Florentia And The Pazzi Boy
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Florentia And The Pazzi Boy
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Author : Ralph Feliciello
language : en
Publisher: Knt
Release Date : 2023-03-12
Florentia And The Pazzi Boy written by Ralph Feliciello and has been published by Knt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-12 with categories.
Coming of Age in an Age of Corruption Friendship and love are all very well, but what is an orphan to do when offered the chance to live pampered in a palazzo in the heart of Florence? A romantic historical fantasy in which three high-spirited friends, art lover Placido, gravedigger Renato, and fiery-haired Florentia, coming of age at the height of the Renaissance, struggle together, and sometimes at odds, to stay true to their best selves in a world of breathtaking beauty, ruthless violence, and heart-wrenching betrayal. In 1478, during Easter Mass in the cathedral of Florence, assassins cut down Giuliano de' Medici, while, in the servants' quarters of Palazzo Pazzi a kitchen maid gives birth to the natural child of the chief conspirator. Lorenzo de' Medici vows that "Jacopo Pazzi's little bastard" must die to avenge his father's crime. The infant, secreted out of Florence, grows to young manhood on a remote Tuscan island, unaware of his birth in a palazzo or that the Pazzi clan, coming to claim their long-lost heir, must outrace Medici vengeance bent on seeing the boy does not survive his eighteenth year. One of two childhood friends, Renato or Placido, will soon either be welcomed as the heir to a great fortune or face the Medici-hired killer knight believed to have filled more coffins than the plague. But which is the Pazzi boy? The stolen baptismal record found behind a painting of the Madonna and Child leads to a new mystery-the unspeakable secret buried in an unmarked grave. Meanwhile, Renato and beautiful but distant Florentia of the two gemlike eyes, one blue, one green, struggle to liberate themselves from the Machiavellian priest who schemes without mercy to keep them forever apart. Possible escape comes with the discovery beneath the charnel house of an ancient temple to the goddess Venus who promises her aid-if the young lovers pass the most heartbreaking test of all. "Phantasmagoric, and startlingly original, opens up a luminous Renaissance past, in a feverish tale of Medici Italy. Highly recommended for several reads - then to be shared with a friend." Jason Rosette, Camerado Media "Fellini-esque...a chiseled, dense, dreamy and poetic work that drops you into an entertaining, historical world only dimly resembling our own." Lantz Miller, City Limit and Beholt the Man From Readers: "Reads like a movie, with love, action, suspense, and humor. Ten pages in you'll begin to taste the popcorn." "A magical story fascinating to read, positively incantatory. This beautiful novella shimmers like a mirage. Masterful." "A riveting story of young love amidst corruption, disloyalty, and greed. In Florentia, the author has created a strong woman. A great read." "Fascinating historical fantasy with complex characters. Lively and imaginative storytelling. Highly intelligent literary content bursting with color, surprising plot twists, and a love story ending - it's a fable after all." Brief Excerpt: All at once the black canopy of night filled with stars lighting the way for Florentia moving down the slope and into the sea-an undulating mirror of the overhanging stars now floating on the water. The Moon descended to Florentia as if their meeting had been planned. As she waded forward, the bobbing stars rose around her, until she presented herself beneath the Moon wearing a mantle of watery, shape-changing stars. A mysterious communication passed between them. Then Florentia waded toward shore, the starry mantle slipping from her shoulders. The Moon ascended. A sudden wind blew out the stars. Florentia hurried up the slope where Renato saw she was trembling and heard her tears as she passed, to darken to a silhouette, that became a distant shadow, lost in the blackness all around.
Singing To The Lyre In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Blake Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-21
Singing To The Lyre In Renaissance Italy written by Blake Wilson 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 2019-11-21 with History categories.
The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.
Engaging Symbols
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Author : Adrian W. B. Randolph
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Engaging Symbols written by Adrian W. B. Randolph and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Art categories.
Randolph shows how "engaging" political symbols were grounded in a revolutionary way in amorous discourses that drew on metaphors of affection, desire, courtship, betrothal, marriage, homo- and hetero-eroticism, and procreation."--BOOK JACKET.
