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Book Della Zecca E Delle Monete Perugine

Download or read book Della Zecca E Delle Monete Perugine written by Giovanni Battista Vermiglioli and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Divina Moneta

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nanouschka Myrberg Burström
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-11-22
  • ISBN : 1317149041
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Divina Moneta written by Nanouschka Myrberg Burström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection analyses the phenomenon of coin use for religious and ritual purposes in different cultures and across different periods of time. It proposes an engagement with the theory and interpretation of the ‘material turn’ with numismatic evidence, and an evidence-based series of discussions to offer a fuller, richer and fresh account of coin use in ritual contexts. No extensive publication has previously foregrounded coins in such a model, despite the fact that coins constitute an integrated part of the material culture of most societies today and of many in the past. Here, interdisciplinary discussions are organised around three themes: coin deposit and ritual practice, the coin as economic object and divine mediator, and the value and meaning of coin offering. Although focusing on the medieval period in Western Europe, the book includes instructive cases from the Roman period until today. The collection brings together well-established and emerging scholars from archaeology, art history, ethnology, history and numismatics, and great weight is given to material evidence which can complement and contradict the scarce written sources.

Book The Roman Stock Exchange between the 19th and 20th Centuries

Download or read book The Roman Stock Exchange between the 19th and 20th Centuries written by Donatella Strangio and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Italian stock exchange through its construction and consolidation while examining and criticizing the birth of the capital city. Through the evolution of the stock exchange, the transformation of Rome is examined from the capital of a pre-unification state to the papal state, exploring its social, political, administrative and financial fabric. The book examines that path to becoming the capital of Italy, offering a unique volume for researchers, academics, and students of financial history and financial markets.

Book Tosca s Rome

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Vandiver Nicassio
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2002-01-15
  • ISBN : 9780226579726
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Tosca s Rome written by Susan Vandiver Nicassio and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. By far the most "historical" opera in the active repertoire, Tosca is set in a very specific time and place: Rome, from June 17 to 18, 1800. But as Nicassio demonstrates, history in Tosca is distorted by nationalism and by the vehement anticlerical perceptions of papal Rome shared by Sardou, Puccini, and the librettists. To provide the historical background necessary for understanding Tosca, Nicassio takes a detailed look at Rome in 1800 as each of Tosca's main characters would have seen it—the painter Cavaradossi, the singer Tosca, and the policeman Scarpia. Finally, she provides a scene-by-scene musical and dramatic analysis of the opera. "[Nicassio] must be the only living historian who can boast that she once sang the role of Tosca. Her deep knowledge of Puccini's score is only to be expected, but her understanding of daily and political life in Rome at the close of the 18th century is an unanticipated pleasure. She has steeped herself in the period and its prevailing culture-literary, artistic, and musical-and has come up with an unusual, and unusually entertaining, history."—Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph "In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio . . . orchestrates a wealth of detail without losing view of the opera and its pleasures. . . . Nicassio aims for opera fans and for historians: she may well enthrall both."—Publishers Weekly "This is the book that ranks highest in my estimation as the most in-depth, and yet highly entertaining, journey into the story of the making of Tosca."—Catherine Malfitano "Nicassio's prose . . . is lively and approachable. There is plenty here to intrigue everyone-seasoned opera lovers, musical novices, history buffs, and Italophiles."—Library Journal

Book Giuseppe Campani     Inventor Romae     an Uncommon Genius

Download or read book Giuseppe Campani Inventor Romae an Uncommon Genius written by Silvio Bedini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giuseppe Campani, “Inventor Romae,” an Uncommon Genius offers an account of the life and creations of the most talented maker of optic lenses, silent clocks and projector clocks of the second half of the seventeenth century but also provides you with unique insights into the scientific and technological landscape of baroque Rome and its links to a broader European scene.

Book Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome

Download or read book Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome written by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benvenuto Olivieri was a Florentine banker active in Rome during the first half of the sixteenth century. A self made man without any great family patrimony, he rose to prominence during the pontificate of Pope Paul III, becoming involved with a variety of papal enterprises which allowed him to get to the heart of the mechanisms governing the papal finances. Amassing a considerable fortune along the way, Olivieri soon built himself a role as co-ordinator of the appalti (revenue farms) and became one of the most powerful players in the complex network that connected bankers and the papal revenue. This book explores the indissoluble link that had developed between the papacy and bankers, illuminating how the Apostolic Chamber, increasingly in need of money, could not meet its debts, without farming out the rights to future income. Utilising documents from a rich corpus of unpublished sources in Florence and Rome, Guidi Bruscoli unravels the web of financial connections that bound together Florentine and Genoese bankers with the papacy, and looks at how money was raised and the appalti managed.

