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Hace 5 días · Otranto Castle, built in the 12th century by the Normans, is a tangible testimony to the historical stratification that characterizes Salento. Its imposing and austere structure was expanded and modified over the centuries under the rule of the Swabians, Angevins and Aragons.
Hace 5 días · First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, 'to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern.'
Hace 5 días · The book provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu.
Hace 2 días · The Castle of Otranto (1764) is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The aesthetics of the book have shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. [1]
Hace 4 días · During the 2nd century bce, the Meroitic script, with signs also originating in both cursive and hieroglyphic Egyptian scripts, developed in the ancient Nubian kingdom of Meroe and remained in use for as many as 700 years.
Hace 5 días · In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War.
Hace 5 días · The Rosetta stone is a dark grey granite slab three feet tall with a pink vein running through the top left corner, and it is carved with writing in three scripts: Greek, Egyptian demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphic.
