epub |eng | 2006-08-14 | Author:Sandra Benjamin [Benjamin, Sandra]

THE BARBARY PIRATES The offensive of Charles’s grandparents Ferdinand and Isabella culminated in Spain’s expulsion of its large Muslim population. Muslims had lived in Spain for seven centuries, and the ...

epub |eng | 2000-08-14 | Author:Ross King

It is safe to assume that the masons, like the stone cutters and ironmongers, were initially puzzled by what the capomaestro required of them. It comes as no surprise that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Todorovska, Viktorija [Todorovska, Viktorija]

Risotto with Bottarga (Mullet Roe) It might come as a surprise to find risotto, which is generally considered to be a northern Italian dish, in a book about Sardinia. But ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-17 | Author:Insight Guides

A canon of Parma’s cathedral criticised Corregio’s fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin as ‘a stew of frogs’ legs’, but Titian, recognising the artist’s triumph of illusionism, decreed that ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Frances Mayes

* * * TABITHA, STORYBOOK CAT, we leave behind. She comes to the car as we pack to leave. Let me not anthropomorphize, though I could. Just to say, she ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-03 | Author:T.A. Williams [Williams, T.A.]

Chapter 13 A few minutes after Mark had left her room, there was a tap at the door and her luggage arrived. She was still wondering whether to tip the ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Adriana Licio [Licio, Adriana]

Once back home, Gran looked at her hair, horrified. Her white bangs, normally framing her face nicely, had been pulled back into a crest pointing upwards. She tried to comb ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-18 | Author:Maja Gori & Alessandro Pintucci

Figure 4.9. Herculaneum, a view of the port area. On the right it is possible to appreciate the dimensions of the tuff rock covering the city. Sarahhoa [CC BY-SA 2.0 ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-31 | Author:Insight Guides

It is said that Florentine artists young and old made pilgrimages to the Brancacci Chapel to marvel at and learn from Masaccio’s achievement (stories recount visits by Michelangelo and Leonardo, ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-09 | Author:Rough Guides [Guides, Rough]

In medieval times, three churches took turns to act as Randazzo’s cathedral, a sop to the three parishes in town whose inhabitants were of Greek, Latin and Lombard origin. The ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-17 | Author:Berlitz

First course The primo piatto is usually pasta, risotto or soup. In the Veneto region, pasta often takes second place to rice, and risotto is a classic Venetian dish, whether ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-24 | Author:Aragon, Catherine [Aragon, Catherine]

epub |eng | 2019-12-17 | Author:Fodor's Travel Guides [Fodor’s Travel Guides]

s Sights Arche Scaligere MEMORIAL | On a little square off the Piazza dei Signori are the fantastically sculpted Gothic tombs of the Della Scala family, who ruled Verona during ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-07-24 | Author:Francis Russell [Russell, Francis]

Palazzo dei Consoli, south façade. Gubbio produced one of the more engaging figures of the International Gothic movement, Ottaviano Nelli. His masterpieces are in two churches on the east of ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:DK Eyewitness [Eyewitness, DK]