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Book The Waldensian Trunk  How a Lockdown was the Impetus for Discovering My Origins

Download or read book The Waldensian Trunk How a Lockdown was the Impetus for Discovering My Origins written by Dario Castagno and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Waldensian Trunk

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  • Author : Dario Castagno
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Waldensian Trunk written by Dario Castagno and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of Covid19's lockdown, Dario Castagno haphazardly opens an antique trunk that had once belonged to a great aunt. As he spends his solitary days going through the content of portraits and documents, it transpires a captivating microcosm of the author's surprising Waldensian heritage. By turns celebratory and revelatory, the book is a bittersweet excursus through Dario's striking lineage and an uncanny alpine populace's history that endured pogroms and unspeakable prejudices for centuries.Dario Castagno is a local Chiantigiano, as well as a proud member of the Bruco (Caterpillar) Contrada in Siena. He lives a peaceful existence in the village of Vagliagli in Tuscany. For more than a decade, he guided small groups of visitors to his favorite spots in the Chianti region of Italy where most of his books have been set. Too Much Tuscan Sun- A Day in Tuscany- Too Much Tuscan Wine- An Osteria in Chianti-Seven Seasons in Siena (with Robert Rodi)-The District 9 of Chianti (with Fionn McCann)- The Miracle of Belpoggio- The Bromide in the Soup- Brunello for Breakfast- The Year of the Chicory- Somewhere in Chianti and The Waldensian Trunk.Today, apart from writing, he entertains his guests upon request at Fattoria Tregole winery and at the HQ's of his Contrada in Siena.For more information www.dariocastagno.com

Book Paula the Waldensian

Download or read book Paula the Waldensian written by Eva Lecomte and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Paula the Waldensian" by Eva Lecomte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book The Waldenses

Download or read book The Waldenses written by Alexander W. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Waldenses

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  • Author : James Aitken Wylie
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Release : 2020-09-28
  • ISBN : 1465516204
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book History of the Waldenses written by James Aitken Wylie and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work—which is a reprint of the Sixteenth Book of the History of Protestantism—is exclusively occupied with the subject of the Waldenses. It describes succinctly the conflicts they waged and the martyrdoms they endured in defence of their faith and their liberty, and is published in the present form to meet the requirements of those who take a special interest in this remarkable people. Recent events in Europe have brought the Waldenses into prominence, and thrown a new light upon the grandeur of their struggle and the important and enduring issues which have flowed from it. To them, in a very particular manner, are we to trace the constitutional liberties which Italy at this hour enjoys. In the eventful year of 1848, when a new constitution was being framed for Piedmont, the Waldenses made it plain to the Government that there would not be standing-room for them within the lines of that constitution, unless it embraced the great principle of freedom of conscience. For that principle they had contended during five hundred years, and nothing short of it could they accept as a basis of national settlement, persuaded that any other guarantee of their liberties would be illusory. Their demand was conceded: the principle of freedom of conscience—the root of all liberty—was embodied in the new constitution, and thus the whole inhabitants of Piedmont shared equally with the Waldenses in a boon which the struggles of the latter had been mainly instrumental in securing. Not only so: in process of time the constitution of Piedmont was extended to the rest of Italy, and the whole Italian nation is at this hour sharing in the fruits which have sprung from the toil and the blood, the unswerving faith, and the heroic devotion of the Waldenses. Nor is their work finished even yet. They have understood the end for which they have been preserved through so many ages of darkness and conflict, and have energetically thrown themselves into the evangelisation of modern Italy, and doubtless these ancient confessors are destined to win, in the land where they endured so many dark sorrows, not a few brilliant triumphs, and by the labours of the present to add to the obligations which Christendom owes them for the services of the past.

Book History of the Waldenses

Download or read book History of the Waldenses written by J. A. Wylie and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Waldenes were among the first of the people of Europe to obtain a translation of the Holy Scriptures. Hundreds of years before the Reformation they possessed the Bible in manuscript in their native tongue. Here the light of truth was kept burning amid the darkness of the Middle Ages. Here, for a thousand years, witnesses for the truth maintained the ancient faith.

Book Heresy and Literacy  1000 1530

Download or read book Heresy and Literacy 1000 1530 written by Peter Biller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective volume exploring connections between literacy and heresy in late medieval Europe.

