Baldassare Castiglione ist der Autor des 1528 in Venedig erstmals publizierten Buches "Il Libro del Cortegiano", welches auch heute noch als eines der wichtigsten Zeugnisse des Lebens bei Hofe zur Zeit der italienischen Renaissance angesehen wird.
In den Wäldern des Nordens Jack London - Jack London hat für den Band »In den Wäldern des Nordens« zehn Erzählungen zusammengestellt, die von den ersten Zusammentreffen der Ureinwohner Alaskas mit weißen Siedlern, Abenteurern und Forschern berichten.
'What a wonderful storyteller Maitland is' THE TIMESDANIEL PURSGLOVE BOOK THREEFrom the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove's new mission sees him fall prey to a ruthless copycat killer.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' GuardianAnne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second captivating novel in the Six Tudor Queens series.
'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here'GUARDIAN'A fast-moving train of a book'NEW YORK TIMES'Gripping'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Funny, startling .
The Borgias Alexandre Dumas - The Borgias There are dreadful -- perhaps scurrilous -- rumors about the Borgias of renaissance Italy, and here Dumas, author of such classics as THE THREE MUSKETEERS, in his Celebrated Crimes series, dishes up the dirt in all its ugly glory.
«España mi natura, Italia mi ventura, Flandes mi sepultura», rezan unos versillos anónimos populares entre la soldadesca española de los tercios que combatía por su rey en las cuatro esquinas de Europa.
Ricarda Huchs "Die Romantik", 1899 und 1902 in zwei Bänden erschienen, hier vorliegend in einer Gesamtausgabe gehört zu den anregendsten und interessantesten literarhistorischen Schriften des frühen 20.
Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, of England, only five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, the work is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in England during the ongoing period of religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants.
The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes, they chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper-middle-class British family, similar to Galsworthy's own.
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie A masterpiece Extraordinary Daily Telegraph A story of hatred defeated by love Guardian On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black black clothes, black mask rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife.
"Más que en cualquier otro período, la filosofía en el Renacimiento reclama un abordaje interdisciplinario, cosa que se ha tenido en cuenta al acercarnos a sus autores.
Dieses eBook: "Der Bildschnitzer von Würzburg (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
In 'Richard III' präsentiert William Shakespeare ein fesselndes historisches Drama, das die Geschichte des machthungrigen und skrupellosen Königs Richard III.
Jacob Burckhardts Werk 'Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien' ist ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung, das die Blütezeit der Renaissance detailliert beleuchtet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Complete Collection: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise da la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Discorsi is a series of lessons on how a republic should be started and structured, including the concept of checks and balances, the strength of a tripartite structure, and the superiority of a republic over a principality.
The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when Cellini was approximately 63 years old.
*A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of The Lost Tudor Princess, is the first in a spellbinding six novel series about Henry VIII's Queens.
Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes.
In the year 476 an unfortunate young man, mocked with the great names of the founders of the City and of the Empire, Romulus Augustus, nicknamed Augustulus, was deposed from the throne of the Caesars by a Barbarian general in the Imperial service, and the Roman Empire in Italy came to its end.
Dieses eBook: "Das Amulett (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.