Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
What News on the Rialto?
Author: Anthony WildmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780646997148
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A speculative historical novel that explores the possibility that William Shakespeare might have travelled to Italy as a spy.
News on the Rialto
Author: The Merchant of Venice
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Merchant of Venice
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Diplomat of Florence
Author: Anthony WildmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648945413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Florence, 1498. The long rule of the Medici is over and a new regime has emerged from the turbulence, a genuine republic of the people. But Florence is weak and threatened by a new warlord who is rampaging across central Italy-Cesare Borgia. Niccolò Machiavelli is young and inexperienced when he becomes second secretary of the Florentine chancellery, but he is destined to become his city's leading diplomat. As tries to counter the Borgia threat, Machiavelli is plunged into the grim realities of power politics, negotiates with kings and popes, and learns that no one can be trusted.
The Invention of News
Author: Andrew PettegreePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300179081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
DIVLong before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community from local to worldwide. This groundbreaking book tracks the history of news in ten countries over the course of four centuries. It evaluates the unexpected variety of ways in which information was transmitted in the premodern world as well as the impact of expanding news media on contemporary events and the lives of an ever-more-informed public. Andrew Pettegree investigates who controlled the news and who reported it; the use of news as a tool of political protest and religious reform; issues of privacy and titillation; the persistent need for news to be current and journalists trustworthy; and people’s changed sense of themselves as they experienced newly opened windows on the world. By the close of the eighteenth century, Pettegree concludes, transmission of news had become so efficient and widespread that European citizens—now aware of wars, revolutions, crime, disasters, scandals, and other events—were poised to emerge as actors in the great events unfolding around them./div
The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere
Author: William ShakespeareThe Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere. Edited by C. Knight. The Second Edition, Revised
Author: William ShakespeareVenice's Secret Service
Author: Ioanna IordanouPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192508830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances. Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.
Shakespeares Settings and a Sense of Place
Author: Ralph BerryPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783168102
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
The first book on Shakespeare to take the unique perspective of location. Publication will coincide with the 400Th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in April 2016