Download or read book Lisabetta A Stolen Sister written by V. Knox and published by Silent K Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEONARDO TAUGHT HIS KID SISTER TO PAINT... ... SHE TAUGHT HIM HOW TO SURVIVE A portrait's voice is captured in the eyes. Only beloved eyes may speak the truth in silence. My brother and I conversed this way for eleven years after my death. He called me through the art that was the best of us. I materialized to ease his grief and comfort his final moments. Leonardo heard my thoughts as a voice inside his head, as a waking dream, inside a memory. I listened back in the ways open to me. Leonardo shared his lifeforce with me the day I was born, refusing to let me die, and later, during his last days, when he lay close to death, I held his hand so he could feel the weight of my bones. To Leonardo, I remained, the fleshed-out Lisabetta of his middle-years. Such was our close connection, that even as an apparition, I had density. Leonardo taught me where illusion began and in 1519 it was my duty to show him where it ended. - Lisabetta

Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.

Download or read book Lisabetta A Stolen Glance written by V. Knox and published by Lisabetta. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ART HISTORY DELIVERED IN A GHOST STORYA biographical fantasy of reincarnation and lost identities based on the lives of Leonardo da Vinci, his kid-sister, Lisabetta Buti, and their 21st counterparts 500 years laterONLY GREAT ART REMAINS TRULY IMMORTALLured from her iconic portrait in the Louvre by an autistic boy and his mother, the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci's sister, the true Mona Lisa, steps outside her painting to redress a five hundred-year-old case of mistaken identity. Some artists break all the rules. One only has to gaze into the eyes of a divine portrait to discover the undeniable truth - that a master artist can capture the soul of a subject. But sometimes it takes five-hundred years for the energy to cool. During bouts of shared lucid dreaming and time-slipping, experiences of reincarnation reveal lost loves, stolen dreams, missing paintings... and, finally, the irony of an anonymous woman becoming the most famous face in the world.In the spring of 1519, my brother Leonardo still believed he could fly!- Lisabettathe true face of the 'Mona Lisa'

Download or read book The First Glance written by Ti-Anne Evans and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriella never believed in love at first sight, yet she was compelled by him in every way imaginable. He brings out the overwhelming desires from inside of her. Arius knew he had to have her the moment she made eye contact. He couldn't get rid of the itch, the yearning to have her. He had to keep part of his life a secret in order to make sure she wouldn't run. When obstacles are thrown their way, they have to face the truth. Could the truth be the end for them?

Download or read book Rappaccini s Daughter Illustrated written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, and later in the 1846 collection Mosses from an Old Manse. It is about Giacomo Rappaccini, a medical researcher in medieval Padua who grows a garden of poisonous plants. He brings up his daughter to tend the plants, and she becomes resistant to the poisons, but in the process she herself becomes poisonous to others. The traditional story of a poisonous maiden has been traced back to India, and Hawthorne's version has been adopted in contemporary works.

Download or read book A Stolen Death written by Anthony O. Famosa and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hopeful youths are out for a great time in future They would skate and roll for it But Lord Mangnate has only found another instrument for his political ambition. As usual the pack is worthless than a piece of Pawn on his Chessboard.

Download or read book Brighton Belle written by Sara Sheridan and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2016 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post-World War II England, former Secret Service operative Mirabelle Bevan takes a job at a debt collection agency, but when she discovers that a pregnant Hungarian refugee who had taken out a routine loan has been reported dead, she decides to investigate--

Download or read book The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity written by Aby Warburg and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.

Download or read book The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance written by P. L. Jacob and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Lucky Star written by Joe Keenan and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hilarious, laser-sharp comedy, the Emmy-winning writer and producer of Frasier sends up Hollywood pretense higher than it's ever been sent before.

Download or read book Tales and Stories written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Finn written by V. Knox and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy loses his shoes between heaven and the deep blue sea Finn Cleary is an excited five-year-old passenger heading for a new life on Titanic's maiden voyage. But fate not only denies him his New York destination, it also separates him from the girl he was destined to marry. Finn has tough shoes to fill, trying to compete with his older brother, but his death delivers a tougher quest. Bad timing and old jealousies threaten to trap his spirit in a permanent half-life and crush a star-crossed romance forever. To recover the threads of his lost future, Finn must heal an old score and honor his mother's strict orders to look after the only new pair of shoes he's ever owned or she'll skin him alive. But a promise, made in haste complicates his next incarnation. Finding Finn's lost shoes may be young love's only chance to stay together. An extraordinary love story of reincarnation and sacrifice

Download or read book The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings written by Christine De Pizan and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fresh, accurate, and engaging, this new translation of the Book of the City of Ladies helps us to understand what made Christine de Pizan so popular with her fifteenth-century contemporaries. The editors provide a rich historical and philosophical context that will be very useful to both students and scholars of the history of political ideas. The translations themselves gracefully navigate the fine line between accuracy and readability with considerable charm. Rounding out this portrait of the turmoil of fifteenth-century France, the volume is enriched by excerpts from other works, Christine's Vision, the Book of the Body Politic, and the Lamentation on France’s Ills." —Kate Forhan, Emeritus, Siena College CONTENTS:IntroductionA Note on Translating the Book of the City of LadiesChristine de Pizan: Her works, Her TimesSuggestions for Further ReadingFrom Christine's Vision (1405)The Book of the City of Ladies (1404–1405)From The Book of the Body Politic (1404–1407)From Lamentation on France's Ills (1410)Index

Download or read book The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction written by Arthur B. Evans and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available—includes online teacher's guide The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years' worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher's guide at http://sfanthology.site.wesleyan.edu/ accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world's most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

Download or read book Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection written by Walter Savage Landor and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating book contains a unique mix of dialogues and poems. The dialogues are fictional conversations between historical figures, such as Queen Elizabeth and Cecil, Essex and Spenser, Diogenes and Plato, Dante and Beatrice, and even Oliver Cromwell and Sir Oliver Cromwell. The poems cover a range of topics and include titles like 'Fiesole Idyl', 'To Charles Dickens', and 'The Lover'.

Download or read book The Prodigious Muse written by Virginia Cox and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2012 Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenHonorable Mention, Literature, 2012 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy—who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox examines more closely one particular moment in this history, in many ways the most remarkable for the richness and range of women’s literary output. A widespread critical notion sees Italian women’s writing as a phenomenon specific to the peculiar literary environment of the mid-sixteenth century, and most scholars assume that a reactionary movement such as the Counter-Reformation was unlikely to spur its development. Cox argues otherwise, showing that women’s writing flourished in the period following 1560, reaching beyond the customary "feminine" genres of lyric, poetry, and letters to experiment with pastoral drama, chivalric romance, tragedy, and epic. There were few widely practiced genres in this eclectic phase of Italian literature to which women did not turn their hand. Organized by genre, and including translations of all excerpts from primary texts, this comprehensive and engaging volume provides students and scholars with an invaluable resource as interest in these exceptional writers grows. In addition to familiar, secular works by authors such as Isabella Andreini, Moderata Fonte, and Lucrezia Marinella, Cox also discusses important writings that have largely escaped critical interest, including Fonte’s and Marinella’s vivid religious narratives, an unfinished Amazonian epic by Maddalena Salvetti, and the startlingly fresh autobiographical lyrics of Francesca Turina Bufalini. Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed.