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Book Antonio Gallenga

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  • Author : Toni Cerutti
  • Publisher : London ; New York : published for the University of Hull by Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Antonio Gallenga written by Toni Cerutti and published by London ; New York : published for the University of Hull by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Dawn of Italian Fashion

Download or read book The Golden Dawn of Italian Fashion written by Rosanna Masiola and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book written about Maria Monaci Gallenga (1880-1944), the enigmatic fashion artist and designer marginalized after decades of fortune and fame. The daughter of Ernesto Monaci, the illustrious philologist and mentor of Luigi Pirandello, Gallenga was the wife of Pietro Gallenga, a medical scientist related to the Gallenga Stuart family. The text outlines Maria Monaci Gallenga’s impact on the world of fashion, contextualizing her work and that of other forgotten fashion designers in the 1920s and 1930s. It sheds light on her cultural impact and idealism as a business entrepreneur in Europe and America promoting Italian art and culture. It also highlights her engagement in social and educational activities after she retired from the world of fashion, and explains the reasons behind her marginalization and disappearance, and the obstacles and constraints she faced during the years of Fascism. The book also considers the influence of the British arts and crafts movement and the vision of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood on her aesthetic vision, and, in turn, investigates Maria Gallenga’s influence on late Pre-Raphaelite paintings (Frank Cadogan Cowper) inspired by her designs and fabrics. The discovery of her fabrics and accessories by the Fendi sisters in the collections of the Tirelli House eventually sparked a new interest in her models, now enhanced by digital media.

Book History of Piedmont by Antonio Gallenga

Download or read book History of Piedmont by Antonio Gallenga written by Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coolie Speaks

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  • Author : Lisa Yun
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Release : 2008-04-22
  • ISBN : 1592135838
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Coolie Speaks written by Lisa Yun and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing radical counter-visions of race and slavery, and probing the legal and philosophical questions raised by indenture, The Coolie Speaks offers the first critical reading of a massive testimony case from Cuba in 1874. From this case, Yun traces the emergence of a "coolie narrative" that forms a counterpart to the "slave narrative." The written and oral testimonies of nearly 3,000 Chinese laborers in Cuba, who toiled alongside African slaves, offer a rare glimpse into the nature of bondage and the tortuous transition to freedom. Trapped in one of the last standing systems of slavery in the Americas, the Chinese described their hopes and struggles, and their unrelenting quest for freedom. Yun argues that the testimonies from this case suggest radical critiques of the "contract" institution, the basis for free modern society. The example of Cuba, she suggests, constitutes the early experiment and forerunner of new contract slavery, in which the contract itself, taken to its extreme, was wielded as a most potent form of enslavement and complicity. Yun further considers the communal biography of a next-generation Afro-Chinese Cuban author and raises timely theoretical questions regarding race, diaspora, transnationalism, and globalization.

Book Tales from  his  Plays

Download or read book Tales from his Plays written by Molière and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    The    Athenaeum

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1855
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athen  um

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1864
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 920 pages

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The London Quarterly Review

Download or read book The London Quarterly Review written by William Lonsdale Watkinson and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Through the Long Day

Download or read book Through the Long Day written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A once noted clairvoyant

Download or read book A once noted clairvoyant written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sicily   England

Download or read book Sicily England written by Tina Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Royal Murders

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  • Author : Dulcie M Ashdown
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2011-08-26
  • ISBN : 0752469193
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Royal Murders written by Dulcie M Ashdown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the motives, means and consequences of the murders among members of Europe's ruling families over the last 1,000 years. Plucking true stories due to their historical significance and sheer intrigue, this book relates violent deaths amid royal splendour and the overthrow of tyrants by oppressed populations. Methods vary from sword and arrow, to bomb and bullet, to alleged witchcraft. Settings range from Russia to Portugal; British examples include the involvement Mary Queen of Scots may have had in her second husband's murder and a search for the facts behind Shakespeare's portrayal of the murderous usurpers Macbeth and Richard III. But in European history there has been no royal murder to rival Russia's Tsar Ivan the Terrible, a homicidal maniac responsible for thousands of deaths, whose dramatic killing sprees are examined here. Dulcie M. Ashdown takes on a journey through the dark and tragic side of royal history: from Richard III through to the recent controversy surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Book The London Quarterly and Holborn Review

Download or read book The London Quarterly and Holborn Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scholar and Patriot

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  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Scholar and Patriot written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Academy The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens  Volume 12  1868 1870

Download or read book The British Academy The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens Volume 12 1868 1870 written by Charles Dickens and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume presents 1,151 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for the years 1868 to Dickens's death from a stroke on 9 June 1870; also included is an Addenda of 235 letters belonging to earlier volumes, discovered since the publication of the first such collection in Volume 7, and a Cumulative Index of Correspondents for the entire edition. The volume begins with the final four months of Dickens's American tour of 75 readings, which had been conspicuously successful throughout, despite the appalling weather and his sufferings from "American" catarrh. The tour culminated on 18 April 1868 when the American Press held a dinner in his honour in New York. In July he rented Windsor Lodge, Peckham for Ellen Ternan, where she remained until after his death; he was to give two more English reading tours before his collapse at Preston on 22 April 1869. In early January 1869 he was elected President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; and a dinner in his honour was given in St George's Hall, Liverpool. Between January and March 1870 he gave a series of Farewell readings in London, and on 31 March Edwin Drood, No. 1 was published, illustrated by Luke Fildes; it continued monthly until 31 August. Of the friends who died during this period, much the closest were the painter Daniel Maclise, to whom Dickens paid especial tribute at the Royal Academy Banquet of 30 April 1870; Mark Lemon, who died only 18 days before Dickens himself, and with whom he had a brief reconciliation after their bitter quarrel in 1858; and Chauncy Hare Townshend, who left him £2,000 to publish, as his Literary Executor, Religious Opinions of the Late Chauncy Hare Townshend, which appeared in November 1870.

Book Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary  c 1380 1833

Download or read book Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary c 1380 1833 written by Paget Jackson Toynbee and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: