Biography

ISBN: 9788856401776
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Storie del mondo
Volume: 11
English summary: Benno and Heinz's parents put them on a train in 1939 Berlin, hoping they would escape the coming war. Benno tells here of their journey through Europe, ending finally in Toronto, in a story that touches our hearts and cons... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718892227
Published by : Lutterworth Press
A study of William Robertson Nicoll, a non-conformist individual who had considerable influence in the late 19th Century. Originally a minister, he was considered a great leader and was also a theological conservative, and therefore committed to m... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718892746
Published by : Lutterworth Press
This biography of Adrian Fortescue presents an insightful look at a man, now perceived as an icon of Catholic traditionalism, facing a crisis of conscience over his affiliation with Liberal Catholicism and objections towards the intellectual co... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859610274
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Physician, patriot, and freemason, Ferdinando Zannetti (Monte San Savino, 1801 - Florence, 1881) is chiefly famous for having extracted the bullet from Giuseppe Garibaldi’s leg after the battle of Aspromonte in 1862. This claim to fame, however, m... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700168911
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung
Volume: 27
English summary: The reign of Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) is not only considered as the last bloom of the medieval Hungarian state, but signified for all east-central Europe a highly animated stage in the transition from the medieval to t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856401448
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Le non guide
English summary: Florence was an irreplaceable stop on the Grand Tour from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, with countless travelers who left sketches, wrote about the city with either love or hate, praised it for it internationalit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856300628
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Diari e memorie
English description: Marziale Dini was an essential figure in the nineteenth-century Colle di Val d'Elsa, where he participated from a young age in the different struggles, combats and political processes of his native Tuscany. After se... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859609452
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
English description: This volume is the result of an attentive inventory and ordering of the Historical Archives of the G.P. Vieusseux Office, and represents the first reference instrument for this exceptional documentary depository of t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718892265
Published by : Lutterworth Press
This two volume biographical study, published in anticipation of the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not only the author's life, but also the cosmopolitan and literary worlds inhabited by his two daughte... .... Learn More