Rodomontade

Rodomonteur is an obsolete term for a braggart. The term derives from the French-Italian word rodomontade ( bragging, grandiloquence ), located on the boastful hero and king of Algiers Rodomont (also: Rodomonte ) in the Roland epics of the Italian poet Boiardo ( lover Roland ) and Ariosto ( Orlando Furioso ) refers. A modification is also obsolete verb rodomontieren ( cut ).

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The music journalist Bernard Grun described in his cultural history of operetta composer Paul Abraham as follows: " Rodomonteur, dreamer, Epicureans; elegiac, depressed, hypochondriac; superficial and pedantic; apodictic and a doubter; casual and a fire spirit. "