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In seguito all’insurrezione della città di Venezia contro il governo austriaco, il 22 marzo 1848 in Piazza San Marco nasce la Repubblica Veneta. L’ideatore della sommossa nonché figura chiave della n

Con sapienza lautrice Matilde DellOro Hermil (1843-1927), in questo testo espone quanto conosce o, per meglio dire, quanto presume di conoscere intorno alla bassa e alta valle di Susa; dalle origini dei suoi piu antichi abitanti, ai miti, alle leggende che vi si preservano nonche al carattere dei suoi montanari chiamando allappello imperatori, maghi, streghe, frati dellAbbazia di Novalesa, ciarlatani e apparizioni sinistre.Gradita lettura a coloro che, mediante le intuizioni dellegregia scrittrice, vogliano approfondire le origini e le vicende dei popoli primitivi che abitarono le falde del Roc-Maol.Testo originale del 1893 (digitalizzato).

Written in 1869, "Army Life in a Black Regiment" is a stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slaves.Excerpt:"...These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first coloured regiment of any kind so mustered, except a portion of the troops raised by Major-General Butler at New Orleans. These scarcely belonged to the same class, however, being recruited from the free coloured population of that city, a comparatively self-reliant and educated race..."

"Homage to Catalonia" is perhaps the seminal work in English about the Spanish Civil War. Written in Orwells admirably spare yet wonderfully evocative prose, its a searingly honest book, almost a rite of passage. It talks of the realities of the trenches and of the politics and of the feelings.George Orwells "Homage to Catalonia" was first published in 1938 and is a first-person narrative relating his personal experiences as an infantry soldier fighting on the Republican side of the conflict, from December 1936 through June 1937 in or near Catalonia and Aragon.In December, 1936, George Orwell leaves his English home for Spain, a country in the midst of a brutal civil war. Like most international observers, Orwell sees the war in Spain as a struggle between democracy and Fascism. He volunteers to fight on the side of the Republicans (a coalition of pro-democracy, leftwing parties) against the Nationalists (a conservative, Catholic, rightwing group led by General Franco).Upon his arrival in Barcelona, he is amazed to find that a large-scale social revolution has taken hold in the city. Communist and Anarchist flags hang on all the buildings, shops have been collectivised, and everyone treats each other with an air of perfect equality. The bourgeois, it seems, have all but disappeared, and the working class appear in complete control of the city. The atmosphere of equality and freedom that reigns strengthens Orwells conviction that he has made the right decision to fight for such a noble cause.He soon joins the POUM militia, a Marxist group affiliated with the Anarchists, and is sent to the front...

"War in the Garden of Eden", first published in 1919, is a journal recounted by Kermit Roosevelt, of his military experiences during World War I in Mesopotamia (Modern-day Iraq).Kermit Roosevelt was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. The son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit was a graduate of Harvard University, served in both World Wars (in World War I with both the British and American armies), and explored two continents with his father. He fought a lifelong battle with depression and committed suicide while serving in the U.S. Army in Alaska during World War II. (Source: Wikipedia)

Le profezie e le polemiche contenute nel suo diario sono fucilate e cannonate che sincrociavano nei lunghi giorni e nelle notti eterne di combattimento. Anche li, nelle trincee, il caporale dei bersaglieri Mussolini ci appare grandissimo. Egli osserva, scruta, intuisce guerreggia in trincea e fradicio e gelato dalla pioggia e dalla neve racconta tutto il tormento della trincea. Da questultima scrive articoli di fuoco per il Popolo dItalia che svegliano gli indifferenti e che illuminano gli inconsapevoli. Il 12 luglio 1917, quando era ancora convalescente di innumerevoli ferite, prodotte da una bomba a mano mentre addestrava i suoi commilitoni a sconfiggere il nemico scriveva sul popolo dItalia Gia da qualche spiraglio di azzurro sintravede tra le nuvole. Il meriggio solatio non e lontano. Presto, le nuove generazioni dItalia andranno al colle di S. Giusto e al castello di Trento, per compiervi il rito della ricordanza e della purificazione ripetendo Mentre tutto intorno la tempesta infuria, il sereno verra.Al diario sono state aggiunte delle famose frasi di Benito Mussolini nonche immagini inerenti il suo passato in guerra oltre a numerosi collegamenti ipertestuali per rendere piu comprensibile la lettura.

