Biography
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Fernando Pessoa: A Quasi Memoir [Paperback]
José Paulo Cavalcanti(Author)
$32.00ISBN: 9788869771811
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
Writing a biography about Pessoa is a seemingly impossible task. The great Portuguese poet did not have just one life, but his existence virtually exploded in over a hundred different personalities. Only by placing oneself close to... .... Learn More -
Jay: European Connections of a Bronze Age Scholar [Hardback]
H. Steegstra()
$20.00ISBN: 9789492444578
Published by : Barkhuis
The archaeologist and Bronze Age metal specialist Dr Jay J. Butler (1921-2014) was a kind, warmhearted man, averse to hype and ostentation, who was happy to share his knowledge in non-academic language both with professionals and i... .... Learn More -
Geni Toscani: Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, Luca Della Robbia, Botticelli, Leonardo raccontati ai ragazzi [Paperback]
$28.00ISBN: 9788856302462
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Il Segnalibro
Volume: 77
Tuscany is reknown for its enchanting landscapes and endless artistic treasures. But this land has also been home to extraordinary men, who left an indelible mark on History. Writers, painters, sculptors, architects, engineers, sci... .... Learn More -
America e altri scritti [Paperback]
Rodolfo Marma(Author); Marisa Marmaioli(Editor)
$30.00ISBN: 9788856403848
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Storie del mondo
Volume: 34
The Florentine painter Rodolfo Marmaioli (1923-1998), also known as “Marma”, moved to the United States around 1950 to reach his wife Geraldine. In his memoirs he tells about the long wait to get a visa, the anxiety for... .... Learn More -
The Life and Works of W.G. Collingwood: A wayward compass in Lakeland [Paperback]
Malcolm Craig(Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781784918712
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
The son of a watercolour artist, William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) studied at University College, Oxford where he met John Ruskin, whose secretary he later became and with whom he shared a wide range of interests. Collingwood... .... Learn More -
A Portuguese Abbot in Renaissance Florence: The Letter Collection of Gomes Eanes (1415-1463) [Paperback]
Rita Costa-Gomes(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9788822265166
Published by : Ad Ilissum
This book is an annotated edition of the letters of Gomes Eanes, a Portuguese who lived for three decades in Italy and was head of the Badia Fiorentina (Monastery of Santa Maria of Florence) between 1419 and 1439. It includes a tr... .... Learn More -
Antonio Vivaldi: A Life in Documents [Paperback]
Micky White(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9788822262219
Published by : Ad Ilissum
Styling the biography of a major composer as a chronological series of original documents accompanied by ample commentaries, an idea pioneered in O.E. Deutsch’s Documentary Biography of Handel (1955), has the advantage of re... .... Learn More -
Stamboul Ghosts: A Stroll Through Bohemian Istanbul [Hardback]
John Freely(Author); Andrew Finkel(Introduction); Maureen Freely(Other); Ara Güler(Illustrator)
$22.95ISBN: 9780956594884
Published by : Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing
The Irish-American physicist, academic and traveler John Freely wrote more than sixty lively books on travel, history and science before he died in 2017, aged 90. But It was Istanbul, where he emigrated with his family in 1960 to t... .... Learn More -
Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator [Paperback]
David W. J. Gill(Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781784918798
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
Winifred Lamb was a pioneering archaeologist in the Aegean and Anatolia. She studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and subsequently served in naval intelligence alongside J. D. Beazley during the final stages of the First... .... Learn More -
W.G. Sebald [Hardback]
Uwe Schütte(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780746312988
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his unique prose books made him one of... .... Learn More
