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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Afro Argentine, Ramón Carrillo, Raul Midón, Antonio Ruiz, Lorenzo Barcala, Fidel Nadal, Cayetano Alberto Silva, Celestino Barcala, Gabino Ezeiza, Fernando Tissone, Oscar Alemán, Enrique Maciel, Tomas Platero Iv, Rosendo Mendizabal, Jimmy Santos. Excerpt:The black population resulting from the slave trade during the centuries of Spanish domination of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata had a major role in Argentine history. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it comprised up to fifty per cent of the population in some provinces and had a deep impact on national culture. In the nineteenth century, it declined sharply in number as a result of the wars of Independence (most of the soldiers were black Argentine men), high infant mortality rates,low number of married blacks,the War of the Triple Alliance (most Argentine soldiers in this battle were black as well), cholera epidemics in 1861 and 1864, as well as a yellow fever epidemic in 1871. By the late 1800s, the Afro-Argentine population was consisted mainly of women,and mixed with the European immigrants that arrived. With thousands of immigrants of Europe arriving to Argentine soil, and most black women intermarrying with them, noting that their populations were already low, the Afro-Argentine population faded into oblivion. In 2006 there was a pilot census on this issue in the neighborhoods of Montserrat , in Buenos Aires , and in Santa Rosa de Lima, in Santa Fe , revealing that 5 % of the Argentine population admits having ancestors of African descent and that an additional 20 % believes it could share this ancestry but is not sure. This research supports the claim by the Center for Genetic Studies of the School of Arts and Sciences of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) that an estimated 4.3 % of the peo... ... Read more

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Chapters: Niccolò Dell'abbate, Cesare Aretusi, Lorenzo Canozzi, Antonio Consetti, Cristoforo Canozzi, Lodovico Bertucci, Domenico Carnovale, Alessandro Aretusi, Bartolommeo Bonasia, Ercole Setti. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nicolò dell' Abate, sometimes Niccolò, (1509 or 1512 1571) was an Italian painter and decorator. He was of the Emilian school, and was part of the staff of artists called the School of Fontainebleau that introduced the Italianate Renaissance to France. Niccolò dell'Abbate was born in Modena, the son of a sculptor. He trained in the studio of a local Modenese sculptor, his early influence including Ferrarese painters such as Garofalo and Dosso Dossi. He specialized in long friezes with secular and mythological subjects, including for the Palazzo dei Beccherie (1537); in various rooms of the Rocca at Scandiano owned by the counts Boiardo, notably a courtly ceiling Concert composed of a ring of young musicians seen in perspective, sotto in su (early 1540s), and the Hercules Room in the Rocca dei Meli Lupi at Soragna (c. 154043), and possibly the loggia frescoes removed from Palazzo Casotti at Reggio Emilia. His style was modified by exposure to notably Correggio and Parmigianino, when he moved to Bologna in 1547. In Bologna, most of his painting depicted elaborate landscapes and aristocratic genre scenes of hunting and courtly loves, often paralleled in mythologic narratives. It was during this time that he decorated the Palazzo Poggi, and executed a cycle of frescoes illustrating Orlando Furioso in the ducal palace at Sassuolo, near Modena. In 1552, Nicolò moved to France, where he worked at the royal Château de Fontainebleau as a member of the decorating team under the direction of Francesco Primaticcio. Within two years ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=878427 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini, Lorenzo Pareto, Emanuela Guidoboni, Arturo Issel, Cesare Emiliani. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (10 juillet 1658, Bologne - 1 novembre 1730, Bologne), comte de Marsigli, est un scientifique et un militaire italien de la fin du et du début du siècle, qui fut tout à la fois, géographe, naturaliste, géologue et botaniste. Membre de l'une des plus anciennes familles patriciennes, Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, qui portait le titre de comte, eut des précepteurs parmi les meilleurs professeurs de son temps. Il s'intéresse particulièrement aux mathématiques, à l'anatomie et à l'histoire naturelle. À partir de 1679, il combat, pour le compte de la République de Venise d'abord puis pour celui du Léopold I d'Habsbourg (1640-1705) les Turcs qui menacent d'envahir la Hongrie. Il est capturé en 1683 et réduit à l'esclave. Il sera relâché un an plus tard après le versement d'une rançon. À son retour, il est chargé de l'organisation des frontières entre la République de Venise, l'empire ottoman et du Saint-Empire germanique. Durant la guerre de la succession d'Espagne, il assiste commandant de la forteresse de Brisach, le comte d'Arco qui se rend en 1703 et est décapité. Malgré cette carrière militaire, le comte de Marsigli trouve toujours du temps pour ses études. Il dessine des plantes, fait des observations astronomiques, étudie la faune, les minéraux et les fossiles... Et chaque fois qu'il le peut, lors de ses déplacements, récolte des spécimens et des antiquités de toutes sortes. Il présente sa collection au sénat de Bologne en 1712 avant d'ouvrir son Institut des sciences et des arts (probablement en 1715). Six prof...