In the "Notes on Books" references are made to Mr. Sandys' Specimens of Macaronic Poetry, and to M.
Mr. Sandys as the author of Specimens of Macaronic Poems.
The taste for macaronic verse never took strong root in France, and the few obscure writers who attempted to shine in that kind of composition are now forgotten, except by the laborious bibliographer.
We may take a single example of the English macaronic from this poem, which will not need an English translation.
One named Jean Germain, wrote a macaronic history of the invasion of Provence by the imperialists in rivalry of Arenas.
But the great matter of macaronic poetry was Teofilo Folengo, of whose life we know just sufficient to give us a notion of the personal character of these old literary caricaturists.
An earlier poet, named Guarino Capella, a native of the town of Sarsina, in the country of Forli, on the borders of Tuscany, approached far nearer in excellence to the prince of macaronic writers.
While Italy was giving birth to macaronic verse, the satire upon the ignorance and bigotry of the clergy was taking another form in Germany, which arose from some occurrences which it will be necessary to relate.
Such was the man who has justly earned the reputation of being the first of macaronic poets.
Four Italian writers inmacaronic verse are known to have lived before the year 1500.
Macaronic Poetry creates but little interest in these days, though there are still students who appreciate some of its qualities.
Perhaps some of our readers may be able to throw some light on a curious and interesting book, Specimens of Macaronic Poetry, published by J.
Specimens of Macaronic Poetry, I think I can supply the answer.
Last, comes the reputed author of these macaronic Latin verses of the Mitre, John Hoskins himself (surnamed Little-hose).
May I here venture to mention that he always declared that my later poem of "Breitmann and the Pope" was the best Macaronic poem which he had ever read?
He told me that I had arrived just in time to go to a picnic got up by the Macaronic academicians for the next day, after a sitting of the academy in which every member was to recite something of his composition.
Thereupon I quoted a Macaronic verse by Merlin Coccaeus.
There are no macaronic authors nowadays, though poems of this class are still to be had in colleges and universities; but everything pertaining to college life is ephemeral, coming in with Freshman and going out with Senior.
Macaronic verse is properly a system of Latin inflections joined to words of a modern vernacular, such as English, French, German, &c.
We give the following curious old ballad a place here, not only on account of the iteration of rhyme, but also as the original of the macaronic verses on p.
I am but slightly acquainted with the former, whose sermons, printed if not preached in Latin, with sometimes a sort of almost macaronic intermixture of French, appeared to me very much inferior to those of Latimer.
Macaronic verse was invented by one Folengo, in the first part of the century.
Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
Its macaronic style is rendered peculiarly perplexing to the foreigner by the frequent introduction of words and phrases from the Mantuan patois.
The abbé spoke a macaronic Spanish, which he had learned in South America, and which provoked Cæsar's laughter.
Macaronic prose was not unknown as an artifice of serious oratory, and abounds (e.
Folengo in Italy and Arena in France are considered as the macaronic classics.
Moliere employed macaronic verse in the ceremonial scene with the doctors in Le Malade imaginaire.
Mr. Hitchcock of Jaalam a letter enclosing the macaronic verses which follow, and promising to send more, if more should be communicated.
The two cardinals indulge in an astounding macaronic jargon, the one of Italian mingled with Latin, the other of Latin mingled with French.
He himself observed due measure in it; but in the hands of his successors it degraded French to an almost Macaronic jargon.
His peculiar quality of patient labour stood him in good stead in composing a Macaronic poem on the Huguenots, which is by no means without value.
Freakish books, like macaronic poetry, written in a medley of languages, are curious.
Sidgwick's praise of tobacco, classically draped in Greek verse, occasionally of the macaronic order, is delightful.
It was this latter propensity which had generated the anomalous macaronic dialect, of which we have already spoken as a characteristic circumstance in the social features of literary Germany during the first half of the eighteenth century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "macaronic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blend; burlesque; doggerel; farcical; hybrid; satirical
