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David, Jacques-Louis
Painter, b. in Paris on 30 Aug. 1748, d. in Brussels on 29 Dec. 1825. He is the greatest painter of the Neoclassical period in France. A pupil of Boucher and… -
David of Augsburg (DAVIDE DI AUGUSTA)
German Franciscan, mystical writer and preacher, b. at Augsburg (Bavaria) ca. 1200, d. there on 15 or 19 Nov. 1272. Little is known about his life. For some… -
David of Dinant (Dinant) (DAVID DI DINANT (DINAN))
Medieval philosopher about whose life and activity we are poorly informed. Born at Dinant in the province of Liège, or according to others in Brittany; in a… -
David, Saint (DAVID, SANTO)
Bishop of Menevia (Mynyw in Wales) of the 6th century. In a 10th-century manuscript of the Annales Cambriae, it is said that he died in 601. The first… -
David the Armenian (DAVIDE ARMENO)
Christian Neoplatonic philosopher, b. in Armenia (province of Hark), unknown, or almost so, in the West until the beginning of the 19th century. It appears… -
Davila, Enrico Caterino
Born at Piove di Sacco (Padua) on 30 Oct. 1576; in 1583 he was in France as page to Queen Catherine; at 18 he entered military service; in 1599 he was in the… -
Davino, Saint (DAVINO, SANTO)
Born in Greater Armenia, around the year 1000, died in 1050. While still young he chose the life of solitude. He visited the Holy Land, whence he went on to… -
Davy du Perron, Jacques
DAVY DU PERRON, JACQUES: v. DU PERRON, JACQUES DAVY. -
Davy, Humphrey (DAVY, HUMPHBY)
Born at Penzance, in Cornwall, on 17 December 1778, died at Geneva on 29 May 1829. Of a modest family, he was first an apothecary's apprentice and then an… -
Dax
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Day of Atonement (ESPIAZIONE, GIORNO DELL')
Solemn day of penance in the religion of Israel, called hippâr. There is disagreement of views on the meaning of the verb hipper, which some, following J.… -
Đakovo (DJAKOVO)
DJAKOVO: v. SIRMIO.