Book Description
Biography of the 14th century Italian scholar.
Life of Petrarch
Author : Ernest Hatch Wilkins
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
The Romantic Agony
Author : Mario Praz
Publisher : [London] : Collins
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Devil in literature
ISBN :
Book Description
Mario Paz has, in the Romantic Agony, acutely analyzed the effect of the traditions of Byron and De Sade upon poets and painters from 1800 to 1900. It is the analysis of a mood in literature. The mood may ve been transient, but it was widespread, and it was expressed in dreams of "luxurious cruelties," "fatal women," corpse-passions, and the sinful agonies of delight. Professo Praz has described the whole Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility.
Philostratus
Author : Philostratus (the Athenian)
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians
Author : Robert Wodrow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385129664
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Le Loup Blanc
Author : Paul H. C. Feval
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2016-07-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781535068864
Book Description
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The Sultan's Fountain
Author : Agnieszka Dobrowolska
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774165233
Book Description
The small sabil-kuttab (a charitable foundation particular to Cairo that combines a public water dispensary with a Quranic school) built in 1760 opposite the venerated Sayyida Zeinab Mosque is almost unique in Cairo: it is one of only two dedicated by a reigning Ottoman sultan, and--astonishingly--it is decorated inside with blue-and-white tiles from Amsterdam depicting happy scenes from the Dutch countryside. Why did the sultan, Mustafa III, cloistered in his Istanbul palace, decide to build a sabil in Cairo? Why did he choose this site for it? How did it come to be adorned with Dutch tiles? What were the connections between Cairo, Istanbul, and Amsterdam in the middle of the eighteenth century? The authors answer these questions and many more in this entertaining and beautifully illustrated history of an extraordinary building, describing also the recent conservation efforts to preserve it for posterity.
The Ottoman House
Author : S. Ireland
Publisher : British Institute at Ankara
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1912090619
Book Description
Seemingly contradictory ideas of privacy and community dominate Ottoman cities. While houses are internally divided to guard female modesty behind a frontage studded with peep-holes, streets in cities like Amasya are often bridged by first-floor passageways between different houses. This book contains 17 papers by architects and archaeologists looking at how the Ottoman house was structured, how it has varied over time and space, and how surviving examples are faring in a world of breeze-block construction. Although the examples discussed are all Near Eastern, and mostly from Turkey, the revelations this book contains about structuring principles will make it a valuable companion to understanding architectural relics from all over the Ottoman Empire.
Vampire City
Author : Paul Feval
Publisher : Black Coat Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780974071169
Book Description
Some tell of a great city of black jasper which has streets and buildings like any other city but is eternally in mourning, enveloped by perpetual gloom. Some call it Selene, some Vampire City, but the vampires refer to it among themselves by the name of the Sepulchre... To destroy the dreaded vampire lord Otto Goetzi, writer Ann Radcliffe, Merry Bones the Irishman, and Grey Jack her faithful servant, launch an all-out attack on Selene... "We can easily see in Vampire City the ultimate literary ancestor of Buffy the Vampire-Slayer."-Brian Stableford. Paul F?val (1816-1887) was the author of numerous popular swashbuckling novels and one of the fathers of the modern crime thriller. Brian Stableford has published more than fifty novels and two hundred short stories. Vampire City was written in 1867-thirty years before Bram Stoker's Dracula-and is one of three classic vampire stories also available from Black Coat Press.
Families in Politics
Author : Linda Schatkowski Schilcher
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Annales Fuldenses
Author : Georg Heinrich Pertz
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781016248884
Book Description
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