Download or read book Milan to Venice Cities and Courts In the Po Valley written by Enrico Massetti and published by Enrico Massetti Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to a multi-days trip in the Italian Po River Valley. It starts with a visit to Milan, then to the Bergamo Alta, Brescia, the Iseo Lake, Lovere, Iseo, the Franciacorta, the Garda Lake, Desenzano, Sirmione, Mantua, Verona, Vicenza, and Treviso. It then goes to Venice. There are descriptions and color photos of the attractions. It is ideal for use on your smart phone, it contains active links to the web sites of many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are at the location described. There are active links to the review pages, you can use them if you have an active Internet connection, but, if you don’t, you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide together with the review.
Download or read book Cities and Courts In the Po Valley Milan to Venice written by Enrico Massetti and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to a multi-days trip in the Italian Po River Valley. It starts with a visit to Milan, then to the Bergamo Alta, Brescia, the Iseo Lake, Mantua, Verona, Vicenza, and Treviso. It then goes to Venice. There are extensive descriptions and photos of the attractions. It contains many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are at the location described, you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide together with the review.
Download or read book Venice to Milan Cities and Courts in the Po Valley written by Enrico Massetti and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice to Milan guides a multi-day car trip in the Italian Po River Valley; it starts with a visit to Venice, then to Padua, Ferrara, Bologna, Modena, Sabbioneta, Parma, Fontanellato, Piacenza, Pavia, and its Charterhouse. It then goes to Milan. It includes detailed descriptions for visiting Venice in two or three days and Milan in two days or more. There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions. It is ideal for use on your smartphone; it contains active links to the websites of many reviews for the best-recommended restaurants at the location described. There are active links to the review pages, and you can use them if you have an active Internet connection. Still, you have the necessary information ready if you don't: you have the name, address, and telephone number in the guide.
Download or read book Cities and Courts in the Po Valley Venice To Milan written by Enrico Massetti and published by Enrico Massetti Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an e-guide to a multi-days trip in the Italian Po River Valley. It starts with a visit to Venice, then to Padua, Ferrara, Bologna, Modena, Sabbioneta, Parma, Fontanellato, Piacenza, Pavia and its Charterhouse. It then goes to Milan. It includes detailed descriptions for visiting Venice in two or three days and Milan in two days or more. There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions. It is ideal for use on your smart phone, it contains active links to the web sites of many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are at the location described. There are active links to the review pages, you can use them if you have an active Internet connection, but, if you don’t, you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide.
Download or read book Aosta Eight Itineraries To Visit the Valley written by Enrico Massetti and published by Enrico Massetti Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highest mountains in Europe, medieval castles to protect the roads that cross the Alps, used since the time of the Roman Empire, agricultural traditions and their history still alive today, the most sophisticated and advanced facilities for skiing in resorts frequented by millions of skiers from around the world, villages that can be reached only by cable car and do not have a road for cars, natural parks that protect flora and fauna, all this, and more, is told in this book on the Valle d'Aosta, which describes eight routes to visit all the localities of the Valley. Valle d’Aosta is a vertical region, you might say, in the physical sense, for the many high peaks surrounding it (including Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe at 4,807 meters). But also, for the surprising concentration, in a region of such reduced dimensions, of so many natural splendors, of so many monuments, of so much precious historical and artistic heritage, of a density which evokes, in its vertical aspect, the crowding of skyscrapers in a metropolis where horizontal urban space is scarce and precious. Aosta, the regional capital and the only province of the Valley, is a city rich in history. Traces of the ancient Augusta Pretoria (the Latin name of Aosta) can easily be seen, such as the magnificent Arch of Augustus (25 B.C.) and the Roman Theatre remains. For Aosta, the Middle Ages were anything but dark: as an essential center of commercial traffic with France and Switzerland, the city enjoyed an extended period of prosperity. It is no coincidence that the Cathedral and Church of S. Orso, two churches of great beauty, dating back to the Middle Ages. This guide covers visits to the mountain region of Aosta Valley, with the description of eight itineraries to visit the valley. The locations covered are the city of Aosta, the lower valley with its castles, a visit to Cogne and the Gran Paradiso Park, a visit to Morgex, La Thuile and the Piccolo San Bernardo Pass, one to Courmayeur, one to Valpelline and the Gran San Bernardo Pass, and all the villages of the Valtournenche Valley. There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions. It has the listing of many reviews for the best-recommended restaurants for all the locations; you have the necessary information ready: the name, address, and telephone number are included in the guide together with the review.
Download or read book Abruzzo Parks Food Beaches written by Enrico Massetti and published by Enrico Massetti Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abruzzo holds a record: environmental laws protect 30 percent of its territory, and no other region in Europe can boast as much. It is not without good reason. It is known as the region of parks, the ideal target for a naturalistic vacation. There are three national parks, one regional park, and many protected sites and nature reserves: in a region like this, it seems natural that the provincial capital is called L'Aquila (The Eagle). This guide lets you visit Abruzzo, starting from L'Aquila, and see Gran Sasso and Maiella. It includes a detailed list of the resources available to visit the Parks with local guides and encounter the local wild fauna. It has a list of local guides and of the services they provide. It covers Abruzzo cuisine with a section on the specialty Foods of Abruzzo and lists many regional recipes with active links to the recipe pages. It also contains local wines. It includes a comprehensive section on Abruzzo's history, from the pre-Roman age to the historic Roman era, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and the Modern Age. In addition, it includes photos and descriptions of the attractions and travel info. The guide has many reviews of the restaurants in the localities covered.
