A Florentine Revenge

Author : Christobel Kent
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 0751571199
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Florentine Revenge written by Christobel Kent and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a scorching summer afternoon in the suburbs of Florence, a small girl goes missing at a crowded swimming pool and is never seen alive again. For fifteen years a terrible crime lies unsolved, becoming one of the city's darkest and most shameful secrets, until one bitter winter night another body is found, at another swimming pool, and the case is reopened. Celia Donnelly had just arrived in Florence at the time of the girl's disappearance and can remember only too well the face that filled the front pages of every Italian newspaper. When word of the gruesome new discovery breaks, she is in the midst of arranging a weekend of birthday celebrations for a wealthy Englishman's wife. However, as Celia undertakes what ought to be a routine work assignment, she finds herself more closely involved than she could have ever imagined with a tragedy that has haunted her dreams for fifteen years; and it is Celia who is compelled to bear witness when the past returns to exact a brutal and terrifying revenge.

Author : Donald J. Wilcox
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674200265
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century written by Donald J. Wilcox and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new interpretation of humanist historiography, Donald J. Wilcox traces the development of the art of historical writing among Florentine humanists in the fifteenth century. He focuses on the three chancellor historians of that century who wrote histories of Florence--Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, and Bartolommeo della Scala--and proposes that these men, especially Bruni, had a new concept of historical reality and introduced a new style of writing to history. But, he declares, their great contributions to the development of historiography have not been recognized because scholars have adhered to their own historical ideals in judging the humanists rather than assessing them in the context of their own century. Mr. Wilcox introduces his study with a brief description of the historians and historical writing in Renaissance Florence. He then outlines the development of the scholarly treatment of humanist historiography and establishes the need for a more balanced interpretation. He suggests that both Hans Baron's conception of civic humanism and Paul Oscar Kristeller's emphasis on the rhetorical character of humanism were important developments in the general intellectual history of the Renaissance and, more specifically, that they provided a new perspective on the entire question of humanist historiography. The heart of the book is a close textual analysis of the works of each of the three historians. The author approaches their texts in terms of their own concerns and questions, examining three basic elements of their art. The first is the nature of the reality the historian is re- counting. Mr. Wilcox asks, "What interests the writer? What is the substance of his narrative? ... What does he choose from his sources ... and what does he ignore? What does he interpolate into the account by drawing on his own understanding of the nature of history?" The second is the various attitudes--moral judgments, historical conceptions, analytical views--with which the historian approaches his narrative. And the third is the aspect of humanist historiography to which previous scholars have paid the least attention: the historian's narrative technique. Mr. Wilcox identifies the difficulties involved in expressing historical ideas in narrative form and describes the means the historians developed for overcoming those difficulties. He emphasizes the positive value of rhetoric in their works and points out that they "sought by eloquence to teach men virtue." He devotes three chapters to Bruni, whom he considers the most original and important of the three historians. The next two chapters deal with Poggio, and the last with Scala. Throughout the book Mr. Wilcox exposes the internal connections among the three histories, thus illustrating the basic coherence of the humanist historical art.

Author : Christobel Kent
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480447307
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Darkness Descending written by Christobel Kent and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the wife of a Florentine political leader disappears, Detective Inspector Cellini’s investigation leads to a seaside town full of beauty and dark secrets. When the driven, charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement collapses at a rally, his young party immediately comes under threat. And when it emerges that his wife, Flavia, has disappeared, leaving behind not only a devastated husband but their newborn son, the political becomes dangerously personal—and Detective Inspector Sandro Cellini is summoned to investigate. The trail leads to a somber seaside town, where Flavia chose to end her life. But Cellini isn’t satisfied—why would someone so young and with so much to live for walk away from all she loves? As he digs into Flavia’s secret world, however, Sandro uncovers the hidden life of a woman consumed with private passions and a dark, deadly obsession—a stark reminder that life in modern Italy has a perilous edge, fueled as much by rage as desire.

Author : Christobel Kent
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639360018
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Darkness Descending written by Christobel Kent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret world of a murder victim leads detective Sandro Cellini to uncover the hidden life of a woman consumed by a deadly obsession. When the driven, charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement collapses at a rally, his young party immediately comes under threat. And when it emerges that his wife, Flavia, has disappeared, leaving behind not only a devastated husband but their newborn son, the political becomes dangerously personal—and Detective Inspector Sandro Cellini is summoned to investigate. The trail leads to a somber seaside town, where Flavia chose to end her life. But Cellini isn't satisfied—why would one so young and with so much to live for walk away from all she loves? As he digs into Flavia's secret world, however, Sandro uncovers the hidden life of a woman consumed with private passions and a dark, deadly obsession—a stark reminder that life in modern Italy has a perilous edge, fueled as much by rage as desire.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The maid of Florence; or, A woman's vengeance, a tragedy [in verse]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini written by Benvenuto Cellini and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist written by Benvenuto Cellini and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deanna Raybourn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593545931
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sinister Revenge written by Deanna Raybourn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar® Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Veronica’s natural-historian beau, Stoker, has been away in Bavaria for months, and their relationship is at an impasse. But when Veronica shows up before him with his brother, Tiberius (Lord Templeton-Vane), he is lured back home by an intriguing job offer: preparing an iguanodon for a very special dinner party. Tiberius has received a cryptic message—along with the obituaries of two recently deceased members of his old group of friends, the Seven Sinners—that he too should get his affairs in order. Realising he is in grave danger but not knowing why, he plans a reunion party for the remaining Sinners at his family estate to lure the killer out while Veronica and Stoker investigate. As the guests arrive and settle in, the evening’s events turn deadly. More clues come to light, leading Veronica, Stoker, and Tiberius to uncover a shared past amongst the Sinners that has led to the fatal present. But the truth might be far more sinister than what they were prepared for.

Author : Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist written by Benvenuto Cellini and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris McMahon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136496289
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama written by Chris McMahon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and state institutions. Plays set for close study are The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Malcontent and The Duchess of Malfi. The plays are read as unique events occupying positions in historical process concerning the privatisation of the family (by means of symbolism and concrete household strategies such as budgeting and surveillance) and the subsequent appropriation of the family and its methods by the state. The effect is that family becomes an unofficial organ of the state. This process, however, also involves the reform of the state along lines demanded by the private family. McMahon’s critical method, derived from the theory of Bourdieu, Bataille, and Girard, maps capital transactions to reveal emotionally charged, often idiosyncratic responses to issues of shared concern. Such issues include state corruption, the management of women, the performance of roles according to gender, the uses of surveillance, and the ethics of sacrifice.