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The Serpent Coiled in Naples

Author : Marius Kociejowski
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909961809
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Serpent Coiled in Naples written by Marius Kociejowski and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travelogue revealing the hidden stories of Naples. In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new destination in Italy. While many of its more unusual features are on display for all to see, the stories behind them remain largely hidden. In Marius Kociejowski’s portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things: Vesuvius, the mafia-like Camorra, the outlying Phlegrean Fields (which, geologically speaking, constitute the second most dangerous area on the planet). It is all these things that have, at one time or another, put paid to the higher aspirations of Neapolitans themselves. Naples is simultaneously the city of light, sometimes blindingly so, and the city of darkness, although often the stuff of cliché. The boundary that separates death from life is porous in the extreme: the dead inhabit the world of the living and vice versa. The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides.

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Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Marius Kociejowski's The Serpent Coiled in Naples written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-10T22:59:00Z with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Martorelli’s book is a 738-page treatise on a bronze octagonal inkpot that was subsequently housed in the museum at Portici. It is the only proof of its former existence. The book is still available for inspection and purchase. #2 Martorelli’s book was a 738-page treatise on a bronze octagonal inkpot that was subsequently housed in the museum at Portici. It was the only proof of its former existence. The book is still available for inspection and purchase. #3 Martorelli’s theory that Homer lived in Naples and founded the university there was not well received, and he lost his reputation. He began to believe that much of what we take to be Greek culture was in fact exported from ancient Italy to Greece. #4 Jacopo Martorelli was a Neapolitan philosopher who wrote a 738-page treatise on a bronze octagonal inkpot that was subsequently housed in the museum at Portici. He believed that much of what we consider Greek culture was actually imported from ancient Italy to Greece.

The Pigeon Wars of Damascus

Author : Marius Kociejowski
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1926845226
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Pigeon Wars of Damascus written by Marius Kociejowski and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marius Kociejowski follows up his now classic The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool with The Pigeon Wars of Damascus. A metaphysical journalist in search of echoes rather than analogies, hints as opposed to verities, Kociejowski discovers once again at the periphery of Damascene society—for the outcast is often made of the very thing that rejects him—a way to understand the challenges and changes refashioning post-9/11 Syria and the Middle East, reminding us once again of the deeper purpose of travel: to absorb and understand the spirit of a place, and to return changed.

In the Shadow of Vesuvius

Author : Jordan Lancaster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857713531
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Vesuvius written by Jordan Lancaster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath the surface of Naples. Naples is an Italian city like no other. Drama and darkness are often associated with the city, which rests beneath active Mount Vesuvius and is the home of the Camorra - its version of the mafia. But beyond this, Naples reveals itself to be one of the most historically and culturally vibrant cities in Europe. From its origins in Homer's Odyssey and its founding nearly 3,000 years ago, Naples has long attracted travellers, artists and foreign rulers - from the visitors of The Grand Tour to Goethe, Nelson, Dickens and Neruda. The stunning beauty of its natural setting coupled with the charms of its colourful past and lively present - from the ruins of Pompeii to the glittering performances of the San Carlo opera house - continue to seduce all those who explore Naples today. In the Shadow of Vesuvius is a sparkling portrait of the city - the definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath its surface.

The Dark Heart of Italy

Author : Tobias Jones
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 1466804513
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Heart of Italy written by Tobias Jones and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Jones writes not just about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but also about the much livelier and stranger sides of the Bel Paese: the language, soccer, Catholicism, cinema, television, and terrorism. Why, he wonders, does the parliament need a "slaughter commission"? Why do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge him to go home as soon as possible, saying that Italy is a "brothel"? Most of all, why does one man, Silvio Berlusconi--in the words of a famous song--appear to own everything from Padre Nostro (Our Father) to Cosa Nostra (the Mafia)? The Italy that emerges from Jones's travels is a country scarred by civil wars and "illustrious corpses"; a country that is proudly visual rather than verbal, based on aesthetics rather than ethics; a country where crime is hardly ever followed by punishment; a place of incredible illusionism, where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality and fact from fiction.

Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae

Author : Maryl B. Gensheimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190902612
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae written by Maryl B. Gensheimer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the Roman Empire, ubiquitous archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence attests to the significance of bathing for Romans' routines and relationships. Public baths were popularly viewed as necessities of daily life and important social venues. Given the importance of bathing to the Roman style of living, by endowing eight magnificent baths (the so-called imperial thermae) in the city of Rome between 25 BCE - 315 CE, imperial patrons greatly enhanced their popular and political stature. Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae presents a detailed analysis of the extensive decoration of the best preserved of these bathing complexes, the Baths of Caracalla (inaugurated 216 CE). Maryl B. Gensheimer takes an interdisciplinary approach to existing archaeological data, textual and visual sources, and anthropological theories in order to generate a new understanding of the visual experience of the Baths of Caracalla and show how the decoration played a critical role in advancing imperial agendas. This reassessment of one of the most ambitious and sophisticated examples of large-scale architectural patronage in Classical antiquity examines the specific mechanisms through which an imperial patron could use architectural decoration to emphasize his own unique sociopolitical position relative to the thousands of people who enjoyed his benefaction. The case studies addressed herein--ranging from architectural to freestanding sculpture and mosaic--demonstrate that sponsoring monumental baths was hardly an act of altruism. Rather, even while they provided recreation for elite and sub-altern Romans alike, such buildings were concerned primarily with dynastic legitimacy and imperial largess. Decorative programs articulated these themes by consistently drawing analogies between the subjects of the decoration and the emperor who had paid for it. The unified decorative program--and the messages of imperial power therein--adroitly honored the emperor and consolidated his reputation.

