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Volta

Italian term for the change in feeling which occurs between the octave and sestet in some sonnets.

[n] Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)

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Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Conte Alessandro Volta, Count Alessandro Volta

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