The Flowering Of Florence
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Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Flowering Of Florence written by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, of sixty-eight works of art, primarily from Florentine collections, The Flowering of Florence explores the close ties between art and the natural sciences in Tuscany as seen in the botanical renderings created in Florence for the Medici grand dukes from the late 1500s through the early 1700s. The catalog comprises an essay and checklist with reproductions of the exquisite works in the show. Examples include Jacopo Ligozzi's plant drawings in tempera on paper from the Uffizi Gallery, Giovanna Garzoni's fruit and flower paintings on vellum, and Bartolomeo Bimbi's later and much larger still-life paintings.
The Athenaeum
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
The Athenaeum written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with categories.
The Athen Um
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
The Athen Um written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with categories.
The Florentine Histories
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Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
The Florentine Histories written by Niccolò Machiavelli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845 with Florence (History) categories.
The Renewal Of Pagan Antiquity
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Author : Aby Warburg
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1999
The Renewal Of Pagan Antiquity written by Aby Warburg and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art, Renaissance categories.
A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
History Of Florence And Of The Affairs Of Italy
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Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2006-01-01
History Of Florence And Of The Affairs Of Italy written by Niccolo Machiavelli and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
Niccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence, May 3, 1469. He was of an old though not wealthy Tuscan family, his father, who was a jurist, dying when Niccolo was sixteen years old. We know nothing of Machiavelli's youth and little about his studies. He does not seem to have received the usual humanistic education of his time, as he knew no Greek. The first notice of Machiavelli is in 1498 when we find him holding the office of Secretary in the second Chancery of the Signoria, which office he retained till the downfall of the Florentine Republic in 1512. His unusual ability was soon recognized, and in 1500 he was sent on a mission to Louis XII. of France, and afterward on an embassy to Cæsar Borgia, the lord of Romagna, at Urbino. Machiavelli's report and description of this and subsequent embassies to this prince, shows his undisguised admiration for the courage and cunning of Cæsar, who was a master in the application of the principles afterwards exposed in such a skillful and uncompromising manner by Machiavelli in his Prince. The limits of this introduction will not permit us to follow with any detail the many important duties with which he was charged by his native state, all of which he fulfilled with the utmost fidelity and with consummate skill. When, after the battle of Ravenna in 1512 the holy league determined upon the downfall of Pier Soderini, Gonfaloniere of the Florentine Republic, and the restoration of the Medici, the efforts of Machiavelli, who was an ardent republican, were in vain; the troops he had helped to organize fled before the Spaniards and the Medici were returned to power. Machiavelli attempted to conciliate his new masters, but he was deprived of his office, and being accused in the following year of participation in the conspiracy of Boccoli and Capponi, he was imprisoned and tortured, though afterward set at liberty by Pope Leo X. He now retired to a small estate near San Casciano, seven miles from Florence. Here he devoted himself to political and historical studies, and though apparently retired from public life, his letters show the deep and passionate interest he took in the political vicissitudes through which Italy was then passing, and in all of which the singleness of purpose with which he continued to advance his native Florence, is clearly manifested. It was during his retirement upon his little estate at San Casciano that Machiavelli wrote The Prince, the most famous of all his writings, and here also he had begun a much more extensive work, his Discourses on the Decades of Livy, which continued to occupy him for several years. These Discourses, which do not form a continuous commentary on Livy, give Machiavelli an opportunity to express his own views on the government of the state, a task for which his long and varied political experience, and an assiduous study of the ancients rendered him eminently qualified. The Discourses and The Prince, written at the same time, supplement each other and are really one work. Indeed, the treatise, The Art of War, though not written till 1520 should be mentioned here because of its intimate connection with these two treatises, it being, in fact, a further development of some of the thoughts expressed in the Discorsi. The Prince, a short work, divided into twenty-six books, is the best known of all Machiavelli's writings. Herein he expresses in his own masterly way his views on the founding of a new state, taking for his type and model Cæsar Borgia, although the latter had failed in his schemes for the consolidation of his power in the Romagna. The principles here laid down were the natural outgrowth of the confused political conditions of his time.
A Defence Of The Constitutions Of Government Of The United States Of America
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Author : John Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1797
A Defence Of The Constitutions Of Government Of The United States Of America written by John Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1797 with Constitutional history categories.