Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Two Foscari
Author: George Gordon N Byron (6th Baron )Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021866554
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this tragic play, George Gordon Byronth Baron explores themes of family, honor, and power, as well as the conflicts between duty and personal desire. Set in the Venetian Republic during the 15th century, the play follows the tragic story of Jacopo Foscari, whose attempts to clear his name lead to his own downfall. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East
Author: Marco PoloA Wanderer in Venice
Author: Edward Verrall LucasPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Venice and Its Story
Author: Thomas OkeyPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book explores the history of Venice, a State unparalleled in Europe for permanence and stability. For centuries Venice occupied that position of maritime supremacy now held by Great Britain, and time was when an English king was fain to crave the loan of a few warships to vindicate his rights in France. The autonomy of the Venetian Republic was so imposed on men's minds that it was regarded as in the very nature of things, and even so acute an observer as Voltaire wrote in the Dictionnaire Philosophique, less than three decades before her fall: "Venice has preserved her independence during eleven centuries, and I flatter myself will preserve it forever." In this book, the author has freely drawn from the old chronicles, while not neglecting modern historians, the chiefest of whom is the Triestine Hebrew scholar, Samuele Romanin...For purposes of description in this book, the author divided the city and outlying islands of the Venetian lagoon into twenty sections, arranged rather concerning their relative historical and artistic importance than to strict topographical considerations, although these have not been lost sight of.
Performing Citizenship
Author: Paula HildebrandtPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319975021
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investigates a different aspect of citizenship, such as identity and belonging, rights and responsibilities, bodies and materials, agencies and spaces, and limitations and interventions. It rewrites and rethinks the many-layered concept of citizenship by emphasising the performative tensions produced by various uses, occupations, interpretations and framings.
The Boundaries of Eros
Author: Guido RuggieroPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195056965
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Using the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, providing insight into Venetian society and, ultimately, the Renaissance itself.
The Republic of Ragusa
Author: Luigi VillariPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dubrovnik
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
Author: Benjamin B. OlshinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022614982X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Concerns a collection of maps and associated documents claimed to be from Marco Polo's time or that of his daughters (as many of the maps have the name or one or another of the three daughters on them). Discusses provenance, authenticity, and history of the documents, known to scholars as "the Marco Polo Maps" since 1948, here discussed fully for the first time.