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Pliny's Oyster

Author : Daisy Dunn
Publisher : William Collins
Release Date : 2020-08-20
ISBN 10 : 0008211124
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (8 downloads)

Download Pliny's Oyster PDF Format Full Free by Daisy Dunn and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Younger waited. His uncle did not come back. In a dazzling new literary biography, Daisy Dunn introduces Pliny the Younger, the survivor who became a Roman lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, curator of drains, and representative of the Emperor. He was confidant and friend to the great and good, an unparalleled chronicler of the Vesuvius catastrophe, and eyewitness to the terror of Emperor Domitian. The younger Pliny was adopted by his uncle, admiral of the fleet and author of the Natural History, an extraordinary compendium of knowledge and the world's first full-length encyclopaedia. The younger Pliny inherited his uncle's notebooks and carried their pearls of wisdom with him down the years. Daisy Dunn breathes vivid life back into the Plinys. Reading from the Natural History and the Younger Pliny's Letters, she resurrects the relationship between the two men to expose their beliefs on life, death and the natural world in the first century. Interweaving their work, and positioning the Plinys in relation to the devastating eruption, Dunn's biography is a celebration of two outstanding minds of the Roman Empire, and their lasting influence on the world thereafter.

IN THE SHADOW OF VESUVIUS.

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Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : OCLC:1075291565
Pages : 154 pages
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius (video).

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Release Date : 1986
ISBN 10 : OCLC:656131041
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius

Author : Jordan Lancaster
Publisher : Tauris Parke
Release Date : 2019-06-18
ISBN 10 : 1838600353
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (838 downloads)

Download In the Shadow of Vesuvius PDF Format Full Free by Jordan Lancaster and published by Tauris Parke. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To see Naples as we saw it, in the early dawn from far up on the side of Vesuvius, is to see a picture of wonderful beauty."--Mark Twain "One may write or paint as much as one likes, but this place, the shore, the bay, Vesuvius, the citadels, the villas, everything defies description."--Goethe This is the first general history of the city of Naples written in English. The city, which inspires love and hate alike, has long attracted visitors, enticed not only by its commercial possibilities but also by the stunning beauty of its natural setting and its many cultural delights. From the ruins of Pompeii to glittering performances at the San Carlo opera house, Naples has much to offer visitors, but it also has high crime and a controversial past and present. The city was ruled by the French, Spanish, Hungarians and Austrians before becoming part of unified Italy in 1860. The social and economic changes after Unification resulted in thousands of Neapolitans seeking a new life abroad. These emigrants took their customs, cuisine and music with them and stamped a Neapolitan impression on the international image of Italy forever. From the time of the Grand Tour, the city has attracted travelers, from Goethe to Mark Twain, all eager to experience its legendary and seductive charms. Jordan Lancaster's sparkling guide will serve as an ideal companion for visitors and as a valuable cultural resource for all those who seek to expand their knowledge of the city or proudly trace their roots to Naples.

The Shadow of Vesuvius

Author : Raleigh Trevelyan
Publisher :
Release Date : 1976
ISBN 10 : UVA:X002083889
Pages : 128 pages
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Apolline Project Vol. 1

Author : Ferdinando De Simone
Publisher : Girolamo F. De Simone
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 9788896055007
Pages : 379 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (55 downloads)

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March of the Pigments

Author : Mary Virginia Orna
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Release Date : 2022-05-23
ISBN 10 : 9781839163265
Pages : 478 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (163 downloads)

Download March of the Pigments PDF Format Full Free by Mary Virginia Orna and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a colorful walk through human ingenuity. Humans have been unpacking the earth to use pigments since cavemen times. Starting out from surface pigments for cave paintings, we’ve dug deep for minerals, mined oceans for colors and exploited the world of plants and animals. Our accidental fumbles have given birth to a whole family of brilliant blues that grace our museums, mansions and motorcars. We’ve turned waste materials into a whole rainbow of tints and hues to color our clothes, our food and ourselves. With the snip of a genetic scissor, we’ve harnessed bacteria to gift us with “greener” blue jeans and dazzling dashikis. As the pigments march on into the future, who knows what new and exciting inventions will emerge? Mary Virginia Orna, a world-recognized expert on color, will lead you through an illuminating journey exploring the science behind pigments. Pausing for reflections en route to share stories around pigment use and discoveries informed by history, religion, sociology and human endeavour, this book will have you absorbing science and regaling tales. Jam packed with nuggets of information, March of the Pigments will have the curiously minded and the expert scientist turning pages to discover more.

