Author : King of Persia HORMISDAS IV.
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 1730
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Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521088350
Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.
Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2003-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 037572706X
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshipping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.
Author : Maurice Baring
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Ernest Rhys
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Romances
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Author : Library of Congress. Music Division
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Librettos
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Author : Rita Lizzi Testa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1527527557
The Collectio Avellana (CA) has an extraordinary richness and variety of content. Imperial rescripts, reports of urban prefects, letters of bishops, and exchanges of letters between popes and emperors, some of which only this compilation preserves, constitute an exceptional documentary collection for researchers of various sectors of antiquity. This volume is the first publication to reconstruct the history of this compilation through the fascinating questions that it poses to the scholar. There are essays on its general structure, and on some of the most singular texts preserved therein. Other papers offer a comparison between this compilation and the other canonical collections compiled in Italy between the fourth and sixth centuries, as well as between the CA and other contemporary literary products. Adopting a new approach, some contributions also ascertain who could physically have access to the materials that were collected in the CA, and where the compiler could find them. All these fresh studies have led to new hypotheses regarding the period in which the collection, or at least some of its parts, took shape and the personality of its author.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1788779002
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Decameron Original Italian Text by Giovanni Boccaccio - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Giovanni Boccaccio’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Boccaccio includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Decameron Original Italian Text by Giovanni Boccaccio - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Boccaccio’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Charles Dill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351555723
Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.
