurian legend, and Dantesque mysticism.
Rosetti was born in London the son of the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori Rossetti, sister of Byron's physician, Dr. John Polidori.
Although Rossetti had not been a faithful to Elizabeth, her loss left an increasing sadness in his work.
www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/rossetti_dante_gabriel.html   (635 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, who assumed the professional name Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was born 12 May 1828 at No. 38 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London, the second child and eldest son of Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854) and Frances Polidori Rossetti (1800-1886).
Gabriele Rossetti was a Dante scholar, who when younger had been exiled from Naples for writing poetry in support of the Neapolitan Constitution of 1819.
Gabriele Rossetti supported the family as a professor of Italian at King's College, London, until his eyesight and general health deteriorated in the 1840s.
www.bookrags.com /biography/dante-gabriel-rossetti-dlb   (209 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was an Italian poet and a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori.
Rossetti was born in London and educated at home by her mother.
It was during this period of Rossetti's life that she, along with her mother and sister, became seriously invested in the Anglo-Catholic movement that was part of the Church of England, and this religious devotion played a major role in Rossetti's personal life for the rest of her life.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christina_Rossetti   (574 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti
One of the most important of English woman poets, who was the sister of the painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and a member of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement.
Rossetti's first verses were written in 1842 and printed in the private press of her grandfather.
Rossetti developed a fatal cancer in 1891, and died in London on December 29, 1894.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /rossetti.htm   (925 words)

  
 Christina Georgina Rossetti
Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian scholar and patriot, had been, as a young man, Secretary in the Department of Public Instruction at Rome, and afterwards Curator of the Bronzes in the Museo Borborico in his native city of Naples.
Rossetti, a deeply religious woman of refined and cultivated tastes, devoted herself to her husband and children--a devotion which they all repaid to the full.
Rossetti in her sorrowful anxiety for her elder son, the tragedy of whose story--unnecessary to dwell upon here--is intensified by the thought of his splendid gifts: a mystic without a creed, 'a Catholic without the discipline or consolation of the Church,' thus we may describe Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
anglicanhistory.org /bios/cgrossetti.html   (3197 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was born in London, one of four children of Italian parents.
Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti; her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti also became a poet and a painter.
Rossetti's first poems were written in 1842 and printed in the private press of her grandfather.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/716   (351 words)

  
 Gabriele Rossetti
Gabriele Rossetti, poet, scholar, and revolutionary, born in Vasto, SE Italy, on February 28, 1783, best known as the father of four exceptionally talented children: Maria Francesca, Dante Gabriel, William Michael, and Christina.
¹ Rossetti was the son of a flsmith and was clever enough to be able to study at the University of Naples.
In 1807 he was librettist at the San Carlo opera house in Naples and was later appointed curator of ancient marbles and bronzes in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.
www.dejaelaine.com /grossetti.html   (588 words)

  
 April 9 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti died April 9, 1882, at the age of 53.
The Rossetti marriage was not a happy one due to Elizabeth's declining health and Dante's infidelities.
In "remorse for having so frequently betrayed her," or maybe just because other people were looking, as Lizzy's body lay in state, Dante put his most recent volume of love poems in her casket and the manuscript went with her to her grave in London's Highgate Cemetery.
www.goatview.com /april9danterossetti.htm   (351 words)

  
 A Pre-Raphaelite Chronology
Maria Rossetti born to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti.
Gabriel Dante (Dante Gabriel) Rossetti born May 12.
Rossetti meets Jane Burden, an artist's model, and introduces her to the others, including Morris.
www.victorianweb.org /painting/prb/prbtl.html   (766 words)

  
 LitWeb.net
Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), professor of Italian at King's College from 1831.
Rossetti broke her engagement to the artist James Collison, an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, when he joined the Roman Catholic Church.
by D.A. Kent (1989); Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Discovery by Katherine J. Mayberry (1989); Christina Rossetti by Sharon Smulders (1996); The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts, ed.
www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/rossetti_christina.html   (667 words)

  
 D.G. Rossetti
Brother of poet Christina Rossetti, painter and poet too, who was in the 1840s one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Rossetti's poems are distinguished by fantasy, leading the reader to times past, to medieval colour, Arthurian legend, and Dantesque mysticism.
Dante Gabriel Rosetti was born in London, the son of the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori Rossetti, sister of Byron's physician, Dr. John Polidori.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dgrosset.htm   (839 words)

  
 Christina Georgina Rossetti Collection | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Born on December 5, 1830, the English poet Christina Rossetti was the youngest child of Gabriele Rossetti and sister to both Dante Gabriel Rossetti, well known poet, painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and William Michael Rossetti, English art critic, literary editor, and man of letters.
The Christina Georgina Rossetti Collection was assembled by Frederick E. and Mary Louise Jarden Maser over a period of several years by acquiring individual pieces as well as small groups of items from various dealers.
In addition, there are numerous letters from both of her brothers, Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti, two from her sister, Maria Francesca Rossetti, and a letter written in Italian in the early 1820s from Gabriele Rossetti, Christina's father, to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Navy, Admiral Moore and his wife.
www.brynmawr.edu /library/speccoll/guides/rossetti.shtml   (1131 words)

