On the one side, the courtly rhymers who versified in the Provencal dialect, bequeathed to Sicily and Tuscany the chivalrous lyric of love, which was destined to take its final and fairest form from Dante and Petrarch.
He also versified Lucian's Timon for the stage, and wrote Latin poems of fair merit.
After adapting the Miracle-plays of medieval orthodoxy to their stage, they versified the Legends of the Saints, and went so far as to dramatize novels of a purely secular character.
I tre Pellegrini is based upon a legend of medieval celebrity, versified by Southey in his "Pilgrimage to Compostella.
Among Novelle versified for popular reading may be cited, Masetto the Gardener (Decam.
Her story, as told in these scenes, is the versified novella of a Vittoria Accoramboni or a Bella Imperia converted by the preaching of S.
The Ameto is a tissue of pastoral tales, descriptions, and versified interludes, prolix in style and affected with pedantic erudition.
Guerino was versified in octave stanzas, by a poet of the people called L'Altissimo, in the sixteenth century.
The same positive and workmanly method is discernible in the versified novelle of this period.
In short, Ser Giovanni versified and set to music all the principal motives upon which the Novella of feeling turned, and formed an ars amandi adapted to the use of the people.
While Scotland thus redeemed the poetical character of the fifteenth century, her living tongue was used only in versified compositions.
The legend rapidly spread; It was versified by the English dramatist Marlowe, it became the foundation of innumerable tales and dramas, until, transformed by the genius of Goethe, it has acquired a prominent place in German literature.
The Doctrinale advocates no work more emphatically than Petrus Riga's Aurora, a versifiedparaphrase of Scripture.
Frequently it tells the story of wars, or gives the Gesta of notable lives, making a kind of versified biography.
We have already stated that Antonio Pucci versified Villani's Chronicle.
This instance of versified history is not unique, and it is evidently connected with the precisely similar phenomenon offered by the "vulgar Latin" literature.
A versified account of the Passion of our Lord, recounting the events from Palm Sunday to Easter, with the addition of many legendary incidents from the Gospel of Nicodemus and other similar sources.
It seems to me that Branwell's poetical genius is as much higher than that of his sister Emily as hers was superior to the talents of Charlotte and Anne, in their versified productions.
So I versified in these two couplets, 'Hast quit the love of Moons[FN#342] or dost persist?
In the very dawn of tragic composition Greene versified a portion of the 'Orlando Furioso,' and Marlowe devoted one of his most brilliant studies to the villanies of a Maltese Jew.
Consequently the substance of the stories versified by our poets, the forms of our metres, and the cadences of our prose periods reveal a close attention to Italian originals.
This genre of versified oration to one's mistress was unusually popular in Elizabethan England.
Or suppose he was making an offer of his hand and heart, do you think he would declaim a versified proposal to his Amanda, or perhaps write an impromptu on the back of his hat while he knelt before her?
Marie de France, also, in the thirteenth century, versified one hundred of the fables of Aesop, translating from an English collection, which does not now appear to be extant.
Fénélon suggested the story, the pupil put it into prose, and La Fontaine versified it.
His work was versified in Latin, at the instance of Seneca; and Quinctilian refers to it as a reading-book for boys.
De Bry makes use of this versified narrative in the eighth part of his Grand Voyages.
A few years before the appearance of Fingal, Jeremy Stone, a schoolmaster at Dunkeld, had collected ten Ossianic ballads and published one of them in an English versified translation.
It consists of 259 stanzas of eight lines of seven syllables apiece, and contains a versified narrative of the events of the Passion made up from the Gospels and apocryphal sources, notably the Gospel of Nicodemus.
We further possess a versified compendium of geography for educational purposes dealing with the three continents, from the pen of Airbertach MacCosse-dobrain (10th century).
Others exhibit both a literal, and a versified translation.
Some material of the same kind is supplied by the Virgiliana of Evangelista Fossa, a Cremonese gentleman, whoversified a Venetian Burla in mock-heroic Latin.
Popular poems of the type represented by Ginevra degli Almieri were versified Novelle.
The maccaronic style was a product of North Italy, cultivated by writers of the Lombard towns, who versified comic or satiric subjects in parodies of humanistic poetry.
The prologue to the Cassaria, on its reappearance as a versified play, might be quoted for the perfection of genial sarcasm, playing about the foibles of society without inflicting a serious wound.
Their tragedies might at least have contained versified studies of motives, metrical essays on the leading passions.
Tiraboschi mentions the Anfitrione of Pandolfo Collenuccio, the Cassina and Mostellaria versifiedin terza rima by Girolamo Berardo, and the Menechmi of Duke Ercole, among the earliest of these versions.
The Suppositi, originally written in prose and afterwards versified by its author, first appeared in 1509 at Ferrara.
In the preceding year Ariosto exhibited the Cassaria, which, like the Suppositi, was planned in prose and subsequently versified in sdrucciolo iambics.
With this view, he versifiedthe Spanish romance of Amadis of Gaul in octave stanzas.
No better illustration of this can be given than the story from South Smaland of the fair Castle east of the Sun and north of the Earth, versified so exquisitely in "The Earthly Paradise.
Ovid was translated by Zebrowski and Otfinowski; Lucan's Pharsalia by Chroscinski, whoversified also portions of the Bible; and again with more fidelity and skill by the Dominican monk Bardzinski.
Kirsha versified them; and, we fear, changed them according to the spirit of his time.
This journey through Lakeland is described in the galloping anapæsts of the "Iteriad," which was simply the prose journal versified on his return, one of the few enterprises of the sort which were really completed.
And yet we should rather call it a versified criticism than a poem in the full sense of that word.
Many of the metrical preludes to his lectures are a versified and condensed abstract of the leading doctrine of the discourse.
The least original of the group, John Gilbert Cooper, versified in The Power of Harmony Shaftesbury's cosmogony.
Jenyns versified this effeminization of Christianity, charged orthodoxy with attributing cruelty to God, and asserted that faith in divine and human kindness would banish all wrong and discord from the world.
But none of these are as familiar as the versified 'Legends,' nor have they the astonishing variety of entertainment found in the latter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "versified" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