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Melchiorre Cafà, Antonio Sciortino, Lorenzo Gafà. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Melchiorre Cafà (in Italy also known as Caffà, in Malta as Gafa, Gafà, Gaffar or Gafar; 1636-1667) was a sculptor from Malta. Cafà began a promising career in Baroque Rome but this was cut short by his premature death following a work accident. He was born in Vittoriosa, Malta, and given the name Marcello at his baptism on 21 January 1636. He was still referred to as Marcello in 1653 when he worked in Sicily, but soon became known as Melchiorre. After his move to Rome in 1658 or shortly after, he was most frequently referred to as Melchior (or Melchiorre) Maltese. His brother Lorenzo Gafà was one of the leading architects in Malta. Cafà was already an accomplished sculptor when he came to Rome and entered the workshop of Ercole Ferrata, who was not strictly speaking his teacher although he probably helped him refining his technique. Despite soon attracting his own commissions, he stayed in close contact with Ferrata and collaborated with him. In 1660 Cafà signed his first independent contract with Prince Camillo Pamphilj for the relief of the Martyrdom of Saint Eustace in Sant'Agnese in Agone. In 1662 he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca and was even elected its principal in 1667, but declined the honor. Reportedly, he was a close friend of the painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Cafà died on the 4 September 1667 after some material collapsed on him in the foundry of Saint Peter's while he was working on the altar decoration for St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta. Extremely busy throughout his short life, he only managed to finish a few major commissions himself: A number of terracottas are in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Nationa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3237583 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Antonio Gramsci, Lorenzo Ferrero, Milan Komar, Paolo Boffetta, Luigi Einaudi, Mario Einaudi, Angelo Battelli, Ascanio Sobrero, Bartolomeo Gastaldi, Gianfranco Pasquino, Guido Tabellini, Mario Raviglione, Lucio Malan. Excerpt:Angelo Battelli Angelo Battelli (28 March 1862 11 December 1916) was an Italian scientist , notable for having measured temperatures and heats of fusion of non-metallic substances, metallic conductivities and thermoelectric effects in magnetic metals , and the Thomson effect . He investigated osmotic pressures surface tensions , and physical properties of carbon disulfide (CS2), water (H2O), and alcohols , especially their vapor pressures , critical points , and densities . He studied X-rays and cathode rays . He investigated the resistance of solenoids to high-frequency alternating currents . Early life and education Batelli was born in Macerata Feltria , a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino , in the Marche region of Italy . He obtained his doctor of philosophy in 1884 from the University of Turin in Turin , the capital of the Piedmont region of Italy, under Andrea Naccari , his doctoral advisor. Career He was the doctoral advisor of physicist Luigi Puccianti . In 1897 he founded the Italian Physical Society . Death Batelli died in Pisa , the capital city of the Province of Pisa , in the Tuscany region of Italy. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Antonio Gramsci item Antonio Gramsci item Full name: Antonio Gramsci item Born: January 22, 1891(1891-01-22) Ales , Sardinia item Died: April 27, 1937 (aged 46) Rome, Italy item Era: 20th-century philosophy item Region: Western Philosophy item School : Marxism item Main interests: Politics , Ideology , Cultu... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Antonio Canova, Lorenzo Bartolini, Pietro Canonica, Medardo Rosso, Democrito Gandolfi, Pietro Tenerani, Pompeo Marchesi, Giuseppe Grandi, Luigi Marchesi, Carlo Marochetti, Cesare Lapini, Ettore Ferrari, Giovanni Battista Garberini, Abbondio Sangiorgio, Carlo Nicoli, Mario Rutelli, Pietro Magni, Adriano Cecioni, Urbano Lucchesi, Ignazio Peschiera, Leonardo Bistolfi, Pasquale Romanelli, Nicolò Traverso, Luigi Secchi, Francesco Ravaschio, Francesco Jerace, Cesare Zocchi, Carlo Romanelli. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Antonio Canova (né le 1 novembre 1757 à Possagno (province de Trévise) dans l'État vénitien, mort le 13 octobre 1822 à Venise) est un sculpteur italien. Né dans une famille de tailleurs de pierres depuis des générations, il apprit dès son plus jeune âge l'art de la taille du marbre. En 1768, sur la recommandation du sénateur Giovanni Falieri, il est placé comme apprenti chez le sculpteur Giuseppe Bernardi Torretti, à Pagnano d'Asolo (province de Trévise), puis intègrera plus tard l'école Santa Marina à Venise. Après avoir remporté plusieurs prix à l'Académie des beaux-arts de Venise, il y donna successivement plusieurs ouvrages qui le mirent bientôt au premier rang des sculpteurs modernes, et dans lesquels il sut allier l'imitation de la nature avec les beautés idéales de l'antique. Il étudia l'art antique et sculpta, tout au long de sa vie, diverses statues inspirées de la mythologies grecque et romaine, ainsi que des cénotaphes, des bustes et des statues en pied de divers personnages célèbres de l'époque. Il est renommé pour la délicatesse de ses sculptures sur marbre. Son œuvre est considérée comme l'archétype de la sculpture néoclassique et a fait l'objet de plusieurs études de ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Emilio Pucci, Lorenzo Pucci, Antonio Pucci, Antonio Di Puccio Pucci, Roberto Pucci. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento (November 20, 1914 29 November 1992) was a Florentine Italian fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colours. Emilio Pucci was born in 1914 of one of Florences oldest noble families, and would live and work in the Pucci Palace in Florence for much of his life. He was a keen sportsman, who swam, skied, fenced, played tennis and raced cars. At the age of 17 he travelled to Lake Placid as part of the Italian team at the 1932 Winter Olympics, but did not compete. After two years at the University of Milan, he studied agriculture at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, where he became a member of the Demosthenian Literary Society. In 1935 he won a skiing scholarship to Reed College in Oregon, received an MA in social science from Reed in 1937, and was awarded his doctorate (laurea) in political science from the University of Florence the same year. In 1938 he joined the Italian Air Force, and served as a bomber pilot during WWII, rising to the rank of captain and decorated for valour by the time he left to pursue his fashion career. At Reed he was known as a staunch defender of the Fascist regime in Italy, and during the war he became a confidant of Mussolini's eldest daughter, Edda Ciano. Pucci played a key role in the plan to save her husband after his part in the downfall of Mussolini, delivering some of Count Ciano's papers to the Gestapo so that they could be bartered for Ciano's life. After Hitler vetoed the scheme, Pucci drove Edda to the Swiss border on 9 January 1944 and ensured her escape. Th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1197287 ... Read more

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Title: Lorenzo, Antonio. (diccionario de pintores españoles)(TA: dictionary of Spanish painters)
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 17, 1997
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Title: Muestra la corrupción un México deshecho y sin rumbo: Lorenzo Meyer Cossío/profesor de El Colegio de México.(Entrevista)
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Title: Antonio Herrero y el mundo del silencio.(fallecido periodista español)(TT: Antonio Herrero and the world of silence.)(TA: late Spanish writer)
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Title: Más semejanzas que diferencias, según Meyer.(Lorenzo Meyer, historiador)(TT: More similarities than differences, according to Meyer.)(TA: Lorenzo Meyer, historian)(Entrevista)
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Title: No hay derecho a pensar en un nuevo PRI: Lorenzo Meyer/historiador y analista polîtico.(Entrevista)
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Chapters: Borja Penalba, Santiago de Murcia, Thomas Lorenzo, Juan Martín, Antonio Flores, Vicente Amigo, Carlos Timón, Sabicas, Manolo Sanlúcar, Juan Aguirre, Mario Escudero, Tomatito, Pedro Caparros López, Peret, Paco Benítez, Pepe Martinez, Enrique Urquijo, Aitor Porres, Paco Cepero, Gerardo Núñez, Álvaro Urquijo, Oscar Herrero, Roberto Iniesta, Enrik Garcia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Borja Penalba Catalá (Valencia, Spain 1975) is a Composer, record producer, Arranger and Musician. He has worked with and for, among others, Feliu Ventura, Lluís Llach, Lluís Danés, Obrint Pas, Miquel Gil, Marc Parrot or Verdcel. He also was a member of the valencian rock band Dropo. Borja Penalba 'CDs/DVDs like Composer (C), Producer (P), Arranger (A) and/or Musician (M)': 'Collaborations/Included songs in CDs/DVDs like a Producer (P), Arranger (A) and/or Musician (M)': Album: Single "Begging the waves" Album: Saó - Producciones Malditas, 2008 Album: L'Ovidi se'n va a Palau - Propaganda pel Fet, 2008 Album: L'Ovidi se'n va a Palau - Propaganda pel Fet, 2008 Album: L'Ovidi se'n va a Palau - Propaganda pel Fet, 2008 Album: L'Ovidi se'n va a Palau - Propaganda pel Fet, 2008 Album: L'Ovidi se'n va a Palau - Propaganda pel Fet, 2008 Album: Homenatge a Lluís Llach. Si véns amb mi - Picap, 2007 Album: Altres cançons de Nadal 4 - Música Global, 2007 Album: Dins La Taifa - Propaganda pel Fet, 2007 Album: "BSO Salvador(Puig Antich)" - BMG, 2006 Album: Per al meu amic... Serrat - Discmedi, 2006 Album: Sempre més - Discmedi, 2005 Album: Set voltes rebel, Bullanga Records, 2005 (Awards and nominationss given, either directly to Borja Penalba, or to works in which he has been specially involved in Awards Ovidi Montllor of Valencian Music: Enderrock Awards (People's C...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21355169 ... Read more