Caudipteryx, genus of small feathered theropod dinosaurs known from rock deposits of western Liaoning province, China, that date from about 125 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous (146 million to 100 million years ago). Caudipteryx was one of the first-known feathered dinosaurs; fossil

caudle cup, small, two-handled silver cup, usually with a cover, originally made in England during the second half of the 17th century and possibly used for caudle—warm ale or wine mixed with bread or gruel, eggs, sugar, and spices—which was administered to women after childbirth and to

mollusk: Annotated classification: Subclass Chaetodermomorpha (Caudofoveata) Worm-shaped; covered by cuticle and aragonitic scales; ventral gliding area reduced; mantle cavity terminal with 1 pair of ctenidia; midgut with ventrally separated sac; adapted to burrowing habits in mud; marine in 10–7,000 m; 2 mm to 14 cm; about 100 species in 3…

mollusk: Annotated classification: Subclass Chaetodermomorpha (Caudofoveata) Worm-shaped; covered by cuticle and aragonitic scales; ventral gliding area reduced; mantle cavity terminal with 1 pair of ctenidia; midgut with ventrally separated sac; adapted to burrowing habits in mud; marine in 10–7,000 m; 2 mm to 14 cm; about 100 species in 3…

Caughley ware, porcelain produced by the Caughley China Works, a factory in Caughley, Shropshire, England. A local earthenware pottery was extended in 1772 by Thomas Turner to make soaprock (steatitic) porcelain; a close connection existed with the Worcester porcelain factory, and from there Robert

Muhammad Yunus: Entry into politics and dismissal from Grameen Bank: …release of the documentary film Caught in Micro Debt. In addition to being critical of microloans, the film alleged that Yunus and the bank had misappropriated funds donated by Norway. Although both were later cleared by Norwegian officials, the Bangladesh government began an investigation. In 2011 the country’s central bank…

David Butler: … for the first time in Caught in the Draft (1941). The film was so successful that they rejoined forces for Road to Morocco (1942)—one of the best in the “Road” series, which also starred Crosby—and They Got Me Covered (1943), a lesser espionage farce with Otto Preminger as one of…

Chen Kaige: …dramatic form), with Sousuo (2012; Caught in the Web), a commentary on the social effects of modern technology. His later films included the martial arts drama Dao shi xia shan (2015; Monk Comes Down the Mountain) and Kûkai (2017; Legend of the Demon Cat), a fantasy set during the Tang…

India: The Rajputs of India: Inscriptional records associate the Cauhans with Lake Shakambhari and its environs (Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan). Cauhan politics were largely campaigns against the Caulukyas and the Turks. In the 11th century the Cauhans founded the city of Ajayameru (Ajmer) in the southern part of their kingdom, and in the 12th…

caul, a portion of the amnion, or bag of waters, which is sometimes found remaining around the head of a child after birth. The term also is applied occasionally to the serous membrane covering the heart, brain, or intestines. It is derived from the original meaning of a close-fitting woman’s cap,

Armand, marquis de Caulaincourt was a French general, diplomat, and ultimately foreign minister under Napoleon. As the Emperor’s loyal master of horse from 1804, Caulaincourt was at Napoleon’s side in his great battles, and his Mémoires provide an important source for the period 1812 to 1814. In

Holden Caulfield, fictional character, the teenaged protagonist and narrator of J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951). A sensitive, rebellious 16-year-old, Caulfield is expelled from prep school. Afraid to go home to his parents in New York City, he spends a few days alone in

Pop art: Pop art in Britain: of artists included David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, and the American-born R.B. Kitaj. Hockney in particular acquired notoriety for rather fey and deliberately camp images of male nudes, which reflected his homosexuality. He eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he produced disconcertingly bland homages to California’s sun-drenched swimming-pool lifestyle.

