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__NOTOC__ Levina Buoncuore Urbino or Lavinia Buoncuore Urbino (died 1888) was a writer and translator in the Boston, Massachusetts-area in the 19th-century.〔http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n82-275119〕〔Thomas William Herringshaw, ''Herringshaw's national library of American biography''. American Publishers' Association, 1914〕 Among her published works was ''An American Woman in Europe'' (1869), a frank account of her travels in Europe 1866-1869; she also wrote children's books and a guide to art technique. She sometimes wrote under a pseudonym: L. Boncoeur, L. B. Cuore, or L. Buoncuore.〔William Cushing. ''Initials and pseudonyms: a dictionary of literary disguises'', Volume 1. NY: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1885〕 Her husband, S.R. Urbino, was a bookseller and publisher of foreign literature and language-instruction books.〔〔Oscar Fay Adams. ''A dictionary of American authors'', 5th ed. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904〕 She served as an officer of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals〔''Our Dumb Animals'', May 1877〕 and supported the New England Hospital for Women and Children.〔''Annual report of the New England Hospital for Women and Children'', 1904〕 ==Works by L.B. Urbino== * ''Sunshine in the palace and cottage, or, Bright extremes in human life''. Boston: Heath & Groves, 1854〔Copies of ''Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage'' were in the libraries of Boston's Mercantile Library Association and the Peabody Institute, South Danvers, Massachusetts. cf. Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Boston, 1854; Catalogue of the library of the Peabody Institute, South Danvers, Mass., 1855〕 * ''Miss Kate: or, the village teacher ; a true character''. Boston: New England Sabbath School Union, 1854. "Revised by the committee of publication" (Google books ) * ''The home angel''. Boston: Wentworth & Co., 1858 (Google books ) * L. Boncoeur (i.e. Levina Buoncuore Urbino). ''L'instructeur de l'enfrance'': (A first book for children), 2nd ed. Boston: S.R. Urbino, 1864 * E.M. Sewell, L.B. Urbino. ''Dictation exercises''. Boston: S.R. Urbino; NY: Holt, 1867. (Google books ) * ''An American woman in Europe: The journal of two years and a half sojourn in Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy''. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869 (Google books ) * L.B. Urbino and Henry Day. ''Art recreations: being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, watercolor painting ... with valuable receipts for preparing materials''. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1869. "Splendidly illustrated" (Google books ) * L.B. Cuore (Levina Buoncuore Urbino ). ''Italian conversation-grammar'', 5th ed. Boston: S.R. Urbino, 1870 (Google books ) * ''Biographical sketches of eminent musical composers''. Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1876 (Google books ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Levina Buoncuore Urbino」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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