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Book Synopsis Description des pompes à incendie que fait construire le sieur Villette, professeur de mathématiques à Bordeaux by :
Download or read book Description des pompes à incendie que fait construire le sieur Villette, professeur de mathématiques à Bordeaux written by . This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony L. Cardoza
Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A History of Turin by : Anthony L. Cardoza
Download or read book A History of Turin written by Anthony L. Cardoza. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarissa Campbell Orr
Release : 2004-08-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Queenship in Europe 1660-1815 by : Clarissa Campbell Orr
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Author : Philip Mansel
Release : 2005
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Prince of Europe by : Philip Mansel
Download or read book Prince of Europe written by Philip Mansel. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.
Author : Sam Abel
Release : 2019-06-26
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Opera In The Flesh by : Sam Abel
Download or read book Opera In The Flesh written by Sam Abel. This book was released on 2019-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verdi, Wagner, polymorphous perversion, Puccini, Brunnhilde, Pinkerton, and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this delightful, poetic, insightful, sexual book sprung by one man's physical response to the power and exaggeration we call opera. Sam Abel applies a light touch as he considers the topic of opera and the eroticized body: Why do audiences respond to opera in a visceral way? How does opera, like no other art form, physically move watchers? How and why does opera arouse feelings akin to sexual desire? Abel seeks the answers to these questions by examining homoerotic desire, the phenomenon of the castrati, operatic cross-dressing, and opera as presented through the media. In this deeply personal book, Abel writes, ‘These pages map my current struggles to pin down my passion for opera, my intense admiration for its aesthetic forms and beauties, but much more they express my astonishment at how opera makes me lose myself, how it consumes me.’ In so doing, Abel uncovers what until now, through dry musicology and gossipy history, has been left behind a wall of silence: the physical and erotic nature of opera. Although Abel can speak with certainty only about his own response to opera, he provides readers with a language and a resonance with which to understand their own experiences. Ultimately, Opera in the Flesh celebrates the power of opera to move audiences as no other book has done. It is indeed a treasure of scholarship, passion, and poetry for everyone with even a passing interest in this fascinating art form.
