Download or read book Under The Pope s Windows written by Jc Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They stole it. He's going to take it back-by force. In October 1943, Hitler's SS troops surrounded Rome's Jewish Ghetto and plundered the Jews' most precious heritage: two ancient libraries containing unique books and manuscripts dating from before the birth of Christ, from the time of the Caesars, the emperors, and the early popes. The Nazi ambassador to the Vatican reported to his masters in Berlin that the looting and deportations took place 'under the Pope's windows'. Now, Rex Dalton and his wife, Catia, and Digger, their military dog, set out on a quest to find the stolen libraries and return them to the Jewish community of Rome. But before long, they cross paths with modern-day Nazi diehards, anti-Semites, and a secret organization of super-rich elite who will kill to keep the past a secret.
Download or read book Under His Very Windows written by Susan Zuccotti and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Pius XII do to aid Jews during World War II? This is an examination of efforts on behalf of Jews in Italy, the country where the pope was in a position to be most helpful. It finds that despite a persistent myth to the contrary, Pius and his assistants at the Vatican did very little.
Download or read book The Year s Work in Medievalism 2004 written by Gwendolyn Morgan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Year's Work in Medievalism: 2004 is based upon but not restricted to the 2004 proceedings of the annual International Conference on Medievalism, organized by the Director of Conferences for Studies in Medievalism, Gwendolyn Morgan, and, for 2004, Christa Canitz of the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. The essays of the current volume center on the question of individual responsibility in humanizing one's society through the use of medievalism. ¥ Gwendolyn A. Morgan, ÒMedievalism and Individual Responsibility ¥ Karl Fugelso, ÒDeþning Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Commedia Illustrations ¥ Renee Ward, ÒRemus Lupin and Community: The Werewolf Tradition in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series. ¥ Nancy M. Thompson, Architectural Restoriation and Stained Glass in 19th-Century Siena: The Place of Light in Giuseppe Partini's Purismo ¥ Barbara Gribling, Nationalism and the Image of the Black Prince ¥ Clare A. Simmons, Small-Scale Humor in the British Medieval Revival ¥ Brian C. Johnsrud, ÒThe Monsters Do Not Depart: Re-Unifying Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Christian in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings ¥ Jaimie Hensley, J.R.R. Tolkien and Walther von der Volgelweide: Faerie and Reality ¥ Peter G. Christensen, From Waste Land to Grail and Back Again Naomi Mitchison's To the Chapel Perilous
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1963-06-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1963-06-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Cary s New Itinerary or an Accurate delineation of the great roads throughout England and Wales with many of the principal roads in Scotland from actual admeasurement written by John CARY (Geographer) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architecture of Rome written by Ulrich Fürst and published by Edition Axel Menges. This book was released on 1998 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects and artists have always acknowledged over the centuries that Rome is rightly called the 'eternal city'. Rome is eternal above all because it was always young, always 'in its prime'. Here the buildings that defined the West appeared over more than 2000 years, here the history of European architecture was written. The foundations were laid even in ancient Roman times, when the first attempts were made to design interiors and thus make space open to experience as something physical. And at that time the Roman architects also started to develop building types that are still valid today, thus creating the cornerstone of later Western architecture. In it Rome's primacy remained unbroken -- whether it was with old St Peter's as the first medieval basilica or new St. Peter's as the building in which Bramante and Michelangelo developed the High Renaissance, or with works by Bernini and Borromini whose rich and lucid spatial forms were to shape Baroque as far as Vienna, Bohemia and Lower Franconia, and also with Modern buildings, of which there are many unexpected pearls to be found in Rome. All this is comprehensible only if it is presented historically, i. e. in chronological sequence, and so the guide has not been arranged topographically as usual but chronologically.This means that one is not led in random sequence from a Baroque building to an ancient or a modern one, but the historical development is followed successively. Every epoch is preceded by an introduction that identifies its key features. This produces a continuous, lavishly illustrated history of the architecture of Rome -- and thus at the same time of the whole of the West. Practical handling is guaranteed by an alphabetical index and detailed maps, whose information does not just immediately illustrate the historical picture, but also makes it possible to choose a personal route through history.
Download or read book The Union Dictionary containing all that is truly useful in the dictionaries of Johnson Sheridan and Walker etc written by Thomas Browne (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Construction written by Ivan S. Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Traveller In Rome written by H.v. Morton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome—the fabled era of La Dolce Vita—remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal City eternal. In his characteristic anecdotal style, Morton leads the reader on a well-informed and delightful journey around the city, from the Fontana di Trevi and the Colosseum to the Vatican Gardens loud with exquisite birdsong. He also takes time to consider such eternal topics as the idiosyncrasies of Italian drivers as well as the ominous possibilities behind an unusual absence of pigeons in the Piazza di San Pietro. As TourismWorld.com commented recently: "H.V. Morton.. . .wrote of Rome with style, involvement, and passion. His book In Search of Rome is perhaps the definitive guide book on the Eternal City."
Download or read book The Victoria History of the County of Worcester written by John William Willis Bund and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glass painters written by Sarah Brown and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the creation of stained glass windows in medieval cathedrals and examines the social context within which the medieval glass-painters worked
Download or read book Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy Comprising Piedmont Liguria Lombardy etc 8 Ed written by [Anonymus AC09932289] and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Antient and Modern History of the Famous City of York and in a Particular Manner of Its Magnificent Cathedral As Also an Account of St Mary s Abbey To which is Added a Description of the Most Noted Towns in Yorkshire The Whole Diligently Collected by T G written by Thomas Gent and published by . This book was released on 1730 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pope John Paul II written by The Poynter Institute and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pope John Paul II was one of the most significant world figures in the 20th century and one of the most famous popes in the history of the Catholic church. His unprecedented willingness to travel the world and his media savvy allowed him to reach over 1 billion Catholic parishioners in over 100 countries during his long tenure as pope. He drew huge crowds of devoted followers wherever he went, and no doubt many of them will seek to remember him long after his reign has ended. The Poynter Institute has put together a full-color collection of front page newspaper stories from the day of Pope John Paul II's death in order to chronicle the historic event. The book includes approximately 150 reproductions of front pages from newspapers in all 50 U.S. states as well as major newspapers from around the world. The covers are presented without commentary, in order to allow the reader to appreciate the event in his or her own way.
