150円 Constantinople, the Turkish capital, the mysterious, ancient, ever-flourishing city, sacred alike to Christian and Mahometan, stands in its wondrous beauty upon European shores; yet Turkey is an Asiatic State. Her story belongs to Asia, the world of dreamy fancy and lurid legend, not of sober fac...

150円 THE level plains and steppes of South Russia were known to the ancients as the broad channel followed by the ebb and flow of every fresh wave of conquest or migration passing between Europe and Asia. The legions of Rome and Byzance found this territory as impossible to occupy by military force as...

1,355円 La Nube di Oort – Ernesto Giorgi I difetti del genere umano, la prevaricazione dei capi, le ingiustizie e la schiavitù delle masse dipendono da stretti motivi biologici ed antropologici, collegati sin dalla notte dei tempi alla debolezza fisica degli esseri umani stessi, che da un lato sarebbero ...

150円 The following pages contain translations of the first two of these works. The "Germany," the full title of which is "Concerning the situation, manners and inhabitants of Germany," contains little of value from a historical standpoint. It describes with vividness the fierce and independent spirit ...

150円 THE century subsequent to the peace of Westphalia is distinguished as the age of Louis the Fourteenth, that monarch being the sun by which it was illumined, and whose splendor was reflected by all the courts of Europe. The first revolution against the middle ages was accomplished in him, by his s...

150円 The Russians themselves will say at times they have no history. Some, like Tchaadáyef of old, deplore the fact in melancholy strain, passionate and eloquent, nor can anything console them for having missed the most brilliant epochs of European life, or allay their fears that, for lack of the same...

150円 In order to obtain a clear understanding of Byzantine civilization, to visualize the mode of life and the dominant tastes in this vanished society, and to realize the mentality of the Greeks in the Middle Ages, we must therefore begin by studying Constantinople. And moreover it is about her that ...

300円 L’irrequietudine del tutto, e il forte odore della creazione. Il sorgere degli Dei, la creazione del mondo, la nascita dell’uomo, il Diluvio Universale. L’indifferenza dei grandi Dei, gli Annunaki, le rivendicazioni dei piccoli Dei, gli Igigu, l’immensità di Tiamat, la potenza di Marduk, la sagge...

150円 Of Ammianus Marcellinus, the writer of the following History, we know very little more than what can be collected from that portion of it which remains to us. From that source we learn that he was a native of Antioch, and a soldier; being one of the prefectores domestici ーthe body-guard of the e...

1,054円 Alla veneranda età di trentuno secoli, Palermo è ancora una città viva e palpitante. I suoi quartieri, il vecchio centro storico stanno rinascendo pian piano e se un nuovo volto sta iniziando a splendere è grazie soprattutto al recupero della storia, dell’incredibile storia di questa capitale che...

150円 THE Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that lar...

150円 THE Roman Imperial Cult began with the first Caesar and continued until the final overthrow of paganism in the Empire. An exhaustive study of the Cult in all its ramifications would practically involve a survey of Roman history during the imperial epoch and would transcend all reasonable limits. ...