epub |eng | 2023-06-06 | Author:Meredith Francesca Small;

THE EASTERN (INDIAN) OCEAN The Indian Ocean and its islands and coastlines as drawn by Fra Mauro were important because this is the area of the spice trade from which ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Eisenbeiss, Philip;

At the time in question Lablache was singing here [Vienna] as a member of the Italian company under the Impresario Barbaja. An artist died, and Lablache was asked to sing ...

pdf |en | | Author: Paul V. Murphy

epub |eng | 2022-03-30 | Author:Giovanni Ruscitti

The winding road hugs the base of the mountain as we approach Pescocostanzo. Like Cansano, Pescocostanzo is over one thousand years old, rich with history and local tradition. Unlike Cansano, ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-07 | Author:Harry Sidebottom [Sidebottom, Harry]

Chapter 7: In Rome AD219–21 I Adventus Having spent the winter in Nicomedia (AD219–20), Heliogabalus ‘made his way into Italy through Thrace, Moesia, and each Pannonia, and he stayed there ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Barbara Levick;

Tittle-tattle Refined as the analysis of Raaflaub and Samons is, more allowance could be made for fluctuations of opinion under pressure of internal and external events, for the shock of ...

pdf |en | | Author: Stefano Dall'Aglio; Donald Weinstein

pdf | | | Author:I giullari di Dio

epub |eng | 2021-04-15 | Author:Marilyn L. Geary

Camilla Urso, 1883 As a fundraiser and promotion for the lottery, the world-famous violinist Camilla Urso donated her services to produce a three-day grand music festival. The renowned Urso served ...

epub |eng | 2021-04-06 | Author:James Dennistoun, Edward Hutton, [James Dennistoun, Edward Hutton,]

On the accession of Julius II. his star rapidly rose to the zenith of his reputation. His Urbino extraction was a recommendation to the new Pontiff, which his talents fully ...

pdf | | | Author:qw

epub |eng | | Author:Jane Stevenson [Stevenson, Jane]

Luciano Laurana’s coolly dignified posthumous portrait bust of Battista Sforza, based on her death mask. It was probably originally painted in lifelike colours. DeAgostini/Getty. Piero della Francesca’s double portrait of ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-02 | Author:Caroline Moorehead

Rather more enjoyably, Edda went off to Venice. She played poker with Nelson Page and lost 5,000 lire to him. At a lunch party given by Elsa Maxwell, her hostess ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Simpson

20 FRIENDS, ROMANS, GREEKS Three people received a big welcome from the Monsignor and John May. ‘Bill,’ said John May, ‘meet the “Liberty or Death” boys, Ted Meletiou and Angelos ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Dan Vittorio Segre

Forty years ago, none of these pessimistic considerations troubled my mind, which was totally occupied by the possibly irrelevant, but to me important, problem of getting back to Nairobi before ...