Download or read book Bologna in one day written by Enrico Massetti and published by Enrico Massetti Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bologna She was called "La Grassa" - the fat for its love of food. She was called "La Dotta" - for its first university site. The present guide introduces you to its beautiful sites and monuments, its cuisine, and the ways of reaching it from Milan, Florence, Venice, and Rome. Color photos complement and illustrate the book. The book includes a chapter on Parma. Piazza Maggiore is the ancient heart of Bologna. Its medieval buildings, witnesses of its vibrant public life and intense economic activity, combined with the latest functional places, while retaining their charm. A network of unique porticoed streets that make the city unique, branches off from here. The porticos of Bologna, candidates for UNESCO world heritage, stretch out from the city center over 40 kilometers. This is a guide to Bologna, one hour away from Milan and Florence, two hours from Rome, and one hour 15 minutes from Venice by high-speed train. There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions. The book includes a chapter on Parma, the city of Giuseppe Verdi, you can visit it with a short and inexpensive train ride. It also has a listing of many reviews for the best-recommended restaurants that are within walking distance from the train station.
Download or read book The Court Cities of Northern Italy written by Charles M. Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Court Cities of Northern Italy examines painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced within the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.
Download or read book A Trip to Italy written by Italy. Ente nazionale per le industrie turistiche and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Renaissance Court written by Gregory Lubkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic community where arts, policy making, and the panoply of state were integrated with the rhythms and preoccupations of daily life. Gregory Lubkin explores this vital but overlooked center of power, allowing the members of the Milanese court to speak for themselves and showing how dramatically Milan and its ruler exemplified the political, cultural, religious, and economic aspirations of Renaissance Italy.
Download or read book The New Italians written by Charles Richards and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1995-04-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy has seduced generations with its sunshine, landscapes, art treasures and the warmth and vitality of its people, devoted to style, sensuality and the pleasures of life. The reality is less rosy. Italy is as exasperating as it is enchanting. Appalling public services, a rotten political class, the creeping tentacles of the Mafia, the all-forgiving Mother Church and infinitely indulgent ‘mamma’ have long prevented Italians facing up to their collective failings. In ‘The New Italians’, journalist Charles Richards paints a compelling group portrait of the country and people, spanning football to Freemansonry, kickbacks to kidnappings. He concludes that however much things change, the Italians will remain essentially the same, and pull through with their customary ‘brio’.
Download or read book Routledge Revivals Medieval Italy 2004 written by Christopher Kleinhenz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 1952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.
Download or read book Princes and Princely Culture written by Martin Gosman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this second volume discuss princely courts north and south of the alps and pyrenees between 1450-1650 as focal points for products of medieval and renaissance culture such as literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts and devotional practice.
Download or read book Princes and Princely Culture 1450 1650 Volume 2 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many products of medieval and renaissance culture – literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, forms of devotional piety, and also the social, political and literary self-representation of rulers – found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. This second volume on princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650 – the first was published in 2003 as volume 118/1 in this series – contains twelve essays. These are focused on England under Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and under James I and Charles I. The late fifteenth-century imperial court is treated in a piece on Matthias I Corvinus. The courts of Italy are represented by chapters on those of the Po Valley, the Medici of Florence, the Papal courts of Pius II and Julius II, and of Naples. Spanish court culture is discussed in contributions on Charles V, Philip II, and on Philip IV.
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank 1397 1494 written by Prof. Raymond de Roover and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roots of modern capitalism go back to the Italian banking system of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the Medici Bank succeeded in overshadowing its competitors, the Bardi and the Peruzzi, who were the giants of the fourteenth century, and grew into a vast establishment with branches in most of the large cities of Western Europe. A study of its operations is essential to an understanding of the economic conditions in Europe in the fifteenth century. From a careful study of pertinent documents, including a set of libri segreti (confidential ledgers) discovered in 1950, Professor de Roover has reconstructed the details of the bank’s organization and operating methods; its loan policies, which reflected the Church’s doctrine on usury; its trading and industrial investments; its roles within the Florentine gild system and tax structure; and its activities as financial agent of the Church. He covers every aspect of the bank’s history, from its early years under the management of Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici to its collapse with the expulsion of the Medici from Florence. “An invaluable contribution to the economic history of the period....A splendid book.”—Harry A. Miskimin, The American Economic Review “The most important work in English on a medieval or Renaissance bank.”—The Economist “The best book ever written on the medieval banking system.”—John T. Noonan, Jr., Harvard Law Review “The most authoritative treatment of its subject in any language.”—Rondo Cameron, The Accounting Review
Download or read book Rome s Christian Empress written by Joyce E. Salisbury and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. A Forgotten Empress -- 1 The "Most Noble" Princess: 379-395 -- 2 Orphan Princess in Stilicho's Shadow: 395-408 -- 3 Held Hostage by the Goths: 408-412 -- 4 Queen of the Visigoths: 411-416 -- 5 Wife and Mother in Ravenna: 416-424 -- 6 Empress of the Romans: 424-437 -- 7 The Empress Mother and Her Children: 438-455 -- Epilogue. The Fall of the Western Empire: 455-476 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Download or read book The Pursuit of Italy written by David Gilmour and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Economist's Books of the Year A provocative, entertaining account of Italy's diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and present Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The question is asked and answered in a number of ways in The Pursuit of Italy, an engaging, original consideration of the many histories that contribute to the brilliance—and weakness—of Italy today. David Gilmour's wonderfully readable exploration of Italian life over the centuries is filled with provocative anecdotes as well as personal observations, and is peopled by the great figures of the Italian past—from Cicero and Virgil to the controversial politicians of the twentieth century. His wise account of the Risorgimento debunks the nationalistic myths that surround it, though he paints a sympathetic portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, a beloved hero of the era. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities, and cuisines. Italy's inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. Italy's strength and culture still come from its regions rather than from its misconceived, mishandled notion of a unified nation.
