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The Golden Honeycomb
Author | : Vincent Cronin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Sicily (Italy) |
ISBN | : |
Louis XIV
Author | : Vincent Cronin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Louis XIV was the greatest of all French monarchs. Coming to the throne at the age of five, he ruled for 72 years and presided over the finest flourishing of French culture and one of its greatest periods of expansionist and military glory. This biography uses contemporary sources to examine the sort of monarch Louis XIV really was. The book provides an overview of the entire civilization inspired by and reflecting the glory of the Sun King and so, while the character of Louis himself remains in the foreground, artists like Racine, Moliere, Lully and Mansart (the architect of Versailles) share the middle-ground with politicians such as Cardinal Mazarin and courtiers such as the King’s mistress, Louise de la Valliere. Vincent Cronin’s gracefully written biography of Le Roi Soleil, founded on Cronin’s deep knowledge of this period of French history, provides an illuminating portrait of the king and his court.
The Golden Honeycomb
Author | : Vincent Cronin |
Publisher | : Harvill Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Sicily (Italy) |
ISBN | : 9780002721721 |
The Golden Honeycomb - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author | : Vincent Cronin |
Publisher | : Scholar's Choice |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-02-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781298027979 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Wise Man Of The West
Author | : Vincent Cronin |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1446484890 |
Matteo Ricci, an early recruit of the Jesuit order, was sent to China as a missionary in 1582. If he approached the Emperor with a Bible in one hand, in the other he carried much of the accumulated technological and philosophical wisdom of the late Renaissance Europe, and thus found favour among the Mandarins, the men of learning who enjoyed high status at the Imperial Court. He learned Chinese the better to discuss with them the problems in science and technology, as also questions of religion and the hereafter. But his progress was not unopposed, for the Wise Man from the West came to be seen as an unsettling element in a too-settled society. Ricci died in 1610, disappointed in his ambition to convert the Emperor, and with him the whole of China, to Christianity. But the seed was sown and the crop, even after almost a century of atheistic communism, continues to grow in present-day China. This story of the first fully documented contact between West and East offers a fascinating insight into the history of ideas during one of the most fertile eras in European and Chinese history. Vincent Cronin has built up a reputation with his scholarly, elegantly written works of history and biography, as one of the finest popular historians of his generation. This early book proves his gift as an acutely observant and sensitive historian.
BECOMING AND BEING
Author | : John O'Loughlin |
Publisher | : Centretruths Digital Media |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2022-03-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1446651495 |
This project is quite unusual in that it combines, in separate parts, autobiographical writings with biographical sketches of some of the writers who have influenced John O'Loughlin most, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, and Lawrence Durrell. At the end, Mr O'Loughlin has appended a list of books borrowed from his local library during a twelve-year period coinciding, in part, with the composition of this text, so that one can compare his reading material - and what he thought of it - with the original material of this project as a guide to how becoming eventually turned, for him, into being.
Sweetness and Light
Author | : Hattie Ellis |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-04-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0307547868 |
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali both consumed bee pollen to boost energy, or that beekeepers in nineteenth-century Europe viewed their bees as part of the family? Or that after man, the honeybee, Apis mellifera, is the most studied creature on the planet? And that throughout history, honey has been highly valued by the ancient Egyptians (the first known beekeepers), the Greeks, and European monarchs, as well as Winnie the Pooh? In Sweetness and Light, Hattie Ellis leads us into the hive, revealing the fascinating story of bees and honey from the Stone Age to the present, from Nepalese honey hunters to urban hives on the rooftops of New York City. Uncovering the secrets of the honeybee one by one, Ellis shows how this small insect, with a collective significance so much greater than its individual size, can carry us through past and present to tell us more about ourselves than any other living creature.
Italy
Author | : Ros Belford |
Publisher | : Rough Guides |
Total Pages | : 1246 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Italy |
ISBN | : 9781843530602 |
From Mantua's Pallazo Ducale to the precipitous coves of the Tyrrhenian coast, this book guides the independent-minded traveler through one of the most adored countries in the world. of color photos. 82 maps.
The Florentine Renaissance
Author | : Vincent Cronin |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144646654X |
Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. Its legacy is apparent today in every aspect of human endeavour. Our art and science, our learning and literature, our Christianity and our civic liberties, even our conception of what constitutes a gentleman, have all been shaped by Florentine thought and deed. In this brilliant and absorbing book Vincent Cronin brings vividly to life the people and myriad achievements of this astonishingly fruitful epoch in human history.