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Naples Declared

Author : Benjamin Taylor

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 32,41 MB

Release : 2013-04-30

Category : Travel

ISBN : 0143123467

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A lively, elegantly concise historic tour of Italy’s city by the bay An invaluable addition to the art of literary travel writing, Naples Declared presents an informative and compulsively readable account of three thousand years of Naples history. From the catacombs of San Gennaro to the luminous paintings of Caravaggio to the ruins of Pompeii in nearby Campania, renowned author Benjamin Taylor takes readers on a stroll around the city Italians lovingly call Il Cratere. Gracefully written and full of good humor, wisdom, and amusing anecdotes, Naples Declared is a wholly original work that will be welcomed by anyone seeking to know more about the art, culture, and history of this fabled place.



Naples Declared

Author : Benjamin Taylor

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 15,48 MB

Release : 2012-05-10

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1101589078

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Book Description

It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylor’s remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this the exciting and original book it is. He takes his stroll around the bay with the acute sensitivity of a lover, the good humor of a friend, and the wisdom of a seeker who has immersed himself in all aspects of this contrapuntal culture. His curiosity leads him to many byways, both real and metaphoric, and his passion for this ancient city and its people becomes, in his graceful prose and amusing anecdotes, irresistibly contagious.









A Manual of Ancient and Modern History

Author : W. C. Taylor

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 818 pages

File Size : 37,8 MB

Release : 2021-11-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3752529946

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Book Description

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.



The North American Review

Author : Jared Sparks

Publisher :

Page : 564 pages

File Size : 15,22 MB

Release : 1849

Category : American fiction

ISBN :

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Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.







The Four Horsemen

Author : Richard Stites

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 454 pages

File Size : 15,61 MB

Release : 2014-04

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0199978085

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Book Description

The Four Horsemen narrates the history of revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, and Russia in the 1820s, connecting the social movements and activities on the ground, in the inimitable voice of a renowned historian.