Download or read book Souls of Naples written by Autori Vari and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2024-03-21T14:32:00+01:00 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume you will find stories about hyperactive relics, ghosts in spiritual or bodily form, as well as accounts of the dead being conjured, resurrected, and brought back to life from decomposing matter. This is not so much for the purpose of assembling a kind of Neapolitan Wunderkammer, but rather to allow these bodies – in physical or spiritual form, or sometimes both at the same time – to speak as protagonists, and to offer their own contribution to the historical anthropology of the Kingdom of Naples. This volume explores the boundaries between body and spirit, life and death, as well as the natural, preternatural, and supernatural in the long early modern era in southern Italy.

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Download or read book Hidden Naples written by Fiorenzo Foglia and published by Fiorenzo Foglia. This book was released on with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naples is the Italian city richest in esotericism, legends, and mysteries. These stories and secrets intertwine in a web of references and allusions that envelop the city in a subtle yet visible network, discernible to those with eyes to see and hearts to believe. Whether passing through Naples as a tourist or as a simple citizen of their own city, one often fails to realize that they are near places whose stories and mysteries are capable of leaving one astonished: from miraculous blood relics (seven, plus that of San Gennaro) to the sites of the cult of purgatorial souls, a cult bordering on paganism that, in some aspects, is still alive in the city, to the locations of the underground Naples: the city below, from which the city above originated. This book aims to be a guide and a reference for those who wish to be curious tourists. That is why we have decided to complement the book with maps and photos of the described places because, while the stories we tell are fascinating, the actual places are a thousand times more captivating: the esoteric and secretive part of Naples is something real and visible, in its palaces, churches, and even in the names of its streets. And it is out there, ready to be experienced.

Download or read book The Benches of Naples written by Bertrand R. Hudnall, II and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Souls under Siege written by Nicole Archambeau and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual sicknesses caused by excessive sin, and they sought cures in confession. Archambeau draws on a rich evidentiary base of sixty-eight narrative testimonials from the canonization inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel, which was held in the market town of Apt in 1363. Each witness in the proceedings had lived through the outbreaks of plague in 1348 and 1361, as well as the violence inflicted by mercenaries unemployed during truces in the Hundred Years' War. Consequently, their testimonies unexpectedly reveal the importance of faith and the role of affect in the healing of body and soul alike. Faced with an unprecedented cascade of crises, the inhabitants of Provence relied on saints and healers, their worldview connecting earthly disease and disaster to the struggle for their eternal souls. Souls under Siege illustrates how medieval people approached sickness and uncertainty by using a variety of remedies, making clear that "healing" had multiple overlapping meanings in this historical moment.

Download or read book Naples 1925 written by Martin Mittelmeier and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched by modernity. Among the revolutionaries, artists, and thinkers drawn to Naples were numerous scholars at a formative stage in their journeys: Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Alfred Sohn‑Rethel, Asja Lacis, Theodor W. Adorno, and many others. While all were indelibly shaped by the volcanic Neapolitan landscape, it was Benjamin who first probed the relationship between the porous landscape and the local culture. But Adorno went further, transforming his surroundings into a radical new philosophy—one that became a turning point in the modern history of the discipline. In this ingenious book, Martin Mittelmeier reveals the Gulf of Naples as the true birthplace of the Frankfurt School. From the majestic crater rim of Mount Vesuvius to the soft volcanic rock that Neapolitans used to build their city, Mittelmeier follows Adorno’s and his fellow thinkers’ footsteps through the cities along the gulf, demonstrating how their observations and encounters surface again and again in their writings for decades to come, and serve as the structuring principle of Critical Theory.

Download or read book Naples 1925 written by Ryan Hass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched by modernity. Among the revolutionaries, artists, and thinkers drawn to Naples were numerous scholars at a formative stage in their journeys: Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Alfred Sohn‑Rethel, Asja Lacis, Theodor W. Adorno, and many others. While all were indelibly shaped by the volcanic Neapolitan landscape, it was Benjamin who first probed the relationship between the porous landscape and the local culture. But Adorno went further, transforming his surroundings into a radical new philosophy—one that became a turning point in the modern history of the discipline. In this ingenious book, Martin Mittelmeier reveals the Gulf of Naples as the true birthplace of the Frankfurt School. From the majestic crater rim of Mount Vesuvius to the soft volcanic rock that Neapolitans used to build their city, Mittelmeier follows Adorno’s and his fellow thinkers’ footsteps through the cities along the gulf, demonstrating how their observations and encounters surface again and again in their writings for decades to come, and serve as the structuring principle of Critical Theory.

