Illustrissimi

Author : Pope John Paul I
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852445495
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illustrissimi written by Pope John Paul I and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 33 days in 1975 the infectious smile of John Paul I lit up the world. Illustrissimi is a collection of droll letters he wrote for a newspaper before his election. Adressed to famous characters in history and literature, his pointed comments sparkle with humour and wisdom. Whether he is discussing the pangs of adolescnece with Pinocchio, pornography with Sir Walter Scott, capitalism with Marconi or miniskirsts with the Empress Maria Theresa, he manages to be both edifying and amusing. Illustrissimi is one of the few available clues to the personality of a POpe whose brief ministry chgarmed millions of people.

Author : Liudmila V. Charipova
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719072963
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin Books and the Eastern Orthodox Clerical Elite in Kiev, 1632-1780 written by Liudmila V. Charipova and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1632, the library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy went up in flames in 1780. Encompassing predominantly humanist, scholastic and homiletic titles in Latin yet placed in a heartland of Eastern Orthodox territories, the library was something of an anomaly for its time, offering East Slavic intellectuals a comprehensive introduction to Western printed matter. Those books brought along with them not only a new pattern of knowledge, but also an awareness of the diversity and multiplicity of views which the educated could hold.

Author : Colin Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0856684481
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians and Moors in Spain. Vol 2 Latin Documents and Vernacular Documents AD 1195-1614 written by Colin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two previous volumes draw a fascinating picture of the confrontation between the Christians and Moors in Spain from the Christian side. This volume attempts to redress the balance by describing many of the same incidents from the Muslims' point of view.

Author : Jan Adrianus van Dorsten
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004079236
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Philip Sidney written by Jan Adrianus van Dorsten and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dinko Fabris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557351
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples written by Dinko Fabris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important figure of seventeenth-century Neapolitan music, Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) spent his long life in the service of a number of Neapolitan conservatories and churches, culminating in his appointment as maestro of the Tesoro di S. Gennaro and the Real Cappella. Provenzale was successful in generating significant profit from a range of musical activities promoted by him with the participation of his pupils and trusted collaborators. Dinko Fabris draws on newly discovered archival documents to reconstruct the career of a musician who became the leader of his musical world, despite his relatively small musical output. The book examines Provenzale's surviving works alongside those of his most important Neapolitan contemporaries (Raimo Di Bartolo, Sabino, Salvatore and Caresana) and pupils (Fago, Greco, Veneziano and many others), revealing both stylistic similarities and differences, particularly in terms of new harmonic practices and the use of Neapolitan language in opera. Fabris provides both a life and works study of Provenzale and a conspectus of Neapolitan musical life of the seventeenth century which so clearly laid the groundwork for Naples' later status as one of the great musical capitals of Europe.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucien Gregoire
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477299661
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder by the Grace of God written by Lucien Gregoire and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Did his struggle for basic human rights and dignity for born-out-of-wedlock children, the handicapped, women, the remarried, homosexuals and the poor cost him his life?"

Author : Charles Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Chapel royal of Scotland, with the Register of the Chapel royal of Stirling, and observations respecting the Order of the thistle written by Charles Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucien Gregoire
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1449023045
Total Pages : 419 pages
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Download or read book Murder in the Vatican written by Lucien Gregoire and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Driven by Paul VI's edicts 'Populorum Progressio' and 'Liberation Theology, ' there were two fronts on which the CIA was confronted by communism as a democratic society - Italy and Central America. If Italy fell to communism, all of Europe would surely follow. If Central America fell to communism, all of Latin America would surely follow. It was in these parts of the world communism was raising its head as the will of the people that was so dangerous to the United States and its capitalistic allies. Henry Kissinger sounded the alarm, "Domination by Moscow is not the issue. Communist control of Italy and Central America is the issue. It would have terrible consequences for the United States and it is the number one threat to its national security." On the afternoon of March 13, 1978, fifteen men sat around a table in a sidewalk caf̌ in a remote mountain village in northern Italy. In casual clothes, they went unnoticed, though one was the reigning Pontiff, and another Aldo Moro, and the others ranking cardinals of poverty stricken countries who comprised the leadership of the Marxist movement in the Church and the western world. They left at four o'clock. Aldo reserved the table "for this time next year." On March 13, 1979, Cardinals Benelli and Felici decided not to travel to Vittorio Veneto that day. After all, all the others were dead. They, themselves, unaware of their impending doom, were, too, as good as dead."--Publisher website.

Author : Maarten Delbeke
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271029013
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernini's Biographies written by Maarten Delbeke and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject of two monographic biographies published shortly after his death in 1680: one by the Florentine connoisseur and writer Filippo Baldinucci (1682), and the second by Bernini's son, Domenico (1713). This interdisciplinary collection of essays by historians of art and literature marks the first sustained examination of the two biographies, first and foremost as texts. A substantial introductory essay considers each biography's author, genesis, and foundational role in the study of Bernini. Nine essays combining art-historical research with insights from philology, literary history, and art and literary theory offer major new insights into the multifarious connections between biography, art history, and aesthetics, inviting readers to rethink Bernini's life, art, and milieu. Contributors are Eraldo Bellini, Heiko Damm, John D. Lyons, Sarah McPhee, Tomaso Montanari, Rudolf Preimesberger, Robert Williams, and the editors.Maarten Delbeke is Assistant Professor of architectural history and theory at the universities of Ghent and Leiden. Formerly the Scott Opler Fellow in Architectural History at Worcester College (Oxford), he is the author of several articles and a forthcoming book on Seicento art and theory.Evonne Levy is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Toronto. She is also the author of Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque (2004).