Guy de Chauliac was the most eminent surgeon of the European Middle Ages, whose Chirurgia magna (1363) was a standard work on surgery until at least the 17th century. In this work, he describes a narcotic inhalation used as a soporific for surgical patients, as well as numerous surgical procedures,

Connaraceae: …larger branches, a condition called cauliflory.

cauliflower, (Brassica oleracea, variety botrytis), highly modified form of cabbage in the mustard family (Brassicaceae), grown for its edible masses of partially developed flower structures and fleshy stalks. Cauliflower is high in vitamins C and K and is frequently served as a cooked vegetable or

cauliflower ear, distortion of the cartilage of the outer ear as the result of an injury. If the injury causes bleeding between the cartilage and the skin, it produces a smooth and rounded purplish swelling. Accumulated clotted blood, if not removed, is transformed into scar tissue, causing

mushroom: Other mushrooms: One club fungus, the cauliflower fungus (Sparassis crispa), has flattened clustered branches that lie close together, giving the appearance of the vegetable cauliflower.

cauliflower ware, in pottery, creamware modelled and glazed in green and yellow to simulate a cauliflower, the term also applying to other fruit or vegetable forms. About 1760, William Greatbach undertook the potting and modelling, jobbed out to him by Josiah Wedgwood, of cauliflower tureens and

Tracy Caulkins is a former American swimmer who is considered one of the sport’s most versatile athletes. She is the only swimmer to set U.S. records in every stroke, and she won a record 48 U.S. national swimming titles. Caulkins began swimming when she was eight years old and won her first titles

Maurice Caullery was a French biologist known for his research on parasitic protozoans and marine invertebrates. Caullery taught at the University of Marseille (1900) and the University of Paris (1903) and succeeded Alfred Giard as director of the zoological station at Wimereux (1909). He was

Caulonia, ancient Greek city in southern Italy, southernmost of the colonies founded in Italy by the Achaeans. Established perhaps in the first half of the 7th century bc, Caulonia was an outpost of Croton. Judging from its copious and beautiful coinage from the second half of the 6th century, it

India: The Rajputs of India: The Caulukyas of Gujarat had three branches: one ruling Mattamayura (the Malava-Cedi region), one established on the former kingdom of the Capas at Anahilapataka (present-day Patan), and the third at Bhrigukaccha (present-day Bharuch) and Lata in the coastal area. By the 11th century they were using…

Benjamin Caunt was a British bare-knuckle prizefighter, one of the first to aspire to a world championship in addition to national honours. Caunt held the English heavyweight championship from 1838 to 1845, losing the title briefly in 1841 to Nick Ward. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on

Caupolicán was a Mapuche chief and a leader of the Indian resistance to the Spanish invaders of Chile. With the assistance of Lautaro, another Mapuche, Caupolicán and his men captured the Spaniards’ leader, Pedro de Valdivia, after a battle at Tucapel in December 1553. Reportedly, Caupolicán

Orinoco River: Physiography of the Orinoco: …bank, and the Cuchivero and Caura rivers, which join the main stream on the right. So much sediment is carried by these rivers that islands often form at the mouths. The Caroní River, one of the Orinoco’s largest tributaries, joins the river on its right bank after passing through the…

South Asian arts: Transition to the Mughal and Rajasthani styles: …illustrating the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa and the Caurapañcāśikā of Bilhaṇa, scattered in collections all over the world. A technically more refined variant of this style, preferring the pale, cool colours of Persian derivation, a fine line, and meticulous ornamentation, exists contemporaneously and is best illustrated by a manuscript of the ballad Candāmyana…

thought: Induction: In a causal inference, one reasons to the conclusion that something is, or is likely to be, the cause of something else. For example, from the fact that one hears the sound of piano music, one may infer that someone is (or was) playing a piano. But…

epistemology: Realism: …direct (or “naive”) realism and representative realism, also called the “causal theory.”

pain: Theories of pain: …Civil War soldiers afflicted with causalgia (constant burning pain; later known as complex regional pain syndrome), phantom limb pain, and other painful conditions long after their original wounds had healed. Despite the odd and often hostile behaviour of his patients, Mitchell was convinced of the reality of their physical suffering.

causation, Relation that holds between two temporally simultaneous or successive events when the first event (the cause) brings about the other (the effect). According to David Hume, when we say of two types of object or event that “X causes Y” (e.g., fire causes smoke), we mean that (i) Xs are

causation, Relation that holds between two temporally simultaneous or successive events when the first event (the cause) brings about the other (the effect). According to David Hume, when we say of two types of object or event that “X causes Y” (e.g., fire causes smoke), we mean that (i) Xs are

interest group: Types of interests and interest groups: Cause groups are those that represent a segment of society but whose primary purpose is noneconomic and usually focused on promoting a particular cause or value. This category is wide-ranging, including churches and religious organizations (e.g., Catholic Action in Italy), veterans’ groups (e.g., the Union…

