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Italian Holidays: Travel Notes
On the cannon whose sound does not elicit fear, but rather, enchants. On the ceremony awarding the keys to the city to a rather exceptional governor. On that boy from Genoa who dreamed of sailing across seas, his quest for funds, his unlikely crew, and the impossible ocean storms. On the most beautiful road in the world, today a UNESCO World Heritage site. On Fra Girolamo Savonarolas government in Florence during Medicean times. On the Venetian rooms of the Inquisition and Tintorettos painting. On the apostles words in Leonardos painting of the Last Supper. On rotating banquet halls: the coenatio rotunda of the imperial Domus Aurea. On the locations of the Roman Holiday movie and the story of a young Roman noblewoman of the 1600s. On the black tulip in the gardens of Cardinal Scipione Borghese. On how the stadium was closed for ten years in 59 CE, after the match between Pompeii and Nuceria. On the water features of a villa built in the 1500s.
The Prince
Prince Ferdinando Licata is a wealthy Sicilian landowner who uses his personal power and charm to placate Sicilian peasants and fight off Mussolini's fascists. As tensions rise in Italy during the 1930s, with increasingly violent consequences, Licata attracts many friends and far more enemies. Eventually implicated in a grisly murder, the prince flees to America, where he ends up navigating a turf war between Irish and Italian gangs of the Lower East Side. Violence explodes in unexpected ways as Licata gains dominance over New York, with the help of a loyal townsman with blood ties to the prince who is forced to abandon his fiancée in Sicily. The two men return to their native land at the height of World War II in an outrageously bold maneuver engineered by Licata and mobster Lucky Luciano. Both the prince and his kinsman assist US naval intelligence during the invasion of Sicily and, once they are back on their native soil, they proceed to settle unfinished business with their enemies and unravel old secrets in a stunning and sinister finale.
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The Reception of Byron in Europe
Richard Cardwell was given the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society for the best book on Byron in 2005-06 Byron, arguably, was and remains the most famous and infamous English poet in the modern period in Continental Europe. From Portugal in the West to Russia in the East, from Scandinavia in the North to Spain in the South he inspired and provoked, was adored and reviled, inspired notions of freedom in subject lands and, with it, the growth of national idealisms which, soon, would re-draw the map of Europe. At the same time the Byronic persona, incarnate in "Childe Harold", "Manfred", "Lara" and others, was received with enthusiasm and fear as experience demonstrated th...
