epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Jones, Ted;

4 Lucca The Romantic City A city overflowing with everything that makes for ease, for plenty, for beauty, for interest and for good example. (Henry James, Italian Hours) As the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2016-12-17 | Author:Webb, Caroline [Webb, Caroline]

CHAPTER 13 San Zeno Maggiore But it is, I think, the church of San Zenone, with its detached campanile of alternate lines of brick and marble, that strikes as it ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Robert M. Durling

CANTO 23 Fixed stars, continued: Triumph of Christ—his withdrawal—the Virgin Mary—the archangel Gabriel—ascent of Mary 1 Like a bird within the beloved foliage, perched on the nest of its sweet ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Translatio The term translatio first appeared in the sense of ‘change,’ even of address, ‘transport,’ banking operation, botanical graft, and metaphor. Only in Seneca does it appear as a turning ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Cacciari, Massimo; Carrera, Alessandro; Verdicchio, Massimo

CHAPTER 5 Catastrophes Writing to Antonio Valdés, secretary of Charles V, on August 1, 1528, this is how Erasmus explained, against his detractors, the enterprise of the boundary mark (Termine): ...

epub | | 2010-01-07 | Author:Francesco De Sanctis [Sanctis, Francesco De]

O gran bontà de' cavalieri antichi! Non ci era dunque in Italia un serio sentimento cavalleresco, che potesse ispirare qualche cosa come il Cid; e scaduto ogni sentimento religioso, morale ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Giovanni Verga

Ciolla, who was Don Ninì’s confidant, said to him later: ‘What a silly you are! That fellow’s nothing but a – an old pimp. They swallow together the stuff you ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Dante Alighieri

CANTO XVIII Había terminado sus razones mi alto doctor, mirando atentamente si en mis ojos mostraba mi contento; y yo, a quien nueva sed atormentaba, callaba, mas por dentro me ...

epub |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anita Kinley [Kinley, Anita]

44 Anita Kinley “Dylan. My name is Dylan. And I think you’re close to coming.” Dylan watched as Whisman nodded. Desire surged though his body, seeing those gray eyes close ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

Memories of a Battle It’s not true that I’ve forgotten everything, the memories are still there, hidden in the grey tangle of the brain, in the damp bed of sand ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Whereas newspapers once had to send their spies into the corridors of power in Rome to wrangle cautious admissions out of people in the know, today if anything they have ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]

He who sees it shivers with the most mysterious of shivers . . . The scaffold is a vision . . . It seems as though it were a being, ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Dante Alighieri

[395] Duke of Athens: Theseus, instructed by Ariadne, daughter of Pasiphaë and Minos, how to outwit the Minotaur, entered the labyrinth in the character of a victim, slew the monster, ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

Italo Calvino I had left the draft of this letter in Turin; then I left for Rome and have not been back here for three weeks. I am signing it ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-06 | Author:Anita Kinley

Chapter Five Lucas knew he was akin to a man driven. Driven by an inferno. It was the same fire that he had described to Dylan. Remembering the exact words, ...