Download or read book Altopascio written by Frank McArdle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the book is to gauge the impact of the general European crisis upon a regional society, and to assess the contribution of agrarian economic and social trends towards that crisis.
Download or read book Traveling Italy with a broken leg Giasolli name research begins written by Vincent Giasolli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a honeymoon journey starting in Tuscany, Nyki broke a bone in her leg. Travel plans changed, yet the adventure just became more interesting! Their journal is a captivating adventure where they discovered the origin of their last name (Giasolli) and met relatives they had only found existed a year earlier. Explore hidden regions of Italy and Switzerland, learn some of the treasured places they discovered, and share the emotions brought to life by traveling with a broken leg. A true adventure!
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Download or read book Black Warriors the Return of the Buffalo Soldier written by Ivan J. Houston and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-03-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italians in the towns and villages liberated by the buffalo soldiers during World War II called them Giganti Buoni, the Good Giants. They did not know that these giants would return to a country where they were still second-class citizens. In 2012, Ivan J. Houston, one of those remaining buffalo soldiers, was invited to return to Italy by the owner of a villa his battalion captured. He and his family would be guests at the fifteenth-century Villa Orsini, now a bed and breakfast renamed the Villa La Dogana. His return to Tuscany almost seventy years after the war had ended was filled with emotion. In this book, he describes how he went back to a place where African American buffalo soldiers are considered heroes and liberators. He visits battlefields where more than three thousand African American buffalo soldiers were killed or wounded as they battled Nazi and Fascist soldiers. The author and his family returned to Italy for five consecutive years, visiting the battle sites and celebrating ancient victories that will never be forgotten.
Download or read book Early Italian History and the birth of the Giasolli name written by Vincent Giasolli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy was the first country to create homes for abandoned children. Although most European countries did not adopt homes for foundlings until the nineteenth century, Pope Innocent III opened one in Milan in 1198. Northern cities began opening hospitals and churches to abandoned babies and soon foundling homes were established for the sole purpose of raising abandoned infants. To encourage discretion, these institutions installed a rotating box, allowing complete dis-cretion. Over time, the realization that this discretion also encouraged the unwed mothers absolute secrecy and a father's lack of responsibility created a backlash in society and the "foundling wheel" began to be removed in 1860. In the 1870's Italian law began recording specifics of each child's birth. Mario Giasolli was born in 1833, and abandoned in a foundling hospital. The Giasolli surname was a creation of tradition and local dialect.
Download or read book Forged in the Shadow of Mars written by Peter W. Sposato and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Forged in the Shadow of Mars, Peter W. Sposato traces chivalry's powerful influence on the mentalitè and behavior of a sizeable segment of the elite in late medieval Florence. He finds that the strenuous knights and men-at-arms of the Florentine chivalric elite—a cultural community comprised of men from both traditional and newly emerged elite lineages—embraced a chivalric ideology that was fundamentally martial and violent. Chivalry helped to shape a common identity among these men based on the profession of arms and the ready use of violence against both their peers and those they perceived to be their social inferiors. This violence, often transgressive in nature, was not only crucial to asserting and defending personal, familial, and corporate honor, but was also inherently praiseworthy. In this way, Sposato highlights the sharp differences between chivalry and the more familiar civic ideology of the popolo grasso, the Florentine mercantile and banking elite who came to dominate Florence politically and economically during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. As a result, in Forged in the Shadow of Mars, Sposato challenges the traditional scholarly view of chivalry as foreign to the social and cultural landscape of Florence and contests its reputation as a civilizing force. By reexamining the connection between chivalric literature and actual practice and identity formation among historical knights and men-at-arms, he likewise provides an important corrective to assumptions about the nature of elite violence and identity in medieval Italian cities.
Download or read book Dante Beatrice from 1282 to 1290 written by Elizabeth Kerr Coulson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The road in Tuscany written by Maurice Henry Hewlett and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Watcher and Other Stories written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics “demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous” (The New York Times). Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy’s greatest fiction writers and one of the twentieth century’s greatest fabulists. This collection of three stories showcases his range and virtuosity. In the title story, an Italian Communist poll watcher is stationed at a hospital in Turin, where nuns guide the hands of invalids to their preferred candidate in a special election. In “Smog,” a city’s cooperative laundry facility reveals a harbinger of social purification. And in “The Argentine Ant,” the citizens of a provincial seaside town struggle against a government-controlled infestation. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us.” —John Updike, New Yorker
Download or read book Early Modern Italy written by Christopher Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Italy is a fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Covering the whole of the Peninsula from the Venetian Republic, to Florence, through to Naples it shows how the huge economic, cultural and social divides of the period still affect the stability of present day united Italy. This is an essential guide to one of the most vibrant yet tempestuous periods of Italian history.
Download or read book The American Historical Review written by John Franklin Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
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Download or read book Designer Bargains in Italy 1200 Made in Italy Factory Outlets written by Theodora Van Meurs and published by Editoriale Shopping Italia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
