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Gallipoli
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Gal·lip·o·li  (g-lp-l)
A narrow peninsula of northwest Turkey extending between the Dardanelles and the Gulf of Saros. It was the scene of heavy fighting (1915) between Allied and Turkish forces in World War I. The city of Gallipoli, at the eastern end of the peninsula, has a population of 16,715.

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The presence of a maze in an early masque, Beauty (1608), and in a second from Jonson's middle period, Pleasure Reconciled (1618), would be balanced by a third in the late masque Love's Triumph through Callipolis (1631).
Labyrinth dances in the French and English Renaissance by Greene, Thomas M. / Renaissance Quarterly
Resonances can be found in Orgel, 59: "All representations,' wrote Ben Jonson, 'especially those of this nature in court, public spectacles, either have been or ought to be the mirrors of man's life'" (Loves Triumph through Callipolis, lines 1-3).
Sovereign counterfeits: the trial of the pyx by Wortham, Simon / Renaissance Quarterly
31) And we still find possible traces of the furori in one of Jonson's latest masques, Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, performed in 1631 shortly before his quarrel with Inigo Jones.
Giordano Bruno and the Stuart court masques by Gatti, Hilary / Renaissance Quarterly
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