Dominican writer victor grimaldis biography
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A BOOK OF
THE RIVIERA
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.
—The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using the title page of the original book. The image is placed in the public domain.
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A BOOK OF
THE RIVIERA
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
A BOOK OF CORNWALL
A BOOK OF DARTMOOR
A BOOK OF DEVON
A BOOK OF NORTH WALES
A BOOK OF SOUTH WALES
A BOOK OF THE RHINE
A BOOK OF THE PYRENEES
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
THE TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS
A BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
THE VICAR OF MORWENSTOW
OLD COUNTRY LIFE
A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG
SONGS OF THE WEST
A BOOK OF NURSERY SONGS AND RHYMES
STRANGE SURVIVALS
YORKSHIRE ODDITIES
DEVON
BRITTANY
A BARING-GOULD SELECTION READER
A BARING-GOULD CONTINUOUS READER
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BY S. BARING-GOULD
“ON OLD HYEMS’ CHIN, AND ICY CROWN,
AN ODOROUS CHAPLET OF SWEET SUMMER BUDS
IS SET.”
Midsummer Night’s Dream, ii. 2.
WITH FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS
SECOND E
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Espionage in the 16th Century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-Betweens and the Ottoman Habsburg Rivalry
Spies played a crucial role in early modern imperial rivalries. While past scholars have emphasized the Islam/Christendom divide in the Mediterranean, these go-betweens, who mastered the codes of both cultures, easily crossed invisible boundaries between civilizations and connected the Ottomans and the Habsburgs, two imperial powers at each other's throat. Apart from providing both empires with regular information on political and military developments, these entrepreneur information brokers played an active diplomatic role between two capitals and even participated in Ottoman factional politics.
Still, the Ottoman secret service produced good results. In spite of these differences that could have been otherwise considered shortcomings and contrary to the unwarranted assumptions that prevailed in Western historiography, the Ottomans successfully developed a
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12th Annual Mediterranean Studies Congress
Universitá di Cagliari, Via Is Mirrionis, 1
1A. Frontiere mediterranee della Corona di Spagna: l’area italiana
Chair: Pietro De Leo, Università della Calabria.
Pietro De Leo, “Le incursioni nel Mezzogiorno d’Italia tra Mare Jonio e mare Adriatico nei documenti ecclesiastici (secc.XV-XVII)”
Interessanti e inedite notizie intorno alle incursioni saracene nell’Italia Meridionale, in particolare nelle coste calabre dello Jonio e del Tirreno, si trovano nei documenti pontifici ed episcopali, ma anche nelle tradizioni popolari legate al culto e alle devozioni, che fotografano stati d’animo e situazioni legate alla vita quotidiana, come anche giudizi e valutazioni su popoli e religioni diverse.
Anna Maria Oliva, ISEM – CNR, Cagliari, “Rapporti tra Corona di Spagna e Curia pontificia all’epoca di Carlo V: la questione turca nei dispacci degli ambasciatori spagnoli a Roma”
Nel corso del XV secolo il Papato assume sempre piu il