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Oases of Freedom
La missione della Linea Gotica
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Il libro ricostruisce una pagina importante della II guerra mondiale: la missione della Linea Gotica, esaminando gli eventi che la resero possibile e il contributo che a tale operazione diede il pilota dell'aeronautica militare Enzo Ianni. In particolare viene descritta la cooperazione tra S.O.E....
by Oliver Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
For many centuries it was accepted almost without discussion that the priesthood, and pastoral work more generally, was exclusively a male domain. Women had a role within the Christian Church, as nuns or lay workers, but the giving of the sacraments was seen as a male preserve. And yet for centuries...
Rome
A History in Seven Sackings
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“This magnificent love letter to Rome” (Stephen Greenblatt) tells the story of the Eternal City through pivotal moments that defined its history—from the early Roman Republic through the Renaissance and the Reformation to the German occupation in World War Two—“an erudite history that reads...
by Elizabeth McCahill
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first half...
Anna and Tranquillo
Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion After being seized by the papal police in Rome in May 1749, Anna del Monte, a Jew, kept a diary detailing her captors’ efforts over the...
Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome
Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Same-sex marriage is a hotly debated topic in the United States, and the world, today. From the tenor of most discussions, however, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in this...
Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome
The Lives of Margherita Colonna by Giovanni Colonna and Stefania
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Margherita Colonna (1255–1280) was born into one of the great baronial families that dominated Rome politically and culturally in the thirteenth century. After the death of her father and mother, Margherita was raised by her brothers, including Cardinal Giacomo Colonna. The two extant contemporary...
Cascina Novecento
Tradizione contadina, emigrazione e radici nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Le radici lontane di un mondo che non esiste più, i luoghi e le persone che hanno dato dignità, cultura, invenzioni e tradizione ai nostri luoghi natii e all’intera nazione. Il tutto alla luce di una dimensione di vita contadina mai gridata ma, al contrario, sussurrata con garbo e riservatezza...
by Robert Shepherd and Geoff Motley
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
At last, a refreshing guide to Venice brought to you by the chalk and cheese of travel writing, Robert Shepherd and Geoff Motley. Written from the heart and fuelled by local food, wine and a mischievous sense of humour, this book is by two guys who are generations apart and come at Venice from different...
by John Litwinovich
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
There are a few places on earth where artistic, historic, natural and spiritual wonders merge as they do in Assisi. With this handy guide, visitors to Umbria can explore Assisi, its surrounding towns, and Mount Subasio Park. This book is definitely for walkers, for those seeking to leave the main...
by Katherine Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The quaint Amalfi Coast town of Sorrento has beautiful architecture and a scenic main square with quaint cafes, restaurants and shops. Sorrento is on the Circumvesuviana rail line and can be quickly reached from Naples. It is also an ideal base for visiting Pompeii, Herculaneum and the island of Capri....
by Óscar Villarroel González
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Sobre el apellido Borgia corre, incluso hoy día, toda una leyenda negra equiparable a la que se fue creando sobre la Monarquía Hispánica de los Austrias españoles. Leyenda que nos informa de envenenamientos, intentos de asesinato diversos y otros conseguidos, todos ellos por orden, instigación...
Sehnsucht nach Italien
Eine lyrische Ode an Italien von Goethe, Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Rilke, Paul Heyse, Platen, Klabund, Kinkel, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Friedrich Hebbel, Heinrich Lersch, Werner, Emil Peschkau...
Language: German
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Inhalt: Italien (Adolf Friedrich von Schack) Erinnerung an Italien (Alfred de Musset) Venedig (Alfred...
Epistolario di Urbano Rattazzi
Volume primo 1846 - 1861
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento italiano - Biblioteca scientifica Serie II: Fonti - Vol. XCIX La pubblicazione dell'Epistolario di Urbano Rattazzi, come ricorda Giuseppe Talamo nella Presentazione del volume, è stata l'ultima preoccupazione di Carlo Pischedda che l'ha ideato e impostato mentre...