By Robert A. Heinlein
This novelette seemed within the March 1952 factor of GALAXY and is the single paintings which Heinlein wrote particularly for Horace Gold, the editor of GALAXY journal. (Heinlein's novel THE PUPPET MASTERS have been serialized within the September via November 1951 problems with GALAXY yet Gold had purely bought serial rights to a freelance novel which have been written for Scribner's.) Heinlein by no means back seemed in Gold's GALAXY. This novelette, set in a near-future basically subtly diverse from the McCarthyite and politically menacing current bargains with social deterioration, cultural breakdown in a cautious, documentary variety which turns into terrifying. His romantically-linked leads are emotionally affecting yet by no means sentimentalized, the history of chaos during which they enact their tragic, drowning love, is sparingly yet furiously painted. Heinlein's 1952 is obviously the apotheosis of these "Crazy Years" which he had famous in his well-known chronological destiny historical past, released a decade previous in unbelievable technological know-how FICTION as a summary of his meant profession. maybe no tale of this era limns its political and cultural disorder as effectively as this novelette. Overshadowed through Heinlein's juveniles and his recognized later novels, THE yr OF THE JACKPOT could be the purest model of his portfolio and his so much memorable paintings of under novel size. it's certainly one of his so much exemplary tales and maybe his top.
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Hendecasyllabic verse, following Dante舗s noble example, became the elevated poetic line of choice in Italian literature, just as the peerless example of Shakespeare舗s blank verse of iambic pentameter has privileged that poetic form in English. In general, the most successful English translations of Dante, such as Longfellow舖s, have always been in blank verse, not in rhymed verse. Italian poetry is not scanned by feet but by counting the number of syllables in a line. Since most Italian words are accented on the penultimate syllable, hendecasyllabic verse generally contains eleven syllables with the tenth accented.
Dante travels as part of a mission to the city of San Gimignano to rally Tuscan cities against the territorial ambitions of Pope Boniface VIII. 1301 Dante goes to Rome to ask Pope Boniface VIII to help prevent the French Charles of Valois, a papist sympathizer, from entering Florence. Charles takes the city in November, and the Blacks harshly regain power. 1302 On January 27 Dante is accused of corruption and bribery, fined, and sentenced to two years in exile. When he does not reply to the charges, his home and possessions are confiscated, and on March 10 his sentence is increased; he is now banished for life and condemned to be burned alive if he ever returns to the city.
Membership in a guild gives him a say in the Florentine government. Dante舗s friend and mentor Brunetto Latini dies. 1300 Dante, a persuasive and eloquent speaker, is appointed to Florence舗s highest office as one of the city priors. He holds this office from June 15 to August 15. Florence is once again divided into warring factions, the White and the Black Guelphs. Dante舗s sympathies lie with the Whites, who favor independence from papal authority; in what he considers to be the best interests of Florence, he must concur with the priors when they send Guido Cavalcanti, a Black and his longtime friend, into exile on the Tuscan coast, where he dies of malaria.
