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Seguendo Mr. Apollo
Un magico e misterioso viaggio nella storia dei Beatles per giungere ad una verità inaspettata e svelare i segreti che si celano dietro il mito.
Donne
Un intreccio di amicizia, forza, dolore e desiderio, lotte quotidiane di donne che emergono anche dopo la guerra, unite e forti scoprendo risorse che non credevano di avere. Ogni vita riserva sorprese inaspettate, la vita si dimostra come sempre, la più grande maestra.
The Eagle and the Dragon
In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe. In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese based in Malacca dreamed of colonizing China. The Aztec Eagle was destroyed but the Chinese Dragon held strong and repelled the invaders - after first seizing their cannon. For the first time, people from three continents encountered one other, confronted one other and their lives became entangled. These events were of great interest to contemporaries and many...
Il viandante sul mare di stelle
Una bussola che punta verso l'Infinito, un percorso di una vita intera che porterà oltre la vita stessa, oltre sé stessi. Attraverso il racconto di un passato tempestoso, vissuto fra mare e terra, fra bisogno di evasione ed avventura e ricerca di stabilità e quiete, si intraprende un viaggio introspettivo che permetterà al veliero interiore di spiegare le sue vele, verso oceani fatti di stelle e nuvole. Amicizia, Amore, i sacri insegnamenti dei Maestri e degli Spiriti Guida, inquietanti rivelazioni ma anche incredibili scoperte, tutto ci darà la chiara consapevolezza di essere parte di un disegno cosmico di commovente armonia. Contemplando quel disegno cosmico, come spettatori o attori di una grande commedia, troveremo noi stessi, proprio lì, dove siamo sempre stati.
The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal
On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, King Sebastian rose again. In one of the most famous of European impostures, Gabriel de Espinosa, an ex-soldier and baker by trade—and most likely under the guidance of a distinguished Portuguese friar—appeared in a Spanish convent town passing himself off as the lost monarch. The principals, along with a large cast of nuns, monks, and servants, were confined and questioned for nearly a year as a crew of judges tried to unravel the story, but the culprits went to their deaths with many ...
Provenance and Possession
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial "opening up" of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global. In this book, K.J.P. Lowe challenges such an assumption, showing that Italians of this era cared more about the possession than the provenance of their newly acquired global goods. With three detailed case st...
