Francesco S Mediterranean Voyage

Author : Francesco Da Mosto
Publisher : Random House
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : 9781846073403

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Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage by Francesco Da Mosto Pdf

Venetian architect and historian Francesco da Mosto sets out from Venice to cross the Mediterranean - following in the wake of his ancestor, the explorer Alvise da Mosto - to discover the cities and islands where Western civilization was born. Sailing in a late nineteenth-century yawl, his journey starts in Venice and finishes in Istanbul. Along the way he takes in spectacular ruins, like the Acropolis in Athens and the Lycian Tombs in Turkey; sacred sites like the monasteries of Mount Athos and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul; and beautiful Dubrovnik (destroyed and rebuilt in the last decade). Ancient history and bygone legends intertwine as Francesco visits these wonderful ancient sites, bringing the past vividly to life, and taking readers on a thrilling cultural odyssey. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book will be a must for fans of Francesco everywhere.

Author : Francesco Da Mosto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : OCLC:1391528729

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Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage by Francesco Da Mosto Pdf

"Francesco da Mosto - Venetian architect, historian and TV presenter - journeys from Venice to Istanbul, to the cities and islands where Western civilisation was born. Following in the wake of his ancestor, the explorer Alvise da Mosto, Francesco da Mosto sets out in a late 19th century schooner across the Atlantic, Ionian and Aegean Seas to visit spectacular ruins and sacred sites of the ancient world"--Container.

Author : Francesco Da Mosto
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781448146383

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Francesco's Kitchen by Francesco Da Mosto Pdf

Francesco da Mosto follows his bestselling books on Venice and Italy with his personal quest for the authentic flavours and food of Venice. In this superbly illustrated book Francesco invites us into his family's kitchen in his 16th-century Palazzo in the heart of the city where he acts as the perfect guide to the unique culinary character of traditional Venetian cooking. Francesco shows us how to prepare 150 classic Venetian recipes ranging from Antipasti, sauces, soups and fish, to meats, pasta and puddings. He demonstrates how Venetian food is a fabulous fusion of ingredients brought together over centuries as merchants and traders travelled the Mediterranean. The ancient broeto (stock) and mollusc soups testify to this, as does the richness and variety of dishes based on fish, roasts, grills, tasty deep fried delicacies and sauces. Each chapter is introduced with the history and origins of the recipes and throughout there are personal reminiscences by Francesco of his first encounters with his favourite dishes. As Francesco is keen to tell, his passion for cooking authentic Venetian food comes from home: 'When I start talking about cooking, it is impossible to forget my father, his love and imagination for all things culinary. He has never feared unusual combinations of ingredients and seasonings, and I have always been a willing guinea pig.'

Author : Renard Gluzman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004398177

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Venetian Shipping from the Days of Glory to Decline, 1453–1571 by Renard Gluzman Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive picture of Venice’s shipping industry from the days of glory to its definitive decline, challenging the accepted hierarchy of the political, economic, and environmental factors impacting the history of the maritime republic.

Author : Ian Anderson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780884714

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Knight by Ian Anderson Pdf

Ian Anderson is a mature and beautiful new voice on the literary scene. Knight is breathtaking in its scope, exquisite in its tenderness, and uplifting in its refusal to succumb to the despair which fate sometimes prepares for us. It is a story of love and valour; a story of one man’s refusal to capitulate, when all the world seemed to conspire against him. Set in the early fifteenth century, in the last days of the Age of Chivalry, this is the story of a king’s champion, who, robbed of the love and beauty of the woman who had made his life complete, and stripped of all he had worked for and achieved, still, somehow, found the will and the strength to pick himself up, and move forward again, and, in the process, carry a king to victory on the battlefields of France.This gripping work of historical fiction, weaving together strands of romance, tragedy and drama, reflects the real pain and suffering associated with loss. It exemplifies the ongoing struggle of the grieving process; between the need to retreat into the memories of the world which has been lost, and the need to find a way to move forward again. It is ultimately a book of hope, written by an author who has made the journey.

Author : Christine Parnell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445631783

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Truro Through Time by Christine Parnell Pdf

This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Truro has changed and developed over the last century.

Author : Galileo
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780375757662

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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Pdf

Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.

Author : Gioacchino Tomasi Lampedusa
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1846881374

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Letters from London and Europe by Gioacchino Tomasi Lampedusa Pdf

The Leopard, published posthumously in 1958, was one of the most important works of fiction to appear in the Italian language in the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1930, its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, wrote a number of letters to his cousins Casimiro and Lucio Piccolo in which he describes his travels around Europe (London, Paris, Zurich, Berlin). The letters, here published in English for the first time, display much of Lampedusa's distinctive style present in his later work: not only the razor-sharp introspection, but also a wicked sense of humour, playful in its description of the comédie humaine.

Author : Francesco Scalfari,Catarina Casanova,Cecilia Veracini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 882552188X

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History of Primatology Yesterday and Today. The Western-Mediterranean Tradition by Francesco Scalfari,Catarina Casanova,Cecilia Veracini Pdf

Author : Francesco Da Mosto
Publisher : Random House
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780563493631

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Francesco's Venice by Francesco Da Mosto Pdf

Looks at the history of Venice, from the fifth century to the present day.

Author : Francesco Da Mosto
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Italy
ISBN : 9780563493488

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Francesco's Italy by Francesco Da Mosto Pdf

Following the success of Francesco's Venice, Francesco da Mosto ventures further afield, this time taking in all of Italy. As he visits the spectacular lakes and fashionable cities of the north and passes through the hills of Tuscany before heading south towards Rome, Naples, and Palermo, he celebrates the country's art and culture--its cathedrals, churches, palaces, opera houses, paintings, sculpture, music, and cuisine. Introducing us to many of the figures who populate the country's rich and vibrant history, his journey also takes in Italian society as it is today. Splendidly illustrated with John Parker's breathtaking color photos and enlivened with marvelous anecdotes about his family and the fascinating characters he meets along the way, Francesco's Italy is the story of both the country we all know and love and the secret Italy only an insider can reveal.

Author : Girolamo Benzoni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048552033

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History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni Pdf

Author : Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802093707

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The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522 by Antonio Pigafetta Pdf

The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.

Author : Ross Laidlaw
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857900708

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Justinian by Ross Laidlaw Pdf

Against a tumultuous backdrop of earthquakes, plague and civil unrest Emperor Justinian I is determined to take back the lost Western Roman Empire from the Vandals and the Goths. At any cost. Born an illiterate peasant's son, he rose to become the most powerful man in the world. And behind this great man was a great woman – Theodora. An actress and courtesan, she rose to be Justinian's equal in love, power and politics. Justinian, heartbroken after her early death, would become for ever known as The Sleepless One.

Author : George Makepeace Towle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Explorers
ISBN : UOM:39015082535165

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The Voyages and Adventures of Vasco Da Gama by George Makepeace Towle Pdf