Author : King of Persia HORMISDAS IV.
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 1730
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Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 19,25 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 : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 18,81 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 : Maurice Baring
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Berthold Over
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 3839448859
In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as »pasticcios« since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.
Author : Hermine Weigel Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0429838069
First Published in 1999, Hermine Weigel Williams’ study draws on more than thirty years of research to fill this noticeable lacuna , and presents here the first full scale life and works of the composer for over ninety years. Part One of the book surveys the biographical aspects of Conti’s career. Appointed court theorist at the age of nineteen, Conti was promoted to court composer in 1713-14. Williams examines Conti’s creative collaborations with some of the leading poet-librettists of the day, and the influence of his music that can be identified in works by Telemann, Bach and Handel. Part Two comprises close analyses of Conti’s compositions: his instrumental music, cantatas, operas, intermezzos, oratorios and sacred music. Williams reveals Conti as a composer who constantly experimented with a wide range of French, German and Italian ideas and techniques to create his own diverse musico-dramatic style.
Author : Quintus Curtius
Publisher : Fortress of the Mind Publications
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2024-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Centuries is the complete collection of Quintus Curtius’s essays from the years 2020 to 2023. It continues where his previous volume of essays, Digest, ended. The range of topics includes moral philosophy, history, travel, leadership, and literature. Also included is a special collection of aphorisms and maxims. An enduring source of practical wisdom and inspiration, these timeless writings are unified by, and imbued with, a passionate belief in direct experience, moral structure, and endurance in adversity.
Author : Ernest Rhys
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Romances
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Author : Library of Congress. Music Division
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Librettos
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Author : Rita Lizzi Testa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 14,27 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.
