Diary Of Giovanni Vener
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Diary Of Giovanni Vener
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Author : Michael Pedretti
language : en
Publisher: Story of Our Stories
Release Date : 2020-07-27
Diary Of Giovanni Vener written by Michael Pedretti and has been published by Story of Our Stories this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It's 1899. John Venner, born Giovanni Vener, has just been committed to the Vernon County Insane Asylum. When one of the nurses hands him a pen and a pad, his suppressed need to write surfaces and he scribbles about his experience the night before. By the third day he is making diary entries addressed to Maddie, the love of his life who had died just a few months earlier. John looks back at a life that was good to him, but one that never allowed him the leisure time to create, to fulfill his desire to put in writing his insights and thoughts. But now all responsibility had been taken away and he can reflect on his life - his life as a budding artist, immigrant, farmer, husband and father, and community leader.John tells us of his journey to America, his struggles to obtain and maintain his farms, re-experiencing his past, and talking sweet thoughts to Maddie, his wife. He tells Maddie (and us) why he emigrated from Campodolcino in northern Italy to Bad Ax, Wisconsin. He relives with her many moments from their courtship and their struggles to eke a living out of the bluffs and coulees in Genoa, a small Wisconsin town located on the banks of the Mississippi river. Many entries are bold and naked love songs to Maddie. He also tells her of his days struggling with reality since her death.Giovanni is left an original copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and develops a love hate relationship with Whitman and his poems. Homer appears in a dream and challenges him to write the great modern epic that will straighten out the errors that he, Virgil, Milton and Dante made. They celebrated war & quest, chauvinism, evil & despair, and fear. Homer challenges John to set it right - to tell the story of family, gentleness, creativity, charity, and peace. John believes he is too old for that, so he concentrates on making diary entries that depict his life with Maddie as fruitful immigrants each day making life a little better for themselves, their neighbors and the world. By reading his diary entries, we find out how and why he emigrated from the area know as "fields of sweetness" in Valle Spluga to the rolling hills of western Wisconsin that proved a challenge every day to farm. The book includes a history of John's town, "Genoa, A Spray Drift of Empathy Part II" that tells the story of Genoa, Wisconsin, from the early part of the twentieth century until today. The story focuses mainly on the mid-twentieth century and expansively discusses what daily life was like for a resident in 1951. As seen through the eyes of a child, the life of a citizen of Genoa was filled with hard work, church, family, and close-knit community. [Genoa, Part I is in volume 1 of this series]Included is an essay, "Thwarting the Deadly Trinity - The Sword, the Famine, and the Pestilence," that investigates the possibility of ridding the world of war. The author defines the three main plagues upon the human race to be war, starvation, and pestilence. The author puts forth a theory of the basis for waging war, and then concludes with ideas of how the future of the world will benefit from the end of wars. The first part of the manuscript has personifications of death, starvation, war, and pestilence speaking to each other as they explain their continued existence. The manuscript then moves to feature individuals representing different ideas and viewpoints such as a historian, a politician, a farmer, etc. gathered around a table to discuss the existence and eradication of these plagues. The reader is invited to "listen in" to their discussion in 1870, and then that group joins current day counterparts to continue the discussion. The author also includes the genealogical story of John's Maddie, Mary Madeline Starlochi - tracing the actual ancestral history of our heroine back eleven generations to Guglielmo Chiaverini was born in 1566.
Titian Remade
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Author : Maria H. Loh
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2007
Titian Remade written by Maria H. Loh and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Imitation in art categories.
This insightful volumes the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters - the canonised master Titian and his artistic heir, the little-known Padovanino.
Christian Muslim Relations A Bibliographical History Volume 10 Ottoman And Safavid Empires 1600 1700
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-10-23
Christian Muslim Relations A Bibliographical History Volume 10 Ottoman And Safavid Empires 1600 1700 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-23 with Religion categories.
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 10 (CMR 10) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in the Ottoman and Safavid empires. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details about individual works.
A People S History Of The World
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Author : Chris Harman
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2017-05-02
A People S History Of The World written by Chris Harman and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with History categories.
Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes. An “indispensable volume” on class and capitalism throughout the ages—for readers reckoning with the history they were taught and history as it truly was (Howard Zinn) From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the human race. Eschewing the standard accounts of “Great Men,” of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep across the centuries in the tradition of “history from below.” In a fiery narrative, he shows how ordinary men and women were involved in creating and changing society and how conflict between classes was often at the core of these developments. While many scholars see the victory of capitalism as now safely secured, Harman explains the rise and fall of societies and civilizations throughout the ages and demonstrates that history moves ever onward in every age. A vital corrective to traditional history, A People's History of the World is essential reading for anyone interested in how society has changed and developed and the possibilities for further radical progress.
The Origins Of The Slavic Nations
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Author : Serhii Plokhy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-19
The Origins Of The Slavic Nations written by Serhii Plokhy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-19 with History categories.
This 2006 book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures. It traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on pre-modern forms of group identity among the Eastern Slavs. It also challenges attempts to 'nationalize' the Rus' past on behalf of existing national projects, laying the groundwork for understanding of the pre-modern history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The book covers the period from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' in the tenth century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century successors, by which time the idea of nationalism had begun to influence the thinking of East Slavic elites.
Witnesses To History
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Author : Lyndel V. Prott
language : en
Publisher: UNESCO
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Witnesses To History written by Lyndel V. Prott and has been published by UNESCO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This Compendium gives an outline of the historical, philosophical and ethical aspects of the return of cultural objects (e.g. cultural objects displaced during war or in colonial contexts), cites past and present cases (Maya Temple Facade, Nigerian Bronzes, United States of America v. Schultz, Parthenon Marbles and many more) and analyses legal issues (bona fide, relevant UNESCO and UNIDROIT Conventions, Supreme Court Decisions, procedure for requests etc.). It is a landmark publication that bears testament to the ways in which peoples have lost their entire cultural heritage and analyses the issue of its return and restitution by providing a wide range of perspectives on this subject. Essential reading for students, specialists, scholars and decision-makers as well as those interested in these topics.
To Make Beautiful The Capitol
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Author : Diane K. Skvarla
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
To Make Beautiful The Capitol written by Diane K. Skvarla and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art categories.
Detailed history of renowned Italian-born artist Constantino Brumidi's masterful work "making beautiful" the walls and ceilings of the United States Capitol over a span of 25 years starting in 1854. Every page delights with gorgeous, full-color photographs and images of Brumidi's art, from photographs of the frescoes and decoration, to sketches, paintings and images of the artist, particularly the Brumidi Corridors and his "monumental fresco" in the Capitol Rotunda, called The Apotheosis of Washington. Fascinating anecdotes are included throughout of the artist and the inspirations he received for various elements, his relationship with engineer Montgomery C. Meigs, and the conservation efforts to preserve his work accurately for posterity.
The Voynich Manuscript
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Author : M. E. D'Imperio
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Voynich Manuscript written by M. E. D'Imperio and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Ciphers categories.
In spite of all the papers that others have written about the manuscript, there is no complete survey of all the approaches, ideas, background information and analytic studies that have accumulated over the nearly fifty-five years since the manuscript was discovered by Wilfrid M. Voynich in 1912. This report pulls together all the information the author could obtain from all the sources she has examined, and to present it in an orderly fashion. The resulting survey will provide a firm basis upon which other students may build their work, whether they seek to decipher the text or simply to learn more about the problem.
Shakespeare And Genre
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Author : A. Guneratne
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-01-02
Shakespeare And Genre written by A. Guneratne and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just as importantly, read genre through Shakespeare.
A Vietnamese Moses
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Author : George E. Dutton
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017
A Vietnamese Moses written by George E. Dutton and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Binh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled from Tonkin to the Portuguese court in Lisbon to persuade its ruler to appoint a bishop for his community of ex-Jesuits. Based on Binh’s surviving writings from his thirty-seven-year exile in Portugal, this book examines how the intersections of global and local Roman Catholic geographies shaped the lives of Vietnamese Christians in the early modern era. The book also argues that Binh’s mission to Portugal and his intense lobbying on behalf of his community reflected the agency of Vietnamese Catholics, who vigorously engaged with church politics in defense of their distinctive Portuguese-Catholic heritage. George E. Dutton demonstrates the ways in which Catholic beliefs, histories, and genealogies transformed how Vietnamese thought about themselves and their place in the world. This sophisticated exploration of Vietnamese engagement with both the Catholic Church and Napoleonic Europe provides a unique perspective on the complex history of early Vietnamese Christianity.