Leonhard Frank: …also published Die Ursache (1915; The Cause of the Crime), an attack on repressive educational systems, and Der Mensch ist gut (1917; “Man Is Good”), a revolutionary denunciation of war.

causerie, in literature, a short informal essay, often on a literary topic. This sense of the word is derived from the title of a series of essays by the French critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve entitled Causeries du lundi

Causeries du lundi, series of informal essays by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The 640 critical and biographical essays on literary topics and French and other European authors were published weekly in several Paris newspapers, on Mondays, over the course of 20 years from 1849 to 1869. The essays

Sean Parker: …and activist Joe Green founded Causes, which developed an application for Facebook users to mobilize groups of people for the purposes of advocacy and to solicit donations for philanthropic purposes. (Causes was also a client of the Founders Fund.) In 2010 the Founders Fund invested in Spotify, a Swedish digital…

Callimachus: …interests, was the Aitia (Causes), probably produced between 270 and 245 bce. This work is a narrative elegy in four books, containing a medley of recondite tales from Greek mythology and history by which the author seeks to explain the legendary origin of obscure customs, festivals, and names. The…

John Jay Chapman: …these activities came two books—Causes and Consequences (1898) and Practical Agitation (1900). Both stressed his belief that individuals should take a moral stand on issues troubling the nation.

Travis Hirschi: In Causes of Delinquency (1969)—a groundbreaking work that had a profound influence on criminology during the next three decades—Hirschi argued that delinquency can be explained by the absence of social bonds. According to Hirschi, social attachments (e.g., to parents, teachers, and peers), involvement in conventional activities,…

inclusive fitness: Haldane in The Causes of Evolution. The theory was later named and developed by British evolutionary biologist William Donald Hamilton, who used inclusive fitness to explain direct (reproductive) and indirect (aided by a relative or a colony member) inheritance of genetic traits associated with altruism. Hamilton presented…

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan: …important was his pamphlet, “The Causes of the Indian Revolt.” During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he had taken the side of the British, but in this booklet he ably and fearlessly laid bare the weaknesses and errors of the British administration that had led to dissatisfaction and a countrywide…

Jennifer Lawrence: …to her starring role in Causeway (2022), an understated drama about an Afghanistan War veteran who returns home after suffering a brain injury.

Causeway Coast and Glens, district, northern Northern Ireland. It is bordered to the north by the Atlantic Ocean, to the northeast by the North Channel, to the southeast by the Mid and East Antrim district, to the south by the Mid Ulster district, to the southwest by the Derry City and Strabane

Causses, gorge-gouged limestone plateaus of southwestern France. The name is from cau, local form of chaux, meaning “lime.” At elevations of from 3,000 to 4,000 ft (900 to 1,200 m), the Grands-Causses form part of the Massif Central and occupy parts of Aveyron and Lozère départements. Lower

potassium: …element (1807) by decomposing molten potassium hydroxide (KOH) with a voltaic battery.

sodium hydroxide (NaOH), a corrosive white crystalline solid that contains the Na+ (sodium) cation and the OH− (hydroxide) anion. It readily absorbs moisture until it dissolves. Sodium hydroxide is the most widely used industrial alkali and is often used in drain and oven cleaners. It is highly

adder: Night adders (Causus) are small relatively slender vipers found south of the Sahara and are typically less than 1 metre (3 feet) long. They are active at night and feed nearly exclusively on frogs and toads.

aversion therapy: …conditioning, developed by American psychologist Joseph Cautela, images of undesirable behaviour (e.g., smoking) are paired with images of aversive stimuli (e.g., nausea and vomiting) in a systematic sequence designed to reduce the positive cues that had been associated with the behaviour. (See conditioning.)

