Download or read book Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naples written by Touring Club of Italy and published by Touring Editore. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries acclaimed Naples as the most glorious and dazzling capital of the West. Today's eternally sunny Naples rises majestically around the bay that offers some of the most memorable views of the Mediterranean. An authoritative, exhaustively researched guide to one of Italy's most popular tourist destinations, this guidebook enables travelers to make the most of their trip to Naples. The 24 itineraries detailed in this guide take travelers on excursions from the historic sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii to the Greek temples of Paestum, from the islands of Ischia and Capri to the extraordinary "Versailles" of Italy, the Reggia of Caserta. Each itinerary is packed with archeological sites, museums, examples of the region's signature Baroque architecture, and in-depth descriptions of cultural attractions. Meticulously drawn road maps help travelers plan their routes. A chapter on tourist information provides essential information on restaurants, shopping, accommodations, and more. This edition contains 20 percent new material including an all-new introduction geared toward American travelers.
Download or read book Tales of Three Worlds Archaeology and Beyond Asia Italy Africa written by Donatella Usai and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a series of papers in honour of Sandro Salvatori divided into three main sections reflecting his long years of work in Middle Asia, his time in Italy as an officer of the Archaeological Superintendency (Ministry of Cultural Heritage), and finally his studies on the prehistory of north-eastern Africa.
Download or read book Madonnas That Maim written by Michael P. Carroll and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1560 a poor woman named Margherita left the Italian city of Piacenza to check on her crop. In the field she heard herself being called, and turned to see a woman dressed in white. It was "the blessed Mother of God, Queen of Heaven, the Virgin Mary". Mary was soon joined by a male figure, whom she identified as Christ. "The blasphemies of Piacenza angered Christ", said Mary, who had intervened before Christ devastated the city with a flood. She gave Margherita specific instructions for the people of Piacenza to save themselves from divine punishment. And to ensure that Margherita would be believed, Mary gave a sign: she paralyzed Margherita's legs. In Madonnas That Maim, Michael Carroll looks at the ways in which Italians have revered, invoked, feared, and placated their madonnas and saints. Carroll examines a range of devotional practices that have been legitimated by the local Catholic clergy in Italy for centuries--including the cult of the patron saint, relics, miracles, processions, sanctuaries, pilgrimage, and the mixing of Catholic ritual and magic. He explores the "dark side" of holiness--the willingness of the madonnas and saints of Italy to maim, occasionally even to kill, in order to maintain their own cults--and discusses the psychological origins of such a belief structure. He also considers differences between northern and southern Italy, both in popular Catholicism and in the social structures that have allowed differences to emerge. Including an English-language overview of literature on popular Catholicism in Italy and summaries of important studies by its authors, Madonnas That Maim offers a rich account of the development of beliefs and practices that havecharacterized popular piety in Italy for the past five hundred years.
Download or read book The Church of Rome written by Baptist Wriothesley Noel and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The matter of miracles written by Helen Hills and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro’s miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational.
Download or read book The Church of Rome written by Baptist Wriothesley Noel (hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Early Modern Naples written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naples was one of the largest cities in early modern Europe, and for about two centuries the largest city in the global empire ruled by the kings of Spain. Its crowded and noisy streets, the height of its buildings, the number and wealth of its churches and palaces, the celebrated natural beauty of its location, the many antiquities scattered in its environs, the fiery volcano looming over it, the drama of its people’s devotions, the size and liveliness - to put it mildly - of its plebs, all made Naples renowned and at times notorious across Europe. The new essays in this volume aim to introduce this important, fascinating, and bewildering city to readers unfamiliar with its history. Contributors are: Tommaso Astarita, John Marino, Giovanni Muto, Vladimiro Valerio, Gaetano Sabatini, Aurelio Musi, Giulio Sodano, Carlos José Hernando Sánchez, Elisa Novi Chavarria, Gabriel Guarino, Giovanni Romeo, Peter Mazur, Angelantonio Spagnoletti, J. Nicholas Napoli, Gaetana Cantone, Anthony DelDonna, Sean Cocco, Melissa Calaresu, Nancy Canepa, David Gentilcore, Diana Carrió-Invernizzi, and Anna Maria Rao. The publisher, editor, and contributors mourn the passing of Gaetana Cantone, who died in April 2013.
Download or read book Remarks on Professor Rossetti s Disquisizioni Sullo Spirito Antipapale written by Arthur Henry Hallam and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sword of Judith written by Kevin R. Brine and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.
Download or read book Studi sul Poema sacro di Dante Allighieri Appendice Il Canto primo della Monarchia di Dio i e the Divina Commedia col comento di F Torricelli written by Francesco Maria TORRICELLI (Count.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 1710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy Second edition of the work originally written by Octavian Blewitt entirely revised and corrected to the present time written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saints in Rome written by Guido Ambrogi and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016 the Architect Guido Ambrogi began, at the request of some friends, to note down day by day the places in Rome where the Saints can be found, both through relics and through artistic representations. His Saints in Rome, thus, is a daily calendar, a "Roman Emerologio," for the benefit of all pilgrims.
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy written by Murray and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy Third edition of the work originally written by Octavian Blewitt entirely revised and corrected on the spot written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
