Download or read book Milan and Mantua written by Jacques Casanova De Seingalt and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725 to actress Zanetta Farussi, wife of actor and dancer Gaetano Giuseppe Casanova. Giacomo was the first of six children, being followed by Francesco Giuseppe (1727–1803), Giovanni Battista (1730–1795), Faustina Maddalena (1731–1736), Maria Maddalena Antonia Stella (1732–1800), and Gaetano Alvise (1734–1783). At the time of Casanova's birth, the Republic of Venice thrived as the pleasure capital of Europe, ruled by political and religious conservatives who tolerated social vices and encouraged tourism. It was a required stop on the Grand Tour, traveled by young men coming of age, especially Englishmen. The famed Carnival, gambling houses, and beautiful courtesans were powerful drawing cards. This was the milieu that bred Casanova and made him its most famous and representative citizen. -wikipedia
Download or read book Milan and Mantua written by Jacques Casanova De Seingalt and published by Readhowyouwant. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milan and Mantua is the record of Jacques Casanova de Seingalts adventures and love affairs. He traveled throughout Europe, winning the confidence and friendship of many important people and gaining a reputation for his wit and charm with women. His work marvelously depicts the customs and traditions of Italy.
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Download or read book Milan and Mantua written by Giovanni Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had felt interested in the young Frenchwoman when she was hiding under the bed-clothes: she had taken my fancy the moment she had shewn her features, and still more when I had seen her dressed. She completed her conquest at the dinner-table by the display of a wit which I greatly admired. It is rare in Italy, and seems to belong generally to the daughters of France.
Download or read book One Day in Mantova from Milan written by Enrico Massetti and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide for a one day visit to Mantua, the town near Milan with many historic monuments. There are extensive descriptions and photos of the attractions. It has also listing of many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are at walking distance from the train station., you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide together with the review. There is a section on Mantua's cuisine.
Download or read book Venetian Years Milan and Mantua written by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Venetian Years: Milan and Mantua by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Download or read book Blue Guide Lombardy Milan the Italian Lakes written by Alta Macadam and published by Blue Guides. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition in-depth coverage of this exceptional area of Italy.
Download or read book Memoirs of Casanova Volume 05 Milan and Mantua written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Milan Under the Sforza written by Cecilia Ady and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HISTORY of Milan, under the House of Sforza, can hardly incur the charge of being superfluous. While Rome, Florence and Venice have each found English historians, and while fresh books on Renaissance Italy appear every day, no English writer has told the story of the Sforza as a whole. The scant attention which has been given to the history of Milan may be compared with the brief visit which the traveller pays to the capital of Lombardy before he presses on to other Italian cities. Yet those who pause to look will find, hidden under the bustle of a modern commercial town, numerous relics of an age when the Duchy of Milan was deemed the first State in Italy. To the student of history the rule of the Sforza presents one of the most characteristic examples of an Italian tyranny at the time of the Renaissance...
Download or read book Milan Undone written by John Gagné and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of how one of the Renaissance’s preeminent cities lost its independence in the Italian Wars. In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian Wars. As the major powers of Europe battled for supremacy, Milan, viewed by contemporaries as the “key to Italy,” found itself wracked by a tug-of-war between French claimants and its ruling Sforza family. In just thirty years, the city endured nine changes of government before falling under three centuries of Habsburg dominion. John Gagné offers a new history of Milan’s demise as a sovereign state. His focus is not on the successive wars themselves but on the social disruption that resulted. Amid the political whiplash, the structures of not only government but also daily life broke down. The very meanings of time, space, and dynasty—and their importance to political authority—were rewritten. While the feudal relationships that formed the basis of property rights and the rule of law were shattered, refugees spread across the region. Exiles plotted to claw back what they had lost. Milan Undone is a rich and detailed story of harrowing events, but it is more than that. Gagné asks us to rethink the political legacy of the Renaissance: the cradle of the modern nation-state was also the deathbed of one of its most sophisticated precursors. In its wake came a kind of reversion—not self-rule but chaos and empire.
Download or read book 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go written by Susan Van Allen and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine creating your Italian dream vacation with a fun-loving savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear. Go along with writer Susan Van Allen on a femme-friendly ride up and down the boot, to explore this extraordinarily enchanting country where Venus (Vixen Goddess of Love and Beauty) and The Madonna (Nurturing Mother of Compassion) reign side-by-side. With humor, passion, and practical details, this uniquely anecdotal guidebook will enrich your Italian days. Enjoy masterpieces of art that glorify womanly curves, join a cooking class taught by revered grandmas, shop for ceramics, ski in the Dolomites, or paint a Tuscan landscape. Make your vacation a string of Golden Days, by pairing your experience with the very best restaurant nearby, so sensual pleasures harmonize and you simply bask in the glow of bell’Italia. Whatever your mood or budget, whether it’s your first or your twenty-first visit, with 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, Italy opens her heart to you.
Download or read book Casanova Part 5 Milan and Mantua written by Giacomo Casanova and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholar, an adventurer, perhaps a Cabalist, a busy stirrer in politics, a gamester, one born for the fairer sex, as he tells us, and born also to be a vagabond; this man, who is remembered now for his written account of his own life, was that rarest kind of autobiographer, one who did not live to write, but wrote because he had lived...Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century.
Download or read book Life and Times of Francesco Sforza Duke of Milan with a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Italy written by William Pollard Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Renaissance Tapestry written by Kate Simon and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A microcosm of Renaissance Italy is presented through this family history of the Gonzaga of Mantua, one of the reigning families of the period.
Download or read book Casanova written by Giacomo Casanova and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholar, an adventurer, perhaps a Cabalist, a busy stirrer in politics, a gamester, one born for the fairer sex, as he tells us, and born also to be a vagabond; this man, who is remembered now for his written account of his own life, was that rarest kind of autobiographer, one who did not live to write, but wrote because he had lived...
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