Author: Complete and authentic accountPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 84
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A Compleat and Authentick Account of the Late Revolution in Genoa; Comprehending a Succinct View of the History ... of that Republick ... Also an Authentick and Particular Relation of the Insurrection ... And a Letter from a Merchant at Leghorn ... The Whole from Papers Never Hitherto Published
Author: Complete and authentic accountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A Compleat and Authentick Account of the Late Revolution in Genoa
Author: A Compleat and Authentick Account of the Late Revolution in Genoa
Author: A general history of the late revolution of Genoa, etc
Author: Ange GOUDARThe London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Author: The Gentleman's and London Magazine
Author: London Magazine Enlarged and Improved
Author: Theodore Von Neuhoff, King of Corsica
Author: Julia GasperPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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"A visionary and a madman" was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography, Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend by Julia Gasper, traces the unlikely career of the German baron who in 1736 had himself crowned the King of Corsica. Theodore von Neuhoff's career spanned the entire European continent and his role in the Corsican rebellion against Genoa was as bold and unconventional as everything else in his life. Mixing with royalty, rogues and rabble, he was successively a soldier, secret agent, Jacobite, speculator, alchemist, cabbalist, Rosicrucian, astrologer, fraudster, and spy. He had changed his name several times, abducted a nun and seen the inside of several prisons before turning his hand to revolution. Neuhoff had daring far-sighted ideas about religious tolerance and the abolition of slavery that turned the Corsican rebellion into a significant political event with repercussions way beyond the shores of one small island. Denounced as an arch-criminal, traitor and seditious heretic, he survived pursuit by the agents of the Genoese Republic for twenty years with a price on his head, dodging assassination attempts while meeting countless famous and fascinating people. Valuable to the British as a political tool against the French, he spent his old age in relative comfort in an English debtors' prison. Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica argues that despite all his eccentricity Neuhoff was still a significant Enlightenment figure.
Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Rosamaria LoretelliPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics, music and art, and explore such themes as the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque; the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts; imaginary voyages as a literary genre; the genesis of childrenâ (TM)s literature; the Italian opera and musical theory in Frances Burneyâ (TM)s novels; Italian and British art theories; and patterns of cultural transfers and of book circulation between Britain and Italy in the eighteenth century. Collectively they epitomise the concerns and approaches of scholars working on the long eighteenth century at this challenging and exciting time. In the absence of universally agreed, overarching interpretations of the cultural history of the long eighteenth century, these papers pave the way for the ultimate emergence of such explanations. Authors discussed here include Margaret Cavendish, David Russen, Francis Hutcheson, Reverend Gilpin, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Dugald Stewart, Dorothy Kilner, Frances Burney, Anna Gordon Brown, Saverio Bettinelli, Henry Ince Blundell, Francesco Algarotti, Ugo Foscolo and Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi.
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