Monaldi
Author : Washington Allston
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 1841
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Author : Washington Allston
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 1841
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Author : Marcello Conati
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780801494307
An anthology of reminiscences, interviews, memoirs, and essays by a wide-ranging group of people--journalists, musicians, impresarios, or chance acquaintances--who met the reclusive and secretive composer at various moments during his long life. Each entry has a relevant place within the chronology of Verdi's life, and every reference to an unfamiliar event or name in the text is explained in the copious footnotes.
Author : Rita Monaldi
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857905708
Vienna, 1711. Eleven years after the events of Secretum, and by means of a mysterious bequest, Atto Melani arranges for his faithful helper to relocate from a Roman slum to the imperial court in Vienna. Here, Atto enlists his help in a secret mission to bring about the end of the war between France and Austria. Meanwhile, a Turkish delegation has arrived in Vienna for talks with Emperor Joseph I, despite the fact that Austria is supposed to be at peace with the Ottoman Empire. When the emperor suddenly falls ill with smallpox and students are targeted by a serial killer, fears grow that a centuries-old power struggle has been reignited. What can Atto and his helper do to prevent Europe from descending into all-out conflict? An unfinished palace known as the Place with No Name, an exotic menagerie and a fantastical Flying Ship are just some of the ingredients of this baroque spy novel which will intrigue and delight fans of Monaldi and Sorti's series.
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : Rita Monaldi
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2013-03
Category : Plague
ISBN : 9781846972645
11 September 1683, Rome. The citizens of the city wait anxiously for the outcome of the battle for Vienna as Ottoman forces lay siege to the defendersof Catholic Europe. Meanwhile, a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous Roman tavern to be placed under quarantine. One of its detainees, the mysterious Atto Melani, a spy in the service of France, discovers a secret passage leading deep into the Roman underworld. A plot to assassinate the pope and plans to use the plague as a weapon of mass destruction in the battle between Islam and the West are discovered. Meticulously researched and brilliantly conceived, Imprimatur contains startling revelations that have been concealed for centuries, drawing on original papers discovered in the Vatican archives. A thriller in the vein of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, this novel sheds new light on the power struggles of 17th-century Europe, the repercussions of which are still felt today. First published to great controversy in Italy in 2002, Imprimatur was boycotted by the Italian press and publishing world. Despite this, the novel has gained European bestseller status; it has been translated into 20 languages with editions published in 45 countries. Over 1 million copies have been sold to date.
Author : Washington Allston
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813117089
This volume offers a fuller picture of Allston's life than any other biography yet published. It also contains descriptions of all his artistic productions and writings, and citations to all the books he owned. In the notes, his paintings and writings--which are vitally related--are for the first time collated.
Author : Rita Monaldi
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857900129
July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani - once a celebrated castrato soprano, now a spy in the service of King Louis XIV, the Sun King - mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the Cardinal's nephew's wedding, the main topic of conversation is the grave illness of the Pope and the approaching demise of Charles II, King of Spain. Charles has no heir and Kaiser Leopold of Austria and King Louis are each demanding the throne, with the Vatican supposedly mediating. Keen to promote his master's cause, Melani sets in motion a grandiose conspiracy that will plunge him into a world of secret languages, religious sects, forged Royal wills and Europe into war.
Author : George Hooker Colton
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1848
Category : American literature
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Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Medicine
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Page : 706 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 1848
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