Author: Complete and authentic accountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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
The Monthly Catalogues from 'The London Magazine,' 1732-66: with the Index for 1732-58 Compiled
Author: Edward KimberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Theodore Von Neuhoff, King of Corsica
Author: Julia GasperPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
"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.
Catalogue
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer
Author: The Eighteenth Century
Author: The Gentleman's and London Magazine
Author: The London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Author: London Magazine Enlarged and Improved
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description