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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Alexander Lee [Lee, Alexander]

THE UGLY: MERCENARIES ON THE EDGE OF MADNESS If condottieri like Sir John Hawkwood and Federico da Montefeltro were bad, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta was the paradigm of all that was ...

epub |eng | 2008-07-27 | Author:Miles J. Unger [Unger, Miles J.]

Despite signs of impending trouble, Lorenzo did not seem entirely displeased with the new state of affairs. From the rubble of the old triple alliance had emerged a new confederation, ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Mary McCarthy [McCarthy, Mary]

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Dianne Hales [Hales, Dianne]

Biographers suggest several possibilities for where Lisa might have posed for Leonardo. The artist could have begun his original sketch in his bottega at Santissima Annunziata, where he was living ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-24 | Author:Lidia Matticchio Bastianich [Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio]

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 |eng | | Author:John Keahey

Southern Basilicata/southern Puglia Chapter 11 Sunlight on Old Stones I arrived about midday. Taranto is a strange and wonderful city high on the inside of Italy’s heel. From the train ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Keahey

EIGHT Far from the Madding Crowd Pisa became a refuge, an exotic setting, in Shelley’s words, a “Paradise of Exiles.” In truth, it is hard to point to anything particularly ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Hibbert, Christopher [Hibbert, Christopher]

The first thing that I want to impress upon you is that you ought to be grateful to God, remembering always that it is not through your merits, or your ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Keahey, John [Keahey, John]

TEN Aci Trezza and the Cyclops A grim loner, dead set in his own lawless ways. Here was a piece of work, by god, a monster built like no mortal ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

VII. INNOCENT VIII: 1484–92 The failure of Sixtus was confirmed by the chaos that ruled Rome after his death. Mobs sacked the papal granaries, broke into the banks of the ...