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The Mermaid Tavern was a tavern on Cheapside in London during the Elizabethan era, located east of St. Paul's Cathedral on the corner of Friday Street and Bread Street. It was the site of the so-called "Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen", a drinking club that met on the first Friday of every month that included some of the Elizabethan era's leading literary figures, among them Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and William Strachey. A popular tradition has grown up that the group included William Shakespeare, although most scholars think that was improbable. (en) La Mermaid Tavern (in Italiano, "Taverna della Sirena") è stata una taverna della Londra elisabettiana (1558-1625), sita nei pressi della cattedrale di Saint Paul (Bread Street, stando a Ben Jonson), ed è passata alla Storia come la sede della "Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen" ("Fratellanza dei Gentiluomini della Sirenetta"), della quale facevano parte alcuni dei protagonisti della cultura elisabettiana: Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, William Strachey e, anche se messo in dubbio da diversi storici, William Shakespeare. L'edificio è stato distrutto dal Grande incendio di Londra nel 1666. (it) |
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The Mermaid Tavern was a tavern on Cheapside in London during the Elizabethan era, located east of St. Paul's Cathedral on the corner of Friday Street and Bread Street. It was the site of the so-called "Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen", a drinking club that met on the first Friday of every month that included some of the Elizabethan era's leading literary figures, among them Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and William Strachey. A popular tradition has grown up that the group included William Shakespeare, although most scholars think that was improbable. (en) La Mermaid Tavern (in Italiano, "Taverna della Sirena") è stata una taverna della Londra elisabettiana (1558-1625), sita nei pressi della cattedrale di Saint Paul (Bread Street, stando a Ben Jonson), ed è passata alla Storia come la sede della "Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen" ("Fratellanza dei Gentiluomini della Sirenetta"), della quale facevano parte alcuni dei protagonisti della cultura elisabettiana: Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, William Strachey e, anche se messo in dubbio da diversi storici, William Shakespeare. (it) |