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Download or read book Naples in 1 day written by Fiorenzo Foglia and published by Fiorenzo Foglia. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pope is in Rome, God is in Naples. Jean Cocteau Naples is a city both royal and ragged, enchanting, capable of offering experiences like no other city. But part of its charm is its unpredictability. Did you know that in Naples there are three separate companies managing public transportation - and a ticket purchased for one is not valid for the others? That the Maschio Angioino, the main castle of the city, can only be visited with online reservations? That to admire the Veiled Christ in the Sansevero Chapel you need to book weeks in advance? This guide is designed for those who don't have much time to plan their visit to Naples and for those with only one day to enjoy its beauties. Inside the guide, you will find: - Historical insights about the city - An overview of Neapolitan cuisine - Maps and photos of 33 points of interest, selected to be reachable in a single day - Opening hours, ticket costs, and recommended visit duration for each point of interest - Three itineraries, from the simplest to the most challenging, plus a thematic itinerary - Where to eat, where to drink, which places to prefer - Tips for the visit given by locals The guide also contains QR codes with links to information and reservation sites, so you can book on the spot if you wish. This concise yet comprehensive guide is the perfect companion for a visit to a city that cannot leave anyone indifferent.

Download or read book Twin written by Zel Rau and published by Gold Feather Press, LLC.. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like." - Nikki Rowe The picturesque hills of Manarola, Italy, are where PAULINA leaves her childhood footprints. She seems a happy child but is steeped in the mystical side of existence. Though her presence in two different realities is a rare gift, in her mother's eyes, it's a curse. Paulina can see and speak to the spirit world; she has dreams of people long dead and of mysterious figures whose intentions she can't fathom. She feels alone and out of place during her younger years, but a sense of wholesome love in the distance is always in her awareness, preoccupying her heart. She yearns for the supernatural bond she feels in dreams about a couple who lived in her hometown in the 1960s, and she consumes most of her time daydreaming, searching for such a love. As she ages, she learns more about her dreams and the spirit world, but much still puzzles her as connections are unveiled. SAM, California-born with suntanned skin and blue eyes, is a kind soul with a powerful connection to unseen realities. He is a well-known race car driver, but he shuns the celebrity it carries. JIMMY, Atlanta-born and attractive with blue eyes and energy to spare, is a dirt-bike racer with a bad-boy persona. But deep within is an intense passion for newfound way of life waiting to be reawakened. The links between Paulina, Sam, and Jimmy grow more conspicuous as the story unfolds. Through the gradual approach of their fateful meetings, as well as a tragic, life-changing event, they must all confront the question of who they truly are to one another. The STORYTELLER will guide you on a unique journey of three individuals through the pages of Twin, but the story doesn't end there as Twin is only the origin of what's to come. Among books Flame and Souls-to follow-Twin Flame Souls series will open our hearts to the true love we all contain within ourselves and are tethered to. And so it begins . . .

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Download or read book The Missionary s Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village written by Henrietta Harrison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MissionaryÕs Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, only to find themselves in conflict with the orthodoxy of Franciscan missionaries arriving from Italy. The villageÕs long religious history, combined with the similarities between Chinese folk religion and Italian Catholicism, forces us to rethink the extreme violence committed in the area during the Boxer Uprising. The author also follows nineteenth century Chinese priests who campaigned against missionary control, up through the founding of the official church by the Communist Party in the 1950s. HarrisonÕs in-depth study provides a rare insight into villager experiences during the Socialist Education Movement and Cultural Revolution, as well as the growth of Christianity in China in recent years. She makes the compelling argument that Catholic practice in the village, rather than adopting Chinese forms in a gradual process of acculturation, has in fact become increasingly similar to those of Catholics in other parts of the world.