Affirmed: Triple Crown: 1978: Affirmed, ridden by jockey Steve Cauthen, took the lead at the second turn of the Churchill Downs track and was never passed. Alydar, meanwhile, appeared to have trouble holding the track and dropped off the pack, falling 17 lengths behind before staging a remarkable finishing drive that left him…

Hilaire Belloc: Cautionary Tales, another book of humorous verse for children, which parodied some Victorian pomposities, appeared in 1907. His Danton (1899) and Robespierre (1901) proved his lively historical sense and powerful prose style. Lambkin’s Remains (1900) and Mr. Burden (1904) showed his mastery of satire and…

Esteban Echeverría: Echeverría’s La cautiva (“The Captive Woman”), a long narrative poem about a white woman abducted by the Indians, is also among the better-known works of 19th-century Latin American literature.

Cauto River, river in Granma and Santiago de Cuba provinces, eastern Cuba. The island’s longest river, it flows for 230 mi (370 km) from its source in the Sierra Maestra westward through alluvial swamps into the Golfo (gulf ) de Guacanayabo. Its tributaries include the Salado, Bayamo, and

Kaveri River, sacred river of southern India. It rises on Brahmagiri Hill of the Western Ghats in southwestern Karnataka state, flows in a southeasterly direction for 475 miles (765 km) through the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and descends the Eastern Ghats in a series of great falls. Before

John Calvin was a theologian and ecclesiastical statesman. He was the leading French Protestant reformer and the most important figure in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation. His interpretation of Christianity, advanced above all in his Institutio Christianae religionis (1536 but

kava, nonalcoholic euphoria-producing beverage made from the root of the pepper plant, principally Piper methysticum, in most of the South Pacific islands. It is yellow-green in colour and somewhat bitter. The primary active ingredients of kava are known as kavalactones; other substances, including

Cava de’ Tirreni, town and episcopal see, Campania region, southern Italy, in a rich cultivated valley surrounded by hills, just northwest of Salerno city. Cylindrical towers on the hills are used for shooting pigeons, a tradition derived from Lombardy. Just southwest is the village of Corpo di

Aníbal Cavaco Silva is a Portuguese politician who served as the country’s president (2006–16) and prime minister (1985–95). Cavaco Silva also served as finance minister (1980–81). A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party, Cavaco Silva rose to power after a 1985 election that featured

Constantine P. Cavafy was a Greek poet who developed his own consciously individual style and thus became one of the most important figures not only in Greek poetry but in Western poetry as well. He lived most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt, loved English and French literature, and generally

Constantine P. Cavafy was a Greek poet who developed his own consciously individual style and thus became one of the most important figures not only in Greek poetry but in Western poetry as well. He lived most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt, loved English and French literature, and generally

India: The Second Anglo-Afghan War: …foreign relations, but the resident, Sir Louis Cavagnari, was assassinated on September 3, 1879, just two months after he arrived. British troops trudged back over the passes to Kabul and removed Yaʿqūb from the throne, which remained vacant until July 1880, when ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Khan, nephew of Shīr ʿAlī, became…

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac was a French general and chief executive during the Revolution of 1848, known for his harsh reprisals against rebelling Parisian workers in June of that year. Cavaignac’s father, Jean-Baptiste, was a Jacobin member of the Committee of General Security during the French

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll was a distinguished French organ builder and initiator of the orchestral style of French organ building and composing. Descended from a family of organ builders and a talented protégé of his father, Dominique, a well-known builder of Languedoc, he early became a competent and

Noël Coward: …patriotic pageant of British history, Cavalcade (1931), traced an English family from the time of the South African (Boer) War through the end of World War I. Other successes included Tonight at Eight-thirty (1936), a group of one-act plays performed by Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, with whom he often played.…

Frank Lloyd: …earned even more accolades for Cavalcade (1933), an epic drama based on a Noël Coward play that chronicles the effect of world events on two British families. It won an Academy Award for best picture, and Lloyd received the Oscar for best director. His next film was the evocative fantasy…

DuMont Television Network: …Peabody Award-winning educational program; and Cavalcade of Stars (1949–52), on which comedian Jackie Gleason introduced the sketches that evolved into The Honeymooners series on CBS.