In "The House of the Hidden Places", first published in 1895, Walter Marsham Adams clearly lays out evidence that the Great Pyramid at Giza corresponds architecturally to the initiation ritual detailed in the Egyptian Book of the Dead (which Adams preferred to call what he felt was its rightful title, "The Book of the Master")."The House of the Hidden Places" was the first book to go beyond the current speculations on the astronomical purpose of the pyramid to reveal its deeper meaning.

General Leemys Circus: A Navigators Story of the Twentieth Air Force In World War II is the action-packed account of the fearless men who flew the Superforts, the B-29 bombers of General Curtis Lemay

"A Journal of Impressions in Belgium" (1915) makes no attempt to be anything more than a journal: a lucid, simple, heart-breaking account of war at first hand.In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front during the First World War, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in Flanders. Her experiences in the Great War, brief and traumatising as they were, permeated the prose and poetry she wrote after this time. Witness of great human pain and tragedy, Sinclair was in serious danger of her life on multiple occasions.

Nel 1990 Renato e Clara sono sposati da quarantanni e si preparano a festeggiare lanniversario con la famiglia. In Italia ce atmosfera di festa per i mondiali di calcio ma mentre la Nazionale e le altre squadre si danno battaglia per la coppa, Renato e Clara entrano in crisi.I fantasmi della seconda Guerra Mondiale tornano a insinuarsi nella coppia: lui e un fascista convinto, lei una ex-partigiana e poi ce quella storia di Pietro, una vecchia fiamma. Le vite dei tre tornano a intrecciarsi dopo anni di silenzio.

"Fusang" (Or, "The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century"), was first published in 1875 and analyses the limited evidence from the works of early Chinese historians that explorers from China had discovered a country they called Fusang possibly western America, and in all probability Mexico. The original document on which Chinese historians based their accounts of Fusang was the report of a Buddhist monk called Hoei-shin, who, in the year 499 AD, returned from a long journey to the east.

"The Norse Discovery of America" is a collection of texts relating to the voyages of the Norse west to America. A thousand years ago, nearly half a millennium before Columbus, the Norse extended their explorations from Iceland and Greenland to the shores of Northeastern North America, and, possibly, beyond.This volume from the Norroena collection contains all known sagas and documentary fragments which relate to this legendary exploration. It also contains analysis of the texts which should be read with a critical eye. While it is now certain that the Norse reached Nova Scotia, the claims in this book that they reached as far south as Boston--not to mention Georgia or South Carolina--are still controversial. There is also tangential discussion of whether the Irish managed to get to America prior to the Norse, an even more contentious assertion.Regardless, the texts in this three-part volume open up a window into a vivid era, and give glimpses of religion, society and travel in the period when the Norse were actively exploring the North Atlantic. They contain one of the only detailed descriptions of a pagan womens divination ritual, and deal with the expansion of Christianity from both sides. There are bone-chilling stories of disease, murder and jealousy in the small communities on the leading edge of Viking colonization. Reading these sagas inspires deep understanding of the life and motivations of the Scandinavian sea rovers and respect for their accomplishments in the field of exploration.

John Robison was a Scottish scientist, who late in life wrote the one of the definitive studies of the Bavarian Illuminati, "Proofs of a Conspiracy". He was a contemporary and collaborator with James Watt, with whom he worked on an early steam car, contributor to the 1797 Encylopedia Britannica, professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and inventor of the siren.Although Robison was very much an advocate of science and rationalism, in later life, disillusioned by the French Revolution, he became an ardent monarchist. In this work, "Proofs of a Conspiracy", Robison laid the groundwork for modern conspiracy theorists by implicating the Bavarian Illuminati as responsible for the excesses of the French Revolution. The Bavarian Illuminati, a rationalist secret society, was founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 in what is today Germany. They had an inner core of true believers, who secretly held radical atheist, anti-monarchist and possibly proto-feminist views, at that time considered beyond the pale. They recruited by infiltrating the numerous (and otherwise benign) Freemasonic groups which were active at the time on the continent. Necessarily they had a clandestine, compartmentalized, hierarchical organizational form, which has led some modern conspiracy theorists to identify them as the original Marxist-Leninist group. However, this is most likely simply a case of parallel evolution.