The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Author : Daisy Dunn
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2019-12-10
ISBN 10 : 9781631496400
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (496 downloads)

Download The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny PDF Format Full Free by Daisy Dunn and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.

In the Shadow of Vesuvius

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : OCLC:1333578933
Pages : 154 pages
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The Ancient Shore

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-07-31
ISBN 10 : 9780226111308
Pages : 144 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (111 downloads)

Download The Ancient Shore PDF Format Full Free by Shirley Hazzard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard’s writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. For the pair, both insatiable readers, the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden is constantly alive to them in the present. With Hazzard as our guide, we encounter Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and of course Goethe, but Hazzard’s concern is primarily with the Naples of our own time—often violently unforgiving to innocent tourists, but able to transport the visitor who attends patiently to its rhythms and history. A town shadowed by both the symbol and the reality of Vesuvius can never fail to acknowledge the essential precariousness of life—nor, as the lover of Naples discovers, the human compassion, generosity, and friendship that are necessary to sustain it. Beautifully illustrated by photographs from such masters as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert List, The Ancient Shore is a lyrical letter to a lifelong love: honest and clear-eyed, yet still fervently, endlessly enchanted. “Much larger than all its parts, this book does full justice to a place, and a time, where ‘nothing was pristine, except the light.’”—Bookforum “Deep in the spell of Italy, Hazzard parses the difference between visiting and living and working in a foreign country. She writes with enormous eloquence and passion of the beauty of getting lost in a place.”—Susan Slater Reynolds, Los Angeles Times “The two voices join in exquisite harmony. . . . A lovely book.”—Booklist, starred review

The Confessions of Young Nero

Author : Margaret George
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2017-03-07
ISBN 10 : 9780698184763
Pages : 528 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (184 downloads)

Download The Confessions of Young Nero PDF Format Full Free by Margaret George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling and legendary author of Helen of Troy and Elizabeth I now turns her gaze on Emperor Nero, one of the most notorious and misunderstood figures in history. Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar’s imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks to control it. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman—or child. As a boy, Nero’s royal heritage becomes a threat to his very life, first when the mad emperor Caligula tries to drown him, then when his great aunt attempts to secure her own son’s inheritance. Faced with shocking acts of treachery, young Nero is dealt a harsh lesson: it is better to be cruel than dead. While Nero idealizes the artistic and athletic principles of Greece, his very survival rests on his ability to navigate the sea of vipers that is Rome. The most lethal of all is his own mother, a cold-blooded woman whose singular goal is to control the empire. With cunning and poison, the obstacles fall one by one. But as Agrippina’s machinations earn her son a title he is both tempted and terrified to assume, Nero’s determination to escape her thrall will shape him into the man he was fated to become—an Emperor who became legendary. With impeccable research and captivating prose, The Confessions of Young Nero is the story of a boy’s ruthless ascension to the throne. Detailing his journey from innocent youth to infamous ruler, it is an epic tale of the lengths to which man will go in the ultimate quest for power and survival.

In the Shadow of Vesuvius

Author : Tasha Alexander
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2020-01-07
ISBN 10 : 9781250164759
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (164 downloads)

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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture

Author : Clemente Marconi
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Release Date : 2015
ISBN 10 : 9780199783304
Pages : 710 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (783 downloads)

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The shadow of Vesuvius

Author : Raleigh Trevelyan
Publisher :
Release Date : 1973
ISBN 10 : OCLC:987190291
Pages : pages
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The Shadow of Vesuvius

Author : Eilís Dillon
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Publishers
Release Date : 1977
ISBN 10 : 084076569X
Pages : 159 pages
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius

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Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : OCLC:433852100
Pages : 154 pages
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius

Author : Liz Carmichael
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2011-06-01
ISBN 10 : 1460939905
Pages : 214 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (46 downloads)

Download In the Shadow of Vesuvius PDF Format Full Free by Liz Carmichael and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Vesuvius has awakened. Mira, a fifteen-year-old slave, saw the coming burial of Herculaneum and the death of its people in a vision. To fulfil a vow, and save the life of the Roman child in her care, she must escape her stubborn owner, and the slave set to watch her. Mira must convince her guard to let her slip away, or to flee with her. If she cannot, all three will share the fate of the town when the volcano sends its fiery death raging down the mountain.