The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandPenguin, 2008. máj. 6. - 592 oldal The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents. "To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant book. The Verney family's centuries-long practice of saving every piece of paper that came into their possession -- amassing some 100,000 pages of family and estate letters and documents -- resulted in the largest and most complete private collection of seventeenth-century correspondence in the Western world to date. They paint an incredibly accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies, through the everyday lives of one extraordinary family. |
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... Italian galleys . His deliverance from captivity came about through the intervention of an English Jesuit , who , again according to Lithgow , redeemed him after he promised to con- vert back to Christianity . The redemption of captives ...
... Italian galleys . His deliverance from captivity came about through the intervention of an English Jesuit , who , again according to Lithgow , redeemed him after he promised to con- vert back to Christianity . The redemption of captives ...
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... Italy , in company with the great Jacobean diplomat Sir Henry Wootton , ambassador at Venice . Such an itinerary would be conventional enough for the Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century . In the early seventeenth , it was still a ...
... Italy , in company with the great Jacobean diplomat Sir Henry Wootton , ambassador at Venice . Such an itinerary would be conventional enough for the Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century . In the early seventeenth , it was still a ...
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... Italy and France — a pic- ture of Henry IV of France was one of only two portraits to hang in his gallery at St. James's Palace ( the other was Maurice of Nassau ) , and when the French king was assassinated in 1609 , Henry was so upset ...
... Italy and France — a pic- ture of Henry IV of France was one of only two portraits to hang in his gallery at St. James's Palace ( the other was Maurice of Nassau ) , and when the French king was assassinated in 1609 , Henry was so upset ...
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... Italy . To quote Ba con again , " he was much devoted to the magnificence of buildings and works of all kinds ... and was a lover both of antiquity and arts . " And he was a fervent champion of militant Protestantism at home and abroad ...
... Italy . To quote Ba con again , " he was much devoted to the magnificence of buildings and works of all kinds ... and was a lover both of antiquity and arts . " And he was a fervent champion of militant Protestantism at home and abroad ...
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... of the family's changing financial fortunes , Sir Edmund probably borrowed the money from Toby Palavacino , heir to the Italian banking family . Chapter 2 VENTUROUS KNIGHTS THERE IS ONLY one picture of [ 34 ] PART I. Edmund and Ralph.
... of the family's changing financial fortunes , Sir Edmund probably borrowed the money from Toby Palavacino , heir to the Italian banking family . Chapter 2 VENTUROUS KNIGHTS THERE IS ONLY one picture of [ 34 ] PART I. Edmund and Ralph.
Tartalomjegyzék
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A Little Fading Honor | 95 |
The Best of Men | 118 |
Fortunes Wheel Is Ever Turning | 137 |
This World Is Full of Changes | 157 |
IO A Strange Cruelty | 205 |
Mischief | 231 |
Oh My My Dear Dear | 253 |
All the Physic in the World | 355 |
She Doth Not Rave | 379 |
The Levant Trader | 396 |
Natural Bias | 421 |
Good Husbandry | 446 |
Without Escutcheons | 466 |
He Grows Weary | 490 |
Acknowledgments | 511 |
Giro dItalia | 273 |
None but Princes | 299 |
Mend Me or End Me | 319 |
Perfect Empress of My Heart | 336 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century ... Adrian Tinniswood Korlátozott előnézet - 2007 |
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century ... Adrian Tinniswood Korlátozott előnézet - 2008 |
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