Book Spink   Son s Monthly Numismatic Circular

Download or read book Spink Son s Monthly Numismatic Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guilds  Markets and Work Regulations in Italy  16th   19th Centuries

Download or read book Guilds Markets and Work Regulations in Italy 16th 19th Centuries written by Alberto Guenzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to provide a conspectus of current research on the history of guilds and corporations in Italy in the period from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Particular aims are to examine the relationship between guilds, manufacturing, entrepreneurship, and economic development, and their impact on urban society and social welfare. The work derives from a major project set up in 1994; the results were discussed at a conference in Rome in September 1997, and formed the basis for a further presentation by Professor Carlo Poni at the 12th International Economic History Conference in Seville. The papers are grouped into three sections, dealing with the guild system in urban areas, case studies of individual guilds and conflicts, and their role in mutual aid and assistance. Specially translated for this volume, they trace for the English-speaking world a rich picture of the history of the Italian guild system in the modern era, and its movement from magnificence to decline.

Book Surviving the Ghetto

    Book Details:
  • Author : Serena Di Nepi
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-12-07
  • ISBN : 9004431195
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Surviving the Ghetto written by Serena Di Nepi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Surviving the Ghetto, Serena Di Nepi recounts the first fifty years of the ghetto, exploring the social and cultural strategies that allowed the Jews of Rome to preserve their identity and resist Catholic conversion over three long centuries (1555-1870).

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-1945.

Book Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age  16th to 18th Century

Download or read book Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age 16th to 18th Century written by Luca Clerici and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the complexity and variety of victualling systems in early modern Italy. For a long time, the historiography of urban provisioning systems in late medieval and early modern times featured a conceptual opposition between victualling administration and the market. In this book, on the contrary, the term ‘victualling system’ (sistema annonario) is employed according to its historical meaning, designating an organised set of public and private channels, evolved typically in urban contexts, for the procurement and distribution of the goods essential for the daily life of common people. According to this definition, specifically, a victualling system included also the market, as one of the different channels for the procurement and distribution of goods. What characterises the Italian case in the European context are both the earliness of these institutions and the long-lasting political and economic fragmentation of the peninsula: these factors determined the great variety and complexity of the solutions adopted. In order to show these features, the analysis focuses on four central issues: the configuration of systems, institutional pragmatism and variety, articulation of circuits, and plurality of actors. The seven relevant case-studies included in this book, all based on direct archival research, cover a wide range of geographical contexts and institutional arrangements, from the North to the South of the peninsula, and include both large-sized cities (Milan and Rome), medium-sized cities (Bergamo, Vicenza, and Ferrara), and entire regions (the March of Ancona, and Sicily). This allows the reader to appreciate regional and local differences in detail, making this book of interest for academics and scholars in economic, social, and urban history.

Book Resilience in Papal Rome  1656 1870

Download or read book Resilience in Papal Rome 1656 1870 written by Marina Formica and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-23 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the evolution of the city of Rome, in particular, papal Rome, from the plague of 1656 until 1870 when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The authors explore papal Rome as a resilient city that had to cope with numerous crises during this period. By focusing on a selection of different crises in Rome, the book combines cultural, political, and economic history to examine key turning points in the city’s history. The book is split into chapters exploring themes such as diplomacy and international relations, disease, environmental disasters, famine, public debt, and unravels the political, economic, and social consequences of these transformative events. All the chapters are based on untapped original sources, chiefly from the State Archive in Rome, the Vatican Archives, the Rome Municipal Archives, the École Française Library, the National Library, and the Capitoline Library.

Book The Numismatic Circular

Download or read book The Numismatic Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Euro Par 2006 Parallel Processing

Download or read book Euro Par 2006 Parallel Processing written by Wolfgang E. Nagel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2006. The book presents 110 carefully reviewed, revised papers. Topics include support tools and environments; performance prediction and evaluation; scheduling and load balancing; compilers for high performance; parallel and distributed databases, data mining and knowledge discovery; grid and cluster computing: models, middleware and architectures; parallel computer architecure and instruction-level parallelism; distributed systems and algorithms, and more.

Book Euro Par   97 Parallel Processing

Download or read book Euro Par 97 Parallel Processing written by Christian Lengauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-23 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Euro-Par Conference, held in Passau, Germany, in August 1997. The 178 revised papers presented were selected from more than 300 submissions on the basis of 1101 reviews. The papers are organized in accordance with the conference workshop structure in tracks on support tools and environments, routing and communication, automatic parallelization, parallel and distributed algorithms, programming languages, programming models and methods, numerical algorithms, parallel architectures, HPC applications, scheduling and load balancing, performance evaluation, instruction-level parallelism, database systems, symbolic computation, real-time systems, and an ESPRIT workshop.