Download or read book Sir Kenelm Digby and His Venetia written by E. W. Bligh and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Kenelm Digby and His Venetia written by Eric Walter Bligh and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sir Kenelm Digby and His Venetia written by E. W. Bligh and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby written by Thomas Longueville and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Viper Wine written by Hermione Eyre and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Using an alchemy all of her own, Eyre’s postmodern take on the 17th century renders it dazzlingly fresh and contemporary.” —Guardian (UK) Venetia Stanley was the great beauty of her day, so dazzling she inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting. But now she is married, the adoration to which she has become accustomed has curdled to scrutiny, and she fears her powers are waning. Her devoted husband, Sir Kenelm Digby—explorer, diplomat, philosopher, alchemist— refuses to prepare a beauty tonic for her, insisting on her continued perfection. Venetia, growing desperate, secretly engages an apothecary to sell her “viper wine”—a strange potion said to bolster the blood and invigorate the skin. The results are instant, glorious, and addictive, and soon the ladies of the court of Charles I are looking unnaturally youthful. But there is a terrible price to be paid, as science clashes with magic, puritans rebel against the decadent monarchy, and England slides into civil war. Based on real events and written with anachronistic verve, Viper Wine is an intoxicating brew of love, longing and vanity, where the 17th and 21st centuries mix and mingle in the most enchanting and mind-bending ways.
Download or read book The life of Sir Kenelm Digby written by T. Longueville and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby written by Thomas Longueville and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Stain in the Blood written by Joe Moshenska and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A thrilling account' The Times 'As heroic as Digby himself, Moshenska has defied the tyranny of genre and made his own absorbing account' Observer 'A master storyteller. Full of exquisite details, but with the grandest themes... this is a gripping adventure story' Zia Haider Rahman 'A brilliant account of one of the seventeenth century's most dashing lives' Ruth Scurr 'Gripping and extraordinary' Ann Wroe On the 16th of August 1628, five battle-scarred English ships sailed into the harbour of the Greek island of Milos. Dropping anchor, the 25-year-old captain banqueted with the local lord before sitting down to write an account of his journey - an account that would transform him entirely. Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted advisor to the King, but the sworn enemy of the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham; a pioneering philosopher and scientist, but committed to the occult arts of alchemy and astrology; a friend not only of Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and van Dyck, but even Oliver Cromwell. He was also widely known as the 'son of a traytor and husband of a whore': a man who witnessed his father's gruesome execution for high treason as a Gunpowder Plotter, and the lover of the most celebrated beauty of the age, Venetia Stanley. In an attempt to clear his name, and on a quest for personal glory, Digby assembled a fleet and set sail for the Mediterranean: a world of pirate cities and ancient ruins where people, ideas and exotic goods moved freely between languages and nations. His journey - encompassing fevers, mutiny, piracy, daring rescues and heroic sea battles - is a great and terribly overlooked adventure, and a prism through which to view England, and all of Europe, during one of the most pivotal periods in its history. A Stain in the Blood is the story of an extraordinary life, and of a journey that helped to shape a nation. It is a revelatory first work of non-fiction by one of the brightest young writers and thinkers of today.
Download or read book Sir Kenelm Digby and Hus Venetia written by E W. Bligh and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kenelm Digby s Two Treatises written by Paul S. MacDonald and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, alchemist, and privateer, Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) cut a striking figure across Europe in the middle of the 17th century. Digby corresponded with Galileo, Descartes, Gassendi, Gilbert and Harvey, and was one of the founding members of the Royal Society. In 1644 he published his major philosophical work, Two Treatises: Of Bodies and of Man's Soul - the first comprehensive philosophical work in the English language. In the Two Treatises Digby discussed at length a vast array of philosophical ideas: elements, matter, mechanism, motion, force and causation, as well as sensation, perception, memory, imagination, intellect, reason, and immortality. MacDonald's edition is the first scholarly edition of this great work since it went out of print in 1669: it offers a normalized text, copious annotations, and a lengthy introduction which situates Digby's ideas in the currents of 17th century philosophical thought.
Download or read book Venetia written by Georgette Heyer and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen." -Publishers Weekly A young lady of beauty and intelligence facing an unbearable choice... Venetia Lanyon is one of Georgette Heyer's most memorable heroines. Beautiful, capable, and independent minded, her life on the family's estate in the countryside is somewhat circumscribed. Then a chance encounter with her rakish neighbor opens up a whole new world for Venetia. Lord Damerel has built his life on his dangerous reputation, and when he meets Venetia, he has nothing to offer and everything to regret. As Venetia's well-meaning family steps in to protect her from potential ruin, Venetia must find the wherewithal to take charge of her own destiny, or lose her one chance at happiness... What readers say: "Perfection! ...Witty, sparkling, and heart-wrenching." "Not only do I think that Venetia is Georgette Heyer's best novel, I think Venetia is one of her best characters and certainly one of my favorite heroines in all romance fiction." "Has all of Heyer's best features: humor, wit, and irony; an exquisite sense of time and place."
Download or read book Sir Kenelm Diby and His Venetia written by E. Bligh and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby s Papers written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby s Papers in the Possession of Henry A Bright written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