  
 CGFA- Bio: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
He was born Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti in London on May 12, 1828, son of the Italian-born poet Gabriele Rossetti.
Rossetti was strongly attracted to the dramatic and the supernatural.
Rossetti began writing poetry about the same time that he took to the study of painting.
cgfa.sunsite.dk /rossetti/rossetti_bio.htm   (388 words)

  
 Dr. Karen Droisen: Christina Rossetti Assignment
Rossetti and her family were all devoted students of art and literature, including the works of Greek and Roman authors and artists, English authors, Italian authors, and English and continental painters.
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (1828-82), became an important and influential painter and poet.
Rossetti was a devout Anglican and considered becoming a nun.
www.unlv.edu /faculty/droisen/crossetti.html   (840 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Christina Georgina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 - December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori.
Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Christina Rossetti Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Christina nl:Christina Georgina Rossetti
christina-rossetti.iqnaut.net   (210 words)

  
 WebMuseum: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Romantic love was Rossetti's main theme in both poetry and painting.
Toward the end of his life, Rossetti sank into a morbid state, possibly induced by his disinterment (1869) of the manuscript poems he had buried with his wife and by savage critical attacks on his poetry.
This painting also reflects Rossetti's greif after the death of his wife, Elisabeth Siddal, the model for Beatrice, painted from memory after her death.
www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/rossetti   (336 words)

  
 Genealogy
Tradition has it that the Rossettis are an outcrop descending from a family called "Della Guardia" living in or near Vasto Italy, the Roman "Historian", then a rural village on the Adriatic shore of Abruzzo, a region in central Italy, East of Rome.
Gabriele Rossetti, a well-known Italian patriot and Dante - scholar, was one of the leaders of the Carbonari (the red shirted resistance movement at Naples),which he inflamed with his patriotic songs.
Her knowledge of the Rossetti and Voetter families was handed down to the writer, Louis Rossetti, who prepared both family trees.
www.lafamigliarossetti.com /Genealogy.htm   (2105 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gabriele Rossetti brought a particular legacy with him and passed this on to his children.
A comparison of the transmission from one generation to the other in the case of the Rossettis will be compared to a similar transmission in relation to the Lyell family.
Gabriele's work on Dante is politically and ideologically motivated, subjective, totally based on allegory and an allegorical reading of his subject.
www.english.cam.ac.uk /rossetti/abstract/tink.htm   (472 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti
English poet, was the youngest of the four children of Gabriele Rossetti.
In her girlhood she had a grave, religious beauty of feature, and sat as a model not only to her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but to Holman Hunt, to Madox Brown and to Millais.
In 1853-54 Christina Rossetti for nearly a year helped her mother to keep a day-school at Frome-Selwood, in Somerset.
www.nndb.com /people/825/000086567   (707 words)

  
 Christina Georgina Rossetti Collection - Box and Folder List 2 | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College Library
Remarks that he is pleased that she appreciates his biography and has promised him any other Christina Rossetti letters that she might come across later.
Contents: Responding to a letter from Dooley, comments that his reading plan is "about the best." Reveals very personal sentiments regarding his religious convictions, stating that he is "not an adherent to the Christian or to any religion," and discussing his thoughts on the immortality of the soul.
Contents: Expresses sympathy for her loss of "poor Arthur," but says "it is a relief poor little dear to think he is now out of all his pain for ever." Signature cut out.
www.brynmawr.edu /library/speccoll/guides/rossettibox3.shtml   (1676 words)

  
 Rossetti Archive
T HE Rossetti Archive facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in Great Britain.
The Rossetti Archive aims to include high-quality digital images of every surviving documentary state of DGR's works: all the manuscripts, proofs, and original editions, as well as the drawings, paintings, and designs of various kinds, including his collaborative photographic and craft works.
The Rossetti Archive is a hypertextual instrument designed to facilitate the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in Great Britain.
www.rossettiarchive.org   (186 words)

  
 Christina Georgina Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rossetti came from a well known literary and artistic family.
Her father, Gabriele Rossetti, in political exile in England, was a professor of Italian at King’s College in London.
Her brothers Dante Gabriel and William Michael were among the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which gave birth to the 19th Century English art movement of the same name.
www.cyberhymnal.org /bio/r/o/rossetti_c.htm   (154 words)

  
 Rossetti Conference background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The name 'Rossetti' brings to mind a substantial body of work in various media of arts and letters, the work of four siblings and their father in Victorian England.
Maria Francesca (1827-76), Dante Gabriel (1828-82), William Michael (1829-1919), and Christina Rossetti (1830-94) were born in London where they lived and worked all their lives.
Their father Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), Professor of Italian at King's College London, was a political exile from Naples.
www.english.cam.ac.uk /rossetti/background.htm   (282 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti [1828-1882] - Featured Artist on Artfact.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - an exhibition at Walker Art Gallery...
The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882...
Illustration to 'The Tales of Sorrentino' by Dante Gabriel...
www.artfact.com /features/viewArtist.cfm?aID=22227   (522 words)

  
 Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Christina Rossetti and Illustration
She was without doubt one of the most important of English woman poets, the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a member of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement who was both a poet and a painter.
Her father was the Pre-Raphaelite poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), professor of Italian at King's College from 1831 'til he resigned in 1845 because of blindness.
She is the author of Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History and The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality in Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Books and co-editor, along with Mary Arseneau and Antony H.Harrison, of The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts.
www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_kooistra_rossettiandillustration.html   (898 words)

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