Between salt water and holy water : a history of Southern Italy / Tommaso Astarita.
Between salt water and holy water : a history of Southern Italy / Tommaso Astarita.
Between salt water and holy water : a history of Southern Italy / Tommaso Astarita.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2005.
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N945.7/18
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Language
English
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p. cm.
Contents
I. Where the Romans met the Greeks : the Italian South in antiquity -- II. From the terror of the world to the wonder of the world : the kings who created the Italian south -- III. Sicily splits and Naples rises : the south in the late middle ages -- IV. Subject to a distant king : the south in the...
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Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2005.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2005.
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Summary
"Native Neopolitan and distinguished scholar Tommaso Astarita gives us a history both erudite and full of personality - from the freethinking, cosmopolitan King Frederick who conferred with Jewish and Muslim philosophers (and dared to meet with the sultan) to the fisherman Masaniello who inspired artists and revolutionaries across Europe. From the...
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Between salt water and holy water : a history of Southern Italy / Tommaso Astarita.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N945.7/18
Record Identifier
74VKqzZM4lJd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKqzZM4lJd
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ISBN
0393058646 (hbk.) :
9780393058642 (hardcover)
0393058646 (hardcover)
9780393058642 (hbk.) :
DDC
945.7
MMS ID
991020246089702626