I Didn't Do It for You

Author : Michela Wrong
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061860662
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book I Didn't Do It for You written by Michela Wrong and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national psyche, the product of cynical foreign interventions. Fascist Italy wanted Eritrea as the springboard for a new, racially pure Roman empire; Britain sold off its industry for scrap; the United States needed a base for its state-of-the-art spy station; and the Soviet Union used it as a pawn in a proxy war. In I Didn't Do It for You, Michela Wrong reveals the breathtaking abuses this tiny nation has suffered and, with a sharp eye for detail and a taste for the incongruous, tells the story of colonialism itself and how international power politics can play havoc with a country's destiny.

A Factotum in the Book Trade

Author : Marius Kociejowski
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 177196457X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book A Factotum in the Book Trade written by Marius Kociejowski and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires. A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves—and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the village jumble sale he bought poetry volumes for their pebbled-leather covers alone, to his all-but-accidental entrance into the trade in London and the career it turned into, poet and travel writer Marius Kociejowski recounts his life among the buyers, sellers, customers, and literary nobility—the characters, fictional and not—who populate these places we all love. Cataloging their passions and pleasures, oddities and obsessions, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey through their lives, and a story of the serendipities and collisions of fate, the mundane happenings and indelible encounters, the friendships, feuds, losses, and elations that characterize the business of books—and, inevitably, make up an unforgettable life.

Sophie's World

Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804270
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Sophie's World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a mystery, but also a complete and entertaining history of philosophy.

Capri and No Longer Capri

Author : Raffaele La Capria
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 9781560255031
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Capri and No Longer Capri written by Raffaele La Capria and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raffaele La Capria creates a portrait of Capri that begins in the time of Ulysses and moves to our present complex and hectic reality, and composes an elegy for a Nature blasted by human negligence and error. Americans have now been visiting Capri for many years, and La Capria's book will offer much to newcomers to the island that they would not otherwise have at their disposal, for his slim volume is a guidebook of a special kind, something like a novel and a local Italian guide. Capri has had a long history as a place of retreat, of sensual license, and of unparalleled natural beauty. Without running through the usual list of sights, La Capria gives his reader the sensation of having peered beneath each stone, and of giving an appreciation of what such a place has done to others, some of whom, once under Capri's spell, gave their lives over to their dreams.

Leopardi

Author : Iris Origo
Publisher : London : H. Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Leopardi written by Iris Origo and published by London : H. Hamilton. This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John L. Stoddard's Lectures ...: Florence. Naples. Rome

Author : John Lawson Stoddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John L. Stoddard's Lectures ...: Florence. Naples. Rome written by John Lawson Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lion and the Rose

Author : Kate Quinn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101636246
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Lion and the Rose written by Kate Quinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Briar Club comes the continuing saga of the ruthless Borgia family that holds all of Rome in its grasp, and the three outsiders thrust into their twisted web of blood and deceit… As the cherished concubine of the Borgia Pope Alexander VI, Giulia Farnese has Rome at her feet. But after narrowly escaping a sinister captor, she realizes that the danger she faces is far from over—and now, it threatens from within. The Holy City of Rome is still under Alexander’s thrall, but enemies of the Borgias are starting to circle. In need of trusted allies, Giulia turns to her sharp-tongued bodyguard, Leonello, and her fiery cook and confidante, Carmelina. Caught in the deadly world of the Renaissance’s most notorious family, Giulia, Leonello, and Carmelina must decide if they will flee the dangerous dream of power. But as the shadows of murder and corruption rise through the Vatican, they must learn who to trust when every face wears a mask…

Troubled Water

Author : Jens Mühling
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909961779
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Troubled Water written by Jens Mühling and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there. Fringing the Black Sea is a diverse array of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Jens Mühling travels through this region, telling the stories of the people he meets along the way in order to paint a picture of the mix of cultures found here and to understand the present against a history stretching back to the arrival of Ancient Greek settlers and beyond. A fluent Russian speaker with a knack for gaining the trust of those he meets, Mühling brings together a cast of characters as diverse as the stories he hears, all of whom are willing to tell him their complex, contradictory, and often fantastical tales full of grief and legend. He meets descendants of the so-called Pontic Greeks, whom Stalin deported to Central Asia and who have now returned; Circassians who fled to Syria a century ago and whose great-great-grandchildren have returned to Abkhazia; and members of ethnic minorities like the Georgian Mingrelians or Bulgarian Muslims, expelled to Turkey in the summer of 1989. Mühling captures the region’s uneasy alliance of tradition and modernity and the diverse humanity of those who live there.

Excellent Essex

Author : Gillian Darley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910400678
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Excellent Essex written by Gillian Darley and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool

Author : Marius Kociejowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780600727
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool written by Marius Kociejowski and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on five journeys to Syria, with a cast of lively characters, this book is in danger of becoming a testament to the last of the Levant. With B AND W photos.

Les Parisiennes

Author : Anne Sebba
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781780226613
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Les Parisiennes written by Anne Sebba and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 June, 1940. German troops enter Paris and hoist the swastika over the Arc de Triomphe. The dark days of Occupation begin. How would you have survived? By collaborating with the Nazis, or risking the lives of you and your loved ones to resist? The women of Paris faced this dilemma every day - whether choosing between rations and the black market, or travelling on the Metro, where a German soldier had priority for a seat. Between the extremes of defiance and collusion was a vast moral grey area which all Parisiennes had to navigate in order to survive. Anne Sebba has sought out and interviewed scores of women, and brings us their unforgettable testimonies. Her fascinating cast includes both native Parisiennes and temporary residents: American women and Nazi wives; spies, mothers, mistresses, artists, fashion designers and aristocrats. The result is an enthralling account of life during the Second World War and in the years of recovery and recrimination that followed the Liberation of Paris in 1944. It is a story of fear, deprivation and secrets - and, as ever in the French capital, glamour and determination.