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Rarely in history has a great city arisen in a less likely place than the islands and mud flats of the Venetian lagoon. But they provided the city's founders with a refuge from the barbarians who ha……続きを見る

This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War. In the first postwar decad……続きを見る

Extrait : Vers l’an sept cent vingt-deux de la fondation de la ville, on reprit, à Rome, l’usage d’obéir entièrement à un seul chef. Octavien, fils d’Octavius, et adopté par César, son grand-oncle ……続きを見る

Views of the city of lagoons and gondolas; Henry James was passionate: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it...', whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly...Propped on its long r……続きを見る

Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on ……続きを見る

La battaglia di Coronate fu combattuta nel 689 nella piana presso l’Adda tra Cornate d’Adda (anticamente Coronate) e Trezzo sull’Adda tra l’esercito del re dei Longobardi Cuniperto e quello dell’usu……続きを見る

La morte di Nerone nel giugno del 68 dopo Cristo getta l'Impero di Roma nel caos e in una guerra civile senza precedenti. È l'anno dei Quattro Imperatori. Pretoriani e legionari eleggono i propri im……続きを見る

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and off……続きを見る

Description : Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.   Extrait: À HIÉRON, Vainque……続きを見る

Miguel Ángel recoge en esta obra las teorías planteadas para los diferentes aspectos y las presenta de una manera magnífica y atractiva para todo tipo de lector. Tanto si se es un entendido en la ma……続きを見る

Sobre el apellido Borgia corre, incluso hoy día, toda una leyenda negra equiparable a la que se fue creando sobre la Monarquía Hispánica de los Austrias españoles. Leyenda que nos informa de envenen……続きを見る

"El viaje a Italia" constituye un fenómeno fascinante para entender la formación de Europa, sus momentos sublimes y sus más prosaicas, y no menos interesantes, aventuras carnales. Desde los viajeros……続きを見る

This bookexplores the cultural conditions that led to the emergence and proliferation of Saint Hermenegildo as a stage character in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It considers how this sai……続きを見る

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, struc……続きを見る

Dr. Charles S. Price (1887–1947) was a foremost leader in the Pentecostal movement in the early twentieth century. While a young man, he became a pastor with the Free Methodist church. Unfortunately……続きを見る

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth centu……続きを見る

Inabissati, sommersi, trascinati nei fondali marini, nei gorghi segreti degli oceani. Dispersi da un'onda feroce, da un'onda dolce condotti in salvo su spiagge remote. L'acqua e le sirene, i vapori ……続きを見る

The liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington. 続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive profile of the development of sociology in Italy from the post-war period to the present day. The first English-language account of the history of Italian sociolog……続きを見る

Lucretia Borgia by Ferdinand Gregorovius,the German historian who specialized in the medieval history of Rome.Lucrezia Borgia was the daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her bro……続きを見る

François-René de Chateaubriand a voyagé six fois en Italie, ce qui est plutôt beaucoup pour un écrivain français. De Rome à Naples en passant par Venise, il s'attardera sur cette dernière pour sa vi……続きを見る

The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson,the American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Italian Painters of the Renaissance was an international success……続きを見る

Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien ist das Hauptwerk von Jacob Burckhardt, das Werk gilt auch heute noch als das Standardwerk über diese Epoche. Burckhardt zeichnet darin ein Gesamtbild der itali……続きを見る

Professor Raymond de Roover received his MBA from Harvard University in June 1938, and it was during that summer that he, together with his wife, Florence Edler, an American scholar studying Europea……続きを見る

'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of Florence The rich and glorious past of one of the best loved cities in the world, Florence, is brought vi……続きを見る

"The Forgotten Savoy Princess" is the story of Princess Leina of Savoy, the only child of King Umberto II and Gelsomina Malatesta, who secretly married in Italy on the 10th of February 1926. It is a……続きを見る

In 'Savonarola und die florentinische Republik gegen Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts' präsentiert Leopold von Ranke eine akribische Analyse der politischen und religiösen Landschaft Florenz' in de……続きを見る

Felix Dahns 'Ein Kampf um Rom: Historischer Roman' entführt den Leser in das 6. Jahrhundert nach Christus, eine Ära geprägt von politischen Intrigen und Machtkämpfen. Dahn präsentiert einen fesselnd……続きを見る

August von Platens Buch 'Geschichte des Königreichs Neapel' ist eine akribische Darstellung der politischen und sozialen Entwicklungen im Königreich Neapel. Mit einem nüchternen und detailreichen St……続きを見る

You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omertà is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world’s m……続きを見る