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Les tres-humbles remontrances du parlement présentées au Roy, le 4 Mars 1751
Author: Les très-humbles remontrances du Parlement présentées au Roy le 4 mars 1751
Author: Les Tres-Humbles Remontrances Du Parlement Presentées Au Roy
Author: Francia. Parlement (Parigi)Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 48
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Les très-humbles remontrances du parlement presentées au roy le 4 mars 1751
Author: FranceLes trés-humbles remonstrances du parlement presentées au roy le 4 Mars 1751
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1230
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Orestes
Author: VoltairePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627933212
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
The Pope's Body
Author: Agostino Paravicini-BaglianiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226034379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
Les Nuits de Paris; Or, The Nocturnal Spectator
Author: Restif de La BretonnePublisher: New York : Random House
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Richelieu's Army
Author: David ParrottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521792096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
A definitive reinterpretation of the role and influence of the French army during Richelieu's ministry.