Alberto Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born director-producer, screenwriter, and art director of motion pictures in the mid-20th century who spent much of his career in Europe. Cavalcanti established his reputation as a documentary filmmaker in Britain during the 1930s and went on to produce some

Brazil: Visual arts: …his native land; the painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, a contemporary of Portinari, gained equal international renown. In 1922, seeking to break with the conservative past, Di Cavalcanti helped to organize Modern Art Week in São Paulo, which promoted a Modernist spirit in Brazilian art. Later in the 20th century, celebrated…

Guido Cavalcanti was an Italian poet, a major figure among the Florentine poets who wrote in the dolce stil nuovo (“sweet new style”) and who is considered, next to Dante, the most striking poet and personality in 13th-century Italian literature. Born into an influential Florentine family of the

Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle was a writer on art and, with Giovanni Morelli, founder of modern Italian art-historical studies. A student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Cavalcaselle from early youth studied the art treasures of Italy. In Germany (1846–47) he met another art enthusiast, the

dress: Colonial America: the Puritan and the Cavalier, respectively. Many Virginia colonists leaned toward the Cavalier; Puritan ideas prevailed in Massachusetts. The Puritan penchant for simpler dress had begun before their departure for America. Having moved overseas, they continued to omit such extravagances as fine brocades, rich laces, ribbons, and feathers.

cavalier, (from Late Latin caballarius, “horseman”), originally a rider or cavalryman; the term had the same derivation as the French chevalier. In English the word knight was at first generally used to imply the qualities of chivalry associated with the chevalier in French and with the kindred

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, breed of toy dog developed from the English Toy Spaniel in the early 1900s. The English Toy Spaniel (also called the King Charles Spaniel), in turn, originated in England in the 1600s, probably from mixes of small spaniels with toy breeds from Asia. By the early 20th

Cavalier Parliament, (May 8, 1661—Jan. 24, 1679), the first English Parliament after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne. It was originally enthusiastically royalist in tone, but over the years its membership changed and it became increasingly critical of many of Charles’s policies. The

Cavalier poet, any of a group of English gentlemen poets, called Cavaliers because of their loyalty to Charles I (1625–49) during the English Civil Wars, as opposed to Roundheads, who supported Parliament. They were also cavaliers in their style of life and counted the writing of polished and

Jean Cavalier was the leader of the French Huguenot insurgents known as the Camisards from 1702 to 1704. The son of a Huguenot shepherd from the Languedoc region of southern France, Cavalier sought refuge in Geneva in 1701 to escape a wave of severe persecution of Protestants by the government of

bacteria: Taxonomic rankings: …and in 1998 British zoologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith presented yet another classification scheme, the six-kingdom system, which contained kingdom Bacteria with two subdivisions, Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. In 2015 Cavalier-Smith and others revised the system to include seven kingdoms, whereby kingdom Bacteria was split into two separate kingdoms—Bacteria (containing the eubacteria) and…

Cavaliere D’Arpino was an Italian painter of the post-Renaissance school known as Mannerism who helped to spread that school abroad. The painter began his career as a workshop assistant for the decoration of the Vatican Loggia, directed by Niccolo Circignani. The artists he encountered during this

Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter, an important follower of the Bolognese school. He was a pupil of Agostino Carracci in Parma (1600–02) and later studied with Annibale Carracci in Rome. A decisive influence on his work, however, was not just the Baroque classicism of the Carracci brothers

Italo Calvino: … (1952; “The Cloven Viscount,” in The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount), is an allegorical story of a man split in two—a good half and an evil half—by a cannon shot; he becomes whole through his love for a peasant girl. The second and most highly praised fantasy, Il barone…

Emilio de’ Cavalieri was an Italian composer and one of the earliest to compose dramatic music. A nobleman, he became supervisor of fine arts and entertainments at the court of the grand duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany. He was a member of the Camerata in Florence, a group whose theories gave rise to

blue-eyed soul: …Rascals), whose principal members were Felix Cavaliere (b. November 29, 1943, Pelham, New York, U.S.), Gene Cornish (b. May 14, 1946, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Eddie Brigati (b. October 22, 1946, New York, New York), and Dino Danelli (b. July 23, 1945, New York). Produced by Phil Spector, “You’ve Lost That…

Rome: The Aventine: …gem is the Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta (“Knights of Malta Square”), designed in the late 1700s by Giambattista Piranesi, an engraver with the heart of a poet and the eye of an engineer. To the right of this obelisked and trophied square, set about with cypresses, is the residence…

Archimedes’ Lost Method: …a method later known as Cavalieri’s principle, which involves slicing solids (whose volumes are to be compared) with a family of parallel planes. In particular, if each plane in the family cuts two solids into cross sections of equal area, then the two solids must have equal volume (see figure).…

Bonaventura Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician who made developments in geometry that were precursors to integral calculus. As a boy Cavalieri joined the Jesuati, a religious order (sometimes called “Apostolic Clerics of St. Jerome”) that followed the rule of St. Augustine and was suppressed in

Emilio de’ Cavalieri was an Italian composer and one of the earliest to compose dramatic music. A nobleman, he became supervisor of fine arts and entertainments at the court of the grand duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany. He was a member of the Camerata in Florence, a group whose theories gave rise to

Emilio de’ Cavalieri was an Italian composer and one of the earliest to compose dramatic music. A nobleman, he became supervisor of fine arts and entertainments at the court of the grand duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany. He was a member of the Camerata in Florence, a group whose theories gave rise to

Emilio de’ Cavalieri was an Italian composer and one of the earliest to compose dramatic music. A nobleman, he became supervisor of fine arts and entertainments at the court of the grand duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany. He was a member of the Camerata in Florence, a group whose theories gave rise to

Bonaventura Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician who made developments in geometry that were precursors to integral calculus. As a boy Cavalieri joined the Jesuati, a religious order (sometimes called “Apostolic Clerics of St. Jerome”) that followed the rule of St. Augustine and was suppressed in

Michelangelo: Other projects and writing: …chiefly to the talented aristocrat Tommaso Cavalieri, later active in Roman civic affairs. These have naturally been interpreted as indications that Michelangelo was gay, but his sexual orientation cannot be confirmed as no similar indications had emerged when the artist was younger. The correlation of these letters with other events…

perciform: jacks, cavallas, and scads. The freshwater food and sport fishes of the perciform order include the sunfishes (Centrarchidae) and the perches and walleyes (Percidae). Many perciforms are popular aquarium fishes.

Cavalla River, river in western Africa, rising north of the Nimba Range in Guinea and flowing south to form more than half of the Liberia–Côte d’Ivoire border. It enters the Gulf of Guinea 13 miles (21 km) east of Harper, Liberia, after a course of 320 miles (515 km). With its major tributaries

Cavalleria rusticana, opera in one act by the Italian composer Pietro Mascagni (Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci) that premiered in Rome on May 17, 1890. A short and intense work, it sets to music the Italian writer Giovanni Verga’s short story (1880) and play

Cavalleria rusticana, short story by Giovanni Verga, written in verismo style and published in 1880. The author’s adaptation of the story into a one-act tragedy (produced in 1884) was his greatest success as a playwright. (Read Sir Walter Scott’s 1824 Britannica essay on chivalry.) On his return to

Francesco Cavalli was the most important Italian composer of opera in the mid-17th century. The son of Gian Battista Caletti-Bruni, he assumed the name of his Venetian patron Federico Cavalli. In December 1616 he became a singer in the choir of St. Mark’s, Venice, under Claudio Monteverdi, whose

Italian literature: Poetry after World War II: Patrizia Cavalli’s work suggests the self-deprecating irony of Crepuscolarismo. Maurizio Cucchi was another Milanese poet and critic assimilable to the linea lombarda; when faced with the collapse of the greater constructs, he found solace in little things. Other poets of the era include the “neo-Orphic”…

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Pietro Cavallini was a Roman fresco painter and mosaicist whose work represents the earliest significant attempt in Italian art to break with Byzantine stylizations and move toward a plastic, illusionistic depiction of figures and space. He was an important influence on the innovatory Florentine

Western painting: Early and High Baroque in Italy: …the period, Massimo Stanzione and Bernardo Cavallino, both died in the disastrous plague of 1654.

Domingo Cavallo is an Argentine economist and politician who served as economy minister of Argentina (1991–96, 2001). Cavallo was trained as a certified public accountant (1966) and earned master’s (1968) and doctoral (1969) degrees in economics from the National University of Córdoba. In 1977 he