"The Amazons", written by Guy Cadogan Rothery in 1910, is one of the very few books ever published on these legendary female warriors. The world of the Amazons lies scattered between legend and historical fact. Greek writings give many details about the geography, history and anthropology of the Amazon nation and the Athenians in particular were most insistent about the historical reality of a nation consisting only of women warriors.

"..."As We Are and As We May Be" (by Sir Walter Besant) is the exposition of a practical philanthropists creed, and of his hopes for the progress of his fellow-countrymen. Some of these hopes may never be realised; some he had the great happiness to see bear fruit. And for the realisation of all he spared no pains. The personal service of humanity, that in these pages he urges repeatedly on others, he was himself ever the first to give." (Book FOREWORD)Sir Walter Besant (born August 14, 1836, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Englanddied June 9, 1901, London) was a novelist, philanthropist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank, was the husband of Annie Besant.His works helped set in motion movements to aid the poor.

"The Red Record" is a pamphlet compiled by Ida B. Wells-Barnett in 1892, which recounts the three eras of atrocity in the South of the United States and gives the excuses that the Whites gave for each of these three eras.The article details the struggles that Black people underwent after their Emancipation from 200 years of slavery. The central idea behind the research is to reveal the level of mistreatment and racism during this period and to reveal the reasons behind these injustices; the Whites viewed Blacks as inferior and were afraid that they would increase in number and thus dominate them. The article also details the lynching that occurred during this period without the due legal trials and procedures. White people simply took the law into their won hands, while the authorities condoned it. The author also states that during slavery, Black people were made to submit to the Whites and were treated in a cruelly, but were never lynched because the slaves body belonged to his master, hence by lynching the slave the master would be bringing a loss upon himself. Blacks would be lynched for any crimes; major or minor, proven or suspected. For instance, the Whites would lynch a man for wife-beating, insulting whites, self-defence and many other unrelated crimes.

In "Mob Rule in New Orleans", Ida B. Wells-Barnett explores the varying discrepancies in the press about Robert Charless lynching and the violence leading up to his death in 1900.Collecting her information from two New Orleans newspapers, Wells-Barnett recounts in graphic detail the events of that particularly violent week in 1900 in New Orleans during which a mob "roamed the streets day and night, searching for colored men and women, whom they beat, shot and killed at will." She demonstrates how the medias characterization of Charles as a thief emerged as justification for the violence whites committed against him.A worse massacre was avoided, as stated by the author, because of "the determined stand for law and order taken by these great [newspapers] and the courageous action taken by the best citizens of New Orleans, who rallied to the support of the civic authorities." This account serves as chilling documentation of the mindless savagery of an anger- and hate-driven mob.Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

"The Golden Verses of Pythagoras" are a collection of moral exhortations comprising 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter.They present a brief glimpse into the mind and the worldview of Pythagoras and probably formed part of his instructions to his disciples."The Golden Verses of Pythagoras" embody what we know about his teachings today. Besides exhortations to live a moral, simple and contemplative life, these pithy aphorisms allow a glimpse of a bit of the Pythagorean schools deeper knowledge.

Americas Siberian Adventure 1918-1920 recounts the covert campaign by the US to stabilize a region plagued by an uprising of multiple conflicts following the end of World War 1. Author General William Graves was the man sent to Siberia to lead an expeditionary force deep into the frozen interior, where Graves and his hardy men had to contend with Russian warlords, the Red Army, a roving brigade of Czechoslovakian troops, the need to protect the Trans-Siberian Railway, extreme weather conditions, and the regular armies of the Japanese and British. The results of the expedition were mixed, but historians agree that the operation materially contributed to bringing peace to the region, the ultimate goal of this unusual but important mission.

First published in 1521, The Art of War is a treatise by the Italian Renaissance political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli that echoes the Treaty of the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu.In this, the least known of his works, Machiavelli gives straightforward advice on organising and conducting military operations. "The Art of War"s clear, and concise style is diametrically opposed to that of "The Prince." The book is wholly practical and considers contrasting arguments. Its format is that of a conversation between a military expert and interested citizens. Although the expert, Fabrizio, is obviously Machiavelli himself, the format provides at least an arguable degree of separation between Machiavelli and his advice.