Array Коллектив авторов - 20 лучших повестей на английском / 20 Best Short Novels

‘Zitti, zitti, piano, piano, Non facciamo confusione,’ – Be quiet, keep silent to avoid confusion… ( Italian )

facezia – a joke, witticism ( Italian )

Nina pazza per amore – Nina, mad with love ( Italian )

Bath – a city in southwestern England in the county of Somerset, a health resort with springs of mineral water located along the Avon River

Cheltenham – a town in the county of Gloucestershire, first mentioned in 1223

N’est-ce pas?= Isn’t it? ( French )

De Juillet= in July ( French )

heterodox – heretical

Jeremy Taylor(1613–1667) – an English writer and an Anglican clergyman

entre nous= between you and me ( French )

Lucifer – in Christianity, the name of Satan, the prince of evil forces, before his fall

très posément – here: very firmly ( French )

Dante – Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), a great Italian poet, philosopher and thinker, the author of ‘The Divine Comedy’

Don Giovanni – a famous opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1801), one of the greatest composers in the history of music

Mount Athos – a holy mountain in northern Greece, where twenty Greek Orthodox monasteries are located

a priori, a posteriori, a fortiori – (a way of thinking) 1) from cause to effect; 2) from effect to cause; 3) on a more convincing argument

Cadiz – a city and port in Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, founded in 1100 BC

Saint Peter – the Apostle of Jesus Christ; before becoming Christ’s disciple, he was a fisherman

Asturias – a historic region in Spain

Tiberius(42 BC–37 AD) – the second Roman emperor who in his last years became a tyrant

cui bono= what for?

belles lettres= fiction ( French )

sirocco – warm wind in southern Europe and over the Mediterranean Sea, originating over North Africa

Parnassus – a mountain in central Greece, in Greek mythology and religion, a sacred place

Berkeley – George Berkeley (1685–1753), an Anglican bishop and an English scientist and philosopher of Irish origin

hyloists – another name of millenarians

esse= to be ( Latin )

percipi= perceive; n perception ( Latin )

the Severn – the longest river in Britain flowing from Wales to the Atlantic Ocean

the Wye – a river in England and Wales

Plinlimmon – Plynlimon, a ridge in central Wales, eastward to the Rivers Severn and Wye

Macedon – an ancient kingdom of the Helenic Age on the Greek peninsular

Monmouth – a historic county in southeastern Wales

Toutesti (Greek) , id est( Latin ) , cioè( Italian ) , c’est à dire( French ) mean ‘that is.’

Odyssey – an epic poem by Homer; Odysseus, the main character of the poem, is a man of outstanding courage, wisdom and endurance.

Euclid(2nd century BC) – the most prominent mathematician and geometer of Greco-Roman antiquity

Genius Loci – the atmosphere of the place ( Latin )

tutela= patron ( Latin )

Hesperian – related to the Hesperides, in Greek mythology, maidens who guarded the tree with golden apples

comme il faut – properly, in a proper way ( French )

toute autre chose – quite differently ( French )

Hic non bibitur! – One doesn’t sing here! ( Latin )

Minerva – in Roman mythology, the goddess of handicrafts and arts

Neptune – in Roman mythology, the god of fresh water and sea

Bacchus – in Greek mythology, the god of wine and ecstasy

Socrates(470 BC–399 BC) – the greatest Greek philosopher who exerted profound influence on philosophy of all time

Brutus(85 BC–43 BC) – the Roman general who took part in the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC

Cassius – Gaius Cassius, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar

Milton – John Milton (1608–1674), an English poet, the author of the famous ‘Paradise Lost’

kalos kagathos= kind and good ( Greek )

Athenians – residents of Athens

Rosicrucian – a member of a worldwide secret brotherhood and a follower of teaching that combines esoteric wisdom, mysticism and religious beliefs and practices of the past

sylph – in medieval folklore, an imaginary soulless mortal being that lives in the air

Helen – in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman of her time, the cause of the Trojan War

Zeuxis(5th century BC) – one of the best known artists of ancient Greece

Crotona – an ancient town in southern Italy, founded by the Greeks about 710 BC

Tullia – Cicero’s daughter

tendresse= tenderness ( French )

Sacre – cochon – bleu! – Damn! ( French )