Download or read book Lorenzo and the Turncoat written by Lila Guzmàn and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1779, having served as an officer in the Continental Army, eighteen-year-old Lorenzo Bannister enjoys a quieter life practicing medicine in Spanish-controlled New Orleans, until his fiancee is kidnapped and the governor of the Louisiana territory, Bernardo De Gálvez, decides to lead Spanish troops in a surprise attack against the British.
Download or read book Lorenzo s Secret Mission written by Lila Guzmàn and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2001-10-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1776, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bannister leaves Texas and his father's new grave to carry a letter to the Virginia grandfather he has never known, and becomes involved with the struggle of the American Continental Army and its Spanish supporters.
Download or read book The New Orleans of Fiction written by James A. Kaser and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of New Orleans in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on New Orleans-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 500 works of fiction significantly set in New Orleans and published between 1836 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction—as well as literary fiction—are included.
Download or read book The Prince written by Niccolò Machiavelli, Morim Kang and published by NETCOMICS. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." Experience Niccolò Machiavelli's complete masterpiece The Prince in this unique blending of European and Korean sensibilities. Created by celebrated writer Morim Kang, this volume features over 200 pages of beautifully illustrated comics alongside Machiavelli's masterful blueprint to destroy one's enemies. After the Medici dynasty of Florence forced Niccolò Machiavelli from office, the impoverished man sought to win back their favor by writing for them the perfect instruction manual to seize and hold political power. Together, Machiavelli and Morim Kang have written a volume for you! Never before has learning to be ruthless been more fun and easy!
Download or read book Turncoat written by Stephen Brumwell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor? General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold's defection came as an appalling shock. Contemporaries believed he had been corrupted by greed; historians have theorized that he had come to resent the lack of recognition for his merits and sacrifices. In this provocative book Stephen Brumwell challenges such interpretations and draws on unexplored archives to reveal other crucial factors that illuminate Arnold's abandonment of the revolutionary cause he once championed. This work traces Arnold's journey from enthusiastic support of American independence to his spectacularly traitorous acts and narrow escape. Brumwell's research leads to an unexpected conclusion: Arnold's mystifying betrayal was driven by a staunch conviction that America's best interests would be served by halting the bloodshed and reuniting the fractured British Empire.
Download or read book Lorenzo the Magnificent written by Edward Lee Stuart Horsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lorenzo De Medici written by Alfred von Reumont and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lorenzo De Medici the Magnificent written by Alfred von Reumont and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Florence Under the Domination of Cosimo Piero Lorenzo De M dicis 1434 1492 written by François-Tommy Perrens and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lorenzo written by Edward A. Marinello and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lorenzo' is a fictionalised version of a conspiracy to assassinate Florence's untitled prince, Lorenzo de Medici. The site is the city's cathedral during Sunday Mass: the date is 26 April 1478. The backdrop is High Renaissance when the city-state stands unchallenged as the intellectual and cultural centre of western civilisation. Superimposed on that time and place is Lorenzo, scholar, art patron, poet, falconer, soldier, banker, diplomat and lover. There are other fascinating characters as well including the spell-binding preacher Savonarol and the brilliant Sixtus IV. What they say and do is based on what is known of them. As an example, it is from Savonarola's prophetic and thunderous sermons that the author derives his words, his sentiments and his fire. Researched with scholarly meticulousness, 'Lorenzo' reads like a mystery novel.
Download or read book Damiano written by Giulio Carcano and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the authors of Italy, there is surely none to whom both epithets might be applied more justly than to Giulio Carcano. His fecundity is almost as amazing as that of Lope de Vega in Portugal. His variety is greater. He wrote poetry and prose, fact and fiction, with equal facility, though with various degrees of feli city. But he never was dull and he was always lucid. And when he had no original work in hand he wreaked himself on translations. He was author, editor, critic, dramatist, orator, statesman. He was a member, actual or honorary, of every learned or literary society in Italy, and by virtue of his translation of Shakespeare - still accepted as their standard version by his countrymen was a vice-president of the English Shakespeare Society.
Download or read book Resilience written by Jamal Shokay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a man born in Eritrea, Eastern Africa, during a period of great political turmoil. Due to its internationally valued, strategic location of having its coastline be that of the Red Sea, Eritrea and its people have been the victim of an international tug of war. This has manifested into religious intolerance, resulting into discrimination, oppression, and acts of genocide. The point of view of the president is that of a man of Eritrea whos been a victim of this international tug of war yet blessed to travel to Europe and the Americas and experience poverty and homelessness in a foreign land. This blessing brought about the elevation of this mans awareness of the big picture with regard to Eritrea and the world. This is the story of a man who sees peace and harmony in a future Eritrea after truth sweeps away falsehood. This is the story of my life (up to now, 2015). Jay Shokaya
Download or read book The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic written by Andrea Moudarres and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, enmity is portrayed as internal, taking the form of tyranny, betrayal, and civil discord. Moudarres reads these works in the context of historical and political patterns, demonstrating that there was little distinction between public and private spheres in Renaissance Italy and, thus, little differentiation between personal and political enemies. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press
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Download or read book Turncoat written by Ryan O'Sullivan and published by TPub Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turncoat follows the story of Duke, the world's worst superhero assassin, and his constant battle with his ex-wife-and-rival assassin, Sharon. Duke is always one step behind Sharon, constantly missing out on the "big hit" that will set him for life. (It certainly doesn't help matters that he only ever seems to go up against D-list superheroes like "Bug-Boy" and "Freedom Fighter".)
Download or read book Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty First Century written by Neil S Forkey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history.
Download or read book Children s Writer Guide to 2006 written by Susan M. Tierney and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forum of more than 250 insiders cover children's markets and writing techniques. Learn how to best profit from the new players, new priorities, and important shifts in the children's book and magazine markets.
