epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Jonathan Jones [Jones, Jonathan]

This image of sacrifice as a bloody visual spectacle that rouses violent passions in the spectator is powerfully suggestive about the purpose of showing the citizens of Florence, assembled in ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2011-01-01 | Author:David Gilmour

FATHER OF THE NATION Cardinal Angelo Roncalli, the Patriarch of Venice, visited Turin in 1953 and was astonished by the abundance of enormous monuments he saw there. Officiating in a ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Sarah Gwyneth Ross [Ross, Sarah Gwyneth]

206 The Household Salon, 1580–1680 Changing Personae Fonte and Marinella also underscore a significant shift in the ways in which women presented themselves. While their humanist predecessors most often emphasized ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Lidia Matticchio Bastianich & Tanya Bastianich Manuali [Lidia Matticchio Bastianich & Tanya Bastianich Manuali]

Crumble the ground pork and veal into a large bowl, breaking up any clumps with your fingers, and toss to mix them. Pour the beaten eggs over the meat, and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Eric Lamet

16 Pietro Russo and Ettore Costa The names of North African towns — Tobruk, Tripoli, Bengazi — were on every internee's lips. Was it Feldmarschall Rommel or was it General ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-13 | Author:Allan A. Tulchin [Tulchin, Allan A.]

T HE C ONSOLIDATION OF THE P ROTESTANT M OVEMENT 143 Nîmes wrote urgent letters to Geneva to request an additional pastor. 64 In order to understand who was entering ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:William Dean Howells [ Howells, William Dean]

II. Entering at the enchanted portal of the Villa P –, we found ourselves in a realm of wonder. It was our misfortune not to see the magician who compelled ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Browning, Robert [Browning, Robert]

Thyrsus: the ivy-coiled staffer spear stuck in a pine-cone, symbol of Bacchic orgy. These, with the other Pagan tokens and pictures, mingle oddly but significantly with the references to the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Edward Gibbon [Gibbon, Edward]

86 As M. de Valois and the P. Ruinart are determined to change the Mosella of the text into Mosa, it becomes me to acquiesce in the alteration. Yet, after ...

epub |eng | | Author:Miles J. Unger

IV. AGE OF ANXIETY The quarrel with his father increased Michelangelo’s sense of isolation; all the world seemed to have turned against him, and he was left feeling exhausted and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-09-25 | Author:Berendt, John [Berendt, John]

Friends of Olga’s, their suspicions already aroused, became alarmed when the episode of the missing papers occurred. Several people called Mary de Rachewiltz and implored her to come down to ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Niccolò Capponi [Capponi, Niccolò]

This negative portrait notwithstanding, Machiavelli believed that the French would eventually prevail in the Italian struggle. France was the strongest country in Europe: “There is no ruler capable of confronting ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:David I. Kertzer [Kertzer, David I.]

13. The Pope's Body A FEW DAYS BEFORE he was elected pope, Gioacchino Pecci, in his role as chamberlain, called in the dead pontiff's relatives for a reading of his ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Roger Crowley

11 Terrible Engines APRIL 25–MAY 28, 1453 There is a need for machines for conducting a siege: different types and forms of tortoises … portable wooden towers … different forms ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

He wrote on other subjects which scholars have reconstructed from the first discoveries at this palatial seaside villa. Much effort has been devoted to explaining his charred thoughts on sound ...