Piacenza. Pianta della città 1:13.000. Carta della provincia 1:110.000
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File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788881510429
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File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788881510429
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Page : 750 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Maps
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Author : Simone Luzzatto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 3110528231
In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a monopoly on overseas commercial activity. This plan is highly recommendable because the Jews are “wellsuited for trade,” much more so than others (such as “foreigners,” for example). The rabbi opens his argument by recalling that trade and usury are the only occupations permitted to Jews. Within the confines of their historical situation, the Venetian Jews became particularly skilled at trade with partners from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Luzzatto’s argument is that this talent could be put at the service of the Venetian government in order to maintain – or, more accurately, recover – its political importance as an intermediary between East and West. He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism’s alleged privileged religious status in world history. Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto’s resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. It is precisely his philosophical and political scepticism that makes Luzzatto’s texts so unique. This edition aims to grant access to his works and thought to English-speaking readers and scholars. By approaching his texts from this point of view, the editors hope to open a new path in research into Jewish culture and philosophy that will enable other scholars to develop new directions and new perspectives, stressing the interpenetration between Jews and the surrounding Christian and secular cultures.
Author : Albert James Diaz
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Page : 912 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Out-of-print books
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Author : International Committee of Historical Sciences. Commission for Historical geography
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Cartography
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Page : 988 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Editions
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Author : John Lingard
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Street-railroads
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Author : Roberta Martinelli
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Cities and towns
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Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1787359158
Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.
Author : Irene Izod
Publisher : K. G. Saur
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 2001-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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