Book The Friend

Download or read book The Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anabaptist Story

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  • Author : William R. Estep
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780802808868
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Anabaptist Story written by William R. Estep and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hundred seventy years ago the Anabaptist movement was launched with the inauguration of believer's baptism and the formation of the first congregation of the Swiss Brethren in Zurich, Switzerland. This standard introduction to the history of Anabaptism by noted church historian William R. Estep offers a vivid chronicle of the rise and spread of teachings and heritage of this important stream in Christianity. This third edition of The Anabaptist Story has been substantially revised and enlarged to take into account the numerous Anabaptist sources that have come to light in the last half-century as well as the significant number of monographs and other scholarly works on Anabaptist themes that have recently appeared. Estep challenges a number of assumptions held by contemporary historians and offers fresh insights into the Anabaptist movement.

Book Waldensian Researches During a Second Visit to the Vaudois of Piemont

Download or read book Waldensian Researches During a Second Visit to the Vaudois of Piemont written by William Stephen Gilly and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Relative Strangers

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  • Author : Frank Cicero
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2011-06-28
  • ISBN : 089733731X
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Relative Strangers written by Frank Cicero and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Italian American investigates his family’s mixed religious roots in northern Italy and Sicily in this fascinating memoir. Italian Protestants? Few people seem to have heard of them, but the author’s mother’s immigrant Italian family was Protestant while his father’s were Catholic immigrants from Sicily. On his father’s side, with dozens of aunts, uncles and numerous cousins, Catholic family gatherings were loud, often profane, with drinking, smoking and raucous celebrations of weddings, births, holidays, and other occasions as well as the mystical rituals inherent in the Catholic faith. By contrast, on his mother’s side, family gatherings were small and quiet, with no smoking or drinking; and religion was the core of most family celebrations. But the author had little understanding of the ancient origins of his maternal grandparents’ very different Protestant faith which marked the keen differences between the two sides of the family. Relative Strangers describes the author’s search for the religious roots of his parents’ families in northern Italy and Sicily. He traces the history of the Waldensians, the Protestant sect which began in Lyon, France, in the twelfth century, often suffering persecution, but surviving to this day both in Europe and America.

Book Too Much Tuscan Sun

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  • Author : Dario Castagno
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2004-09-01
  • ISBN : 0762751614
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Too Much Tuscan Sun written by Dario Castagno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping against a brick wall of tradition.Too Much Tuscan Sun is Dario's, a Tuscan guide whose client base is predominantly American, account of some of his more remarkable customers, from the obsessive and the oblivious to the downright lunatic.

Book Day in Tuscany

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  • Author : Dario Castagno
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2007-06-01
  • ISBN : 0762751622
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Day in Tuscany written by Dario Castagno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second book from Dario Castagno is a delightfully honest mix of memoirs from life in the hills of Tuscany's legendary Chianti region. Set on the day the author arrived home after a three-month tour of the United States promoting his first book, A Day in Tuscany compels readers to experience this enchanted corner of Italy through the heart and mind of a true Tuscan. As Castagno sees his beloved hills with fresh eyes and reacquaints himself with the rhythms of home, a flood of recollections of its people and places come to him. Through his engaging narrative, we are transported as well. The sights he sees and people he meets as he takes a one-mile walk through his village during the course of this noteworthy day trigger memories of his childhood and adolescence in Tuscany during the seventies, his experiences as a tour guide in Chianti, and some of the more remarkable people he has known. In addition to stories from his own past, included are oral histories from several village elders.History and the present mingle in this part of the world, and these stories bring both alive. Sometimes funny, often poignant, A Day in Tuscany weaves a magical spell and offers a candid insider's look at the people and culture of a fascinating land.

Book Waldensian Researches During a Second Visit to the Vaudois of Piemont  With an Introductory Inquiry Into the Antiquity and Purity of the Waldensian Church  Etc   With Plates and Maps

Download or read book Waldensian Researches During a Second Visit to the Vaudois of Piemont With an Introductory Inquiry Into the Antiquity and Purity of the Waldensian Church Etc With Plates and Maps written by William Stephen Gilly and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Critic  Quarterly Theological Review  and Ecclesiastical Record

Download or read book The British Critic Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: